MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FA M I L Y NEWSPAPER. 
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EXPERIMENTS WITH WHEAT. 
The Society offer premiums of 1st, $30, and 2d, 
$20, for approved reports, founded on actual ex¬ 
periment, on the comparative earlineas, product¬ 
iveness and profits of the different varieties of 
wheat generally sown, or of any new and supe¬ 
rior variety. 
At least six varieties to be sown, of an acre 
each. The ground Io be as near alike as practi¬ 
cable, and to be cultivated in the same manner ; 
produce to be given in measure and Weight; time 
of ripening of each, and sample of each variety to 
be exhibited at the winter meeting of 1854. 
AGRICULTURAL WORK. 
For the most approved work on farm husband¬ 
ry generally, adapted to popular use, silver cup, 
value $100, (or money if preferred.) The work 
not to exceed 200 pages, duodecimo—Long Primer. 
FLAX COTTON. 
For the best and most satisfactory experiment, 
made in this State,in the preparation of llax, with 
a view to its substitution and use in the place of 
Cotton, silver cup, value $100, (or money if pre¬ 
ferred.) 
EXPERIMENTS IN THE CULTIVATION 
OF POTATOES. 
As it is highly important that accurate inform¬ 
ation should be obtained, on several points con¬ 
nected with the cultivation of the potato, the So¬ 
ciety offer, for the best experiment in the cultiva¬ 
tion of potatoes, embracing answers to the ques¬ 
tions which are annexed, the sum of $125; 2d do, 
75; 3d do, 50. 
Report to be made at the annual meeting in 
1854. 
The following are the questions to which the 
attention of competitors is solicited: 
First. What is the difference in the yield of the 
potato, and in the effect of t he disease, upon early, 
upon medium and upon late plantings ? 
Second. What such difference upon different va¬ 
rieties of soil ? describing the varieties. 
Third. What is the difference between planting 
the large, the medium and small potatoes, the 
quantities of seed used in each case; and the dif¬ 
ference between planting the large seed whole or 
cut; state the size of the pieces planted when cut? 
Fourth. What is the difference in the use of dif¬ 
ferent kinds of manure ordinarily used, to wit, 
long manure, so called, and rotted or composted 
manure; what the difference when plowed under 
or spread upon the surface and mixed with the 
harrow, and when put in the hill; and what the 
difference when used before planting or after¬ 
wards ? And the difference between such manures 
and that from the hog pen ? 
Fifth. What is the effect of using plaster in the 
hill before planting and after the plant is up ? 
Sixth. What the effecl of lime used in the same 
way ? 
Seventh. What that of ashes, caustic or leached, 
applied in similar manner ? 
Eighth. What that of guano, and the quantity 
used, or that of its kindred, the manure from 
poultry ? 
These experiments should be made side and side 
on the same soil, and on different soils, with the 
same plowing and tillage ; weighing seed, and 
weighing crop, and weighing also the discarded 
part of the crop, if any, and computing the per 
cent in each ease. B. P. JOHNSON, Scc’y. 
State Agricultural Rooms, Albany. 
REMEDY FOR CONSUMPTION. 
Whatever promises to mitigate the ter¬ 
rors of this disease is worthy of attention.— 
The number of its victims is fearfully in¬ 
creasing, in this northern climato. The fol¬ 
lowing statement in the Boston Medical and 
Surgical Journal may bo interesting to many 
readers. It will bo remombered that a 
Southern physician recently announced the 
discovery that phosphate of lime and cod liv¬ 
er oil was an effectual remedy in many ca¬ 
ses of consumption. Tho Medical Journal 
says : 
“ A gentleman of tho neighboring city of 
Charlestown, whose son was considered in a 
hopeless stato from the diseased condition 
of the respiratory apparatus, was induced 
to administer Dr. Stone’s medicine. All the 
phosphate of limo procured at the shops ap¬ 
peared to him to be imperfectly prepared— 
being coarse and otherwise objectionable.— 
A purer article was prepared especially for 
the occasion, reduced to an impalpable pow¬ 
der, and 10 grains wero administered three 
times a day, followed by a swallow of cod liv¬ 
er oil. No material aid was discoverable in 
tho patient for two weeks. Suddenly, as it 
were, a fixed pain of long standing in the 
chest then abated; sleep became refreshing, 
tho appetite improved, strength returned, 
and from being moved about tho apartment, 
reclining on an invalid chair, he is now daily 
riding on an average, ten miles on horseback, 
facing the wind and breathing tho cold with 
impunity. This is a synopsis of a case, rela¬ 
ted by a grateful parent, who would be glad 
to have others, under similar circumstances, 
make an effort with the phosphate, combined 
with cod liver oil.”— Niagara Democrat. 
TRUE ENOUGH. 
“The farmer who cannot maintain his 
land in high condition by tho manure made 
upon his farm, is not worthy tho namo of 
Husbandman ! This may bo dono by keep¬ 
ing a largo stock of cattle, and lotting noth¬ 
ing go to waste.” 
Tho abovo important passage of agricul¬ 
tural scripture is taken from an oxchango. 
and “ is deserving of serious consideration.” 
It expresses one article of our creed. Our 
chief reliance after all is upon tho manuro 
of the barn-yard. Wo have no conscientious 
scruples against tho use of other manures 
and fertilizers, and certainly none against 
putting chemistry under contribution, for 
the benefit of good mother earth. Still tho 
manure made upon the farm is the thing to 
bo relied on. It is a question not yet defi¬ 
nitely settled, as to tho profitableness, in 
general, of the various fertilizers, manufac¬ 
tured and sold. A good husbandman will 
be careful to save ail tho expense ho can, 
by taking pains to avoid tho necessity of 
buying manure. This work of mercy to 
the soil, should, like charity, “begin at 
homo.” 
Never hesitate to engage in a noble en¬ 
terprise for fear you have no power to ren- 
dor it important aid. Thero is no position 
so humble where a man may not bo a bene¬ 
factor in tho causo of truth. 
(% (Dwljiirii mill dutiira. 
PYRAMIDAL PEAR TREES—QUINCE STOCKS. 
Both the apple and the pear, especially 
the varieties most moderate in growth and 
early in bearing, may be trained in the pyra¬ 
mid form, and made to occupy far less space 
than standard trees. But the best manage¬ 
ment of natural stocks cannot bring them 
into bearing under seven or eight years, 
while on quince and Doucain stocks ono 
half that time only is required. “The 
pear,” says tho Fruit Garden, which is our 
principal authority in the preparation of 
this article, “ is eminently the tree for the 
pyramidal form, either on the free stock, or 
on tho quince; on the latter however, the 
trees bear much earlier, are more pro¬ 
lific, more manageablo, and consequently 
preferable for small gardens. On the pear 
stock they require constant summer prun¬ 
ing and pinching, and in some cases, root 
pruning, to subdue the natural vigor and 
induce early fruitfulness. Certain varieties, 
however, do not succeed on the quince, but 
tho majority of melting varieties do, and 
produce larger and finer fruit than on the 
free stock.” 
Quince stocks aro most generally grown 
by cuttings. These may be taken in the 
fall, as soon as the wood is fully ripe, and 
until the close of January. They are best 
kept buried in pits, where they will not 
freeze, and will keep moist yet not wet. — 
It is important in tho caso of tho quince 
that an inch or two of the old wood be at¬ 
tached to the base of the cutting. Strong 
shoots six inches to a foot long are recom¬ 
mended, with as many buds near tho base 
as possible. They should bo planted in a 
light, friable, deep soil, so deep that but a 
couple of buds remain above the surface.— 
The ground should bo kept clean and mel¬ 
low, and with good cuttings they will be fit 
for tho nursery rows tho following spring. 
Here, after one season’s growth they will be 
ready for budding or grafting. But the best 
and surest method is that of mound layer¬ 
ing—recommended in a previous article for 
Paradise and Doucain stocks. 
All varieties of the quince aro not fit for 
pear stocks. Many expei'iments have been 
tried with different kinds, and the great re¬ 
quisite has been found to bo a free, vigorous 
and rapid growth. Those of slow and feeble 
habit soon fail, and disappoint all tho expec¬ 
tations of the grower. There are but two 
or three varieties known in France, whero 
much attention has been given to tho sub¬ 
ject, which answer fully this purpose. One 
of those is tho Jlngers quince, which grows 
very rapidly, making strong shoots three 
feet long in ono season. It is known in 
some districts as tho broad leaved. Another 
variety known as tho small leaved is equally 
prized, and much employed by the Paris 
nurserymen. Mr. Barry has another kind 
in trial, which promises to be valuable, and 
which, he states, is very remarkable for tho 
ease and certainty of its propagation. 
Tho pyramidal form is gained by syste¬ 
matic pruning and pinching. The stem of 
tho yearling treo or growth from the graft, 
is cut back or shortened to a few buds so as 
to produco branches near tho ground. Some 
trees roquiro cutting lower than others, and 
it is found that tho less vigorous the devel¬ 
opment of the buds, the closer they need to 
be cut. 
A pear tree, for examplo, one year’s growth 
from the bud, without branches, and about 
four feet high, the average growth of year¬ 
lings, should bo cut according to the condi¬ 
tion of the roots, and prominence of the buds, 
leaving from twenty to ten inches abovo 
tho stock. Tho bud cut to, if possible, 
should bo one of tho best on the stem, and 
be on the side of the tree opposite to that in 
which tho bud was inserted, so as to contin¬ 
ue the stem in a straight lino. 
When the proper branches are thus pro¬ 
duced, the after treatment consists in head¬ 
ing down and shortening in, on tho same 
principles, to produco tho form desired.— 
When more buds start than are desired they 
are pinched off, and constant attention is re¬ 
quired to keep tho head of the treo in a 
woll balanced form, neither too open nor 
too close, but all alike in growth and vigor. 
Experience alone can teach the proper 
course to bo pursued, but tho experience of 
others as given in books and periodicals 
will be found to bo of tho highest value. 
For small gardens wo need not again recom¬ 
mend the pyramidal pear treo, when so 
much is gained in adaptation, in tho space 
given for variety, in early bearing, in easo 
of access to tho fruit and its exemption 
from exposure to winds and storms, and in 
tho increase in productiveness, and in the 
sizo of tho fruit abovo common standard 
trees. 
It is said that charcoal placed around 
roso bushes and other flowering plants, has 
tho effect to add greatly to tho richness of 
the flower. 
SPRING vs. FALL TRANSPLANTING. 
We make tho following extract from an 
article in an exchange, credited to tho Dol¬ 
lar Newspaper, Philadelphia: 
I had an Irishman whose name was Mi¬ 
chael, and a black man called Tim. Decent 
fellows of tho sort, and each conscious of 
superior skill ! Michael told me that Octo¬ 
ber was the time to transplant apple trees. 
Tim and I thought tho spring season was 
the best period of the year for this purposo. 
but Michael knew better. Michael’s argu¬ 
ment was thus: 
“ I'll go to tho nursery, ’Squiro, and dig 
up two dozen trees in the month of Octo- 
ber, and I will set them out in tho home lot. 
I will dig them carefully make great holes 
to put them in, and feed the roots with rot¬ 
ten chips, and set them out nicely, and when 
spring comes they will be ready to grow.— 
The fall is tho time to transplant trees.” 
Tim says to me: “Master, don’t let Mi¬ 
chael do it, for you will be old before the 
trees begin to bear. Now, Master, let mo 
talk a minute. When wo dig up trees, we 
always tear and bruise some of the shoots, 
and if wo sot them out in tho fall, the 
bruised roots will die before spring. I lived 
with the Doctor six years, and he always 
said that a fresh wound would heal a great 
sight quicker than an old sore. So it is in 
trees. If we transplant trees in tho fall, it is 
six months before the bruised shoots can 
begin to heal, and tho frosts of winter make 
a little bruise a big ono before spring. But 
if we set out trees in April, they begin to 
grow in a week, the wounds and bruises 
heal up vory quick, and they liavo nothing 
to do but to grow.” 
Tim was a negro, but he had tho power 
of thinking and he knew moro than some 
Yankees. I thought Tim’s reasoning was 
good though his head was covered with long 
wool. But I contrived to please Michael 
and Tim. In the month of October, these 
fellows went to the nursery; dug up and 
transplanted twenty-four trees setting them 
four rods apart. They did the job nicely, 
and both of them saw that I was gratified. 
During tho winter, they worked together 
like brothers, and were faithful. In the next 
April, Tim and Michael dug out of the same 
nursery, twenty-four trees, and set them out 
between those that were planted the fall be¬ 
fore. After the job was dono, Tim told Mi¬ 
chael that the trees that were set out in the 
spring, would grow as much in six years, as 
the others would in ten. “Bedad,” says 
Michael, “ may you live to see mo a fool, 
and live on clams.'’ 
Now for tho fact. Eight years ago, this 
orchard of forty-eight trees was planted.— 
Those planted in the fall, with the exception 
of three, livod through the ensuing summer. 
The greatest growth of any of these trees, 
was three inches upon the tips of the limbs, 
and the loast, one-half inch. Their growth 
is now annually but little. Last year I dug 
up one of them of medium size, the ends of 
the bruised roots were decayed, and in pla¬ 
ces where tho bark was started at the time 
of planting, the roots were much rotten.— 
Their bodies wero covered with patches of 
moss, and they wore unthrifty. My neigh¬ 
bors said a curse was withering them. But 
Tim’s trees grow fast. The truth was, the 
wounds began to heal soon after the trans¬ 
planting, and their removal from tho nurse¬ 
ry to the orchard, did not apparently, delay 
their growth even one week. Tim’s tree's 
aro thrice as large as Michael’s, and 
begin to bear fruit, and Tim feels proud of 
his luck. Michael says, “Bodad, you have 
beat me, and I’ll never plant another treo 
in the fall.” 
Now, what wo want is knowledge. We 
want the truth, not theory. We want gen¬ 
uine experience as our guide. Besides this, 
many of us want common sense, or rather, 
we want to know how to use it. We havo 
counsellors in abundance, but they differ 
widely in opinion. Baron Larrey, Surgeon- 
general in Bonaparte’s army, said that 
“wounds occuring towards evening, after 
the toils and marches of tho day, were slow 
to assume the healing process." Such pa¬ 
tients frequently died with the lock-jaw; 
and if not, they got well slowly. But if 
wounds occurred in the morning, when the 
frame was vigorous, they usually healed 
rapidly, unattended with constitutional dis¬ 
ease.” Vegetable and animal life agree in 
many particulars. In the fall the life of a 
tree is dormant; in a state of fatigue. In 
the spring,, after the sleep of winter it is 
renovated, it is ready to expand and grow, 
and if a tree has been wounded, it heals 
quickly, without rot or decay. This is com¬ 
mon sense; it is just what we should expect. 
Let the fruit-raiser take heed to these facts. 
ORIGIN OF THE BALDWIN APPLE. 
The Baldwin ranks high, in tho estima¬ 
tion of fruit growers and fruit lovers, among 
tho best and most approved kinds. The 
following scrap is from a recent number of 
the Boston Cultivator. And we are sincere¬ 
ly glad to hear that the spot where the first 
Baldwin treo grew and flourished, is in the 
keeping of so worthy a devotee of Horti¬ 
culture, as the indefatigable Col. Jaques : 
“ We notice that some confusion has aris¬ 
en in regard to tho original habitation of 
this celebrated apple. One writer supposes 
it to havo originated in Somerville, another 
that ‘Burlington adjoining Woburn,’ was its 
native place. Col. Jaques is referred to as 
owning the ground whore the original tree 
stood, and as having put up a monument to 
its memory. Wo believo it is a fact, Col. J. 
owns the ground referred to and that ho has 
marked the former site of the tree by a 
wooden post which is shortly to give place 
to a block of granite. In a letter which the 
writer of this received from Col. J. in 1847, 
ho states that the parent tree stood in Wil¬ 
mington, and that in tho year 1784, he went 
with his father and Col. Loammi Baldwin, 
and saw them cut scions from it. If any 
new light has dawned on tho subject within 
five years we presume Col. J. can explain.” 
Jfocjiiimr Ids & Irirnct. 
LIST OF PATENT CLAIMS 
ISSUED FROM THE UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE, 
For the week ending March 23, 1852. 
Josiah Aslienfolder, of Philadelphia, Pn., for im¬ 
provement in omnibus step. 
Win. H. Bakewell, of New York, N. Y., for im¬ 
provement in shop awnings. 
Win. Ball, of Chicopee, Mass., for improvements 
in machines for stamping ores, 
E. Ball, of Greentown, O., (assignor to Isaac 
N. McAbee, of Canton, O.,) for improvement in 
plows. 
Wm. Ball, of Chicopee, Mass., for improvement 
in friction primers for cannons. 
Geo. G Bishop of Norwalk, Conn., for improve¬ 
ment in machinery for felting cloth. 
Thos. H. Dodge, of Nashau, N. H., for improve¬ 
ment in marine signals. 
John Howarth, of Salem, Mass., for improve¬ 
ments in planing machines. 
Chas. Howard, of Madison county. Ill., for im¬ 
provement in swingle trees. 
Wm. Joslin, of Waterford, N. Y., for improve¬ 
ments in machines for making cordage. 
Nathan Kinman, of Lewiston, N. Y., for im¬ 
provement in flour packers. 
Thos. H. McCray, of Madisonville, Tenn., for 
improvements in smut machines. 
John McCollum, of New York, N. Y., for im¬ 
provement in cracker machines. 
Wm. S. Mcllhenny, M. D., of Philadelphia, Pa., 
for improvement in manufacturing artificial teeth. 
Stephen E. Parrish, of New York, N. Y., (as¬ 
signor to Edward B. Clayton &, Sons of same 
place,) for improvement in machines for paging 
books. 
Wm. Stoddard, of Lowell, Mass., for improve¬ 
ment in machines for jointing shingles. 
J. M. Thatcher, of Lansingburgh, N. Y., for im¬ 
provement in air heating stoves. 
James Young, of Manchester, England for im¬ 
provement in making paraffine oil. 
OZONE-WHAT IS IT? 
The discoverer of ozone is Schonbein, tho 
inventor of gun cotton. Ozone is produced 
when tho electrical bnish passes from a 
moist wooden point into the atmosphere, or 
when phosphorus acts at common tempera¬ 
tures on a moist portion of tho atmosphere. 
To produce ozone, take a clean piece of 
phosphorus, about half an inch long, which 
has been recently scraped; put it into a 
clean quart bottle, at a temperature of about 
60° Fahr., with as much water as will half 
cover tho phosphorus; close the mouth 
slightly, so that if inflammation takes place 
no harm may happen, and leave it. The 
formation of ozone will quickly occur, being 
indicated by the luminous condition of the 
phosphorus, and tho ascent of a fountain-like 
column of smoko from it. In less than a 
minute the test will show ozone in tho air 
of the bottle; in five or six hours it will bo 
com] aratively abundant. 
Ozono is a gaseous body of a very pecu¬ 
liar smell; when concentrated, it lias an odor 
like chlorine; when diluted, it possesses what 
is called “ the electric smell. ’ Atmospheric 
air charged strongly with it, renders breath¬ 
ing difficult, causes unpleasant sensations, 
and produces catarrhal effects. It is insol¬ 
uble in water. It discharges vegetable col¬ 
ors like chlorine. It acts powerfully on me¬ 
tallic bodies; it peroxidizes lead and silver 
very quickly. It is one of tho most power¬ 
ful oxidizers that has ever been discovered. 
It acts on almost all salts, and is very 
nearly related in its effects to chlorine.— 
Scientific American. 
REVOLVING LAST HOLDER. 
Mr. II. G. Dewitt, of Napanock, Ulster 
Co., N. Y., has taken measures to secure a 
patent for a very useful improvement for 
boot and shoemakers’ use. It consists of a 
holder to retain boots and shoes on lasts, 
wliilo making. The holder is an apparatus 
placed on a bench, in which the last with 
the boot or shoe on it, is fixed so as to turn 
round, or change its position in any way for 
the operative to work on the boot most con¬ 
veniently, and which will enable him to 
stand and work at the bench, and at the 
same time afford him every facility for ope¬ 
rating the shoe or boot that he now has by 
sewing or pegging it on his kuec. 
This apparatus, to all tho shoemakers who 
use it, will tend to promoto health and 
lengthen out tho years of life. It is a phi¬ 
lanthropic invention in every sense of the 
term. It will relieve those shoemakers who 
suffer from pain in the chest, and the holder 
is so fixed that it can be let down, and when 
the operator may be tired of standing he 
can sit down and work.— Sci. Am. 
Locomotive Car. —The difficulty of work¬ 
ing short branch railroads, from tho inade¬ 
quacy of the travel to support a locomotive, 
is likely to be obviated by the invention of 
a locomotive car, in which a small engine, 
placed in one end, gives sufficient propelling 
force to move the car with its complement 
of passcngei’s. An experimental trip was 
made with such a car, built by Messrs. Par¬ 
rott and Moore, on the Lowell road, last 
Saturday, which may he set down as suc¬ 
cessful, though the giving way of a piece of 
the machinery prevented the trip from ex¬ 
tending beyond ten miles. Tho ten miles 
were run in less than half an hour, the max¬ 
imum speed being about twenty-six miles 
per hour. The car will seat fifty passen¬ 
gers, and the engine weighs about three 
tons. It is estimated that it will run one 
hundred miles with one cord of pine wood - . 
— Commomvealth. 
Suppose Fulton and Whitney had spent 
their lives in the tap-room ; yet who knows 
how many Fultons and Whitneys rum has 
robbed us of ? 
Value of the “Patent” System. —The 
invention of tho “ patent” lias saved a great 
deal of trouble. When the manufacture of 
Dresden china was in its infancy, a discovery 
was made by a person engaged in its fabri¬ 
cation, which enabled him to produce a bet¬ 
ter article than any of his competitors.— 
From that time his manufactory became a 
fortress; the portcullis was down day lihd 
night. Every workman was sworn to se¬ 
crecy; tho superior officers were sworn ('ve¬ 
ry month. “ Dumb till death” was inscrib¬ 
ed in largo letters within all tho workshops, 
and imprisonment for life the penalty de¬ 
nounced agaitist all talc-bearing. The king 
himself took oath of secrecy concerning ail 
that he might sec whenever lie visited the 
factory. Had the discovery been made a 
century later, the inventor would have just 
taken out a patent, invited the “members 
of the press” to call in and witness the new 
operation, and then to describe—to tho 
“rest of Europe.”— Home Journal. 
Improved Spring for Carriages. —Mr. 
John Lamb, of McDonough, Chenango Co.. 
N. Y., has taken measures to secure a pa - 
out for an improvement in springs for car¬ 
riages and other vehicles. Vulcanized In¬ 
dia rubber springs are employed; one end 
of each is secured in the top part of stand¬ 
ards which aro attached to tho bottom of 
tho wagon; the other ends pass overf’rb- 
ion rollers secured in the top part of stand¬ 
ards which are attached to the axle-trees; 
they run down and are secured fast in the 
lower parts of the said standards. These 
springs, havo sliding clamps on them for 
regulating their expansion and contraction 
for light and heavy loads.— Sci. Am. 
Improved Knife for Cutting Hat.—M r. 
John F. Holden, of Genoa, Cayuga Co., N. 
Y.. writes us that ho has scon a very good 
knifo used, this winter, for cutting hay in 
tho stack or hay-mow. It has a long handle, 
like a pitchfork, and near tho foot it has a 
shank for a knife of a crescent formed edge. 
The foot is placed upon tho jog or arm, to 
work the knife, and the handle answers for 
a lover. Tho improvement is a good ono, 
and ono much required, as -wo havo often 
felt in days of youth, long ago.— Sci. Am. ’ 
Domestic (Bronomi]. 
Recipe for a Cold. —The following recipe 
for a cold wo can say is truly worth the price 
of this paper for many years. It was pre¬ 
scribed for us when wo wero suffering from 
a cough that seemed as if wo were on the 
brink of Consumption ,—no cessation nor rt st 
day nor night. We took it, and were cured 
in three days. 
Tho woman who gave tho recipo has 
reared a largo family in Oneida county— 
has seen hundreds suffering from colds and 
consumption, and she assures us, that in 
thirty years’ experience, with the proscrip¬ 
tion of the ablest physicians, and the ex¬ 
perience of her friends before her, sho has 
never hoard of nor used any other remedy 
better than this for colds of every condition, 
even when on the borders of that scourge 
of man, consumption. 
Recipe. —One tablcspoonful of molasses; 
two teaspoonsful castor oil; one do. pare¬ 
goric ; ono do. spirits camphor. Mix and 
tako often. —Northern Farmer. 
To Ice a Cake. —Dredge that side of tho 
cake which rested upon the tin whilo baking 
with sifted flour, in order to remove what¬ 
ever greaso may he there; then wipe oft’the 
flour very carefully, put a quantity of icing 
in tho centre, and with a broad-bladed knife 
spread it equally over the top and over the 
other side of the cakes, dipping your knife 
occasionally in cold water as you proceed; 
then put the cake in a warm oven, that tho 
icing may harden, but not allowing it to re¬ 
main in the oven long enough to discolor 
the icing. If you wish to ornament this 
icing, trail icing upon it, in whatever forms 
you choose, through a tin or paper tube or 
adorn it with sugar plums, or other confec¬ 
tionary, before you harden it in tho oven. 
Hasty Pudding, or Farmer’s Rice.— 
Beat one egg very light, and add to it as 
much flour as it will moisten. Rub it thro 
your hands until the flour is in fino dry 
lumps, like bread crumbs. Put on a quart 
of milk to boil, and when boiling, stir in as 
much of this flour as will mako it very thick. 
Serve it with butter and sugar, and rich 
cream if you have it. 
New Mode of Stopping Hiccups. —Dr. 
Piretty appears to have found a very simple 
means of arresting this disagreablo and 
vory often obstinate symptom. It is suffi 
cient to squeeze the wrist—preferably that 
of tho right hand—with a piece of string, 
or with the foro finger and thumb of the 
other hand. 
Pressed Beef. —Salt a pioco of tho thin 
part of tho flanks, the tops of the ribs, or a 
piece of the brisket, with salt and saltpetre 
for five days. Boil until very tender, then 
p!a :o between two boards, with a heavy 
weight upon the top ono. and let it remain 
until cold. Serve it as it is, and garnish it 
with parsely. 
To Make Mice Decamp. —We see it sta¬ 
ted that, if in places infested by mice, their 
holes bo plentifully treated with Scotch 
snuff, they will bo off like a shot. Wo have 
never tried it ourselves, but wo hope it is 
true, as it will bo putting the snuff to at 
least one good purpose. 
Boiling Mush. —It is very common to 
mako mush by boiling only a few minutes. 
This is all wrong. It should be boiled one 
or two hours, and if longer will do no harm. 
It will be necessary to occasionally add some 
hot water, to keep tho mass thin and pre¬ 
vent burning, and itmust bo often stirred. 
