MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
SALE OF EARL DTJCIE'S SHORT-HORNS. 
Col. Johnson, Secretary of the State Ag. Soci¬ 
ety, furnishes the following extract of the sales 
of this celebrated herd, received by him from H. 
Strafford, Esq-, the auctioneer. We give the 
highest priced animals, by which it will be seen 
that Col. Morris, President of the N. Y. State 
Ag. Society, and Mr. Becar, of New York, have 
become the purchasers of the celebrated Duchess 
Bull “ Duke of Gloucester,” at 650 guineas, and 
Duchess (Cow) 66th, for 700 guineas. Mr. Jona¬ 
than Thorne, of Dutchess county, bought Duch¬ 
ess 59th for 350 guineas. It will be recollected 
that these animals were descended from the cele¬ 
brated herd of the late Thomas Bates, whose 
Duchess animals sold at very high prices ; and the 
best were purchased by Earl Ducie : 
Extract of Sales. — “Duchess 66, rich roan, 
calved Oct. 25th, 1850, got by 4lh Duke of York, 
(10,167,) 700 guineas. There was great compe¬ 
tition for this beautiful animal, which was ulti¬ 
mately knocked down, to Col. Morris, President 
of the N. Y. State Ag. Society. 
Duchess 59th, roan, calved Nov. 21, 1847, got 
by 2d Duke of Oxford, (9,046,) 350 guineas.— 
Jonathan Thorne, IT. S. 
Oxford 6th, red, calved Nov. 6, 1846, got by 
2d Duke of Northumberland, (3,646,) 205 guineas. 
Mr. Tanqueray, London. 
Duchess 64th, red, calved Aug. 10, 1849, by 2d 
Duke of Oxford, 600 guineas. Mr. Thomas, New 
York. 
Oxford 11th, red roan, by 4th Duke of York, 
250 guineas. Mr. Tanqueray. 
Mystery, red, three years old, by Usurer, 200 
guineas. Mr. Tanqueray. 
Oxford 15th, red, one year old, by 4th Duke of 
York, 200 guineas. Lord Burlington. 
Duchess 68th, red, calved Sept, 1852, by Duke 
of Gloucester, 300 guineas. Jonathan Thorne, 
New York. 
Duchess 69th, white, calved March, 1853, by 
4th Duke of York, 400 guineas. Lord Spencer and 
the American party (Col. Morris and Mr. Becar,) 
competed strongly for this five months old calf, 
but it was knocked down ultimately to'Mr. Tan¬ 
queray. 
Oxford 16, red roan, calved May 17, 1853, by 
4th Duke of York, 180 guineas, Mr. Tanqueray.” 
There were 49 cows and calves sold, which 
produced £6,867 giving an average of £140 2s. 
lOd. each—upwards of $680. 
Balls .—Duke of Glo’ster (11,382,) red, calved, 
Sept. 14,1850, got by Grand Duke, (10,234,) dam 
Duchess 59. After some competition, this splen¬ 
did animal, which is described as the most per¬ 
fect of its kind, and combining the best blood in 
the kingdom, was knocked down to the American 
party for 650 guineas. We understand he has 
become the property of Mr. Tanqueray, Col. 
Morris, and Mr. Becar ; and we have the best 
authority for saying that these gentleman, rather 
than lose him, were prepared to bid to the extent 
of 1,200 guine** to secure the purchase. 
Fourth Duke of York, (10,167,) roan, calved 
Dec. 22, 1847, got by 2d Duke of Oxford, dam 
Duchess 51st. This was another noble animal, 
which, after spirited competition, was knocked 
down at 500 guineas to Mr. Bell, formerly bailiff 
to the late Mr. Bates, This bull was purchased 
at Mr. Bates’ sale in 1850, by Earl Ducie, for 200 
guineas—his lordship having given a commission 
to go up as high as 600 guineas. 
Fifth Duke of Oxford, sold for 300 guineas—a 
calf five months old. 
Francisco, calf, five months, 150 guineas. 
Thirteen bulls and bull calves brought £2,494 
16s., being an average of £191 18s. each—$926. 
HEW KIND OF WOOL. 
The French scientific world is making a great 
stir now about pine wool, or forest wool, as it is 
called. This is something new in France, altho’ 
it has been known for many years in Germany.— 
A Mr. Pennevitz, of Breslau, first discovered that 
the aciculary leaves of pines, firs, and coniferous 
trees generally, are composed of fibres extremely 
fine and strong, which are surrounded and kept 
together by a resinous substance. Mr. Pennevitz 
was not long in seeing all the utility that this dis¬ 
covery might be to the industrial world and he 
invented a chemical proceeding by which the fine 
thread-like substances contained in the long, nar¬ 
row leaves of the pine can be drawn out He 
called it forest wool, because it curled and could 
be carded like ordinary wool. When, by decoc¬ 
tion, and by the employment of certain re-actives 
well known in chemistry, the resinous substance 
has been dissolved, it is easy to separate the fibres 
from each other, to wash them and clean them 
perfectly. The first use which was made of forest 
wool was to substitute it for cotton and ordinary 
wool in bed clothes. A few years ago the hospi¬ 
tal of Vienna bought five hundred of these covers, 
and after long use and trial, it has just renewed 
the provision. 
What makes tho wool invaluable for beds is 
that no kind of insect ever approaches a bedstead 
thus furnished, and although the aromatic odor 
of the wool is strong enough to frighten away in¬ 
sects, it is said to bo very pleasant and healthy to 
persons occupying the beds. It costs much less 
than hair, and is much better in every way for 
stuffing furniture. It can also be spun and woven; 
the fine threads resembling flax, and being also 
quite as strong. Woven like cloth, it can be used 
for rugs, housings for horses, etc. The membra¬ 
neous substance which remains after the washing 
and filtering, can be dried and made into bricks, 
which are excellent for fuel, and which produces 
a gas that can be used for lamps, and which gives 
a very brilliant and soft light. The water in 
which the leaves are washed is admirable for 
baths, and can be bottled and sent to any distance. 
—Foreign Paper. 
Ark your yards supplied with proper conven¬ 
iences for watering stock ? 
drtjmrii antr §arkn. 
A CHAPTER ON SHADE TREES. 
Travelers passing through our western 
villages, and in fact through all the new 
and thriving towns throughout the country, 
remark tho prevailing taso of sotting out 
shade treos, and the great benefit and im¬ 
provement it confers on tho streets and tho 
appearanco of tho towns. 
There is no one simple act, that tells so 
palpably in favor of tho taste, civilization 
and refinement of a population, as tho cul¬ 
tivation of shade trees and shubbery; but 
in all the towns we have visited, great mis¬ 
takes are committed in the choice of varie¬ 
ties. The Rock or Hard Maple, Elm, Bass 
or Linden, and Horse Chesnut, are about 
tho only trees that should be tolerated.— 
Tho Whito or Soft Maple composo nine- 
tenths of all maples in our streets, and they 
aro in our opinion very far from being 
handsomo or desirabl trees. Early blos¬ 
soming in the spring is tho only saving qual¬ 
ification they possess. Tho shape of tho top 
is bad, being looso and desultory, the leaves 
are small, thin and lack lustre, and the foli¬ 
age changes early and drops with tho first 
frost; while tho Hard Maplo keeps green 
and beautiful, its top is conical and close, 
and has no tendency to spindle up. 
Tho Locust is a boautiful tree, but grows 
straggling and makes no top, is tender and 
liablo to split and break with winds, late in 
leafing out and early in shedding its leaves, 
and moreover subject to bo ruined by tho 
borer, for which there is no defence. 
The Buttonwood, Willow, Abelo, or Silver 
Leaf Poplar, havo great and fatal faults for 
street shade, tho most prominent one their 
great and percocious growth—a dozen or 
twenty years making great forest treos fit 
for saw logs, too high and too spreading all- 
together for beauty or comfort. Their 
far-reaching and searching roots disturb 
drains, cellars, wells and cisterns, throwing 
down an immensity of leaves; becoming a 
nuisanco rather than an embellishment.— 
The Ailanthus or Troo of Heaven is a mis¬ 
nomer and decidedly, as a shade tree, belongs 
to that other placo not to be named to ears 
polito. No kind of fruit or nut bearing troo 
can be tolerated for shade trees. 
The climax of a beautiful tree, consists in 
a close, conical top, without a 3pindlo or 
centor, tho limbs gracefully curving upward, 
with a glossy, hoavy leaf,—oarly to put forth 
in the spring, and holding on tho green to 
the latest poriod of vegetable vitality in tho 
fall months. 
Tho Evergreens, as the Balsam, Spruce, 
Scotch and Norway Firs, aro exceedingly 
desirable, but from their slow growth, re¬ 
quiring groat caro and protection, aro bet¬ 
ter adapted to yards and enclosures. 
Individuals who build or buy tenements, 
that they intend to live and die in, should 
manage the operation of procuring shade 
troes better than to procure them from the 
itinerant podlars of so important an item 
of beauty and comfort, that aro to ondure 
for generations, either as an embellishment 
or an eyo soro to themselves or the public. 
More than ono half of tho trees set out 
upon our streots, die tho first year from 
faulty and bad management. They are 
badly taken up by being despoiled of their 
roots and set too deep to keep them firm, 
and then the tops are cut down to bare poles, 
having neither tho ability nor vitality suf¬ 
ficient to elaborate dormant buds to raise 
tho sap, and the tree dios. 
To avoid all of thoso troubles, tho trees 
intonded for uso should bo solected early in 
the spring, the tops sawed oft’ to tho naked 
body, or a fow stumps of limbs left, and al¬ 
lowed to make one year’s growth in their 
nativo placos; by which process they put 
forth a strong, bushy top, of a reduced 
quantity of limbs, and will endure a short¬ 
ening of the roots and never fail to grow 
beautiful trees. 
All tho fino and dosirablo shade treos aro 
rathor slow growers, and it might bo tolerat¬ 
ed to sot out botween each, one of the quick 
race, horse breed, to bo cut away when the 
others havo attained a rospectablo size. 
Perhaps we aro a little sensitive on this 
subject, but it is tho result of our experience, 
and firo cant burn it out of us, unless it is 
made of better matorial than Buttonwood, 
Willow or tho Treo of Heaven. 
North Western Fruit Growers’ Asso¬ 
ciation. — This Society, organized for the 
promotion of improvement in fruits, will 
hold their third annual meeting on the first 
Tuesday of October, at Chicago, when it is 
expected there will bo a large number pres¬ 
ent, and ono of the finest shows of fruit 
over made in the west. Dr. John A. Ken- 
nicott, of West Northfiold, near Chicago, is 
President, and Samuel Edwards, of Lamoilo, 
Ill., and F. K. Phoenix of Delovan, Wiscon¬ 
sin, aro Secretaries; either of whom may 
be addressod at home provious to tho moot¬ 
ing, and at Chicago at the timo, upon busi¬ 
ness connected with tho Society. 
REMEDY FOR THE CURCTJXIO. 
At tho meeting of tho Horticultural So¬ 
ciety of Cincinnati, held in July last, tho 
Committee on the Curculio, appointed at a 
provious meoting, made tho following re¬ 
port : 
To the President and Members of the Cincinnati Ilorlicul- 
lural Society: 
Your Committee, as instructed, visited Mr. 
Considine’s place, and were highly gratified 
at tho fair display of fruit on his plum trees, 
many of them literally bending under their 
enormous loads. Mr. Considino explained 
to tho Committee and tho other gentlemen 
present the plan he had pursued to produce 
such a satisfactory result on trees which 
had never before perfected fruit. At tho 
recommendation of Mr. M. Kolly, he had 
mixed six lbs. flour of sulphur, ono half 
bushel quick lime, in ono barrel water; this 
he threw over part of his troes with a gar¬ 
den syringe, after tho fruit had set in tho 
spring, at two or three ditferont times only. 
It is to this cause ho attributes the protec¬ 
tion of his fruit from tho ravages of tho 
Curculio. 
Mr. C.’s trees aro mostly large, probably 
ten to fifteen years old ; and he assured the 
Committee that he had novor been enabled 
to save any fruit boforo the application of 
the above remedy—though, for many years 
past, his trees had bloomed and sot fruit 
fully as well as this year, but all had fallen 
a prey to this little insect. It was really a 
charming sight to see so many trees so 
crowded with fruit, without the least evi¬ 
dence of the existence of such an insect as 
tho Curculio. 
After having examined these trees, Mr. C. 
took us to the other trees, to which this 
remedy had not been applied. On them 
but little fruit was found, it having mostly 
dropped oft. Mr. C. states that they were 
equally as full set in the spring as the oth¬ 
ers, and he deemed that tho circumstances 
surrounding them as to soil, &c., wero'about 
equal. The difference in tho quantity of 
fruit was certainly remarkable, and induces 
tho Committee to recommend toplum grow¬ 
ers the application of this cheap, simple, and 
safe compound, next year, in order fully to 
tost its merits. Should it prove successful, 
there is no calculating its immonse value to 
tho cultivator in adding this delicious fruit 
to tho luxury of our desert. 
HOW WE MISSED IT. 
Having determined during tho heat of 
last summer on a strawberry bed, “ made 
right,” during the latter part of July or 
oarly in August, we solected a bed in the 
garden ; and in spite of hot weather, weak 
limbs, shaky nerves, uncertain muscles, and 
despite the fear of dysentery and Asiatic 
cholera at work just over tho street, w r e pro¬ 
ceeded with great labor to dig it to the full 
depth of two spades length, depositing in 
the bottom of each excavation a plentiful 
supply of tho best of manure. After 
smoothing and raking down the bed, it was 
in first rate order for the reception of Burr’s 
New Pines with which it was carefully set. 
Now for the strawberries ! What a thick¬ 
ening up of vines, and what a burden of 
fruit there will be with tho coming season. 
Yesterday, July 21, we counted the plants 
on the ground, perhaps a rod and a half 
square, and they amounted to just twelve ! 
What was the matter ? Precisely this : the 
soil being thrown up and pulverized in the 
July sun, and the autumn being somewhat 
dry, it was baked through and through, till 
thoro was no life or power of production in 
it; and though mulched in tho fall with two 
inches of tan bark, it has just recovered its 
productive energies—a whole year being 
lost in tho operation. From which we get 
the following moral. That our autumns, 
or summers, especially,are but poor seasons 
for tho making of strawberry beds. Thoy 
are so apt to be dry and the sun is so pow¬ 
erful that it is only exceptional that success 
can be reached. Next, that there is such a 
thing as over culture at the warm season. 
Lands are not benefited but groatly injured 
by being turned up naked to the summer 
heats, especially in dry seasons.— Prairie 
Farmer. * 
A NEW MELON. 
We had the pleasure lately of receiving a 
lotter from C. A. Peabody, Esq., editor of 
the Soil of the South. Among other things 
ho says ,—“ Enclosed please find some of the 
Orange Water Melon seed, a very singular, 
beautiful and excellent melon. By cutting 
into the rind, as you peel an orange, the 
entire skin peels off, leaving tho whole pulp 
unbroken, which, with caro, may bo divided 
into quarters, just as you divido an orange. 
Thoy are ornamental on tho table, and a 
first-rate melon.” 
In regard to his strawberry he says,— 
“ After a long and burning drouth my straw¬ 
berries are again in bloom and fruit. I 
shall carry a sample of them to the Crystal 
Palace, loaded with fruit, to convince the 
northern skeptics that strawborries at the 
south do produce fruit for six months in the 
year.”— Southern Planter. 
A Grand Peach Orchard. —Mr. Bate- 
ham, of tho Ohio Cultivator, has recently 
had an opportunity of examining a peach or¬ 
chard set out six years ago by a Mr. Davis, 
of Milford, Clermont Co., Ohio. Mr. Bate- 
ham says it is tho finest fruit he over saw. 
Ono hundred acres of ground are covered 
with ten thousand peach trees. In 1850, 
they averaged ono basket, or three-quarters 
of a bushel per troo, which brought him ten 
thousand dollars. This paid for his land 
and trees, and something to spare. Last 
year thoro was no fruit. This year they 
will average three baskots to a tree. They 
readily sell for from $1,25 to $1,50 per 
basket. Tho crop of this season will bring 
him t $30,000, with a net profit of $25,000. 
IMPROVEMENTS AT THE CAPITOL. 
The labors of Major B. B. French, the 
now commissioner of Public Buildings, aro 
well omployod in the improvements he is 
making at the Capitol. Tho whole work 
now in progress there (except tho extension 
of the two houses of Congress) is under tho 
superintendence of Major French, and he 
is acquitting himself admirably. 
On tho exterior tho now group of statuary 
by Greenough. representing the “ Triumph 
of Civilization,” is being placed on tho north 
base of the great staircase, on the east front. 
The group is composed of several pieces of 
art, embracing tho civilized man, the sav¬ 
age. a woman with her son in her arms, and 
a trained dog, all to bo placed upon a po- 
dostal, consisting of an irregular mass of 
rock, and adjusted in accordance with tho 
original idea of tho illustrious American ar¬ 
tist. 
In tho interior the building has been ren¬ 
ovated beautifully from tho base to tho 
summit. The two rotundas of tho Senate 
and IIouso have been elegantly painted.— 
Tho frescoing of tho Hall of Representa¬ 
tives is a great improvomont ; and when 
the curtains and carpets are arranged, tho 
room will prosent a splendid appearanco. 
Tho large paintings have been much im¬ 
proved by tho cleaning of the frames and 
the application of varnish to the canvass.— 
Should the great painting of the Discovery 
of tho Mississippi, by De Soto, arrive in timo 
to complete tho series of pictures, tho chief 
rotunda will be beautiful and grand indeed. 
It is stated that this painting is already on 
its way. We ardently hope it may arrive 
and be put up before tho commencement 
of the next session of Congress. 
But the great feature of these improve¬ 
ments is the new hall of the Congressional 
Library. This hall is now composed en¬ 
tirely of iron, having two galleries and three 
rows of alcoves surrounding the room.— 
The painting, gilding, carpeting and fur¬ 
nishing are truly elegant; the whole con¬ 
stituting a public library hall without its 
equal in tho world. The room will be 
opened to visitors during tho day ; and we 
can assuro all our readers who may be pres¬ 
ent on that occasion that thoy cannot fail 
to be much pleased .—Washington Union. 
GREAT TELEGRAPH CABLE. 
We learn by the “ Paducah (Ivy.) Pen- 
ant,” that a great telegraph cable was laid 
across tho Ohio River at that placo, on the 
26th ult., by Tal. B. Shaffner, Secretary of 
tho American Telegraph Confederation, as¬ 
sisted by J. B. Sleeth, Mechanical Engineer. 
It is composed of a largo wire, covered with 
three coatings of gutta percha, making a 
cord of about 5-8 of an inch in diameter. 
To protect this from wear, and for security 
of insulation, there aro throe coverings of 
strong Osnaburg. saturated with an elastic 
composition of gutta percha, and around 
this are eighteen large iron wires, drawn as 
tight as the wire will bear, and tho whole is 
then spirally lashed together with another 
large wire passing around at every 3-4 of 
an inch. The whole forms a cable of near 
two inches in diameter. 
This wire conducts the electric current 
beneath tho bed of the Ohio for a distance 
of 4,200 feet, and is said to bo tho longest 
telegraph cable in the Union. The com¬ 
pany was much troubled before on account 
of unsuccessful efforts to cross the river 
with the wire, and secure it against acci¬ 
dent. It is believed that this cable will ef¬ 
fect a great saving to the company, and at 
tho samo time obviate much trouble. 
Papier Maciie Houses. —Wo have long 
been acquainted with wooden houses, brick 
houses, stone houses, and more recently 
iron houses havo come in fashion. But 
who ever dreamed of paper houses. We 
have also heard of people living in glass 
houses—but now it seems papier macho 
houses aro to have a run. We give the fol¬ 
lowing from tho Living Ago : 
Messers. Biolefelt havo commenced tho 
manufacture of papier macho houses. Tho 
frame-work, the flooring and tho doors are 
of wood; but tho rest is constructed of 
paper. A number of cottages, stores and 
villas have been erected at Messrs. Biele¬ 
feld’s works at Staines; and a gentleman 
had purchased them as an investment for 
Australia, whither ho is going. These build¬ 
ings can be readily taken down, and re¬ 
erected in a few hours. They have hollow 
walls so that damp is excluded and tropical 
insects will not attack the paper, from the 
poisonous ingredients it contains. 
The Ericsson. —In reply to numerous in¬ 
quiries in relation to the Caloric ship, we 
will state generally that our faith in Erics¬ 
son’s entire success is still undiminished.— 
Between this and the first of the coming 
month, wo think a practical answer will be 
given to all skeptics by the ship herself, 
that will put tho Caloric motor question 
forever at rest. And, by the way, ive aro 
happy to see that tho editor of the Mechan¬ 
ic’s Magazine has completely backed down, 
withdrawing all his former objections to the 
Ericsson invention.— JV. Y. Mirror. 
Improved Smut Machine. —G. B. Turner, 
of Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, has taken meas¬ 
ures to secure a patent for an improvement 
in smut machines, the nature of which im¬ 
provement consists in a peculiar arrange¬ 
ment of scouring platos, screens, and a 
blast spout, in such a manner as to scour 
and cleanse grain in a more porfect manner. 
None of tho parts separate are new, but 
the arrangement of them is a superior one. 
Cheap Paint.—F or the outside of dwell¬ 
ings, fences and outhouses, whero economy 
and durability are considerations : 
Take a barrel, and put in it a bushel of 
quick limo ; slack tho latter by pouring 
over it boiling water—covering the limo 
lour inches deep, and stirring it till slack¬ 
ed ; dissolvo two pounds of sulphate of zinc 
(white vitriol,) in water, which must boadd- 
o,d to tho whitewash. This will harden the 
lime when it is applied to the wood, leaving 
a firm, white, crystalized surface, not easily 
removed by tho weather or friction. To 
make the wash a cream color, add four 
pounds of yellow ochre; for a fawn, four 
pounds umber and one pound lampblabk ; 
stone color, one pound umber and two 
pounds lampblack. 
COOKING FISH 
Some one gives the following very reason¬ 
able directions for cooking fish. To a part 
of them we can subscribe from having had 
experience thereto relating. Tho particu¬ 
lar varieties of fish may not be common, but 
the classes to which they belong, include 
all oatible fish among us. Fish must bo put 
into cold or boiling water, according to its 
firmness of flesh ; for instance, turbot, sal¬ 
mon, mackorel, &c., should bo put into cold 
water ; while plaico, whittlings, haddocks, 
and such soft-lleshed as well as crimped 
fish, should be put into boiling water. The 
reason is obvious; by putting flaccid and 
watery fish into the water cold, it is render¬ 
ed stiil more soft and watery ; but tho boil¬ 
ing water sets it and renders it firmer; on 
the other hand, tho cold wator penetrates 
and softens tho fish that is of firmer texture 
and makes it more tender and delicate.— 
Keep tho water skimmed while the fish is 
boiling. 
Fish is cooked enough when it leaves tho 
bone easily. Bo sure to wash and clean 
your fish well. 
In frying fish, having washed it, dry it 
thoroughly in a clean cloth, then flour it 
well, or whisk it over with egg, and dip into 
bread crumbs before frying it. Be sure 
your pan is very clean, and that your fat 
(of which there should bo enough to cover 
tho fish) boils before you put the fish in.— 
Fry fish quickly, of a fino light brown.— 
Some like fish fried in batter—as good a 
batter as any is a little ale and flour beaten 
up just as you are ready for it—then dip 
the fish in before frying it. Put plenty of 
salt in the wa:er in which you boil fish, and 
a stick of horse-radish, excepting mackerel, 
with which you boil salt, mint, parsley and 
fennel .—Prairie Farmer. 
To Dress Cauliflowers. —Having pick¬ 
ed it into small pieces, which is absolute¬ 
ly necessary in order to remove tho slugs 
with which it abounds, wash it thoroughly 
in several waters, and let it lay to scale for 
full an hour before you dress it. Put it 
into a saucepan of boiling water, with a 
lump of salt, and when tender it will be 
done; let it drain in a collandei-, and serve 
it up with melted butter. Some persons 
may prefer to see them brought to the ta¬ 
ble whole, but they must then take tho 
chance of being helped, along with the cau¬ 
liflower, to somo unsightly insect which 
would bo sufficient to disgust the least deli¬ 
cate stomach; besides, if pi-oporly boiled, 
and laid carefully in the dish, the pretty 
appearance of the vegetable is by no means 
destroyed by its having been divided. 
Grape Tarts. —A lady, who spoaks from 
experience, sends us the following recipe— 
which, at this season will be found useful: 
Take three or four clusters of fine, large, 
green grapes, and stew them with a very 
little water and somo sugar, for twenty min¬ 
utes, or till thoy are quite soft. Tho larger 
seeds will burst out, and can easily be taken 
off with a spoon, while the grapes are cool¬ 
ing. Make a crust of puff paste, with a rim 
and spread the stewed grapes on. as for any 
fruit tart. This, when baked, will be found 
a delicious pie. 
To Bake Apples. —The person who has 
oaten baked sweet apples with milk, needs 
no commendation of the article. For this 
purpose Tallman Sweetings are best. But- 
those who have tart apples only, may secure 
a delicious dish by tho following process :— 
Fare them, if thick skinned ; cut out the 
largest portion of the core from one end 
and place the fruit on well glazed earthen 
dishes or pans, with the cored end upwards, 
and the cavity filled with refined powder¬ 
ed sugar. Then bake them. All we ask is 
Salt your Cabbage. —We printed some 
time ago this recommendation and do so 
again that it may not be forgotten, that in 
boiling a cabbage whole, if some common 
salt be put into tho water, when washing 
cabbages or greens, preparatory to cooking 
them, the snails, bugs, worms, &c., will 
come out and sink to the bottom, so that 
thoy noed not be boiled with tho vegetables. 
It is impossible to wash out with wator 
alone, except the cabbage be taken to pieces 
—Ger. Tel. 
Pineapple Jelly. —Pare and grate the 
pineapple, and put it into the preserving 
pan, with ono pound of fine white sugar to 
every pound of fruit, stir it and boil it until 
it is well mixed, and thickons sufficiently; 
then strain it, pour it into the jars, and 
when it has become cool, cover the jellies 
with a paper wet in brandy; cover tho jars 
tightly, and treat them as apple jelly. 
Lemon Syrup that is commonly sold in 
the shops, and used in mineral water, is now 
made, it is stated, from sulphuric acid which 
can bo purchased for sixpence a pound ! 
