MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
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JUSTS AND GLEANINGS. 
Experiment in Barking a Tree. —It has 
been stated that an old apple tree could be 
made to bear by taking a ring of bark from 
some of the larger limbs. A writer in the JV. 
E. Fanner, tried this on a large tree in 1849 
—taking only a narrow ring, .£ of an inch wide, 
from one limb. The result was, the first year 
after, that limb bore fruit, whilst the rest of 
the tree did not; it bore three successive years, 
failed last year, and died this. 
Oyster Shells for Fruit Trees. —Some¬ 
body says:—“ If you have barren fruit trees, in 
poor soils, break up oyster shells finely, and 
mix them with ashes, and dig them in about 
the roots. Oyster shells have saline matter at¬ 
tached to them, with some animal matte!, and 
much lime. The application will generally in¬ 
duce an immediate and decided improvement.’’ 
Manure, with good cultivation, will do as well, 
no doubt. The real remedy is to ameliorate 
and enrich the soil by any means which will 
effect that object. 
A Premium Orchard. —The Oneida Co. Ag. 
Society awarded a premium of $15 to Jona. 
Talcott, of Rome, for his orchard of 385 trees, 
the largest of which were planted in 1849, and 
are now sixteen inches in circumference. The 
following statement is from the report of 'the 
Society: 
“The land on which Mr. Talcott’s orchard 
is planted, is mostly a sandy or gravelly loam 
with a clayey subsoil. Previous to planting jt 
was plowed in back furrows, and the holes 
were dug along the ridges, thirty feet apart, 
three feet in width, and eighteen inches deep. 
In each hole was put a large wheelbarrow load 
of compost, made of stable-manure, lime, ashes 
and muck, under cover the year before. In 
planting the trees, surface soil was placed about 
the roots. The orchard ground has been cul¬ 
tivated to hoed crops. Once a year the trees 
have been pruned, and washed with strong 
soap-suds, a woolen cloth being used for this 
purpose. This washing has given the stems a 
clean, healthy look, and has tended to keep 
away the insects. At the approach of winter 
the soil has been heaped up about a foot 
around the trees. This has kept away the 
mice.” 
Pear Trees in California. — 1 have seen 
the famous pear orchards of San Jose and San¬ 
ta Clara, Cal, and I can assure your readers 
that these trees are worth looking at—they are 
without a sign of disease or defect in any 
shupe. They are planted on soil where the 
roots reach water during the dry season, as 
the soil in that valley is filled at a certain depth 
with running water, supplied by the mountain 
streams, sinking into and losing themselves in 
the alluvial soil at the foot of the mountain.— 
It will be found that all of the best specimens 
of pear trees in this country reach water; like 
the famous ones on the Detroit River, for in¬ 
stance; and persons in planting a pear orchard 
should have reference to the character of the 
subsoil, as a constant supply of moisture is es¬ 
sential to the health and prosperity of this 
tree. I. Hildreth. 
HINTS FOR THE SEASON. 
Now that the busy time in this department 
is well nigh over for the present season, a good 
opportunity presents itself to make any ueed- 
ful improvements or alterations which past ex¬ 
perience may have suggested. 
The past season has been an excellent one 
for observing the wonderful effects of well 
drained, over wet or underdrained lands, and 
should be a lesson to those who have wet lands 
to at once set about draining them. 
Good hard walks are another necessary ad¬ 
junct to a kitchen garden—walks that will be 
dry in all weathers, and sufficiently hard to 
bear the necessary wheeling on them. The 
slate rock certainly answers the best for this 
purpose of anything we know of in this neigh¬ 
borhood. It should be blasted and got in the 
fall, and if partially broken up and laid in 
heaps or on the walks themselves, will by the 
action of the sun and fire during winter, be 
nicely pulverized. 
It is not an unfrequent occurrence to see 
kitchen gardens smothered up with fruit or 
other trees. This is a great evil, where a full 
supply of vegetables is required, as it is im¬ 
possible to have top and bottom except it may 
be in very few instances. If it is wished to 
have fruit trees within this department, they 
should be either espalier trained or the more 
modern pyrimidal; at any rate they should be 
dwarf, and if planted to form a sort of avenue 
to the walks, they may be made to assume a 
pretty feature. But to look well in this place, 
they require to be kept in good order and pro¬ 
perly trained, or they soon become too large 
for the place, and are often permitted to grow 
on until it is too late to keep them within the 
bounds of dwarfs, and because they bear some 
fruits, are allow'ed to remain to the great injury 
ot the crops or vegetables. 
Asparagus .—This useful culinary vegetable 
should, as soon as the foliage is turning yellow, 
be cut off close to the soil, and the beds pre¬ 
pared for winter. This consists in slightly 
forking up the soil, and spreading a coat of 
long manure all over the beds, three inches 
thick. The alleys should then be dug up and 
a portion of the mould from the alleys be scat¬ 
tered over the entire beds, which assists in 
keeping the manure in its place as well as ma¬ 
king the whole look neat. In the spring the 
beds should receive a gentle forking and ra¬ 
king all over, as soon after the weather breaks 
as it can be worked. Some seed should be 
saved and cleaned, ready for sowing in the 
spring, to fill up vacancies or make new plan¬ 
tations. With good care plantations ivill last 
many years.—E. Sanders, in Country Gent. 
THE ONE ACRE FARM; 
OR, CURE FOR HARD TIMES. 
“ How much land have you got here in your 
lot, Mr. Briggs?” 
“ 1 have one acre.” 
“One acre! and here you are taking four 
agricultural papers, and all because you have 
one acre of ground! How many such papers 
would you have to take if you had a hundred 
acres?” 
“ I shouldn’t probably need any more than 
I take now; you know, Mr. Chapman, one 
can ‘ go through with all the motions ’ on one 
acre as well as on a hundred.” 
“ A man can throw away money without 
any, if he has a mind to. For all the good 
you get from such periodicals, you might as 
well, probably, throw the money they cost into 
the fire; they are nothing but humbugs.” 
“I pay in all, only eight dollars.” 
“ Eight dollars! enough to buy a ‘tip-top’ 
barrel of flour, and a leg of bacon; and then if 
you read these periodicals, there is twice the 
amount of the money spent in time reading 
them.” 
“I do usually read or hear read, almost eve¬ 
ry word there is in them; my boys and I take 
turns in reading, and one reads aloud while the 
rest work.” 
“ Complete nonsense! no wonder your shop 
don’t turn out any more boots in a day, than 
it does!” 
“ Perhaps we don’t do as great days’ works, 
some days, as some of our neighbors, but I 
guess that in the course of the year, we turn 
out as many according to the hands at work, 
as most do.” 
“I suppose it is out of these publications 
you get your foolish notions about so many 
kinds of fruit trees. One of my boys came 
home a while ago, and said Mr. Briggs had 
got lots and lots of fruit trees and such things, 
that cost, I don’t know how much, and wanted 
me to buy some grape vines, pear trees, and 
so on. 1 told him it was all foolishness and 
not to let me hear him say anything about 
spending money so foolishly. You have, I 
dare say, laid out ten or fifteen dollars, this 
spring.” 
“Yes. nearly as much again; I have laid 
out twenty-five dollars for trees and garden 
fruits.” 
“Twenty-five dollars! I wonder you are 
not on the town, or in jail at least, before now.” 
“ I’m not afraid of either; I’ll bet you the 
twenty-five dollars, I’ll sell you that amount of 
fruit from those things for which I paid the 
twenty-five dollars, in five years!” 
“Done! I’ll stand you; so your trees will 
cost you fifty dollars sure, in money, besides 
the time thrown away in setting them out and 
taking care of them.” 
“As for the time spent in setting them out, 
or taking care of them, it is as good exercise 
as playing ball, wicket, or auytking else.— 
While we were setting them out, one of your 
boys came to get my boys to go over to Mr. 
Moody’s, where he said was to be a great time 
playing ball; and I have no doubt, )our boys 
spend just as much time playing, as mine do 
with our trees and so forth; and then some¬ 
thing is done, but in playing, the strength is all 
laid out for nothing.” 
“ AY'ell, it don’t cost anything to play ball, 
but trees cost money.” 
The foregoing conversation occurred in the 
shop between two neighbors, both boot-makers, 
in a town not more than thirty miles from 
Boston. 
Mr. Briggs, in whose shop the conversation 
took place, was a man of more than ordinary - 
intelligence for one of his advantages and cir- : 
cumstances in life. He had been a poor boy,! 
and by industry, observation and economy, 
had worked his way on in life and reared and 
well educated a family of children, who, like j 
himself, were industrious and steady. For the 
few years past, he had become interested in 
horticulture, and both for exercise and amuse¬ 
ment, had turned his attention to cultivating 
his “ one acre farm.” His attention was first 
called to this, by means of a “back number” 
of the JYtiv England Farmer which was put 
round some things bought at the store. Mr.; 
Briggs found this so interesting, that he pur-' 
chased another at the periodical depot, and 
then he became a “regular subscriber.” Ilis 
sons soon became interested in the same direc¬ 
tion, and the interest of the father and sons in¬ 
creased to the pitch indicated in the foregoing 
conversation. 
In time, every inch of that acre of ground 
was “ brought under the spade, ! ’ and almost 
every “ best ” variety of fruit had a place there, 
and the father and sons found pleasure and! 
profit in the garden after being cooped up in 
the shop till the “ stent” was done, and the ex¬ 
ercise was far more profitable than the spas¬ 
modic, violent exercise taken in games. 
Mr. Chapman, the other neighbor, was a 
man of the “ common stamp.” He looked up¬ 
on everything new or uncommon as “ folly ” 
and “ nonsense,” and was ready to sneer at ev¬ 
ery one who stepped aside from the common 
track. It looked simply silly to him, to see a 
man stay at home from “muster,” or “train¬ 
ing” or “shows,” and spend his time in culti¬ 
vating a garden; or, instead of loitering away 
the evening at the store, smoking, and hearing 
or telling a deal of nothing or worse, to spend 
the evenings at home, reading such “nonsense" 
as the Farmer and Horticulturist affords. 
Years pass and Mr. Briggs’ “ one acre 
farm” shows that he and his boys have not 
read “ the papers ” in vain. They had learned 
how to “ set out” a tree, and how to “take 
care ” of it after it was set out. Everything 
showed it received the right kind of food and 
care, and straightway began to bring forth 
fruits meet for good cultivation. lu a short 
tirno the wants of the family were more than 
supplied, and the surplus found a ready mar¬ 
ket with the neighbors at good prices. 
Those early apples so rich and tempting, 
when all other apples were so green and hard! 
and then such pears; they went as fast as the 
sun and house could ripen them, at three, four, 
or five cents apiece. Then such clusters of 
rich, ripe grapes—-too tempting for the cold¬ 
est to pass wfithout a watering mouth. Mr. 
Chapman’s family were among the best cus¬ 
tomers for the tempting fruit—first having 
learned their excellence by the liberality of 
Mr. Briggs, who never failed to send a speci¬ 
men of his best to his neighbor. 
The fifth season came. It was a fruitful 
year. Apple, pear, peach, plum, and all other 
trees, were loaded with fruit. Keeping in 
mind his conversation with Mr. Chapman, Mr. 
Briggs had directed his family to set down ev¬ 
ery cent’s worth of fruit sold to Mr. Chapman 
or his family. This year, as it happened, was 
a year of “extreme hard times.” The boot 
business was at its lowest ebb; little work and 
very low wages—and yet the prices of every 
kind of provision up to the “ highest notch,” 
and money extremely “ tight.” 
But there was one family that did not seem 
to be in the least affected by the hard times, 
low prices of labor, high prices of provisions, 
or the scarcity of money; Mr. Briggs and his 
two oldest sons, all of them had a little “ spare 
change ” to let on short time “ with interest” 
to their needy neighbors. 
One day Mr. Chapman, who was short, ap¬ 
plied to Mr. Briggs for a “half” for a “ quar¬ 
ter,” meaning fifty dollars for three months. 
“ Yes,” said Mr. Briggs, “ 1 have a ‘half’ or 
a ‘ whole,’ just as you like.” 
“What, a hundred dollars by yon these 
times! I don’t see how it comes. You and 
your boys don’t work any harder than I and 
my boys do, and we can hardly get along; we 
are as saving and pinching as can be, too; 
times are so dreadful hard, and everything a 
family has to buy is so dreadful high, and wa¬ 
ges so low; potatoes, a dollar a bushel, beef, 
fifteen cents a pound, pork sixteen cents, eggs, 
twenty-five cents a dozen, and flour, ten or 
twelve dollars a barrel! How can a man live?” 
“ It won’t be hardly fair for me to ask you 
for that twenty-five dollars, now, will it?” 
“ Twenty-five dollars! What do you mean? 
I don’t understand you!” 
“ Don’t you recollect we have a bet between 
us about the price of some fruit trees I bought 
five years ago next spring?” 
“ Ah, I do remember something about it.— 
You were to give me twenty-five dollars if you 
didn’t get your twenty-five dollars back from 
me for the products of those trees and things! 
It will come very handy just now.” 
“Don’t be too fast, neighbor! I am afraid 
it won’t ‘come very handy just now.’ That 
was what I was dunning you for, that twenty- 
five dollars!” 
“What! you don’t pretend to say we have 
had twenty-five dollars worth of stuff from your 
garden.” 
“More than that from that very twenty-five 
dollars’ worth of trees and other things! Here 
is an account of everything you have bought 
and paid for; of course. .it dsn’t include what I 
have sent you. gratis.” 
“And you have certainly not been stingy.— 
Why, this bill amounts to thirty-seven dollars! 
it is not possible!” 
“ It is just so; you have had over twenty 
bushels of apples, and three bushels of pears, 
and those alone come to twenty-five dollars.” 
“ I own up the ‘ corn;’ draw the note for sev¬ 
enty-five.” 
“No, I guess we will let that twenty-five go. 
I only mention it to show you that there may 
be good sense in new things, sometimes. Now 
I will bet the twenty-five dollars over again, 
that my store-bill has not been, the past sea¬ 
son, half as large as yours, though I have had 
one the more in my family.” 
“ If I had not been so badly taken in before, 
1 would stand you; but I guess it wont be 
safe.” 
“ \Y r e have raised our own potatoes, corn, 
peas, beans, and all other garden vegetables.— 
Our eggs are always fresh and in abundance 
from the nest; and for more than two years 
we have not been without ripe fresh fruit.” 
“How can that be?” 
“ Well, I declare, that is something I never 
thought, of; but it takes so much time and 
bother to get these things started—then it is 
an everlasting job to take care of them.” 
“ It needs no more time and money than you 
throw away on things that amount to nothing 
at all, and with abundance of fruit, you save 
the expense of a heavy meat bill, which is not 
healthy in hot weather. No doctor has been 
called to step foot into my door for over four 
years past! Fresh, ripe fruits are sure reme¬ 
dies for all ailments, and they are not hard to 
take.” 
Mr. Chapman put the “ fifty" into his “ wea- 
zel-skin,” and left with a “ flea in his ear.”— a. b. 
li., in JYew England Farmer. 
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Massachusetts Horticultural Society.— 
At an adjourned meeting of the society, E. S. 
Rand, Esq., the Chairman of the Committee 
appointed for that object, offered a preamble 
and resolution, the former denying the state¬ 
ments made by the Select Committee, May 
2 Gth last, and the latter rescinding the same 
from the records, together with the vote of 
censure passed on Air. C. AL. Hovey at the 
same meeting. The meeting was one of the 
largest ever held at the rooms, and the vote 
unanimous. 
AYe congratulate the Society upon the set¬ 
tlement of this question, and its award of jus¬ 
tice, both to its Fruit Committee and the gen¬ 
tleman above named.— Boston Transcript. 
Profits of Shade Treks. —Eet a farmer 
plant out by the roadside 100 trees, at a cost 
of $50, (and this is a liberal estimate;) in ten 
years’ time that farm will sell for $500 more 
than it would without them; and I venture the 
assertion, the owner would not have them re¬ 
moved for that sum. 
The Ohio State Pomological Society, will 
hold its next meeting at Columbus, on Tues¬ 
day, December 5th. 
etjmtt ^rts, fa. 
LIST OF PATENT CLAIMS 
Issued from the United States Patent Office, 
For the week eading Qct. 24, 1854. 
Henry F. Baker, of Centreville, Ind., for im¬ 
provement in plows. 
Alark S. Bassett, Wilmington, Del., improve¬ 
ment in sifting and bolting. 
John D. Bedwell, Uhricksville, Ohio, improve¬ 
ment in smut machines. 
Archibald Bowen, Wadesville, Va., improve¬ 
ment in straw and grain separators. 
Robert Boyack, Poughkeepsie, improvement 
in machinery for softening hemp and flax. 
Samuel W. Brown, Lowell, improvement in 
machinery for cleaning cotton. 
Patrick S. Devlan, Reading, improvement in 
chairs for round rails. 
George L. Dulaney, Long Meadow, Va., im¬ 
provement in mill bushes. 
Absalom B. Earle, Franklin, N. H., improve¬ 
ment in seed planters. 
Ebeneser Ford, Spring Cottage, Miss., im¬ 
provement in granaries. 
Julius Hemet, New York, improvement in 
gi.tta pcrcha stereotype composition. 
Joseph Johnson, Wilmington, Del., improve¬ 
ment in bran dusters. 
Robert H. Jenks, Bridesburgh, Pa., improve¬ 
ment in looms. 
John G. McNair, West Farms, improvement in 
manufacturing carpets and rugs. 
Gistav Friederich Palinie and Annon Herrman 
Palmie, Berlin, Prussia, improvement in tire- 
arms. 
Myer Phineas, New York, for improved pen 
holder. 
Edward L. Perkins, Roxbury, Mass., improve¬ 
ment in machinery for polishing paper. 
James Renton, Cleveland, improvement in 
making wrought iron direct from the ore. 
John H. Rauch, New Y'ork, improved sliding 
pen and pencil case. 
John Richardson, New Y'ork, improvement in 
pen and pencil cases. 
Josiak Shanklin, Parkersburgh, Va., improve¬ 
ment in square, scale, level and bevel. 
Benj. Sherwood, New Y'ork, improvements in 
safes. 
Emile Sirret, Buffalo, improvement in fasten¬ 
ing lamp to lanterns. 
Oron W. Wade, Versailles, N. Y., improve¬ 
ment in stoves. 
Wm. Warwick, Birmingham, Pa., improve¬ 
ment in mills. 
Benj. H. Wright, Rome, improvement in rota¬ 
ry steam engines. 
Walter Bryant, Boston, Alass., assignor to J. 
B. Kelsey, of same place, improved air heating 
furnace. 
Wm. Campbell. West Philadelphia, assignor 
to himself and E. W. Shippen, Philadelphia, im¬ 
provement in bearings for loose pulleys. 
Wm. Porter, Williamsburgh, N. 1’., assingor 
to Joseph N. Howe, Boston, improvement in se¬ 
curing lamps to lanterns. 
Mark li. Peerson, Georgetown, Alass, assignor 
to himself and Samuel Shaw, \\ areham, Alass., 
improvement in roller catch for self-acting mule. 
Pacific Mill at Lawrence—The Largest 
in tiie World! —The largest and most com¬ 
prehensive mill in the world is the Pacific, at 
Lawreuce. P makes none but the finest kinds 
of goods, and the success of its operation is 
looked to with great interest by manufactur¬ 
ers. The floor surface is sixteen acres —the 
largest mill in England is eleven and a half 
acres. There is now in operation 40,000 cot¬ 
ton spindles and 10,000 worsted spindles; and 
these are to be increased to 60,000 and 20,- 
000 respectively. There are 1,200 looms in 
operation, to be increased to 2,400. These, 
with 2,000 hand, produce 300,000 pieces of 
cloth per annum. The weekly consumption 
of cotton is 20,000 tbs., say 1,040,000 tbs. per 
annum, and 500,000 lbs. wool. Once a month 
two thousand hands assemble at the cashier’s 
office, where Air. Clapp pays out $50,000 to 
them for wages, appropriating to each one the 
exact amount they have earned.— Alb. Tran. 
Tanning Cotton and Linen. —English and 
French fishermen have been long in the habit 
of tanning their sails, etc., in bark liquors to 
render them more durable. Alilliet states that 
pieces of linen, treated for 72 hours with an 
oak bark liquor, at 150 degrees, and stretched 
on frames, remained unaltered in a damp cel¬ 
lar for ten years; while untanned, in the same 
place and for the same time, had entirely rot¬ 
ted. It was further shown that linen, which 
had began to moulder, might be preserved 
from further change by being tanned. It seems 
to be only necessary that the articles should 
be kept two or three days in a warm solution 
of tannin. Awnings may be treated in this 
manner with either oak bark or sumac—both 
will answer. This will afford a useful hint to 
our sale cloth manufacturers. 
Husk Beds. —No one who has not tried 
them, knows the value of husk beds. Straw 
and mattresses would be entirely done away \ 
with, if husk beds were once tried. They are i 
not only more pliable than mattresses, but 
more durable. The first cost is trifling; to have 
husks nice and clean they may be spin alter 
the manner of splitting straw for braiding.— 
The finer they are split the softer will be the 
bed, although they are not likely to last as 
long as when they are put in whole. Three 
barrels full, well stowed in, will fill a good sized 
tick, that is, after they have been split. The 
bed will always be light, the husks do not be¬ 
come matted down like feathers, and they are 
certainly more healthy to sleep on.— Ex. 
Adulteration of Liquors. —As a proof of 
the extensive adulteration of liquors in this 
country, the New York Sun says that more 
port wine is drunk in the United States in one 
year than passes through the Custom-House 
in ten—that more champagne is consumed in 
America alone than the whole champagne dis¬ 
trict produces—that cogniac brandy costs four 
times as much iu Frauce as it is retailed for 
in our grog-shops—and that the failure of the 
whole grape crop in Madeira produced no ap¬ 
parent diminution in quantity or increase iu 
1 the price of wine. 
SCIENCE FOR THE MILLION. 
There is a man who sometimes stands in 
Leicester Square, (London.) who sold micro¬ 
scopes at a penny each. They are made of 
a common pill-box; the bottom taken out, and 
a piece of window glass substituted. A small 
eye-hole is bored in the lid, and thereon is 
placed the lens, the whole apparatus being 
painted black. * * * I bought several 
of these microscopes, determined to find out 
how all this could be done for a penny. An 
eminent microscopist examined them, and found 
that the magnifying power was twenty diame¬ 
ters. The cost of a lens made of glass, of such 
a power, would be from three to four shillings. 
How, then, could the whole apparatus be made 
for a single penny? A penknife revealed the 
mystery. The pill-box was cut in two, and 
then it appeared that the lens was made of 
Canada Balsam, a transparent gum. The bal¬ 
sam had been heated, and carefully dropped 
into the eye of the pill-box. It then assumed 
the proper size, shape, transparency, and pol¬ 
ish of a very well ground glass lens. Our in¬ 
genious lens-maker informed me that he had 
been selling these microscopes for fifteen years, 
and that he and his family conjointly make 
them. One child cut out the pill-boxes, anoth¬ 
er the gap, another puts them together, his 
wife painted the black, aud he made thelemes. 
—Letters from Abroad. 
I)r. Newton’s Newly Invented Gun.— AYe 
were shown, the other day, a newly improved 
gun, which, we believe, will eventually super¬ 
sede those now in use. It was invented by A. 
N. Newton, of Richmond, Indiana, and is call¬ 
ed the “ Breech-loading Fire-arm,” and was 
pateuted last June. It can be loaded and fired 
from twenty to thirty times a minute. The 
charge is placed in the gun at the breech, and 
although perfect to accomplish the purpose, 
the invention is very simple, and in its simpli¬ 
city lies one of its chief merits. By the mo¬ 
tion of a spring, a small cover at the breech 
of the gun slides back, leaving room to put in 
the charge, and by a reverse motion the cover 
is pushed back again aud the charge is forced 
into the barrel. It is perfectly safe. AYe think 
it vastly superior to the revolver. The charge 
is made into a cartridge before it is applied to 
the barrel. The principle of the invention is 
applicable to any gun.— Cin. Gaz. 
Incorruptible Railroad Timber.— If we 
may believe the New Orleans Delta of the 
14th, sleepers on railways, that is, wooden ones, 
may rest undisturbed for a long period as in¬ 
definite as the repose of the fossil. A prepar¬ 
ation has been invented for preservin 01 
submerged timber, consisting of asphaltum, 
sulphur aud arsenic. It is applied like paint, 
when the wood is dry. A marine railway in 
California, to which it was applied, remains 
perfectly sound; while the timber of the same 
species by its side has twice required removal. 
Air. Swan, of Shoal AYater Bay is the inventor 
§Jfiriiestk CcflMmjL 
To AIake Corn Starch. —The ripe grain 
must be mashed and ground to a tine meal, and 
then placed in a glazed mortar, and rubbed 
and triturated with a small quantity of water, 
until all the corneous particles are b:oken 
down. It is then to be transferred to a fine 
linen filter, washed, and expressed wi hs cces.- 
ive portions of water. The liquid that passes 
through, must be allowed to stand for sixteen 
or twenty hours, for the sediment of starch to 
subside. The water is then to be drawn off 
and the residue dried in the usual manner. 
This is the simplest and cheapest mode yet 
known for preparing the corn starch for pud¬ 
dings and other useful applications .—Albany 
Cultivator. 
New Process of Making Bread. —A new 
mode of making bread for the use of ships, so 
that it cau be preserved indefinitely, has been 
discovered by AL Laverne, a French baker of 
this city. AA'e have seen rolls made by AL La¬ 
verne that were perfectly good after having 
been kept a month.—JV. Y. Tribune. 
Grease for Coarse Boots. —Take a coal 
made of white pine, of the size of a hen’s egg, 
well burnt, pulverize it finely, mix it with 
enough of clean melted tallow to make it of 
the consistence of thick paste. Two or three 
applications will make the leather soft, and 
will keep the water out. 
To Make Prime Vinegar.—A correspond¬ 
ent of the Ohio Cultivator vouches for the 
merit of the following recipe for making vin¬ 
egar: Take and mix one quart of molasses, 
three gallons of rain water, and one piut of 
yeast. Let it ferment and stand for four weeks, 
and you will have the best of vinegar. 
Baked Eggs. —Put half an ounce of but¬ 
ter into a small tin pan; break four eggs in it, 
keeping the yolks whole, throw a little pepper 
and bits of butter and salt over; put in the 
oveu, or before the fire, till set, and serve.— 
They will take about six minutes doiug. 
Freckle AY asii. —Half an ounce of borax, 
; dissolved in water, with a little cologne added 
to render it pleasant, forms an excellent wash 
for the removal of eruptions on the skin, of 
various kinds, as well as freckles. 
Fine Blacking for Dress Shoes. —Beat up 
two eggs, add a tea-spoonful of alcohol, a lump 
of sugar, aud ivory black to thicken; it should 
be la\l on and polished like other blacking 
and left a day to harden before it is used. 
' To AIake Boots Water-Proof. —Melt 3 
oz., each of rosin and beeswax, and stir in 
1 pint of boiled oil and heat all well together; 
when partly cool, add 3 oz. ot turpentine.— 
Apply hot with a brush. 
