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NOTES OF THE WEEK. 
Shaker Seedling Grape.— Early Northern 
Muscadine. —We have received a small box of 
this new variety from our Shaker friend, Phil¬ 
emon Stewart, of New Lebanon, near Albany. 
It is a hardy seedling from the Native White 
Grape, and has been tested for over ten years 
at New Lebanon. It is described as a sure 
and constant bearer, not subject to mildew ; 
and ripening earlier than the Isabella— and 
some think it superior to that variety as a 
wine and table grape. Our experience with it 
is not sufficiently extensive to bring us to this 
latter conclusion, but we have no hesitation in 
commending as a valuable variety, worthy of 
more extensive cultivation. Roots can be pro¬ 
cured as above. 
Preserving Fresh Grapes. —The last Prai¬ 
rie Farmer gives some account of a number 
of experiments made by Jer. Price, of Chica¬ 
go, who tried numerous modes of preserving 
grapes, including packing in cotton, leaves, 
saw-dust, wet sand, dry sand, and in cans with 
the air exhausted, and he finds nothing equal 
to dry oak saw-dust or dry sand, the first being 
the best. Baked maple saw-dust is equally 
good—using jars for packing which can be 
covered air-tight. The greatest difficulty in 
keeping grapes, is in not having enough of 
them to last very late in winter. 
Ripening of Early Peaches. —According 
to the Country Gentleman, this year the Early 
Anne ripened about the 14th of August, the 
Tillotson’s on old trees on the 18th, Fay’s 
Early Anne, a day or two later, and a day or 
two later still the Serrate Early York. Young 
and thrifty Tillotson trees which grew in shady 
places, ripened their fruit nearly two weeks 
after those first matured, a fact which should 
be remembered. Troth’s Early Red was 
scarcely later than the Serrate Early York.— 
All the above were a week or two later than 
usual the present season. 
New Seedling Peach —A seedling from 
the Crawford, and resembling that variety has 
been grown by J. S. Clark, of Greece, in this 
county. It is a rich, juicy peach, and should 
it prove a better bearer than the Crawford, as 
it promises, it will be well worth general culti¬ 
vation. 
CULTURE OF THE RASPBERRY. 
The fallowing account of the management 
and profits of one of the most extensive and 
successful plantations of the Red Antwerp 
raspberry in the Union, (at Milton, Ulster Co., 
N. Y.) we copy from a late number of the 
American Agriculturist: 
Mr. Hallock cultivates this superior fruit 
with great success. Before setting the canes, 
he plows deep and sub-soils the ground, and 
highly manures every year with a compost of 
muck and stable dung, applied to them when 
covered up in the winter or early spring. Two 
or three canes are set in every hill and these 
are four feet apart each way. The ground is 
kept well stirred with the cultivator during the 
growing season, and clear of all weeds with 
the hoe. 
To protect the canes through the winter, he 
coveis them two or three inches deep with 
earth. This is done by plowing the ground 
the way it is desired the plants should lie, two 
furrows between the rows ; then bend the 
canes gently down from one hill to the next, 
and cover with a spade or hoe, being careful 
to leave the ground lowest between the rows, 
to prevent the water from settling around them, 
as they require to be kept dry. In the spriug, 
as soon as the ground becomes settled and 
dry, the canes are carefully raised from the 
ground with the tines of a manure fork, and 
the ground is then plowed between the rows 
at a right angle to the way the canes lay in it 
during the winter, so as to level and smooth it. 
Stakes about five feet long are then driven in¬ 
to each hill, and the canes tied close to them. 
Mr. Hallock has cultivated this kind of rasp¬ 
berry on the same ground in his garden for 
sixteen years, and they do as well now there 
as ever. The average yield is about 5,000 
pint baskets a season ; and they sell in market 
from twelve to fourteen cents each uet, which 
leaves from $600 to $700 per acre. 
There is little danger of the New York 
market being overstocked with this delicious 
fruit ; for the desire to obtain it here increases 
faster than the cultivation extends in the 
country around us. 
To Keep Apples. —The most effectual 
method of preserving both apples and pears, 
with which 1 am familiar—and which, of 
course, 1 recommend in preference to all oth¬ 
ers, is the following:—Having selected the 
best fruit, wipe it perfectly clean and dry with 
a fine cloth, then take a jar of suitable size, 
the inside of which is thoroughly coated with 
cement, and having placed a layer of fine and 
perfectly dry sand at the bottom, place there¬ 
on a layer of the fruit—apples or pears as the 
case may bo—but not so close as to press each 
other, and then a layer of sand; and in this 
way proceed till the vessel is full. Over the 
upper layer of fruit, a thicker stratum of sand 
may be spread and lightly pressed down with 
the hands. In this manner, choice fruit, per¬ 
fectly ripe, may be kept for almost any length 
of time, if the jar be placed in a situation free 
from moisture.— Germantotvn Telegraph . 
BITTER ROT IN APPLES. 
The Boston Cultivator gives the following, 
as communicated by Samuel Preston, in the 
“ Memoirs of the Philadelphia Society of Ag¬ 
riculture,” published many years ago. 
I have been acquainted with the bitter-rot 
in some varieties of the apple for at least 40 
years, and have considered it a kind of mildew 
or mould that penetrated the skin of some 
kinds more than others, and that pruning the 
trees or raising them in dry, airy situations 
would be of advantage; but about this time 
last year, two very intelligent gentlemen from 
near Boston, lodged at my house and among 
other topics of conversation, those of orchards 
and the bitter rot were introduced. One of 
them informed me, that he had discovered 
“ the true cause of the bitter rot, and a safe and 
easy mode to prevent it; that it was occasioned 
by a certain kind of worm on the body of the 
tree, between the wood and the bark; and that 
a safe and easy mode was to peel all the bark 
off the bodies of the trees, on the longest day 
in the year; which he said he had frequently 
done; that it did not kill or injure the trees, 
but they grew much better for it; and that it 
effectually prevented the bitter rot.” 
I was surprised at this account, as I had no 
idea of a tree living with the bark peeled off, 
in the hot, dry season, yet they appeared 
worthy of credit. Therefore I resolved to sac¬ 
rifice one tree to the experiment, and on the 
20th day of last June, about one o’clock, in 
hot, clear weather, I peeled a tree on which 
there were apples, and had been subject to the 
bitter rot. I took all the bark off from the 
roots to up among the limbs, fully expecting in 
two days to see it withered and dead,—between 
the wood and bark I found many of those 
worms, and discovered that there was a pulp 
or glutinous substance which had grown that 
year between the wood and the bark, and ad¬ 
hered to the wood. I went every day faithful¬ 
ly to see my tree wither, but was disappointed; 
it appeared to grow' and thrive the better, and 
this glutinous substance to harden, and has 
since grown into a perfect bark, the apples 
hung on as on the other trees, and no bitter 
rot on them, as had been some years before.— 
I have lost several good trees by those worms; 
they first kill the bark, then a speedy rot takes 
place in the wood, and they blow down with 
storms; and according to my observations, all 
trees in a declining state are much more sub¬ 
ject to the bitter rot than those in a more 
tlourishing condition. 
WESTERN FRUIT CULTURE. 
The Ohio Pomological Society holds its 
sixth session at Cleveland, Dec. 5th, and they 
are making an effort there to bring out a valu¬ 
able class' of facts on Western Fruit Culture. 
They ask each member to come prepared to 
submit information to the Society on the fol¬ 
lowing points, viz: 
First. —The fruits cultivated by himself, or 
in his region, with the proper name, and all 
the local and synonymes known to him. The 
character of the top and subsoil in which 
grown; if the surface is a level plane, or hill 
side, the aspect and elevation. What varieties 
best adapted to these soils, and locations, and 
their productiveness. The mode of cultivation, 
pruning, &c. The effect of manures, kind 
used, when and how applied. 
Second. —The influence of the stock on the 
health and duration of the varieties grafted, or 
budded on the same, and the relative merits of 
the tw r o inodes of propagation, if any. Also, 
the relative effect of oo’ g afting (as pract’s d 
by many nurserymen,) and stock grafting, on 
the health and duration of the tree. 
Third. —Observations on insects injurious to 
fruit, trees, and vines. The diseases or mala¬ 
dies to which they are subject, with the best 
modes to counteract these evils, with any oth¬ 
er information of interest on the subject 
HEMLOCK HEDGES. 
The Country Gentleman gives the following 
directions for the cultivation of Hemlock 
Hedges in answer to an inquiry on the subject: 
The first thing is to procure the plants. If 
our correspondent can fiud a locality in the 
woods where young hemlock trees are abun¬ 
dant, he will have no difficulty in forming a 
hedge. The great requisite for success in 
transplanting is to remove a considerable por¬ 
tion of earth on the roots of every tree. If 
this cannot be done, they should instantly, on 
being withdrawn from the ground, and before 
the outside of the roots have dried in the least, 
be buried in wet moss,—or still better, if prac¬ 
ticable, dipped first into a bed of thin mud, and 
then protected with moss. Another mudding, 
and puddling on setting out, will be of addi¬ 
tional service. 
If the young plants can be had from a nur¬ 
sery, where they have become hardened to 
open ground, they will be still better. We 
know of no nursery in the vicinity of our cor¬ 
respondent’s residence, more likely to supply 
good plants than that of Dell & Collins, of 
Waterloo, N. Y. 
The mode of planting must depend on the 
objects of the hedge. If for a simple screen 
from the wind, and if the plants are scarce or 
costly, a distance of three or four feet apart 
will be near enough, to form in a few years, a 
continuous line. But if a hedge proper is 
wanted, the trees should be withiu about a 
foot of each other. 
The hemlock will make the handsomest 
screen or hedge of any evergreen known; it 
will bear almost any amount of shearing, and 
the hedge may be formed into a smooth wall 
of verdure, or be left for a tall natural growth. 
Either way, it is of surpassing beauty. If cat¬ 
tle or other animals cannot see through, they 
scarcely ever attempt passing, even a weak 
hedge. 
Nectarines do well on peach stocks,—but it 
apricots are budded on peach they are quite 
likely to be destroyed bo the peach borer. 
SEASONABLE HINTS. 
Celery. —As the dry weather by this time 
has probably left us, this useful vegetable will 
begin to make good progress, and should have 
the earth drawn to it as the growth proceeds. 
A good soaking of liquid manure water, ap¬ 
plied before the first earthing, except the soil 
be very rich, will be found to very much assist 
their growth, as the celery is a very rank feed¬ 
er. The operation of earthing should always 
be performed when the leaves are quite dry, or 
they are liable to rot. 
Lettuce. —A nother batch of lettuce should 
be sown on warm borders for late use ; and 
those in the seed bed planted out in vacant 
places for successional use. 
Spinach. —This useful spring vegetable 
should be sown about the second week in Sep¬ 
tember, in shallow drills one foot apart.— 
When up sufficiently, they should be thinned 
out to three inches apart in the rows. The 
Prickly or Winter, is the best for sowing now. 
Tomatoes. —Before it gets too late, some 
tomatoes should be saved, and the seed ob¬ 
tained by washing the pulp several times in 
water till the seed is clean. It should then be 
laid in the sun to dry, and then carefully put 
away in brown paper, and named ready for use 
next spring. 
It is very bad policy to save the seed at ran¬ 
dom ; only the finest should be used ; and 
those tolerably smooth and even, are the most 
generally prized for cooking. Similar methods 
should be adopted with the saving of squash, 
egg plant, cucumber and pepper seeds. Such 
seed is vastly superior to much of that pur¬ 
chased.— Edgar Sanders, in Country Gent. 
^mlkaltttral ^iilmltsemcnts. 
200 BUSHELS PEACH STONES WANTED, 
At the Mt. Hope Nurseries, Mt. Hope Avenue, Rochester, 
N. Y., for which the highest market price will be paid in 
cash. [245-4t] ELLWANGER & BARRY. 
FRUIT AND ORNAMENTAL TREES. 
150,000 Apple Seedlings, two years old, and good size. 
35,000 Extra nice Dwarf Pear trees from one to four 
years old, a very large portion of them White Doryenne or 
Virgalieu. 
2,000 Horse Chestnut trees, 7 to 9 feet high. 
500 Mountain Ash, from 9 to 14 ft. high; with the nrual 
stock ol'other trees, forsale at Walworth, Wayne Co., N.Y. 
T. G. YEOMANS. 
Also for sale, 3 very fine full blooded Suffolk Boar Pigs, 
four months old; 2 half blooded do., same age—price $10 
to $20. 245-3t T. G. Y. 
FRUIT AND ORNAMENTAL TREES! 
T. C. MAXWELL BROS., are happy to announce a 
very large and veiy desirable stock of Fruit and Orna¬ 
mental Trees, &c., lor fall trade, embracing 
75,000 Apple Trees—thrifty and stocky. 
15.000 Standard Pear Trees, 2 and 3 years old, healthy 
and fine. 
25,000 Dwarf do. do. do. do. 
25,000 Cherry Trees—very line. 
11,000 Peach do., one year from bud. 
5,000 Apiicot, Quince and Plum Trees 
Cahoon’s, Mammoth and other kinds Pie Plant. Also, a 
good variety of the smaller fruits 
1,000 Horse Chestnut Trees, 6 to 10 feet high. 
5,000 Mountain Ash Tree c , 6 to 10 feet high—cheap. 
5,000 Balsam Fir Trees, 1 to 5 feet high—very fine. 
1,000 Red Cedar Trees, 1 to 5 do. do. 
Also, Norway Spruce, Hemlock Spruce, Maples, Bass¬ 
wood, European Lime, &c., Ac. 
100,000 American Arbor Vitas, 6 to 30 inches. About 
25,00u of these have grown two years in the Nursery, and 
are very bushy and fine ;—all arc very finely routed- Osage 
Orange for Hedges, Ac., Ac. » 
The above trees were all grown on clay and grRvel 
loams,—the best of all soils for the growth of thrifty and 
healthy trees. 
Orders promptly attended to. Packing done in the 
most careful and skillful manner. 
Old Castle Nurseries, Geneva, ) 145-6t. 
Ontario Co., N. Y., Sept. 9, 1S54. 3 
WALWORTH NURSERY-CATALOGUE. 
Having been many years engaged in the Nursery busi¬ 
ness, being located in one of the best fruit growing dis¬ 
tricts of the United States, and having planted 
Extensive Orchards, Embracing over 7,000 Trees! 
Many of which are in bearing, 1 am enabled to test for 
myself and satisfy others of the relative value of the nu¬ 
merous varieties of fruits grown; I feel prepared there¬ 
fore to furnish Trees, in large or small quantities, of such 
varieties as careful experience has shown to be the most 
profitable, rejecting a very large portion of those that till 
up the long list in many Nursery Catalogues of the pres¬ 
ent day. 
Apples. — I have grown some sixty sorts, but I now 
propagate mostly some line leading market sorts, (with a 
choice but limited supply of earlier fruit,) viz.; Roxbury 
Russet, Esopus Spiizeuberg, Rhode Island Greening, 
Northern Spy, and Baldwin, of which my orchards em¬ 
brace 2,000 trees. 
Pears. —Over seventy sorts have been grown by me, of 
which 1 reject about two-thirds—cultivating now princi¬ 
pally on the Angiers Quince Stock, and of the following 
varieties, with a few other sorts in small quantities:— 
White Doyenne, Duchess de Angouleme, Barllet, Louise 
Bonne de Jersey, Beurre Diel, Vicar of Wiuklield, Easter 
Beurre, Glout Morceau, Madeline, Bloodgood, Lawrence, 
Dix, Flemish Beauty, Onondaga, Seckel. 
My Pear Orchard consists of over 3,300 trees, 2,800 of 
which are White Doyenne. My stock of Nursery Pear 
Trees, consists of about 20,000 trees. 
Peaches.—1 have cultivated and tested more than fifty 
sorts of Peaches; and now cultivate only about fifteen of 
the best, and principally of the following sorts :— Early 
Purple, Alberge, Grange Cliug, Crawford’s Early Maloco- 
ton, Crawford’s Late do., Cooledge’s Favorite, Sweet Wa¬ 
ter, Early York, Red Cheek Maloeoton, Pine Apple, Old 
Mixen Free Stone, Wells’ Free. I propagate from 10,000 
to 40,000 a year. 
Cherries. —May Bigarreau, Knight’s Early Black, Black 
Eagle, Black Tartarian, Elton, Yellow Spanish, Napoleon 
Bigarreau, Transparent Guigne, Black Heart, Butuer’s 
Yellow, Bigarreau de Mezel. 
Also : —Apricots, Grapes, Currants, Gooseberries, Rasp¬ 
berries, Strawberries, Apple Seedlings, Quinces, Norway 
Spruce, Mountain Ash, Silver Maples, European and Amer¬ 
ican Balsam Fir, Horse Chestnut, Chinese and American 
Arboivit®, Austrian Pine and other Europeau Evergreens. 
I propose to sell my trees at the very lowest rates, and 
especially low in large quantities. Buds, Scions, and 
Peach Stones, furnished in their season. 
£3?” All orders and post-paid communications will re¬ 
ceive prompt attention. No charge for carrying packages 
to the Railroad. T. G. YEOMANS. 
Walworth, Wayne Co., N. Y., 1854. 245-3t 
SYRACUSE NURSERIES, SYRACUSE, N. Y. 
Tun Subscribers would most respectfully call the atten¬ 
tion of Nurserymen, Fruit Growers, Venders, Ac., to their 
very large Stock of Fruit and Ornamental Trees, which 
they otter for sale the coming fall and spring. 
We are issuing from the press— 
No. 2, A New Fruit Catalogue, which, with 
No. 3, Containing the Ornamental Department, and 
No. 4, The Green-liouse Department, will be forwarded 
to all pre-paid applisations, enclosing a one cent stamp for 
each. 
Also, a Neic fVholesale Trade List, for persons wishing 
to trade by the quantity. 
A fresh importation of the very best Dutch Bulbous 
Roots, from Haarlem, in Holland, will be ready for delivery 
in September. Young trees of the following new Pears can 
be had of us this fall—price $1 each. 
That splendid, large, early, melting pear.the true Hosen- 
shenck, coming in after the Aladaleine, equalling nearly in 
all respects the Virgalien, and more valuable than any 
other early pear. 
Also, those splendid, luscious, fall pears, the Des Nonnes 
and Beurre Charron , first brought to notice by ourselves. 
These two pears much surpass the Seckel in size, while they 
fully rival it in their rich aroma, and possess the melting 
lusciousness of the Belle Lucrative. 
Also, Ilturre Clairgeau and Kossuth, with that fine win¬ 
ter pear Beurre Bachelier. 
THORP, SMITH, HANCHETT A CO. 
Byraauee, N. T., July 18,1S64. 23S-7teow 
ecfmnic Jrfs, fa. 
LIST OF PATENT CLAIMS 
Issued from the United States Patent Office, 
For the week ending Sept. 5, 1854. 
Wilson Ager, of Rhorsburgh, Pa., improved 
mill stone dress for cleaning grain. 
Wm. B. Akins, of Ithaca, improvement in 
flour bolt. 
Benj. Bray, of Salem, Mass., improvement in 
spring rollers for window curtains, dec. 
Cbas. Clareni, of New York, improvement in 
attaching pulleys to shafts. 
John Clark, of Washington, D. C., improve¬ 
ment in chimney caps. 
Chas. H. Dana, of West Lebanon, N. H. im¬ 
provement in seed planters. 
Louis Daser, of Washington, D. C., improve¬ 
ment in seed planters. 
Augustus M. Eastman, of New York, im¬ 
provement in making ribbon of strips of cloth. 
Wm. H. Foster, of Portsmouth, N. H., im¬ 
proved arrangement for reef and furling top 
sails from the deck of the vessel. 
Jonathan G. Ginn, of South Thomaston. Me., 
improvement in machinery for worming rigging. 
Geo. W. Griswold, of Carbondale, improved 
portable door fastener. 
John Hinde, of Schenectady, improvement in 
machines for breaking flax and hemp. 
Moses G. Hubbard, of New York, improved 
method of hanging plane stocks. 
Adoniram Kendall, of Cleveland, improved 
riving machine. 
Jos. Morss, of Washington, D. C., improved 
driving wheels of locomotive for ascending in¬ 
clined planes. 
Thos, M. Powell, of Baltimore, improvement 
in ice cream freezers. 
Chas. Rowland, of Belleville, Ill., improve¬ 
ment in tables. 
Bradford A. Rugg and Ezra H, Benjamin, of 
Oak Hill, N. Y„ improved machine for feeding 
paper to printing presses. 
Daniel Warner, Jr., of South Hadley, Mass., 
improvement in machinery for dressing flax. 
Geo. L. Wild, of Baltimore, improvement in 
stringed musical instruments. 
Henry L. Clark, of La Porte, Ind., improve¬ 
ment in doors for baggage cars. 
Leroy S. White, of Chicopee, assignor to him¬ 
self, Lewis White, of Hartford, Lyman White, 
of Springfield, and Augustus G. Stevens, of 
Manchester, N. H., improvement in railway 
lamps. 
Alex. H. Brown, of Georgetown, D. C., im¬ 
provement in brick presses. 
SMITH AND FENWICK’S FRUIT-SKINNING AND 
CUTTING MACHINE. 
This machine, of which a cut was published 
in the Rural of August 12, was described as 
competent to pare, core and slice three bushels 
of apples in an hour. It was also asserted 
that “ the machine w r as very rapidly coming 
into general use.” This very flattering notice 
induced many subscribers to enquire for the 
machine, or where it could be obtained. After 
some delay we are in possession of the intelli¬ 
gence that “ Smith & Fenwick’s machines are 
not now made, and none are to be had. For 
some reason the patentees have not manufac¬ 
tured them to any extent.” 
And they are rapidly coming into general 
use! Why was it necessary to herald forth 
that announcement to the public, if “ the pa¬ 
tentees for some reason have not manufac¬ 
tured them to any extent?" The answer is 
left to the enquiring reader, while we beg per¬ 
mission to make a few brief remarks upon 
patented machines. 
It is not only just and proper that a patent 
should be granted for every good and useful 
implement and machine that is invented, but it 
is also proper that the inventor and patentee 
should h^ve an adequate reward for his labor. 
When any valuable machine has been invented 
and patented, the public are not slow to avail 
themselves of the advantages thereby offered, 
and thus such machines will find a steady and 
remunerating sale, which induces arrangements 
for the manufacture of enough to meet the 
demand. This will always be the case as a 
general rule. It is not to be disguised that 
very mauy machines for which patents are ob¬ 
tained are of very little practical value, if not 
indeed entirely worthless. The object in ob¬ 
taining a patent for inventions of this class, is 
not to manufacture the goods as a source of 
profit, but rather to sell the rights by States, 
counties or towns, as they can find purchasers, 
then, to retire from the business with the ill- 
gotten gains of the speculation. We there¬ 
fore generally come to the conclusion that if 
the rights, and not the machines, are for sale, 
there is little of practical value in the inven¬ 
tion. This may not always be a correct de¬ 
cision, but our word for it, it will be found 
correct in seven out of every ten cases. We 
do not say this is the case with the machine in 
question, but if it possesses all the good quali¬ 
ties claimed, and is withal furnished at a reas¬ 
onable price, it may come into general use 
without so much of preliminary advertising 
and puffing. 
It is, as a general rule, prejudicial to the 
interest of any machine to have the rights sold 
oat in small territories. We do not now think 
of one single patent that has been thus sold 
out, that has proved of any great value to 
any one except the person who pocketed the 
price paid for the right. A great error has 
crept into the use of patent rights, and there 
are good reasons why it should be corrected. 
h. c. w. 
Be quick in resolving, bold in executing. 
SEWING MACHINES. 
About five years ago we do not believe 
there were over three or four sewing machines 
in use in our country; now they can be count¬ 
ed by thousands. They are found in the fac¬ 
tories and in private dwellings, sewing the 
coarse bag and the most delicate piece of cam¬ 
bric. 
The machines, since they were first intro¬ 
duced, have advanced towards.perfection with 
a rapidity that is truly astonishing. So many 
patents have already been obtained for im¬ 
provements, that it is difficult to keep posted 
up in their progress; this is evidence of their 
importance, and at the same time, it is a sign 
that applications of them for various purposes, 
demand new modifications, devices and ar¬ 
rangements. 
Application has just been made for a patent 
by Charles Parham, of Philadelphia, on the 
sewing machine, combining two threads—a 
shuttle and needle—the object of which is to 
dispense with the shuttle race, in order to ob¬ 
viate the friction attendant to its use, and 
which requiring oil to lubricate it, often soils 
delicate articles. He employs a shuttle car¬ 
rier in which the shuttle fits, so as to allow it 
to pass through the loop, but requires no move¬ 
ment independent of the one which is given to 
the carrier, and which requires no fixed guide 
to produce friction, excepting on the side which 
does not come in contact with the threads. 
Antimony Cannon Balls. —English papers 
state that experiments are being made by or¬ 
der of the British government, to test the ef¬ 
fect of antimony cannon balls upon wooden 
surfaces. IF is found that balls of this metal 
break upon striking the object at which they 
are fired, and the numerous metallic particles 
into which they separate are scattered in ma¬ 
ny directions, and would spread death and de¬ 
struction on every side. An immediate sup¬ 
ply of these antimony balls is to be despatch¬ 
ed to the fleets in the Baltic and Black Seas. 
Paper from Weeds. —We understand that 
an enterprising German is about to secure a 
patent for his discovery of flax, or its equiva¬ 
lent, in fifteen different kinds of common weeds. 
The discovery is to be turned to account in 
the manufacture of various afticles of which 
flax is principal, but especially in the manu¬ 
facture of paper, which is a matter''of deep 
interest just now to the publishing world, the 
scarcity of rags being a great embarrassment 
to the business.— National Intelligencer. 
Naturally formed gas has been discovered 
on the grounds of Mr. Robinson, near the Cen¬ 
tral Railroad depot, at Bloomington, Ill. The 
mouth of the well was closed, and a tube 
placed so as to let the gas arise. On lighting 
it, the flame shot up ten feet from the mouth 
of the tube, and burned with a clear and beau¬ 
tiful light. Some experiments were to be 
made in the use of the burning gas to generate 
steam, and for illuminating purposes. 
Bamcstic (StmtomiL 
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Green Tomato Pickles.— Take any size, 
but those ready to ripen are the best, place 
them in a vessel and throw on a handful of 
salt; cover with boiling water, and let them 
stand till cold ; then slice them through trans¬ 
versely once or twice according to the size ; 
then lay them in a crock with thin sliced on¬ 
ions. Prepare the vinegar with cloves, cinna¬ 
mon, and allspice, and pour on hot. Cover 
and set away for a few days. They will be 
found very delicious, and will keep all winter 
Those who dislike onions may omit them. 
Pickled Peaches. —To one quart of good 
vinegar put 3 lbs. of sugar. Boil and skim it. 
The liquid will cover a peck of peaches ; stick 
two or three cloves in each peach, and boil 
them a dozen at a time in the vinegar and su¬ 
gar until they are well cooked. Take them 
out with a fork and place them in the jar.— 
When all done strain the syrup over them. 
Pickled Peppers. —Take two dozen large 
size garden peppers, (green) ; slit them care¬ 
fully on the side ; take out the pulp ; put on 
a table spoonful of salt, and cover them with 
boiling water every morning for nine days ; 
then fill them with cabbage cut fine, and a 
little salt Sew them up, then lay them in 
vinegar. 
Recipe for Tomato Figs. —The Massachu¬ 
setts Horticultural Society awarded their silver 
medal to Mrs. Eliza Marsh, for Tomato Figs, 
made as follows: 
Pour boiling wmter over the tomatoes, in 
order to remove the skin; then w'eigh them 
and place them in a stone jar, with as much 
sugar as vou have tomatoes, and let them 
stand two days; then pour oil the syrup, and 
boil and skim it until no scum rises. Then 
pour it over the tomatoes, and let them stand 
two davs as before; then boil and skim again. 
After the third time they are fit to dry if the 
weather is good; if not, let them stand in the 
syrup until drying weather. I hen place on 
large earthen plates or dishes, and put them in 
the* sun to dry, which will take about a week, 
after which pack them down in small wooden 
boxes, with fine white sugar between every 
layer. Tomatoes prepared iu this manner will 
keep for years. 
Ground Rice Pudding. —Mix two and a 
halflarge spoonfuls of rice in a little cold milk; 
stir it into one quart of boiling milk; let it boil 
| fifteen minutes, stirring it constantly. M hen 
cold, add five eggs; a little lemon; sugar to 
J your taste, and bake one hour. Put a paste or 
* not, as you prefer, on the dish. 
