MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
sustain the latter. The overwhelming immigra¬ 
tion to this couutry does Doth, and forms an ad¬ 
ditional reason in the catalogue of causes, for the 
present and future prosperity awaiting the Amer¬ 
ican farmer. 
In the enumeration of causes, the influence of 
Agricultural Societies, the aid of the press, and 
especially the contributions of science, come in 
to sustain the cheering position. During the last 
half century, the press in the hands of enter¬ 
prising men, has wrought changes no less won¬ 
derful than important. Science has presented her 
offerings at the altar, and thrown a halo of light 
around the sphere of the husbandman. The aid 
which is now brought to Agriculture, from the 
deductions of Liebig and other agricultural chem¬ 
ists in Europe and America—the vast benefits 
that accrue from the invention and spread of labor- 
saving machines—the calling of attention to the 
great importance of a judicious selection of seeds, 
as to the fact that of t\vo kinds of oats or wheat, 
the one kind has an inherent vitality or power of 
self-propagation over the other, varying from 25 
to 50 per cent—the fast-growing sentiment that 
farming is healthful, profitable and popular, and 
infinitely more independent than the precarious 
and hazardous calling of trade and commerce ;— 
those all, are sources rich and fruitful in matters 
of encouragement to the American farmer. 
One other cause shall suffice, viz., the spirit of 
the Anglo-Saxon, to search out hidden sources of 
wealth, and turn them into the channels of Na¬ 
tional prosperity. Discoveries, inventions and 
improvements are constantly made, and the ever 
active spirit of the race, existing in the masses, 
seizes and appropriates the benefits. A Spanish 
proverb runs thus, “ Wherever the Merino touches 
his feet to the soil, the land is turned to gold.” 
By analogy we would remark, that wherever the 
unconquerable energy of the Anglo-Saxon settles 
down in person, upon a quarter or half section of 
Uncle Sam’s domain, it silently but surely con¬ 
verts it to gold. 
The definition of oratory, ascribed to the great 
Athenian, is literally applicable to the art of ma¬ 
king money—“action, action, action.” In the 
struggle for wealth and position—in the active 
competition which engages all—he who lingers is 
lost. This prevalent feeling urges to vigilant and 
manly enterprise, and all are sharers in the general 
result—each is benefited by the others. 
* “ Some men are shut 
From wealth, by love of case; as he who snores «5s& 
Night-capped, and wrapped in blanket to the nose, 
Is shut out from the night, which like a sea, 
Breaketh forever on a strand of stars.” 
To the bold, the fearless, the enterprising and 
the strong, 
“ The past is but an emptied flask, 
The rich future, a bottle yet uncorked.” 
S. Bird Rockwell. 
Cornwall, Vt., 1853. 
MORE IMPORTED STOGK. 
Mr. S. P. Chapman, Clockville, Madison Co., N. 
Y., has recently imported four thorough-bred 
Short-horn heifers. They are of the Bates stock, 
and deeply bred in the blood of Mr. B.’s celebra¬ 
ted Duchess bulls. The 4th Duke of York, the 
sire of two of these heifers, was purchased at the 
recent sale of Earl Ducie’s stock, (some particu¬ 
lars of which sale will be found elsewhere in this 
number,) by Air. Bell for parties in this country, 
for 500 guineas. The heifers were all bred to 
Bates’ bulls previous to their being sent out from 
England. 
Mr. Chapman is one of our most enterprising 
and skillful breeders, and will make good use of 
this valuable addition to his herd. We annex the 
Pedigrees of the heifers: 
Agate —Roan; calved Dec. 6, 1850 : got by Mr. Bates’ 
Duchess bull, 3d Duke of York (10,150)—dam [Annie] by- 
Mr. Bates’ Duchess bull, 2d Cleveland had (3408)—g. cl. 
[Annabella] by Mr. Bates’ Duchess bull, Duke of Cleve¬ 
land (1937) — gr. g. d. [Acomb] by Mr. Bates’ Belvidcre 
(1700.) 
Frantic —Roan; calved Sept. 3d, 1850 : got hv Mr. Bates’ 
Duchess bull, 4th Duke of York (10,607,) (purchased at 
the sale of Mr. Bates’ herd in 1850, by Karl Ducie,)—dam 
[Faith] by Mr. Hates' Duchess bull, 4th Duke of Northum¬ 
berland (3649)—g. d. [Fidget] by Mr. Bates’ 2d Earl of 
Darlington (1945)—gr. g. d. [Fletcher] by a son of Young 
Wynyard (2859.) 
Bnukie —Roan; calved April 25,1849 : got by Mr. Bates’ 
Duchess bull Duke of York (10,167) as above — dam 
[CicelyJ by Mr. Bates’ Duchess bull Duke of Northumber¬ 
land (1,910)—g. d. [Craggs] by a son of 2d Hubback 
(2082) —gr. g. d. [CraggsJ bought of Mr. Bates and de¬ 
scended from the stock of the late Mr. Maynard. 
Bright Eyes, 3 d — Red; calved June 23, 1850: got by 
Earl Derby (10,177)—dam [Bright Eyes 2d] by Lord 
George Bentwick (9317)—g. d. [Bright Eyes] by Conquer¬ 
or (6885)—gr. g. d. by a son of Bearl (65)—gr. g. g. d. by- 
Masons sou of Comet (155)—gr. g. g. g. d. by -Wellington 
(683.) 
In the same ship with the above, Geo. Yail, of 
Troy, imported two pure bred Devon heifers and 
one bull — and Dr. H. Wendell, of Albany, two 
Durham heifers. These, and the heifers for Mr. 
Chapman, were purchased by Mr. Yail. 
SALE OF IMPORTED CATTLE. 
The stock imported last summer by the Madi¬ 
son County (Ohio) Importing Company was sold 
at auction at London, Ohio, on the 27th of Sept 
Fifteen Short-horn bulls sold for ■ $17,400, aver¬ 
aging $1,160 each. James Fcllington, Madison 
Co., paid $3,000 for “Marquis,” a red roau two 
year old. “ Starlight,” a two year old red roan 
sold to Charles Philips, Madison Co., for $3,000. 
Three Short-horn cows sold for $3,225. Four 
heifers sold for $2,775 ; a Yorkshire dairy cow, (a 
great milker,) for $425 ; a heifer of the same 
breed, $295. 
Cotswold Sheep. —13 Rams, all yearlings, sold 
for $45 to $110 each, in all $725—averaging $55 
each. 7 Ewes, from $75 to $115 each, $655 ; 
average $93 50 each. 20 Sheep, averaging $69 
each, $1,380. The sheep speculation only paid 
cost, hardly that. They were a fair lot, nothing 
extra. 
Suffolk Pigs. — One Boar, 6 months old $200. 
1 Sow in pig, 9 months old, $120 ; 1 Sow do. do., 
$200. 9 others, younger, from $16 to $80. The 
12 pigs brought $918—average, $76 50 each. 
Now is the time to repair, and prepare, your 
barns, slieds, &c., for winter occupancy. 
(Drcfmri) into fofon. 
WILL IT PAY TO RAISE FRUIT 1 
“ Will it pay ?” Whatever subject may 
be named to the American people, this ques¬ 
tion rises at once to the lip. Gain, gain— 
the “Almighty dollar”—seoms to bo the 
ruling idea connected with almost all trans¬ 
actions. It creeps in, even among the be¬ 
nevolent operations of tho day. It takes 
shape too in tho objects thathavoa tenden¬ 
cy to elevate and refine tho better feelings 
of.man. Whatever the subject, the object, 
or proposition, tho croaking is still heard, 
“ Will it Pay ?” 
But wo do not intend writing a homily on 
the subject, howovor fruitful it is of ideas.— 
Wo took up our pon to urgo tho extension 
of fruit growing among our farming popu¬ 
lation, believing, if judiciously entered into 
and carried forward, it may bo made a very 
prominent item on the side of profits in tho 
farm account. And that it will pay we 
have no sort of hesitancy in saying. 
When one lives in the immediate vicini¬ 
ty of a city, fruit growing is exceedingly 
profitable, especially of tho more transient 
sorts, as strawberries, &c. Wo find men¬ 
tion made of a gentleman near Boston who 
raised at tho rate of $1,600 to tho acre of 
strawborrios at two shillings a box; so of 
currants, gooseberries, raspberries, &c., 
great yiolds may bo obtained, and where 
the varieties are of the choicest kinds tho 
receipts swoll up to what seem almost enor¬ 
mous sums. Wo note another instanco 
where a gentleman raised $125 for tho pro¬ 
duce of an oighth of an acre of currants. 
Other fruits are profitable too. A Dix 
pear treo in Cambridge, Mass., produced 
$46 worth of fruit in one season— Downing 
stated that tho Original Dubois’ Early Gold¬ 
en Apricot produced $45 worth of fruit in 
1844, $50 in 1845, and $90 in 1846. A 
gentleman in Darby, Pa., had a grape vine 
which produced annually 75 bushels, that 
sold at $1 per bush.; another near Phila¬ 
delphia, sold $60 worth of fruit in one year 
from a Washington plum treo. These may 
be somewhat extreme casos, yet we think 
they can bo easily surpassed in favorable 
years with a favorable market, where prop¬ 
er attention is given to the cultivation of the 
treos. But even with half of such results, 
they still remunerate tho growor most 
handsomely. 
It is quite as profitable raising apples.— 
Mr. Henry F. French, of New Hampshire, 
in an articlo on tho “Cultivation of Apples in 
tho Northern States,” furnished tho Patent 
Office Report for 1850, mentions tho orchard 
of Joseph Robinson, one of his neighbors, 
that consisted of Baldwins and Russets and 
occupied two acres of ground. The trees 
were planted but 20 and 25 feet apart, and 
wore so much grown as to interlace with 
one anothor. From this orchard, in 1849, 
he sold 260 barrels of fruit at $2,62 a barrel, 
which might bo reckoned clear profit, as the 
fruit of inferior quality would pay all ex¬ 
pense of care and gathering. In 1847 ho 
refused $600 for his apples, to bo gathered 
by tho purchaser. Mr. French says that 
upon careful inquiry, he is satisfied that tho 
net income of Mr. Robinson’s two aefos has 
realized him $300 a year for ten years past, 
and ho sees no reason why they may not 
continue to do so for twenty years yet.— 
Mr. F. adds that ho has care of an orchard 
of but a half aero. From this small orchard 
ho realized over $100 clear profit a year.— 
J. J. Thomas montions in an essay on Fruit 
Culture in tho Patont Office Report of 
1851, that R. J. Hand of this Co., (Mon¬ 
roe,) sold in 1845 $440 worth of Nor¬ 
thern Spy and Russot apples from one 
aero, and adds that numerous cases are 
known to him where ovor $100 an acre have 
beon realized from tho salo of good winter 
apples. 
That these statements are not extravagant 
lot us look at the matter a little closer. It 
is not very uncommon, especially for tho 
Rhode Island Greening of good size, to pro¬ 
duce 40 bushels at a singlo crop per treo.— 
This, oven at tho vory ordinary price of two 
shillings per bushel, gives a return of $10 a 
treo. An orchard planted with trees twonty 
foot apart, gives 50 trees to the acre, or $500 
for tho yield at that rate. But with half 
that yield, or oven with ono fourth of it, the 
result is decidedly profitable. Wo believe 
it is safe to calculate that the averago yield, 
ono year with another, of trees that have 
attained a good size, will bo eight bushels a 
treo or 400 to tho aero, which gives a value 
of $100, nine-tenths of which can bo con¬ 
sidered clear profit, and this at ordinary 
prices. 
Why, then, is it not sufficiently profitable 
to induco farmers to plant more liberally of 
tho best sorts of fruit, especially of tho lato 
keeping sorts ? With too many tho draw¬ 
back is immediate profit. In their hasto for 
gains they cannot wait for tho trees to grow. 
They are too much like tho farmer that 
Cole told of, who would not plant an orch¬ 
ard because ho should not live to enjoy its 
fruit; his son thought likewiso and planted 
none; but the grandson, more spirited, 
planted for posterity, yet the grandfather 
Jived to eat tho fruit and drink hogsheads 
of tho cider. It takes but a few years for 
trees to come into bearing. With good caro 
thoy may yield profitable returns in ten 
years from the seed. In the moan time the 
land will more than pay all expense of cul¬ 
tivation and manure in the hoed crops it 
may yield; and oven after the trees havo 
attained good size such crops may still pay 
tho expenses and leave the fruit as clear 
gain. But some fear tho market may be¬ 
come glutted. That has been tho cry of tho 
indolent for years, yet fruit of the best sorts 
still command most renumerating prices, 
and it lyill continue to do so, wo venture to 
say, all time to come. But we propose to 
consider tho subject further in another 
number, as to how it may pay. t. e. w. 
FIRE-BLIGHT. 
Mr. Summers, of Ohio, gives his experi- 
ence with fire-blight on apple and quince 
trees as follows : 
“ About fifteen years ago it made its ap¬ 
pearance, in this vicinity. It'attacked a 
corner tree in my orchard, and gradually 
spread from branch to branch, till, in six 
or seven years, the whole tree was-nearly 
dead. It spread to the adjoining tree3, till 
it had ovei'spread an acre or two, more or 
less. Having learned that cutting off the 
infected branches and burning them was the 
only reliable way of getting rid of it, I com¬ 
menced doing so, although it seomed a great 
task. I cut down the corner treo and lopped 
off most of the tops of others, and followed 
tho scourge close for two or three years, 
cutting off every little twig I could find in¬ 
fected, and committing them to tho flames, 
twice or thrice during each season. The 
result has been most satisfactory; and for 
two years past I have not seen a blighted 
limb in my orchard. The labor was less 
than I expected, also; and I would urge 
it upon all to apply tho knife and fire to 
their blighted trees, for their own and neigh¬ 
bors salces. I conclude, from the manner 
of its progress, that tho insect which causes 
tho blight does not itinerate far in ono sea¬ 
son, and may bo successfully combatted as 
abovo described. Tho curculios, on the 
contrary, seem to circulate extensively; 
they have’wings and know how to use them, 
as any person may satisfy himself, if he will 
placo one in an uncomfortably warm place 
for a short time, though they are not fond 
of displaying their aerial capabilities on 
common occasions. 
A Curiosity. —There is in this town, an 
apple tree (a Siberian Crab) that blossomed 
at tho usual time last spring and has ever 
since continued to put forth flowers.— 
There are now, (Sept. 1st,) apples upon it 
of almost every dimension, from those of 
nearly tho ordinary size and quite ripe, 
down to others that have but just formed. 
There are also flower buds fresh and per¬ 
fect within an inch of ripe apples.—S. H. 
Edmeston, Otsego Co., J\\ Y. 
Preserving Fruit. — Take Buckwheat 
chaff, and place alternately a layer of fruit 
and of chaff. The chaff’ is light. In case 
you wish to transport your fruit a great dis¬ 
tance, it not only preserves from bruising, 
but is proof against frost, if used liberally. 
So says C. Hunt, of Somerset, Mich., in 
Patont Office Report. 
The Endicott Pear Tree. — Sanford 
Howard has recently visited this ancient 
tree in South Danvers, Mass. It was in full 
bearing, and had on it not loss than two 
thousand pears. It is enclosed with a fence 
and cannot be less than two hundred and ten 
years old. 
To Preserve Apbles. —Select the very 
best and fairest fruit, picking it from the 
boughs by hand. Into a barrel, say a com¬ 
mon flour barrel, pour two quarts of kiln- 
dried, hard-wood saw-dust; spread it even¬ 
ly ovor tho bottom of the barrel, and by 
hand, placo in your apples, one at a time, 
but not so near as to touch each other.— 
Fill in tho spaces with dust, and cover the 
wholo layer ono inch deep with the same. 
Procood in this till the barrel is filled, and 
head up air-tight. Pulverized charcoal 
mixed with saw-dust, in tho proportion of 
I ono bushel to ono bushel of tho latter, is 
preferable for this purpose to clean dust.— 
Apples may bo kept two years in this way, 
if placed in a cellar of mild and oven tempor- 
turo. 
There are, it is estimated, about two 
thousand three hundred acres in Ohio, In¬ 
diana, and Kentucky, in cultivation and 
bearing grapo vines. The average crop is 
200 gallons of wine per aero. A half a 
million of gallons is therefore about the an¬ 
nual wine crop of these States, or about one 
twelfth of that imported into tho country. 
It probably will not bo many years before 
the native wino will exceed the imported, 
perhaps become an articlo of export. 
A Prolific Pear Tree. —Tho Portsmouth 
Chronicle statos that in a garden in that city 
is a St. Andrew’s pear treo which has borne 
three crops of pears the prosont season, 
and is now in bud for tho fourth crop. 
'ethnic Jr,is, fa. 
LIST OF PATENT CLAIMS 
ISSUED FROM THE UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 
For the week ending October 11, 1853. 
Cornelius R. Brinckeihoff, of Batavia, N. Y., for 
improvement in plows. 
Henry P. Byram, of Louisville, Ky., for im¬ 
provement in hullers of grass seed. 
John B. Collan, of Reading, Pa., for detachable 
lining for the fire boxes of steam boilers. 
Gilman Davis, of Roxbury, Mass., for improve¬ 
ment in ash pans for locomotive engines. 
Samuel G. Dugdale, of Richmond, Ind., for ap¬ 
paratus for opening and closing gates. 
Chas. Goodyear, of New Haven, Conn., for im¬ 
provement in covering iron with gutta percha. 
Nathan Harrison and John W. H. Metcalf, of 
Ridgeville, Ya., for improvement in hill side plows. 
Joseph Harris, Jr., of Boston, Mass., for im¬ 
provement in driving circular saws. 
Daniel Hill, of Bartonia, Ind., for improvement 
in the attachment of a harrow to a land roller. 
Thomas B. Jones, of Carloville, Ala., for im¬ 
provement in cob and stalk cutters. 
Henry M. Keeler, of Newark, Ohio, for improve¬ 
ment in winnowers of grain. 
J. J. Parker, of Marietta, Ohio, for improvement 
in straw cutters. 
Samuel Snow, of Fayetteville, N. Y., and Alex. 
Hine, of La Fayette, N. Y., for improvement in 
rotary root-digging cultivators. 
Jacob L. Van Valkenburgh, of Ogdensburgh, 
N.Y., for improvement in shaking-shoes for win¬ 
nowers. 
Horace W. Woodruff, of Watertown, N. Y., for 
improvement in treating metals while in the mol¬ 
ten states. 
D. Henshaw Whittemore, of Chicopee Falls, 
Mass., for improvement in vegetable cutters. 
H. G. Robertson, of Greenville, Tenn., for im¬ 
provement in washing machines. 
Banford Gilbert, of Pittsburgh, Pa., for im¬ 
provement in griddles. 
Alexander B. Latta, of Cincinnati, Ohio, for 
improvements in oscillating engines. 
Yelland Foreman, of New York, N. Y., for im¬ 
provement in life-boats. 
Wm. Stephens, of Pittston, Pa., for improved 
valve motion in oscillating engines. 
John A. Elder, of Westbrook, Maine, assignor 
to John E. Coffin, of Portland, Maine, for ma¬ 
chines for cutting binders’ boards. 
L. M. Whitman, of Weedsport, N. Y., assignor 
to Samuel G. Wise, of same place, for improve¬ 
ment in cultivating plows. 
design. 
Theodore J. Gillies, of Williamsburgh, N. Y., 
for designs for raetalic coffins. 
MAN THE BEST MACHINE. 
It has beon proved by experiment that a 
good Cornish steam engine by tho consump¬ 
tion of one and a half pounds of coal will 
perform as much labor as an able bodied 
man, working eight hours; five tons of coal, 
therefore, would evolve as much power as 
that of a man at work eight hours every 
day for twenty years. This is certainly a 
great ti’iumph for science and mechanism, 
rendering five tons of coal equal in effective 
force to that obtained, on an averago, from 
a man during his whole life-time. 
There is ono point howovor, in which the 
human engine is far superior to tho best 
manufactured engine in tho world. The 
; man in twenty-four hours, consumes only 
nine ounces of coal, (carbon.) and in eight 
! hours does as much as the steam engine can 
perform by tho consumption of twenty-four 
ounces of coal. There is probably more 
force evolved from the consumption of mat¬ 
ter in tho human system than in any other 
—i. e., the human body works with less fric¬ 
tion, and is altogether tho best piece of 
mechanism. 
INFLUENCE OF INVENTIONS. 
We extract the following judicious re¬ 
marks on this subject from tho Mechanical 
portion of the Patont Office Report for 
1852-3: 
The progress of invention has not been 
without its influence upon tho destiny of 
man. In the great work of elevating the 
masses, of giving to the entire body of man¬ 
kind something like an equal opportunity 
in the race for happiness, and even power, 
it has co-operated with mighty eftect. It 
has so reduced tho cost of the comforts of 
life, and of the means of knowledge as to 
bring them within the reach of every ono. 
An immense amount of work, which could 
bo performed by tho hand alone a few years 
since, is now accomplished by machinery.— 
Intelligent labor has come into demand, and 
receives an increased emolument; so that 
men can at onco earn more than formerly, 
and their wages command subsistence, lux¬ 
uries, and means of cultivation to an extent 
that previously had never been realized.— 
Where these advantages are shared, experi¬ 
ence tells us the entire mass of society is 
elevated in the tone of its morality, as well 
as tho character of its enjoyments. It is 
true, as it never was before, that men are 
the architects of their own fortunes ; that it 
depends upon themselvos what they shall 
be. To render this completo, demands 
other aids, it is true. Religion and educa¬ 
tion must co-operate. Political institutions 
of the right stamp are also needed, as Eng¬ 
land may well teach us by the multitudes 
sho possesses destitute of tho thousand com¬ 
forts produced in their midst, at the lowest 
cost, by her wonder-working machinery.— 
But inventive skill must bear a part, and 
contribute to the final result. To tho peo¬ 
ple as individuals, and to our State govern¬ 
ments, it belongs to sustain the institutions 
of religion and of education, and to provide 
salutary municipal regulations. It is the 
province of Congress, meanwhile, to foster 
the genius of discovery, and, by its wiso 
legislation in this behalf, lend its aid to ad¬ 
vance tho interests of humanity. 
TRANSMUTATION OF METALS. 
Many of the fundamental and leading 
ideas of tho present time, appear to him who 
knows not what science has already achiev¬ 
ed, as extravagant as the notions of tho al¬ 
chemist. Not, indeed, the transmutation 
of metals which seemed so probable to tho 
ancients, but far Stranger things aro held by 
us to be attainable. We hare become so 
accustomed to wonders, that nothing any 
longer excites our wonder. We fix the solar 
sysfem on paper, and send our thoughts 
literally with tho velocity of lightning to the 
greatest distance. We can, as it were, melt 
copper in cold water, and cast it into statues. 
We can freeze water into ice, or mercury 
into a solid mailable mass, in white heat 
crucibles; and wo consider it quite practi¬ 
cable to illuminate most brightly entire 
cities with lamps devoid of flame and fire, 
and to which tho air has no access. Wo 
produce artificially ultramarine, one of tho 
most precious minerals ; and ■ wo believe 
that to-morrow or next day some one may 
discover a method of producing from a pieco 
of charcoal a splendid diamond, from a bit 
of alum sapphires or rubies, or from coal-tar 
the beautiful coloring principle of madder, 
or the valuable remedies known as quinine 
and morphine. All these things are more 
valuable than gold. Every one is occupied 
in the attempt to discover them, and yet 
this is the occupation of an individual in¬ 
quirer. All are occupied with these things, 
inasmuch as they study the laws of changes 
and transformations to which the matter is 
subject; and yot no individual is especially 
engaged in these researches, inasmuch as no 
one for example devotes his life and ener¬ 
gies to tho solution of the problem of mak¬ 
ing diamonds or quinino. Did such a man 
exist, furnished with the necessary knowl¬ 
edge, and with the courage and persover- 
anco of tho old gold makers, he would have 
a good prospect of being enabled to solve 
such problem.— Leibigs Letters on Chem¬ 
istry. 
NEW MACHINE FOR SETTING TYPE. 
The New York Tribune has examined a 
new machine, invented by Mr. Wm. Mitch¬ 
ell, of that city, for the purpose of setting 
type. It has Keys like a piano, with a 
number of endless tapes, kept in motion by 
machinery, to carry the types to tho spot 
where they aro sot up. The types aro laid 
with the nicked side up, in little brass cases 
or galleys, some fifteen or eighteen inches 
long, and just wide enough to admit a type 
crosswise. Of these cases there are as 
many as there aro small letters and punc¬ 
tuation marks, and they are fixed at an in¬ 
clination of about 45 deg. over tho typos, so 
that when a key is touched a type drops 
flat upon its tape, and is instantly conveyed 
to another larger tape, to which all tho 
typos are carried, and which conveys them 
to a little metallic throat, down which thoy 
drop upon a table all sot up, but requiring 
to be divided into lines, or justified by hand. 
Capitals and Italics have to bo laid on 
tho tapes by hand, there being in the ma¬ 
chine no keys or galleys for them. Two 
persons are required to attend tho machine 
—ono to work the keys, and one to justify 
and remove the matter composed. It is a 
very ingenious invention. All its parts are 
simple, and it would not easily get out of 
order. It occupies rather more space, per¬ 
haps, than a piano. Exactly how much 
work it is capable of performing, the Tri¬ 
bune has no means of judging, as the ar¬ 
rangements are not yet complete enough 
to subject it to a regular test. 
jomestic (&t0Wntt]L 
W. Root, of Marietta, Goo., writes the 
Scientifc American , that a few cloves added 
to a bottle of gum tragacanth solution, 
(paste,) will keop it sweet. Ho believes 
they will also keep ink from being muddy. 
To make Vinegar from Beets. — Grate 
the washed beets, express the juico in a 
cheese press, and put the liquor in an emp¬ 
ty barrel, cover the bung-holo with gauzo, 
and placo it in the sun. In a few weeks 
tho vinegar will be good. It is said that ono 
bushel of sugar beets will make five or six 
gallons of vinegar, which is probably nearly 
correct, as nino-tenths of tho substance of 
tho boot is liquid, and each bushel of roots 
contains about equal to six gallons in tho 
measure, omitting the interstices. 
Cement for Crockery Ware. —The best 
cement wo have ever found for mending 
broken crockery ware is made of pure white 
lead ground fine, moistened with copal var¬ 
nish to the thickness of honey. Put a 
small quantity upon the broken edges and 
press them togother firmly and secure them. 
Lot the dish remain three or four weeks to 
i become thoroughly dry.— Far. and Artizan. 
Bird s Nest Pudding. —Pare six apples, 
core them, filling them with sugar; placo 
them around a dish, and pour over them a 
batter, composed of six ounces of flour, salt 
and threo eggs, with a small quantity of 
milk, added by degrees. Bake moderatoly 
for one hour. 
