MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
Drtjpfo aito Martin. 
Hi AFTER-CULTURE OF TRANSPLANTED TREES. 
The importance of proper attention to the 
after-culture of newly transplanted trees, has 
not been generally appreciated in this country, 
either by farmers or horticulturists. The or¬ 
chard or fruit garden is planted, well or ill, ac¬ 
cording to the skill and energy of the proprie¬ 
tor—and then the trees are left to take care of 
themselves, or the treatment given is inefficient 
and useless from lack of thoroughness. Plant¬ 
ers have sought rather to collect the new and 
rare, than to improve, and bring to its highest 
perfection, the well-known and proved-to-be- 
good varieties. They have forgotten the high¬ 
er pleasure of successful culture for the whim 
of gratifying their pride or love of novelty.— 
This should not be so, nor need it. Informa¬ 
tion on the subject can easily be had, and no 
source of acopiiring it should be neglected by 
the lover of fruit and shade trees. 
The Horticulturist for May contains a val¬ 
uable paper from the editor on the subject of 
Arboriculture—the treatment of the soil of the 
nursery, fruit garden, and orchard. We con¬ 
dense the following practical hints therefrom: 
The health and vigor of trees depend almost 
entirely upon the condition in which the roots 
are placed, because the roots perform the impor¬ 
tant office of feeders. The spongy extremities 
of the roots are the mouths through which the 
food must pass; and if these are bound up in a 
compact mass of earth, almost impenetrable to 
air and moisture, it is impossible for them to 
ground with half decayed manure, decayed 
leaves, or some such material—is a commenda¬ 
ble practice in the management of young trees, 
and of dwarf fruit trees, and all others whose 
roots are near the surface and confined to a 
small space. It not only keeps down a growth 
of weeds, but guards the roots against frequent 
changes and the ill effects of a drying atmos¬ 
phere. This, however, will not render cultiva¬ 
tion unnecessary; for with all the mulching the 
ground will settle down and become compact, 
unless ot an extremely sandy or porous nature.” 
—is. 
INJURY TO DWARF PEARS.— INQUIRY. 
I'.ds. Rural: —There were sold, during the 
winter and spring of 1851, in this, and the ad¬ 
joining county of Dutchess, not far from 80 
000 dwarf pear trees or pear trees budded on 
quince stocks, of the Angers variety. Durin 
the spring just passed, more than half of those 
trees have died. The quince stocks have en 
tirely failed, the roots are black and dead 
many blossomed and made an early, feeble 
growth, but sooner or later, hundreds have 
withered and died. There seems to be no dif¬ 
ference between those that have borne fruit, 
and those that have not; neither soil nor situa¬ 
tion makes any difference, but all alike seem to 
share iu the general failure of the roots. Can 
you, or any of your numerous readers giv 
any ^information on this important subject, 
and much oblige many anxious inquirers? 
S. Crandell. 
Chatham Four Corners, Col. Co., N. Y„ 1854. 
PROTECT YOUR FRUIT TREES. 
Bugs on V inks. —A mixture of two quarts 
find the necessary supply of food. No matter ■ ^ ieu ^ UD & ^ w0 quarts fresh cow manure, and 
two gallons of M'ater, sprinkled occasionally 
on j'oung vines, will effectually prevent the dej: 
redations of bugs. Great care should be taken 
not to apply too much of the mixture, as it will 
destroy the plants. This is a sure remedy, and 
has been successfully used among my acquaint¬ 
ances, for several years, 
how rich the soil may be, if not in the proper 
mechanical condition, its fertility will be of no 
avail; because the chemical combinations 
which prepare the food of trees and plants 
cannot go on in the absence of air and mois¬ 
ture. Here lies the prime defect of cultivation 
generally; it is not deep and thorough enough 
to reach the roots. No mere hand-hoeing of 
a narrow circle around the tree will answer; 
the points of the roots are much further off, 
and the earth should be kept finely pulverized 
all around them, and some distance beyond 
them. Anything less is labor lost. 
Nurserymen usually plow between the rows 
of trees as deeply as a one-horse plow can go 
with safety to the roots, and then follow' 
with a cultivator, once a fortnight, say from 
May to October. The plow is used three or 
four times during the season. This mode of 
culture will protect the trees against the effects 
of our long and severe drouths as no other can; 
and nursery trees so treated will continue grow¬ 
ing, while others merely dressed with a hoe, 
are completely at a stand still. A deeply pul¬ 
verized soil always contains moisture, w'hile 
one baked on the surface turns up as dry as 
from an oven. Mr. B. tells of a case in which 
they lost two years in the growth of young ap¬ 
ple trees, by substituting the hand-hoe for the 
plow and cultivator. 
Of course the plow cannot be used around 
all transplanted trees. We have mentioned it 
to show the influence of deep culture around 
the roots, and that some other implement must 
be substituted which will serve the same pur¬ 
pose. Young orchards should by all means 
be cropped, if cropped at all, with something 
requiring constant cultivation—potatoes, car¬ 
rots, beets, turnips, &c.; grain, grass and corn 
crops should be avoided, for they stop the 
growth of young trees, but if absolutely neces¬ 
sary, a strip should be left along each row of 
• trees, that the plow and cultivator may be 
used. In plowing near trees a slow and gentle 
horse should be used, with long traces, which 
give steadiness to the plow. The whilfletrees 
should be as short as possible, and have on 
each end a piece of cloth or India rubber to 
prevent injury in case it strikes a tree. In this 
way, with care, one can plow within a few inch¬ 
es of the trees. In plowing over the roots, 
the furrow should be regulated so as not to 
cut or tear them, and the plowing should al¬ 
ways extend at least two or three feet beyond 
the roots. 
“ Where the use of the plow and cultivator 
is impracticable,” we quote now without 
abridgment, “ a forked hoe with long and 
stout prongs, should be used repeatedly during 
the season. This implement is much better 
than a spade, as it does not cut the roots; and 
it is better than the common hoe because it 
enters the ground deeply, and gives it a thor¬ 
ough stirring up. Such an implement as this 
is extensively used iu France. * * 
To plant a tree on a lawn properly and success¬ 
fully, a wide hole should be cut for it twice or 
three times as wide as the roots —and the 
whole of this circle should be kept clean and 
deeply pulverized for several years, until the 
tree has sent out numerous and powerful roots 
in all directions. No matter when or how 
trees are planted, this after-culture is absolute¬ 
ly necessary; and we will say to those who 
have planted recently, that unless they bestow 
such labor on their trees, better for them now 
to pull them up and burn them, and thus save 
all further expense. 
Mulching — which means covering the 
Advantages of Weeding. —1 . Seven acres 
of light gravelly land were fallowed and sown 
broadcast: one acre was measured, and not a 
weed was pulled out of it; the other six were 
carefully weeded. The unweeded acre pro¬ 
duced 18 bushels, the six weeded acres ave¬ 
raged 22% bushels per acre—a gain of 25 per 
cent. 2. A six-acre field was sown with bar¬ 
ley in fine tilth, and well manured. This weed¬ 
ing, owing to a great abundance of charlock, 
cost 12s. per acre. The produce of an un- 
weeded acre was 13 bushels; of the weeded, 
28 bushels—difference in favor of weeding, 15 
bushels per acre, besides the land being so 
much cleaner for the succeeding crop. Of six 
acres sown with oats, one acre, plowed but 
once and unmanured, produced only 17 bush¬ 
els per acre; the rest, plowed three times, ma¬ 
nured, and weeded, produced 37 bushels per 
acre. Of this increase, at least 10 bushels may 
be attributed to. the weeding, and 10 to the 
manure .—Journal of the Bath and West of 
England Agricultural Society. 
A Seedling Apple.— R. B. Warren, Esq., 
of Alabama, Gen. Go., N. Y., very kindly sent 
us a box of handsome Russet apples, about the 
size of our Golden Russet, (described in some 
of the books “ English Golden Russet,”) but 
more of a grey color, like the Pomrne Gris.— 
It is very regularly formed and fair, but altho’ 
of good quality does not equal the Golden 
Russet in richness. It keeps well, and from 
what Mr. \\ arren says of its productiveness, it 
is undoubtedly worthy of cultivation. Mr. W. 
says:—“ 1 he tree bears a large crop every 
year; (this year seven barrels.) The fruit is 
good Sized, lair and smooth. The samples 
sent, are, perhaps, rather above the average 
size. They keep well till June. The tree°is 
about twenty years old, and there can be no 
doubt of its being a seedling.”— Horticulturist. 
^ Splendid Plant. —There is now in full 
bloom, iu the Liverpool Botanic garden, a 
beautiful specimen ot the Jl istaria sinensis. _ 
1 his splendid plant, which is considered the 
finest specimen iu Britain, covers a space of 
wall amounting to nearly nine hundred square 
feet. At the present time there are about six 
thousand racemes or bunches of flowers on it, 
each bunch bearing on an average about fifty- 
live flowers, so that it bears on the whole 
about 330,000. individual flowers. Iu addition 
to the pleasure given to the eye, this plant 
yields a most grateful perfume. 
Onions. — It is perhaps unknown, to many 
of our readers, that the onion is one of the 
most nutritious of roots, containing when dried, 
from twenty-five to thirty per cent, of gluten! 
It is a great staple of life in Spain and Portu¬ 
gal. Onions are not a relish merely, to the 
Spaniard, for they help materially to sustain 
his strength, and add beyond what their bulk 
would suggest, to the amount of nourishment 
which his simple meal supplies. 
No fault is more common with farmers than 
to neglect young fruit trees during the early 
part of their growth, and indeed we have seen 
pears, plums, and other trees, after being care¬ 
fully put out, to be apparently forgotten by 
their owner neglecting the early pruning, 
cleansing of the surfaces, careful removal of 
insects, Ac.; and, indeed, left unprotected from 
cattle in fall and winter, so that during the.se 
seasons, when cattle are fond of browsing, the 
young trees are partly denuded of bark, young 
limbs, &c., so as to be rendered comparatively 
wort Ideas for after use. When fruit trees are 
once in place, they will pay well for exact and 
proper treatment; and by proper pruning, 
cleansing of bark by the soda wash we have so 
often recommended, and full tillage, they will 
prove more profitable than the current crops 
ot the farm, requiring less labor in proportion 
to the value of their products. The mode of 
treatment for every kind of trees has been giv¬ 
en in our back volumes .—Working Farmer. 
LIST OF PATENT CLAUS 
Issued from ths United States Patent Office, 
For the week ending June 6, 1804. 
Tiie Curculio. —A correspondent of the 
New York Tribune says that a friend, after 
having tried many ineffectual remedies for the 
curculio, mixed sulphur and lard with a little 
rfcotch snuff) and rubbed it freely on the body 
and branches of the tree. The curculio had 
already commenced their work at the time, but 
not relishing the smell of the snuff; in a few 
days they all left; and he had such a crop of 
plums that he was obliged to prop the branch¬ 
es up to keep them from breaking off’. This 
remedy is worth trying. 
Important. —A gentleman gives notice that 
he has been entirely successful in securing fine 
crops ol plums, for three years in succession, 
by the application of dry ashes, thrown over 
his trees iu the morning, after the blossom 
leaves, ami until the fruit is somewhat ad¬ 
vanced. The application here, last year, was 
also successful.— Keene Sentinel. 
Girdled Trees. —Take out a block of wood 
extending into the bark above and below the 
girdle, and take from the body or limb of an¬ 
other tree a block corresponding in size and 
shape, with the bark on, and adjust it in the 
place, and bind it there, on the principle of en¬ 
grafting. This plan, it is said, has proved 
completely successful. 
Wash for Trees. —Heat one pound, of sal 
soda, to redness, in an iron pot, and dissolve it 
in a gallon of water. This wash will take off 
all the moss and dead bark, and kill all the in¬ 
sects on all fruit trees or grape vines, and 
make them as smooth as though polished, and 
make old trees bear anew. Never whitewash 
a tree. 
Mint Sauce. —Many of our country friends 
do not know what a luxury they deprive them¬ 
selves of, when they eat lamb either boiled or 
baked, without mini sauce. Seta few roots of 
pearmint infene corner of the garden, and they 
will soon furnish an abundant supply. Strip 
off the leaves and chop them fine, add an equal 
amount of sugar, and cover the whole with 
inegar. A small tea-cupful of the mixture 
will be sufficient for a large family. Try this 
and see if it is not far preferable to greasy 
gravies .—Ohio Cult. 
Keeping Eggs. —A friend who has made 
several voyages to the coast of Africa and oth¬ 
er tropical regions, says that he has kept eggs 
in the best condition, by placiug two or three 
dozen in a cullender, and pouring over them 
is many quarts of boiling M'ater, then pack 
away in straw, or bran, or saw-dust Newly 
lid eggs must be used for this purpose, and 
they M ill be found as good for boiling after a 
year, as if perfectly fresh, when treated as 
above .—American Agriculturist. 
Apple or Gooseberry Souffle. —Scald and 
weeten the fruit, beat it through a sieve, and 
put it into a tart-dish. YV hen cold, pour a 
fell custard over it, about two inches deep; 
whip the whites of the eggs, of which the cus- 
ird was made, to a snow', and lay it in small 
rough places on the custard; sift fine sugar 
over, and put it into a slack oven for a short 
time. It will make an exceedingly pretty dish. 
To Clean Mirrors. —Wipe them lightly 
ith a clean bit of sponge or fine linen 3 that 
as been wet in the spirits of wine, or in soft 
uter; then dust the glass with fine whiting 
powder; rub this off with a soft cloth, then 
ub with another clean cloth, and fiuish it 
ith a silk handkerchief. Dust the frames with 
cotton M'ool. 
If you have any species of the aphis in your 
nursery, please make a trial of the following 
decoction:—Get from a druggist % pound of 
quassia, boil it fifteen minutes in six quarts of 
water; pour off the decoction into a dish-pan 
with handles. When cool get an assistant to 
hold j he pan while you carefully bend down and 
immerse the branches—giving them a little mo¬ 
tion to M et all the insects.— Ger. Tel. 
The eater of the common green lettuce, as a 
salad, takes a portion of lactucarium, a narcot- 
! « substance similar in properties to opium, 
which it contains; and any one Mill discover 
that his head is affected after indulging freelv 
in a lettuce salad. Eaten at night, it cause's 
sleep; eaten during the day, it soothes, calms, 
and allays the tendency to nervous irirtability. 
To Sweeten Rancid Butter. —It is said 
that washing rancid butter in milk, and after¬ 
wards in M'ater, will restore it to former SMeet- 
ness. The experiment is easily tried, and the 
“consummation devoutly to be wished,” for 
surely nothing is more repulsive than rancid 
butter. 
Brown S. Wood, of Buriville, R. I., for im¬ 
provement in knitting machines. 
Robert Waddell, of England, for improve¬ 
ment in balancing slide valves of steam engines. 
Patented in England April 27,1853. 
A. II. Rautch, of Bethlehem, Pa., for improve¬ 
ment in machines for washing bottles. 
Elias. I 1 ’. Brown, of Warren, It. I., for im¬ 
provement iu instruments for taking deep sea 
sounding. ■ 
Jos. de [’aim, of New York, for improvement 
in brick pottery kilns. Patented in England, 
July 13, 1S52; in France, Aug. 13,1852; in Hol¬ 
land and Belgium, Sept. 15, 1852. 
Henry R. Campbell, of Lebanon, N. II., for 
improvement in the combination of a railroad 
track and wheels. 
Samuel McCormick, of Dublin, Ireland, for 
improvement in pressing the thread upon screw 
blanks. Patented in England, March 22,1853. 
Donald Taylor, ot East Boston, for berth 
kneel former. 
Henry Allen, of Norwich, Conn., for improv¬ 
ed machine for dressing polygonal timber. 
W in. Ballard, of New York, lor improvement 
in bent timbers for ship frames. 
5V hitman Price, of Goldsborough, N. C., for 
improvement in cultivators. 
Jared Pratt, of Taunton, Mass., for improve¬ 
ment in making seamless metal tubes. 
Wm. W. Hill, of Greenport, N. Y., for ar 
rangement of dampers in rotary stoves. 
Walter Westrup, of Wapping, England, for 
improvement in grain mills. Patented in Eng¬ 
land, January 22, 1850. 
Mathias P. Goons, of Brooklyn, N. Y., for im¬ 
proved rivet clamp for wire fences. 
W. A. Flanders, of Sharon, Vt., for moth killer. 
Ross Dugan, of New York, for improved ma¬ 
chine for cieauing and watering streets. 
Edward and Janies M. Clark, of Lancaster, 
Pa., tor improvement in flouring mills. 
Smith Beers, of Naugatuck, Conn., for im¬ 
proved method of turning hubs, Ac. 
Timothy F. Taft, of Worcester, for improved 
device tor operating cutter heads of planing 
machines. 
Alfred Brady, of New' l’ork, for improvement 
in vault covers. 
N oah W. Speers, of Cincinnati, for improved 
hydiant cap. 
James A. Whipple, of Boston, for improved 
mechanism for operating pumps. 
Samuel H. Dudley, of Milton, Conn., for im¬ 
provement in road scrapers. 
Ed ward P. Day, of New Y’ork, for improve¬ 
ment in machines to print subscribers’ names, 
Ac., on newspapers. 
Francis M. English, of Hopkinsville, Ky., for 
improvement in whilfletrees. 
Robert M. Wade, of Wadcsville, Va., for im¬ 
proved lubricator. 
Alexander B. Latta, of Cincinnati, for im¬ 
provement in steam generators. 
Charles F. Martine, of Boston, for improve¬ 
ment in sofa bedsteads. 
H ymen L. Lipman, of Philadelphia, for im¬ 
proved eyelet machine. 
Elijah Phelps, of Hendersonville, Ill., for im¬ 
provement in excavators. 
Win. B. Johnson, of Staunton, Y r a., for im¬ 
provement in seed planters. 
Patrick Clark, of Rahway, for improved wa¬ 
ter level indicator for steam boilers. 
Thos. and Sami. Champion, of W ashington, 
D. C., for improvement in feathering paddle- 
w heels. 
Waitman Davis, of (near) Morgantown, Va., 
for improvement in seed planters. 
John Sheffield, of Pultneyville, N. Y., for im¬ 
provement in apparatus for filing mill saws. 
Robert H. Coilyer,ot New Y ork,for improve¬ 
ment in gold amalgamators. 
Isaac R. Shank, oi Buffalo, Va, for improved 
lath machine. 
David Russell, of Drewersburgh, Ind., for im¬ 
proved method of operating saw-mill blocks. 
Harrison C. Clark, of Worcester, Mass., for 
improved lathe. 
i hos. Crossley, of Boston, for improvement 
in weaving cutpile fabrics. 
William Cann, of Black Rock, N. Y., for 
cleaning bolts of flouring mills. 
Edward Harrison, of New Haven, Conn., for 
improvement in grinding mills. 
Jerdon L. Mott, ot New Y’ork, for improve¬ 
ment in securing car-wheels upon axles. 
Edwin J. Green, ot Cedarville, for improve¬ 
ment in joint bodied buggies. 
Levi Dederick, of Albany, for improvement 
in hay presses. 
James J. Johnson, of Alleghany, and James 
Y. Cunningham, of Pittsburgh, for improvement 
iu moulding hollow -ware. 
John G. Reed, of Mount Y r ernon, Ohio, as¬ 
signor to C. P. Buckingham and Henry P. Up¬ 
ton, of same place, for improvement in grinding 
mills. 
Horvey Ely, of Rochester, assignor to Sam¬ 
uel B. Ely, of same place, for improvement in 
drying flour. 
Thos. Wallace and Henry Bachreister, (the 
latter now deceased,) of Philadelphia, for im¬ 
proved blowing fan. 
Dennis Donnovan, for himself, ami as admin¬ 
istrator of Witched G. Hallman, deceased, now', 
and late of Philadelphia, assignor to H. J. 
White, of Philadelphia, for improvement in 
cooking range. 
CONSUMPTION OF SMOKE. 
At the usual meeting of the Society of Aria, 
last week, Dr. Neil Arnot read a paper on a 
new smoke-consumiug and economical fire¬ 
place. He showed the great evils connected 
witii common coal fires; how London smoke 
increases the cost of washing by a million and 
a half sterling per annum, destroys clothes, fur¬ 
niture, books and paintings, kills plants and ' 
trees, and is inimical to health. In ail ordina- 
ly liie, five-sixths of the heat goes up the 
chimney with the smoke. To save a third 
part ol die coal burned in London alone, M'ould 
save nearly a million sterling a year. Dr. Ar- 
not gave this description of the new fire-o-rate: 
—'The charge of coal for the whole day is 
placed in a box immediately beneath the grate, 
and is borne upwards as wanted by a piston in 
the box, raised simply by the poker used as a 
ever, and as readily as the wick of an argand 
lamp is raised; and the fire is under command, 
as to its intensity, almost as completely as the 
flames ot a lamp. The fire is lighted with sin¬ 
gular ease and speed. The wood is laid on the 
upper surface of the fresh coal filling the coal- 
b-»x and a thickness of three or four inches of 
cinder or coked coal, left from the fire of the 
preceding day, is placed over it The wood 
being lighted, instantly kindles the cinders 
above, and at the same time the pitchy vapor 
uom the fresh coal below rises through the 
wood-flume and cinders, and becomes heated 
sufficiently to inflame itself, and so to augment 
the. blaze. When the cinder has once fairly 
ignited, all the bitumen rising through it after- 
Muids becomes gas, and the fire remains quite 
smokeless for the remainder of the day. Great 
advantages would result: there would be no 
more smoky chimneys, no more flues on tire, no 
more chimney-sweeping, and there would be 
capital ventilation. 
ORNAMENTING GLASS. 
A novel system of ornamentation in glas» 
porcelain, and metal, has lately been patented 
U! Jfefffend, by Mr. W. Jolmson, on behalf of 
-M. Lei fee, ot Paris. It is by a species of in¬ 
crustation, or inlaid work, that the invention is 
worked out, pieces of glass of different colors 
being laid one upon the other, and united into 
one mass by heat; such composite masses are 
then softened in an enameliug furnace, and a 
device as a rose, for instance—is then im¬ 
pressed upon the upper surface of the glass by 
a die. Supposing a layer of purple glass is, in 
tills case, laid upon a blue lajer, the die will 
miprcp the purple glass with the body of the 
, ue fey er > at. the same time cutting out the 
gauss to the intended shape of the brooch or 
other ornament to be made. The design so 
produced is in intaglio, and the process is con¬ 
tinued upon it by grinding flat, and removing 
the supeifluous glass, or that which has not 
been impressed by the relief surface of the 
die '1 he piece of glass is then polished and 
finished, when it presents a perfectly smooth 
lace, formed by a blue ground, with a purple 
flower m it. Instead of this process, a similar 
effect may be produced by impressing the fig¬ 
ure on a piece ot glass of one color, and then 
uniting a second color by heat. By another 
modification, the figure is punched out of one 
color, and inserted into a corresponding hole 
in another, any number of colors bein<* thus 
mcrusted at pleasure. 
IMPORTANT DISCOVERIES. 
It may not be generally known, that by the 
process now in common use for removing the 
hair and tanning hides,* a period of about six 
months is consumed, and the leather is liable 
to be burnt and rendered brittle by the lime 
used in its preparation. 
An article has been discovered by Messrs. 
Y ard A Root, of Boston, and thoroughly test¬ 
ed by those interested iu the tanning business, 
by which the hair is removed and the hide life 
in such a state that it may be tanned in eight 
days; and, what is of more importance than 
tins saving of time, the leather is left soft and 
is capable of more service than when treated 
in the common M'ay. This article is cornin'* 
rapidly into favor, and the new process musl 
soon supersede all now practiced for the tan¬ 
ning of leather. 
1 he same firm have also discovered a M T ay 
of scouring and fulling woolen goods, by which 
the use of soap for this purpose is entirely done 
away with, and a saving effected of over oue- 
halL. A his latter process we have heard very 
Eiphly spoken ot by manufacturers M : ho have 
tried it, and on their authority we do not hesi¬ 
tate to recommend it as being exactly the tbiu>* 
it is claimed to be. —Banner of Industry. ° 
WHITEWASH. 
Mock Cream for Coffee.—M ix half a ta¬ 
ble-spoonful of flour with a pint of new milk; 
let it simmer for five minutes, then beat up the 
yolk of an egg, stir it into the milk M’hile boil¬ 
ing, and run it through a Ium'u sieve. 
Crullers. —One cup of sugar, one cup of 
sweet milk, two eggs, one table-spoonful of 
butter, one of cream tartar, one tea-spoonful of 
soda, roll and cut very thin, then fry them. 
To take Ink out of Mahogany. —Mix in a 
tea-spoonful of cold water, a few drops of oil 
of vitriol; touch the spot with a feather dipped 
in the liquid. 
Improvement in Fire-Alarms. —Mr. Henry 
Cobham, of Pennsylvania, has invented a very 
ingenious instrument for alarming a household 
or neighborhood, in ease of fire^ 'The instru¬ 
ment is hung upon the wall of an apartment, 
A small piece of mux is placed between the 
wheels. In ease of fire, the temperature of the 
room being raised a few degrees, the M ax melts, 
and the wheels strike an alarm-bell. 
These instruments can be made at a very 
small cost, and will produce an alarm in pro¬ 
portion to the size of the gong .—Peoples Jour¬ 
nal. 
Corn-Stalk Gutter and Harvester._ 
Messrs. Cole and Homrighous, of Fairfield 
County, Ohio, have invented an improvement 
for cutting and harvesting corn-stalks, which 
possesses the advantages of simplicity and 
convenience. r l'he machine resembles a com¬ 
mon, but low-wheeled cart The cutting 
knives are secured to and revolve upon an up¬ 
right shaft, so placed iu front that as fast as 
To Dry Cherries and Plums. —Stone and ^ _ __ 
halve them, then pack in jars, strewing sugar ' the stalks are cut down they fall over into the 
between the layers. i cart body .—Peoples Jour. 
Remember that whitewash is one of the 
finest things in the world to promote cleanli¬ 
ness and health. Old buildings, the coverings 
of which may not be worth the expense of a 
coat ot paint, and which are so unsightly that 
you are justly ashamed of them in their present 
condition, may be made to appear almost like 
new work by the application of a few coats of 
whitewash. Fences around the house should 
be washed or painted, also the interior of all 
out-buildings, barns, sheds, hen-houses, grana¬ 
ries, Ac., and the walls of the cellar, a 3 well as 
the overhead ceilings of the rooms in the 
house. A liberal use of this sanitary material 
is of great consequence; lime being a powerful 
disinfector, and highly efficacious iu promoting 
health at all seasons ol the year, powdered 
lime sprinkled over the bottom of the cellar 
after t he roots are removed in the spring, and 
repeated occasionally through the season till 
cold weather, will prevent the unpleasant odor 
ordinarily engendered by warmth, and keep 
the atmosphere pure and sweet.— JY. E. Far. 
Improved Plow.— Mr. L. G. Evans, of Ala¬ 
bama, has made an improvement in plows, re¬ 
lating, chiefly, to the mould-board, which is 
made adjustable. By turning a couple of con¬ 
venient nuts, the mould-board is thrown out or 
in at pleasure, altering the w’dth of furrow and 
weight of drait as desired.— People's Jour. 
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