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MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAFER. 
SCALDED SHORTS FOE HORSES. 
SrtOR'rs as they are familiarly termed, 
when scalded, make an excellent diet for sick 
animals. Tlio usual method of preparation 
is, to turn two or three quarts of shorts in 
a bucket, to which add boiling water, so that 
the mixture, when stirred, shall be about the 
consistence of a soft poultice; it is then to 
be covered with acloth, and not given to the 
horse until sufficiently cool. When ahorse 
has taken cold and labors under a discharge 
from the nostrils, the mash may be put into 
the manger while hot, with a view of steams 
ing the nasal passage, and favoring the dis¬ 
charge of morbid accumulations, ft is our 
general practice, when treating horses for 
acute diseases, to prescribe an occasional 
mess of the above; and we invariably ob¬ 
serve some benefit derived. 
In acute diseases of the alimentary canal, 
inflammation of the bowels for example, the 
practice is open to some objection, on ac¬ 
count of the irritation which tho article might 
produce on the mucous surface. During the 
active stage of such disease, food of this de¬ 
scription is inadmissable, and such articles 
as are mucilaginous, lubricating, are indicat¬ 
ed. The best we know of are flax seed 
marsh-mallows and slippery elm. It is cus¬ 
tomary in England, in large stables,’ to seta 
boiler in which hot water is continually kept 
for the purposes of the stable, and more par 
ticularly for making bran mashes, and at 
night if any of the horses look dumpish, (fa¬ 
tigued.) a bran mash and a good warm bed 
of straw generally restores them. 
Let a man who lias performed a hard day’s 
work arriving at home lato at night, his 
clothes drenched with rain, his feet icy cold, 
and his frame shaking like an aspen leaf, now 
partake of a b&wl of warm gruel and tumble 
into a good feather bed—he can afterwards 
understand how a poor horse, under similar 
circumstances, might be benefited. White 
recommends bran mashes in fever and all in¬ 
flammatory complaints; they are useful, al¬ 
so, as a preparative to physic, serving to re¬ 
move any indurated feces there may bo in 
the bowels, whereby ‘the operation of the 
medicine is rendered moro safe and effectual. 
When a horse has been high fed for some 
time, a change to a diet of mashes for two 
or three days will often do a great deal of 
good.— Jim. Vet. Journal. 
ABOUT MARL. 
Any earthy substance in which tho pro¬ 
portion of calcareous matter exceeds that 
of the sand or clay, is styled in tho popular 
language, a marl ; of this there are four 
principal varieties:—1, clay marl; 2,gsand 
marl; 3, slate or stoney marl; 4,shell marl; 
of these the last is commonly tho richest in 
calcareous matter. All these kinds of marls 
are to ho found in many of tho States of 
our Union, and are variously vulued, owing 
to the peculiar requirements of adjacent 
soils. 
Clay marls arc particularly useful to san¬ 
dy soils, and if spread on the surface of sods, 
remaining for winter’s frosts to render them 
pulverulent, the marl not only improves the 
growth of grass from its action as a mulch, 
hut by slow solution both its aluminous and 
calcareous portions are carried into the soil, 
rendering the soil more retentive of ma¬ 
nures and less liable to suffer from tho ef¬ 
fects of drought. Sand marl is also useful 
for clay soils, and to any soil deficient of 
lime. Slate or magnesiaft marls are seldom 
of much value, and should only bo used in 
localities where better marls or lime cannot 
ho procured. Shell marls are of various 
qualities, some of them containing both sul¬ 
phate! and phosphate of lime, and therefore 
are of great value. This kind of marl forms 
in part tho subsoil of a small portion of land 
near Jersey City, and on which cabbages 
have been grown every year for half a cen¬ 
tury. 
Marls have been long used in Germany 
and elsewhere, and experience has proved 
them to ho useful when mixed with pond 
mud, muck, peat or any other organic sub¬ 
stance, as the lime of the marl is suro to 
exhaust the organic portions of tho soil, if 
used to excess without addition. 
The usual method is to apply marl in tho 
fall on sod, and then a dressing of pond 
mud or other organic matter; this improves 
tho g.iowth of grass, and after three years 
may he plowed under with tho sods and give 
permanent improvement to tho soil. Wo 
have made analyses of many marls which 
have been found to render soils sterile, if 
applied when freshly taken from tho pits, 
hut it exposed tor a few years before use, 
arc then useful. Such marls usually contain 
both magnesia and sulphuret of lime.— 
IVor king Fanner. 
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MONROE CO. AC . SOCIETY - WINTER EXHI¬ 
BITION OF FRUIT. 
Sheep in Winter. —Sheep should not he 
kept or tod in the sumo yard with other 
stock, as cattle often hook them, and some¬ 
times mortally, and colts will chase and teaso 
them. They should not ho fed much moro 
at a time than they will eat cloan, as when it 
is practiced much waste occurs. They will 
not return to what they have once been over, 
unless starved to it. It is bettor to clean out 
the troughs or rake up the hay and give it 
to your calves or colts,—and next time feod 
a less quantity. 
New Kind or Potatoes. —Tho editor of 
the Oregon Spectator lately received some 
potato vines, grown on tho farm of Samuel 
Miller, Esq., adjacent to Linn city, which 
bore potatoes both at tho roots and upon 
the tops—regular grown potatoes, above as 
well as under the ground. 
Endeavor to raiso good grain, for it will 
always sell, even in years of plenty; where¬ 
as it is only in dear and scarce seasons, that 
thero is a demand for grain of an inferior 
quality. 
The 17th of January was a cold day, but 
the sleighing was first rate, and we expected 
to see a goodly gathering of the Farmers of 
Monroe to settle up the affairs of the past 
year, and appoint their officers and make 
other arrangements for the present. But 
the attendance at the Annual Meeting of 
tho Ag. Society was wofully small—not over 
half a dozen farmers from the country made 
their appearance—and therefore gentlemen 
in town, who are in various ways, directly or 
indirectly connected with agriculture, had 
the direction of business pretty much to 
themselves. 
Now, although I believe that a capital se¬ 
lection of officers has been made, and that 
the other business has been properly trans¬ 
acted, yet how much better it would have 
been if tho meeting had been emphatically 
a farmers meeting. When a county politi¬ 
cal meeting is called, as one was just the 
day preceding, see what a sturdy delegation 
presents itself!—not a town but sends up 
tho full number required by the call, and 
sometimes even a double number. This in¬ 
dicates a deep and all prevading interest in 
politics, and an apathy below zero in regard 
to tho promotion of agriculture. 
YVill our country friends reflect on this, 
and seo whether it be not a dereliction of 
duty, which they arc called upon to perform 
in behalf of their proper pursuit ? I should 
suppose it ono of the greatest pleasures a 
farmer could enjoy, now in the leisuro of 
winter, to meet with his co-laborers and 
talk over tho results of the past, and project 
and adopt plans of improvement for tho 
future. To mo it is so, certainly. But 
enough of this. 
The display of Fruits was, considering the 
intensity of tho cold, very good. It was 
impossible to carry fruits any considerable 
distance without being frozen as hard as 
stones, and therefore the contributors wero 
chiefly from tho city and vicinity. There 
wero about twelve or fifteen collections of 
apples presented. 
Amateurs. —N. Hayward, of Brighton, 
had, as usual, the largest collection; somo 
20 varieties or moro. Specimens generally 
good, and carefully labelled 
Tiios. Johnson, Brighton, — G fine varieties 
—Spitzenburg, Baldwin, Newtown Pippin, 
Monmouth or Red Check Pippin, ancl Tal 
man’s Sweeting. 
Mr. Morris, Pcnfield — Fine specimens of 
Jonathan, Peck’s Pleasant, Dominie, and 
Spitzenburg. 
D. L. Bailey, Henrietta,—Superb Nor¬ 
thern Spy, Twenty Ounce, Roxhury Russet, 
and others. 
Lemuel Thompson, Rochester,—A nice 
basket of Northern Spy. 
Mr. Van Kuren, Cayuga—Several varie¬ 
ties apples, and some Isabella grapes. 
F. W. Lay, Greece—Several varieties. 
James II. Watts —A large basket of fino 
Northern Spy, Winter Pearmain, Red Can¬ 
ada, and Green Sweeting. 
M. G. Warner, —Finely preserved Isa¬ 
bella and Catawba grapes. 
Roet. Brown, Greece — A fine collection 
of apples. 
Nurserymen, ij’-c.— Messrs. A. Frost & 
Co.—22 varieties of apples, embracing most 
of tho leading sorts. 
Jno. Donnelan, Greece— G select sorts, 
including beautiful Vandervere, Fameuse, 
and Pomrno Grise. 
Dr. Long —His favorite “Kingsley Applo,” 
(tho “ apple of all apples,” us tho Doctor 
styles it,) and some others. 
Messrs. Bissell & Hooker —Fino speci¬ 
mens of Canada Reinette and Wagener.— 
Their specimens wero a very accoptablo con¬ 
tribution, being the only ones present. 
Ellwanger & Barry — 30 varieties of ap¬ 
ples, and 14 of pears. Among tho latter 
were fino Easter Beurres, Prince’s St. Ger¬ 
main, Vicar of Winkfiold, Buerro gris d’hiv- 
er nouveau, Cattillac, Pound, Bezy sanspa- 
reil, Dillon, Doyenne d’hiver d’aloncon, 
&c., &c. 
A few hours wero passed most agrooably 
and profitably in tasting and discussing the 
merits of the different varieties, and at the 
close tho exhibitors agreed upon sending 
their collections to the annual winter exhi¬ 
bition at Albany. It is worth noting espe¬ 
cially that, small as tho exhibition was, near¬ 
ly all tho most celebrated winter fruits were 
presented, and, considering tho season, in a 
state of wonderful perfection—affording a 
most satisfactory proof that fruit culture is 
making rapid progross in this vicinity. 
B—. 
P. S. A fact creditable to John J. Thomas 
should bo mentioned—that ho came from 
Macedon, facing a cold storm, rather than 
miss tho exhibition. 
LARGE APPLES. 
The raspberry may bo propagated with as 
much facility as tho morus multicaulis, by 
dividing tho roots. 
In our part of the country, large apples 
are by no means a novelty. Our Twenty 
ounce, Monstrous Pippins, and Pumpkin 
apples, are so common that nothing snort 
of the toanderful is really worthy of note.— 
We think wo have something before us that 
comes under that head; a specimen of the 
Fall pippin produced in the garden of Aaron 
Erickson, Esq., of Rochester, measuring six¬ 
teen inches in circumference, and weighing 
twenty-six and one-half ounces. We cut 
this prodigious specimen and found it sound 
and good to the core, and of very fair quali¬ 
ty. There grew on the same tree, another 
weighing twenty-five ounces, and two others 
nearly as large. 
It is a serious, if not a very dangerous 
matter to grow such apples. Suppose one of 
these should fall ten or fifteen feet, upon 
the head of a child, or even of a grown per¬ 
son! But Mr. Erickson docs not apprehend 
any danger of this kind. The tree that 
produced these monsters is not over three 
feet high, and this will appear to those not 
accustomed to the culture of dwarf trees, 
no less remarkable than the sizo of" tho ap¬ 
ples. YVe think Mr. E., may say that lie 
has produced the largest apple on record, 
on the smallest tree. In all our experience, 
we have seen none, nor in reading have we 
seen any account of such large apples. Tho 
trees are some seven years planted, and are 
about ten years old.— Gen. Parmer. 
AMERICAN WINE. 
The practicability of making tho finest 
wines from tho American grape is no longer 
an open question. Wo have seen and tast¬ 
ed some manufactured by Judge Powers, of 
Catskill, from his celebrated vineyard on 
tho banks of the Hudson, which with suffi¬ 
cient age would deserve to rank with the 
best Madeiras. The judge has confined his 
experiments pretty much to the Isabella and 
Catawba grape , from which, since 1849. ho 
has manufactured several thousand bottles. 
When properly matured by age it will have 
ono advantage over tho best of imported - ' 
wines, in not being adulterated or poisoned 
by any foreign mixture. The vineyard in 
which those grapes are grown lies on the 
sido hill immediately north of the steam¬ 
boat landing at Catskill. It has a fino ex¬ 
posure to the sun, which favors fcho perfect 
ripening of tho grape, so necessary for the 
making of highly flavored wines. 
We should not be surprised if choice wines 
were as plenty in this state a few years hence, 
as cider was a few years since.— N. Y. Eve. 
Post. 
Domtatif (Brononu]. 
Cure for Chapped Hands. —Most of our 
juveniles during tho winter season, are 
troubled with chapped hands; for tho ben¬ 
efit of tho mo thorn,-who are obliged to listen 
to their endless complaints, we publish the 
following recipe for chapped hands : 
“ Take 3 drachms of camphor gum, 3 do. 
white beeswax, 3 «do. spermaceti, 2 ounces 
olive oil—put them together in a cup upon 
the stove where they will melt slowly and 
form a white ointment in a few minutes. 
If the hands ho affected, anoint them on 
going to bed, and put oil a pair of gloves.— 
A day or two will suffice to heal them.” 
Saddle op Mutton, Roasted. —Saddle is 
one of tho most favorite joints of mutton. 
It is always roasted. The fat on its surface 
is scored in squares; tho skin previously 
separated from the fat by the butcher, is 
generally skewered by the cook as a pre¬ 
servative of tho fat, but which is removed 
in time to froth and brown tho surfaco. Tho 
juice of the meat that flows on carving, is 
by many esteemed as tho best gravy; but it 
is usual to have a tureen of mutton gravy 
and some jelly sauco served with tho joint. 
Loin of mutton is roasted in tho samo 
way.— Ohio Cult. 
Broiled Mutton Chops. —Cut the chops 
from either tho loin or tho best end of tho 
neck, trim them neatly, and tako off some 
of tho fat if requisite. Pepper them light¬ 
ly ; put them on the gridiron over a clear 
fire. Turn the chops three or four times 
with a proper pair of tongs. When suffi¬ 
ciently done, remove to a hot water dish, 
sprinkle a little salt over them, and lay*up- 
on them a few small bits of butter. Ono of 
the principal points to bo observed in dress¬ 
ing chops and steaks, is sonding thorn hot to 
the table.— Ohio Cult. 
To Make Sandwiches.— Rub one table- 
spoonful of mustard Hour into half a pound 
of sweet butter; spread this mixture upon 
thin slices of bread; from a boiled ham, cut 
very thin slices, and place a slico of ham be¬ 
tween two slices of bread prepared as above; 
cut tho sandwiches in a convenient form 
and serve. Some chop the trimmings of 
the boiled ham very fine, and lay them be¬ 
tween tho slices of prepared bread. This 
is a good dish for lunch, or evening enter¬ 
tainments. 
Buckwheat Cakes. —To three pints of 
buckwheat flour, mixed into a batter, and 
ono teaspoonfull of carbonate of soda, dis¬ 
solved in water, and ono ditto of tartaric 
acid, dissolved in like manner; first apply 
the carbonate, stir tho batter well, and then 
put in tho acid; thus the use of yeast is en¬ 
tirely superseded, and light cakes are in¬ 
sured. Ono great advantage is, that the 
batter is ready for baking as soon as made. 
Cream Fritters.— Beat six eggs until 
quite light, then stir in ono pint of creain v 
ono teaspoonful of salt, half, a grated nut-’ 
mog, and siftod flour onough to make a thin 
batter; stir it until it becomes smooth, then 
drop it by spoonfuls into hot lard, and fry, 
and serve as above. 
y&u\m\xt Shis $r Irirace. 
LIST OF PATENT CLAIMS 
IS3UKD FROM THE UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE, 
Prom December 23, to January, (I, 1852. 
To Noble S. Baruum and Lcwellyn Whitney, 
of New Haven, Conn., for improvement in ventil¬ 
ating railroad cars. 
To Samuel S. Barry, of Brownhelm, 0., for im¬ 
provement in carriage hubs. 
To Wendel Bellman, of Baltimore, Md., for im¬ 
provement in the construction of bridges. 
To Upson Bushell, of Gustavus, 0., for improve¬ 
ment in modes of covering cheeses. 
To Geo. Cook, of New Haven, Conn., for im¬ 
provement in lock for carriage curtains. 
To Joseph F. Flanders, of Newburyport, Conn., 
(assignor to Franklin Roys and Edward Wilcox, 
of Berlin, Conn.,) for machine for turning up the 
edges of sheet metal disks. 
To Malilon Garretson, of Bermudian, Pa., for 
improvement in clover harvesters. 
To Win. C. Grimes, of Spring Garden, Pa., for 
improved steam and water Gauge. Ante-dated, 
July 6, 1851. 
To R. V. DeGuinon, of Williamsburgh, N. Y., 
for improvement in camphene lamps. 
To Peter P. R. Hayden, of Columbus, 0., for 
improvement in the manufacture of railroad chairs. 
To Hess, of Easton, Pa., (assignor to Sylvanus 
Shimer, of same place,) for improvements in iron 
railings. 
To Hervey E. Insley, of New York, N. Y., for 
improvement in daguerreotype pictures. 
To Edward Kellogg, of New Hartford, Conn., for 
improvements in wool-picking machines. 
To Hiram Kimball, of Worcester, Mass., for im¬ 
provement m the construction of shovels. 
To Joseph Weight, of Lawrence, Mass., (assign¬ 
or to Samuel Lawrence, of Boston, Mass.,) for im¬ 
provements in felting cloth. Patented in Eng¬ 
land Oct. 7,1841. 
To Richard S. Lawrence, of Windsor, Vt., for 
improvement in breech-loading fire-arms. 
To Nathaniel Nuckolls, of Columbus, Ga., for 
improvement in feeding rollers in straw cutters. 
To Ulysses Pratt, of Deep River, Conn., for im¬ 
provement in processes for bleaching ivory. Ante¬ 
dated July 6, 1851. 
To John H. Ranch, of New Yo.ik, N. Y., for im¬ 
provement iu pen and pencil cases. 
To Adam Wm.. Rapp, of Philadelphia, Pa., for 
improvement in gold pens. 
To Robert B. Ruggles and ’Lemuel W. Sorrell, 
of New York, N. Y., (assignors to Robert B. Rug¬ 
gles, of same place,) for improved mechanical gold 
beater. 
To John L. White, of Corning, N. Y., for im¬ 
provement in trucks for locomotives. 
To Horace W. Woodruff, of Watertown, N. Y., 
for improvement in cast iron car wheels. 
To Homy M. Paine, of Worcester, Mass., for im¬ 
provement in ventilating windows for railroad ears. 
DESIGNS. 
To James G. Abbott and Archilus Lawrence, of 
Philadelphia, Pa.* for designs for stoves. Ante¬ 
dated Dec. 11, 1851. 
To Sanford Burnam, of Waterford, N. Y., for de¬ 
sign for stoves. 
To Henry Hebbard and John Polhemus, of New 
York, N. Y., for spoons. 
To Wm. Savery, of New York, N. Y., for design 
for stoves. 
To J. H. Conklin, of Peekskill, N. Y., (assignor 
to W. D. it F. Vredenburg, of Sing Sing, N. Y.,) 
for design for stoves. 
NEW GRIST MILL. 
We wero much gratified, yesterday, on a 
visit to the new Machine Shop in witnessing 
the operation of Harrison’s now patent grist 
mill, an advertisement of which will he found 
in our columns. Tho whole mill is made of 
iron except tho stones, which are encased in 
that metal, so that it has the appearance of 
boing entirely iron. It is very small and 
compact, so as to bo easily transported from 
place to place, and may be put to work in 
any place where thero is a small space of 
room, and power to operate it. 
Tho advantages of this mill, in addition to 
its compactness, arc that it grinds about ono 
third more grain than any other mill with 
the samo power, and, especially that, while 
grinding with great rapidity, say at the rate 
of 18 to 25 bushels an hour, it does not heat 
tho mill as common mills are liable to, hut 
discharges it with very little increase of 
temperature. This is effected by a strong 
current of cold air being thrown into the 
mill, which spreads itself betwoen the laces 
of tho stones, and is discharged with tho 
meal. Another advantage consists in its 
being so constructed, that, in grinding the 
finest meal the stones do not come in actual 
contact, and thus they retain their sharp¬ 
ness very much longer than those of other 
mills, boing subject only to tho wear oc¬ 
casioned by the grain. Thus a great amount 
of time and labor, usually required for 
sharpening tho stones, is saved.— Norwich 
Courier. 
New Printing Press. —Mr. Montague, 
editor and publisher of tho Pittsfield Eagle, 
has invented a power press, on which he 
now prints his paper. Wo understand it 
will print 2,000 sheets tho hour, — the 
forms being fastened in an upright position, 
and the impression given by a cylinder. It 
may bo worked by steam or hand power, 
and can be mado at a cost of $650 for single 
cylinders, and $750 for double cylinders! 
American and English Iron. —Tho annu¬ 
al wear of English and American iron com¬ 
paratively stated by experienced Engineers 
is givon as follows:—Annual wear of Eng¬ 
lish bars 3 1-10 por ct.; do. American 1 4-00 
per ct.; showing a difference in. favor of 
American of 1 7-10 per ct. 
MOTHER OF FEARL. 
Mother of pearl is the hard, silvery, bril- 
, liant internal layer of several kinds of shells, 
I particularly oysters, which is often variega¬ 
ted with changing purple and azure colors. 
J Tho largo oysters of tho Indian seas alone 
secrete this coat of sufficient thickness to ren¬ 
der their shells available to tho purpose of 
manufacturers. Tho genus of shell-fish 
j called Pentadince furnishes the finest pearls, 
as well as mother of pearl; it is found in 
greater perfection round the coast of Cey¬ 
lon, near Ortnus, in tho Persian Gulf, at 
Cape Comorin, and among some of the Aus¬ 
tralian seas. 
i The brilliant hues of mother of pearl do 
j not depend upon tho nature of tho sub¬ 
stance, but upon its structure. The micro¬ 
scopic wrinkles or furrows which run across 
the surface of every slice act upon the re¬ 
flected light in such a way as to produce the 
chromatic effect. Sir David Brewster has 
shown that if we take, with very fine black 
sealing wax, or with tho fusible alloy of 
D’Arcet, an impression of mother of pearl, 
it will possess the iridescent appearance.— 
Mother of pearl is very delicate to work; 
hut it may bo fashioned by saws, files, and 
Grills, with (lie aid sometimes of a corrosive 
acid, such as tho dilute sulphuric or muriat¬ 
ic; and it is polished by colcothars.— Sci. 
American. 
IMPROVED SAW SET. 
M.r A. Bagiielder, of Lowell, Mass., has 
taken measures to secure a patent for a good 
I improvement in machines for setting saws, 
j The nature of tho invention consists in funn¬ 
ing the saw set of two jaws, the under ono 
ot which is movable and so arranged as to 
he secured at a greater or less inclination 
as desired, by means of a set screw. Tho 
saw is placed between the two jaws and 
secured between them by a thumb screw, 
which upon being turned in the proper di¬ 
rection, presses the upper jaw firmly upon 
the saw; the saw is placed between the jaws, 
so that the upper part of the teeth are just 
below the lower edge of tho upper jaw and 
two gauges, one at each end of tho jaw, fit¬ 
ting between tho saw teeth. A dog which 
works on a horizontal rod, is made to act 
upon the saw teeth by tho blow of a ham¬ 
mer, by which operation the teeth are bent 
till they bear against an inclined bed, and 
thus the desired set is given to the teeth, Im¬ 
properly adjusting the under jaw spoken of. 
All tho teeth will be sot evenly, as each tooth 
js made to bear against the inclined bed. 
The instrument can bo made at a small cost, 
and saws can be set correctly and expedi¬ 
tiously by it.— Sci. American. 
NEW PRINTING PRESS. 
Mr. George II. Lawyer, of the Nonpa¬ 
reil Job Printing Establishment, has been 
engaged during several months, in perfect¬ 
ing a now power printing press of his oun 
invention. It gives us much pleasure to 
state, that it has been completed, that the 
press was yesterday put in operation, and 
that tho experiment proved entirely success¬ 
ful. The press is on an entire new princi¬ 
ple, is remarkably simple in its construction, 
does its work well and rapidly, occupies a 
third less spaco than the ordinary press, 
and can be constructed at about ‘ one-half 
the expense. It can be made of a suitable 
sizo for printing tho smallest jobs or the 
largest newspapers. Tho power is applied 
by means of a balance wheel, which one 
man can turn with perfect ease, and only 
one boy is required to lay on and remove 
the sheets. It is named " Uncyer s Cwtciji- 
nati Printing Press,” We consider this a 
most important invention, and a gratifying 
triumph of the skill and ingenuity of Cin¬ 
cinnati mechanics. The inventor has taken 
the proper means to secure a patent.— Cin. 
cinnati Nonpareil. 
Coating Metals.— Mr. Grissol’s method 
of coating iron or other metals, with tin, or 
tin alloyed with lead, is thus described:— 
Tho tin or alloy, is melted in an iron vessel, 
and when in a molten state, a layer of chlo¬ 
ride of zinc, mixed with about its own weight 
of sal-ammoniac is spread over its surface. 
Tho motal to bo coated is then dipped into 
the liquid metal or alloy, until tho coating 
is effected. It will bo found advantageous, 
in tho use of this and the preceding proces¬ 
ses, to dip the metal to bo coated several 
times, in order that it may come in contact 
often with the layer of fused salt; also of 
use in the preceding process to dip the iron 
or other metal into a hot and slightly acid 
solution of chloride of zine, previous to im¬ 
mersion in tho bath of melted metal.— Farm, 
and Mechanic. 
Sand tiie Track. —In pulling large trains 
of cars it has been found difficult many times 
to start the trains after stopping, in conse¬ 
quence of tho wheels of the locomotive slip¬ 
ping. Hence it has been necessary very 
frequently to throw sand on the track." This 
has been remedied by running a copper pipe 
immediately in front of the wheels, through 
which the engineer can, at any moment he 
finds the wheels slipping, discharge a quan¬ 
tity of sand. This apparently trifling im¬ 
provement will save an immensity of time 
and trouble. 
New Printing Type. —A company is at 
present in course of formation for the pur¬ 
pose of carrying into operation a remarka¬ 
ble patent, which has for its object the man¬ 
ufacture of type, by a process of dye sinking, 
in a metal of harder material than the alloy 
of load and antimony at present employed 
in casting typo in a mould. This is said to 
bo the most important improvement which 
has taken place in tho manufacture of typo 
for tho last 300 years.—- English paper. 
I lato boing onco asked how long ho 
meant to bo a disciple, said, “ As long as I, 
am not asbumed of growing, better and 
wiser/ 
