MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
PEACHES IN A COLD CLIMATE. 
Levi Bartlett, of Hie Granite Farmer, 
gives an interesting statement in regard to 
growing peaches in New Hampshire. It ap¬ 
peal's that in 1840, he sowed some peach pits 
which came up and made a vigorous growth, 
but were entirely cut down next winter. And 
so on for three years, during which time the 
ground was well tilled and manured. He here 
gave up the effort to grow peaches where the 
thermometer fell to 28 ° below zero, and left 
the trees to shirk for themselves. This neglect, 
by causing a slow growth, has been their sal¬ 
vation ; “the trees now stand in the Nursery 
rows apparently as hardy as the gnarled oak.” 
“ Grass and weeds sprang up among the trees 
and retarded their growth, and every succeeding 
winter killed less and less of the new wood up 
to the spring of 1850, when scattering blossoms 
appeared on eight or ten of the trees, which 
produced fruit of various qualities. In ’51, 
there was a much larger show 7 of blossoms, suc¬ 
ceeded by two or three bushels of fruit. In 
1852, had thirty trees in full bloom, they all 
produced fruit, ripening in succession for five 
or six weeks. Last May, we had forty trees in 
bloom—probably, we had from 50 to 60 bushels 
of peaches of various qualities, from very good 
to poor—and of different colors, shape and 
size, and in time of ripening, embracing a 
period of five or six weeks. We have grown 
upon our farm, the burdock, the mullein and 
the thistle, also, the peach and the grape ; the 
expense of each, about alike, but have found 
the two last the most profitable, especially the 
peach ; as we had them in daily eating for 
weeks, and the gratification of giving bushels 
to our friends, and selling a dozen dollars, 
worth, and of giving as many bushels to our 
pigs, besides making much use of them for 
pies, preserves, pickles, drying, and mashing up 
a bushel or two by way of experiment, the 
juice of which made a fine white vinegar. 
Judging from our experience in the matter, we 
do not see, why peaches cannot be raised 
among us with about as much certainty and 
case as any fruit we cultivate.” 
THE PEAR TREE.-ITS CULTIVATION. 
The principal reasons deduced by the or- 
chardist for neglecting, or refusing to plant as 
many pear trees as will bear some proportion 
to the number of his apples, peach and other 
trees, are that the first cost of the pear tree is 
generally more than double that of the apple; 
it is longer in coming into bearing; it is more 
liable to leaf or sap blight, Ac. These objec¬ 
tions may look formidable, but they are notin- 
surmountable. 
It is true that the cost at the nursery of one 
hundred pear, is more than that of two hun¬ 
dred apple trees; and this must continue to be 
so, for the expense of raising pear trees for a 
suitable size for market is much the greater; 
but when planted in the orchard they require 
no more attention than other fruit trees; in or¬ 
der to make them do their best, they require cul¬ 
tivation and attention far beyond what is usually 
extended to them. 
A well cultivated pear tree is its prolific as an 
apple tree of the same size, and the fruit al¬ 
ways sells at more than double the price of 
apples, so that the cultivator gets full return for 
his extra outlay for his pear tree. 
It may be said that pears will not bear trans¬ 
portation equally well with apples; but it will 
be recollected that most varieties of pears im¬ 
prove by being gathered before they are quite 
ripe and allowed to ripen off the tree; if this 
course is pursued, the objection falls. 
A very popular method of cultivating the 
pear is by working it upon the Angers’ quince 
stock; by this means the tree is dwarfed and 
thrown into bearing at an early age. 
Some varieties succeed better on the quince 
than on the pear stock, while others refuse to 
grow upon the quince unless they are double 
worked; that is, first work a free growing va¬ 
riety upon the quince, then the refractory one 
upon the free growing pear. 
Many persons appear to mistake the term 
“ Dwarf l’ear,” thinking small fruit is what is 
meant It is not the fruit, but the tree that is 
dwarf. 
The best stock for dwarfing the pear is the 
Angers quince. The apple is made dwarf by 
being worked upon the Paradise stock; and the 
cherry upon the Cerasus Mahaleb. 
For the orchard we prefer to grow the pear 
on its own stock, but for gardens and small en¬ 
closures we would select the best varieties that 
are known to succeed well upon the quince, and 
grow them as dwarfs. 
Varieties of the pear that are late in produ¬ 
cing fruit when worked on pear stocks, may be 
brought into early bearing by judicious prun¬ 
ing and pinching. 
If the tree is permitted to branch, say three 
feet from the ground, and pruned into a pyra¬ 
mid form, leaving the lower branches the long¬ 
est, and cutting back those above, it will not 
only bring the tree into a handsome shape, but 
the pruning that it gets to keep it in this shape 
tends to throw it into bearing. Pinching the 
ends of the growing branches the last of Au¬ 
gust or first of September, so as to stop the 
growth ami ripen the wood, will cause the for¬ 
mation of fruit buds.— Farmer's Companion, 
It is sakl that in an instance where the 
Washington,.Imperial Gage and Heine Claude 
were grafted on a damson plum tree, that the 
curculio destroyed all tlui fruit on the damson 
but left untouched the Washington, Gage and 
Claude, which bore heavily and matured a fine 
lot of fruit 
Charcoal, it is said, placed around rose 
bushes, has the effect to add greatly to the 
richness of the flowers. 
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HYACINTHS IN POTS AND GLASSES. 
The Hyacinth is a native of South-western 
Asia, and is said to grow wild, very abundantly, 
about Aleppo and Bagdat. It was introduced 
into Europe about two hundred and fifty years 
ago, and for a time was the passion of the 
Dutch florists. In 1720 they had increased 
the number of varieties to over two thousand, 
many of which are now lost. They are still 
sufficiently abundant, however, to form a beau¬ 
tiful and varied ornament for the garden and 
green house. 
Hyacinths are propagated usually by offsets 
from ihe bulbs, which under proper manage¬ 
ment, are formed very plentifully. (Outdoor 
culture is usually employed,—of that we do 
not now speak.) It is now the proper time to 
start those intended for blooming in pots and 
glasses in the house. They can be grown in 
pots of wet sand, moss, mould, or in water in 
properly formed glasses. In pot culture, care 
is usually taken to keep the whole bulb cover¬ 
ed and moist alike, until the shoots are two 
inches long. With the upper part exposed to 
the air and light, the development is said to be 
unequal, and the shoots sickly and abortive.— 
It should therefore be covered two or three 
inches deep with old bark, tan, or half decom¬ 
posed leaves, so as to retain the moisture and 
partially exclude the air. When the shoots 
are of the required height, the covering may 
be gradually removed, and the sunlight will 
soon restore them to their proper color. A 
large portion of sand in the mould, is also re¬ 
quisite. It assists in the proper diffusion of the 
moisture, and allows of more perfect drainage 
than can be attained in any other way. When 
the bulbs are planted, the pots should be kept 
in a cool room, away from any fire, (but not 
allowed to freez.e,) and watered sparingly, until 
the leaves appear, when they will need a larger 
su pply. After being thus fairly started, in a 
cool room, they may be removed to the sitting- 
room windows, and in a few weeks their beauty 
and fragrance will abundantly repay the care 
t hey have received. 
The prettiest way of growing Hyacinths in 
windows,’ is that represented in the cut—in 
glasses, without earth, and allowing them the 
nourishment of pure water only. Fill up the 
glasses with rain or river water, until the bot¬ 
tom of the bulb will touch it, and constantly 
fill up the glass as the bulb absorbs it. It has 
been thought necessary to keep them in the 
dark for the first few weeks, but experiments 
have not confirmed this opinion. It is well to 
keep them cool at first, but the exclusion of 
the light is not necessary to their perfection.— 
The water should be changed occasionally, as 
it becomes impure, which is readily done by 
taking the bulb and roots out and rinsing 
carefully both the fibres and the glasses.— 
Single flowered varieties are generally prefer¬ 
red, as their colors arc brighter and their bells, 
though smaller, much more numerous. 
The Narcissus, Crocus, and Early Tulip, all 
grow well in water, and a very pretty winter 
show may be made by cultivating several va¬ 
rieties. Most seedsmen have the bulbs and 
glasses for sale, at difib rent prices according to 
their form and variety.—u. 
, LARGE DECIDUOUS CYPRESSES. 
We find in the English Gardeners’ Chronicle 
the following as the dimensions of what is 
quoted as an enormous Cypress tree, quite a 
lusus naturae there. It is growing in the 
vicarage of Boxley, Kent : height 60 feet, the 
spread of the lower branches, which feather 
quite to the ground about 45 feet, girth 9 feet 
4 inches at 2 feet from the ground, and 7 feet 
3 inches at 6 feet It stands on the edge of a 
small pond, in which its roots luxuriate, being 
natural to swampy ground. The Cypress 
growing in the Bartram Garden in Philadelphia, 
according to the Florist , is one hundred and 
thirty-seven feet high and twenty feet in cir¬ 
cumference. I ri Buxton’s Mexico, a cypress is 
alluded to, which would girth 17 yards, over 
fifty feet, and there were many o the is of equal 
size on the Chapultepcc heights, near Mexico, 
some of which were sadly battered by the 
American cannon at the time of the storming 
of the fort. That our English cousins should 
consider a tree of nine feet girth, worthy of a 
newspaper paragraph, shows at least that they 
have not been to America, and reminds us of 
the Englishman, who was relating with great 
gusto to his American visitor the natural 
wonders of their Island, and among other 
things, as a fact, whether he believed it or not, 
that their great river, the Thames, was really 
150 miles long. He had never heard of that 
small stream, the Mississippi, over 2000 miles 
in length .—Farm Journal. 
Cultivation of the Peach. —It is generally 
advisable to set peacli trees in the spring, 
though for most other fruit trees, fall setting is 
preferable. 
If you have a clay or gravelly soil, and no 
other should be used for the peacli, dig the pits 
for setting them in the fall, at least three feet 
across and fifteen inches deep. If you throw 
in and around a little ashes or lime it will be 
better. Set the trees about twenty feet apart 
one way, and from twelve to fourteen the other. 
The land can then be cultivated for two years, 
which is long enough if you afterwards keep it 
cultivated around the tree, putting on ashes, 
lime, and marsh muck, and when the tree shows 
signs of decay from the “ yellows ” add a little 
salt and iron scales, filings and cinders from the 
smith’s shop. 
“Wiiat the Apple Man says in 1853.”-— 
Mr. N. P. Morrison, of Somerville, informs us 
that he has just received ten dollars and eight 
cents for one barrel and 28 apples of the Hub- 
bardston variety. These apples were sold at 
50 to 75 cents a dozen. Mr. M. cultivates 
about eight acres of land ; his fruit crop, this 
barren year, brought him eight hundred and 
fifty dollars. For 26 bushels of apples he re¬ 
ceived sixty dollars. For 136 barrels, he re¬ 
ceived four hundred and eight dollars. For 
strawberries and raspberries, one hundred dol¬ 
lars. The balance, to make up the whole sum, 
$850 00, was for cider apples, sold at 8 to 12 
cents a bushel, and for early windfalls sold in 
July and August Perhaps some of our young 
men, will come to the conclusion, that the 
market for good fruit is not yet overstocked. 
tit %x\s, h. 
Corn Meal Pudding. —Pour over a quart 
of corn meal sufficient boiling water to scald it, 
stirring to mix. Add half a tea-cup full of 
sweet cream, (or a cup full of milk.) and the 
same of dried cherries, or any other fruit, with 
a little salt. When milk warm, stir in a cup 
full of lively yeast—cover close and set in a 
warm place to rise. When light, stir in flour 
to make the batter quite stiff, and let it rise 
again. Put it into a pudding bag which has 
been wrung from water and its inside dusted 
with flour or meal, to keep the pudding from 
sticking. Boil from one and a half to two 
hours. Serve with sweetened cream. Four 
or five hours are necessary to prepare this 
dish. 
Corn Bread. —A JYcw Recipe■ — Every¬ 
body who has been at the Mansion House, at 
Buffalo, New York, has learned the luxury of 
the corn bread there provided. The clerk is 
often taxed to write directions for home manu¬ 
facture, and I thus procured a recipe for domes¬ 
tic use, which I copy for you, so that those 
who wish may try a piece of bread from the 
Mansion. It is as follows: — One quart of 
sour milk, two table-spoonfuls of saleratus, 
four ounfces of butter, three table spoonfuls of 
flour, three eggs, and corn meal sufficient to 
make a stiff batter.— Exchange. 
Stewed Apple Pudding. —Cover with ap¬ 
ples pared and cored to the depth of two inch¬ 
es, a deep basin or pan; add water sufficient to 
stew them. Make a crust as for common bis¬ 
cuit, roll to an inch in thickness, cut a hole in 
the centre and cover with it the apples. Set 
the dish on the stove or coals to cook, cover¬ 
ing closely to prevent the escape of steam.— 
Twenty or thirty minutes will be sufficient.— 
Serve with sauce made of water, butter, and 
sugar, thickened with Hour and seasoned with 
nutmeg .—Michigan Farmer. 
To take Fresh Paint out of a Coat.— 
Take immediately a piece of cloth and rub the 
wrong side of it on the paint spot. If no oth¬ 
er cloth is at hand, part of the inside of the 
coat-skirt will do. This simple application 
will generally remove the paint when quite 
fresh. Otherwise, rub some ether on the spot 
with your finger. 
Johnny Caxes. —Scald a quart of sifted In¬ 
dian meal with sufficient water to make a thick 
batter, stir in a tablespoonful of salt. Flour 
the hands well, and mould it into small cakes; 
fry them in fat enough, nearly to cover them. 
When brown upon the under side they should 
be turned. It takes about twenty minutes to 
cook them. When done, split and butter them, 
LIST OP PATENT CLAIMS 
Issued from the United States Patent Office, 
For the week ending January 3, 1864. 
Alfred C. Cook, of Russellville, Ky., for ma¬ 
chine for sawing level surfaces. 
Samuel <fc Thos. Champion, of Washington, 
D. C., for improvements in feathering paddle 
wheels. 
Isaac Crandal, of Cherry Valley, N. Y., for 
improvement in running gear of wagons, (.fee. 
John Collmann, of Silver Creek, 111., for ruling 
machine. 
Win. S. Dillehav, of the county of Shelby, Ivy., 
for improvement in straw cutters. 
John Donlevy, of New York, for method of 
forming plates for chromatic printing. 
F. P. Dimpfel, of Philadelphia, Pa., for im¬ 
provement in steam boiler furnaces. 
Jas. Hamilton,of New York, for improvement 
in quartz crushing machines. 
Michael W. Helton, of 'Bloomington, Ind., for 
improved method of hanging and operating saw 
gates. 
Geo. D. Miller, of New Berlin, Pa., improve¬ 
ment in tuyeres., 
Lucius Paige of Cavendish, Vt., for improve¬ 
ments in screw bolts and nuts. 
Jonathan Russell, of Philadelphia, Pa., for 
machine for cutting irregular forms. 
Matthew Stewart, of Philadelphia, Pa., for 
improvement in floor plates of malt kilns. 
Edward A. Tuttle, of Williamsburgh, N. Y., 
for improvement in hot air registers. 
John B. Terry, of Hartford, Conn., for improve¬ 
ment in machines for sticking pins. 
Zina S. Ogden, of Glenn’s Falls, N. Y„ assignor 
to Lewis O. Ogden, of Glenn’s Falls, aforesaid, 
for improvement in lowering, raising and fasten¬ 
ing carriage tops. 
Dexter H. Chamberlain, of Boston, Mass., as¬ 
signor to himself and Nehemiah Hunt, of same 
place, for improved mode of banding pulleys 
for saws. 
James H. Longbotliam, of Brooklyn, N. Y., 
for improvement in dying bookbinders’ boards. 
Geo. A. Hander, of Hamburgh, Pa., for im¬ 
provement in corn shellers. 
Chas. Muller, of New York, for improvement 
in machines for casting type. 
Win. H. Price, of Philadelphia, Pa., for im¬ 
provement in bedstead fastenings. 
Philip P. Tapley, of Lynn, Mass., for improve¬ 
ment in machines for polishing leather. 
Wm. B. Tilton, of New York, for improvement 
in guitars. 
Claude Desbeaux, of Paris, France, for appa¬ 
ratus for turning the leaves of books. 
John Shuttleworth, of Frankfort, Pa., for im¬ 
provement in power looms. 
Joseph Mason, of New York, for improved ar¬ 
rangement for cutting screws in lathes. 
Reuben M. Hine, of Mentz, N. Y., assignor to 
Horace C. Silsbv, of Seneca Falls, N. Y., and 
Reuben M. Hine, of Mentz, aforesaid, for im¬ 
provement in shanks of hay and manure forks. 
Thos. W. Harvey, of New Y r ork, assignor to 
John B. Ferry, of Hartford, Conn., for improve¬ 
ment in machines for sticking pins. 
Sherburn C. Blodgett, of Philadelphia, Pa., for 
improvement in hemming and cording umbrella 
covers. 
Patrick Clark, of Rahway, N. J., for improve¬ 
ment in regulating the damper of steam boilers 
by the pressure of the steam. 
Robert H. Collyer, of San Francisco, Cal., for 
improvement in quartz pulverizer. 
Theodore F. Engelbrecht, of New York, for 
improvement in double acting spi ing hinges. 
Banford Gilbert, of Pittsburgh, Pa., for im¬ 
provement in corn shellers. 
J. Durrell Greene, of Cambridge, Mass., for 
improvement in breech-loading fire-arms. 
Jas. B. Holmes, of Cincinnati, Ohio, for im¬ 
provement in machines for nailing washboards. 
Samuel Malone, of Tremont, Ill., for improve¬ 
ment in corn planters. 
Geo. F. Page, of Baltimore, Md., for improved 
ratchet catch for head backs in saw mills. 
Thos. Rogers, of Philadelphia, Pa., for ma¬ 
chine for cutting hand rails. 
Henry C. Nicholson and James Spratt,of Cin¬ 
cinnati, Ohio, for improvement in sealing pre¬ 
serve cans. 
Oren Stoddard, of Busti, N. Y., for improve¬ 
ment in machines for sawing logs. 
Wm. Wright, of Hartford, Conn., for improve¬ 
ment in operating cut-off valves of steam-engines. 
RE-ISSUES. 
Wm. H. Smith, of Philadelphia, Pa., for im¬ 
provement in utilizing slags of furnaces. Origin¬ 
al patent dated Dec. 7, 1852. 
Cornelius W. Blanchard, of Clinton, Mass., for 
improvement in looms for printing figured fab¬ 
rics. Original patent dated Aug. 3, 1852. 
SUBSTITUTE FOR GUTTA PERCHA. 
Dr. Riddell, officiating superintending Sur¬ 
geon for the Nizam’s army, in making experi¬ 
ments on the Muddar plant of India, ( Asclepir 
Gigantea,) had occasion to collect the milky 
juice, and found that as it gradually dried it 
became tough and hard like gutta percha.— 
He was induced to treat the juice in the same 
manner as that of the gutta percha tree, and 
the result has been the obtaining of a sub¬ 
stance precisely analogous to gutta percha.— 
Sulphuric acid chare it; nitric acid converts it 
into a yellow resinous substance. Muriatic acid 
has but little effect upon it: acetic acid has 
no effect, nor has alcohol. Spirit of turpentine 
dissolves it into a viscid glue. When taken 
between the finger and thumb, pressed togeth¬ 
er, and then separated, it shows numberless mi¬ 
nute and separate threads. The foregoing 
chemical tests correspond exactly with the es¬ 
tablished results of gutta percha. It becomes 
plastic in hot water, and has been moulded in¬ 
to cups' and vessels. It will unite with the 
true gutta percha. The Muddar also produces 
an excellent fibre, useful in the place of hemp 
and flax. An acre of cultivation of it would 
produce a large quantity of both fibre and 
juice. The poorest land suffices for its growth. 
suk! no doubt, if well cultivated, there would 
be a large yield of juice and a finer fibre. A 
nearly similar substance is procurable from the 
juice of the Euphoria Tiracalli , only when it 
hardens after boiling, it becomes brittle. — 
The subject is most important ; and if common 
hedge plants like the foregoing can yield a 
product so valuable, the demand for which is 
so certain quickly to outrun supply, a material 
addition will have been made to the productive 
resources of the country.— Journal of the So¬ 
ciety of Arts, 
A PAPIER-MACHE VILLAGE. 
It appears that a Mr. Seymour—about to 
take up his abode in the land of nuggets—com¬ 
missioned Messrs. Bielefield to construct a num¬ 
ber of portable houses, mainly with that mule- 
rial which they have been so instrumental in 
rendering publicly useful, papier-mache ! The 
paper village, when made, was temporarily set 
up in the grounds of the factory. It consisted 
of ten houses. One of these was a villa with 
nine rooms, each twelve feet high; another was 
a storehouse, eighty feet long, with a sitting- 
room, kitchen, and two bed-rooms attached ; 
while the rest were small houses varying from 
two to six rooms each. The villa had a draw¬ 
ing-room and a dining-room, each with a bay 
window, a hall, several bed-rooms, two closets, 
and a kitchen. The chief material of all the 
houses is papier-mache as ordinarily used, but 
contains an admixture of rags not reduced to 
pulp, which enables it to solidify as hard as a 
board. The walls are double, to insure venti¬ 
lation; and the partitions have a strength and 
durability which will put to shame the lath and 
plaster mockeries of too many of the London 
houses that Jack built. The roofs are nearly 
flat, just inclined sufficient to throw off the rain 
water. The flooring, with the joists attached, 
is made in large square pieces; and, like the 
walls and the ceiiings, is so planned as to be 
transported with ease and rapidly set up. It 
was found on trial that one of the smaller 
houses could be pulled down and ro-built in 
four hours. If, as is stated, this paper and rag 
building material can be advantageously used 
for barracks, and park-lodges, and shooting- 
boxes, and billiard-rooms, we see no reason why 
Australia should monopolize these paper houses. 
—Household Words. 
Horse Bower and Steam Machines.— As 
we have received a number of communications 
lately respecting the “ horse power” of steam 
engines, we present the following condensed 
from Bourne, who is held by practical engineers 
as good authority : 
Horse power is an amount of mechanical 
force that will raise 33,000 lbs. one foot high 
in a minute. This standard was adopted by 
Watt as the average force exerted by a strong 
horse. His engines were made of a certain 
size, corresponding to their recorded horse 
power; that is, the diameter of the cylinder af¬ 
forded a key to the power of the engine, as the 
steam carried was uniform in pressure, and so 
was the velocity of piston. At the present day, 
we cannot say that a certain diameter of 
cylinder is the key to its power. The steam is 
the power, and some engines whose nominal 
horse power is given by the bore of the cylinder 
may exert double the nominal amount. 
The number of pounds pressure on the square 
inch multiplied by the number of square inches 
in the area of the piston, and by the number of 
feet the piston travels in one minute, gives the 
amount of impelling force. About one-tenth 
the power so calculated, is deducted in large 
engines, for friction—the remainder is the ef¬ 
fective force, which, if divided by 33,000, gives 
the actual horse power.— Scientific American. 
HEN'S NEST. 
C. Y. Ament, of Dansville, N. Y., has made 
one of the most astonishing inventions which 
for many long years has fallen beneath our no¬ 
tice. It is nothing less than a hen’s,nest so 
constructed that when the ovipositing Shang¬ 
hai or Cochin having arrived at her full time 
shall have deposited the embryo of a future 
fowl, the ovum passing through au aperture iu 
the lowermost portion of the nest, and falling 
upon an elastic cushion beneath, shall pass 
into a receptacle destined for its protection 
from the chilling frosts of winter, or the greedy 
attacks of some egg-eaiing quadruped. But 
judge the astonishment of biddy when arising 
from her seat and looking aroung her she be¬ 
holds that the precious deposit has vanished 
forever from her sight ? The inventor having 
the necessity of the public fully before his eyes, 
has applied for a patent.— Sci. Am. 
New Tunneling Machine. — The New 
York papers describe a new tunneling machine 
in operation at Harlem. The machine is said 
to be, in effect, a huge seventeen foot augur, 
slowly turning at the rate of one revolution 
per hour, and advancing at the same time from 
Four to eight inches per hour, according to the 
solidity of tire rock perforated. The total 
weight of the machinery is 150,000 lbs. Sixty 
horse power of steam, two engineers, and two 
men to shovel out the broken rock, compre¬ 
hend tire expense of working the machine, 
which, making allowance for necessary inter¬ 
ruptions, may be run twenty hours per day. 
India Rubber Beneath Rails. —The New 
York Central Railroad Company have assum¬ 
ed the expense of laying one or two miles of 
india rubber under their tracks, intending to. 
obviate materially the present destruction of 
rails and machinery, and do away with the 
noise attendant upon the motion of the trains. 
We are glad to learn that this invention is to 
be tried in this country. A patent was taken 
out in England two years ago, but we have 
never heard of its adoption there. 
New Kinds of Boots and Shoes. —Measures 
have been taken to secifre a patent for a new 
kind of boots and shoes, invented by Albert 
L. Murdock, of Boston. The soles, and the 
lower portions of boots and shoes are made of 
India rubber, or gutta percha, while the upper 
portions are formed of some textile fabric, 
such as woolen, cotton,. Ac. The lower portions 
of the boots and slices protect the bottoms and 
sides of' the feet from wet or moisture, while 
the- upper portions form- an elastic covering for 
the upper part of the feet or legs, and keep tire 
lower portions properly adjusted to the feet, 
and at the same time allow the free perspiration 
to pass off. 
Remember that paint is one of the best 
known means of preserving implements, wagons, 
and wooden machines of all kinds. 
