MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER 
follows:—Take good sawed fence posts of durable 
timber, about 7.) feet long: dig the holes two leet 
deep, and in the centre between the vines. This 
will make the posts 12 feet apart. If the ground is 
well drained, they will not heave out by the frost, 
nor be moved by the wind. Then take 2 by 3 or 
3 by 4 inch scantling 12 feet long, and nail them 
on the top of the posts, throngh the rows. This 
will prevent the posts from being drawn together 
by the wires and weight of the grapes. Take No. 
8 or 0 wire, and draw the first one straight abont 
one foot from the ground, and fasten it well to each 
post, either with two nails or a small staple; put 
on three more wires at equal distances apart, and 
yonr trellises are done. 
If you make the- trellis the first year, then train 
the vines each way, on the lower wire, as seen in 
the engraving, (If,) till they come to the post, and 
then up by that. If not till the second year, tie the 
vines on the lower wire as above. In November, 
the first year, cut the shoots you have trained 
horizontally, off at the post, if they have made a 
good gtowtb; if not, then cut them back near the 
main upright stem again, and train them on the 
lower wire the second year as recommended the 
first year. The next year train three shoots per¬ 
pendicularly from each of the horizontal ones; the 
engraving (fig 1) shows hut two of these shoots a a. 
This will make 6 shoots between each post. Keep all 
theothershootspinchedoU'throughthesummer. la 
November, cat all these perpendicular shoots off at 
the top of the trellis. If your vines have done 
well, the canes will he as large as your finger, 
strong and vigorous, and ready for a crop the fol¬ 
lowing year. The ground should now he plowed, 
dewed. Thus, our theory, like a good many other 
fine ones, was ruined, and we found that in this 
matter we were no wiser than other people. 
Houghton’s Seedling, an American variety, a 
AMERICAN IRON MANUFACTURE 
An “Illinois State HoirncrLTruAi. Society” 
was recently organized, durirtg a meeting of the 
State Ag. Association held at Decatur. The fol- 
lowingis the Board of Officers chosen: President — 
Dr. K. S. Hull, of Alton. Vive Presided* — II, \\ r . 
Hunt, Naperville, Second District; F. K. I'heonix, 
Bloomington, fid do; I.. Allow, Fremont, till do; S. 
Francis,Springfield. 5th do: Wm. Stewart, Payson, 
6th do; Dr. Kile, Paris, 7th do; J. P. Reynolds, 
Salem, -th do; A. Bainbridge, Jonesboro', 9th do. 
Corresponding Secretary —O. B, (Jalusha, Lisbon, 
Kendall Co. /tec. Secretary —.1. E. Starr, Alton.— 
Assistant liec, Sec'y —F. K. Phoenix, Bloomington. 
'Treasurer —B. F. Long, Alton. 
After the perfection of the organization by adop¬ 
tion of Constitution, election of Officers, Ac., com¬ 
mittees were appointed to petition lor a charter 
from the Legislature, and for mu appropriation to 
promote the interests of the Society. An exhibi¬ 
tion of Fruit, and an interesting discussion, closed 
the proceedings. The meeting was attended by 
prominent and progressive Horticulturists resi¬ 
ding throughout the State, and the whole proceed¬ 
ings were characterized by the right spirit—show¬ 
ing that the people were aroused to the importance 
ot' promoting an interest which appealed alike to 
the sense of the beautiful, and their pecuniary 
prosperity. 
The Lbiited States Gazette (Philadelphia) states 
that 439,186 tuns of iron were manufactured in 
Pennsylvania in 1866. This amount is classified 
as follows: 
278,941 tuns were anthracite pig iron; 66,970 hot 
blast charcoal pig iron; 56,225 cold blast charcoal 
iron; 24,550 coke pig iron; 12,500 raw bituminous 
coal pig iron. Of finished iron there were manu¬ 
factured 227,8.37 tuna, comprising 121,550 tuns of 
nails, rods and bars; 82.107 tuns of rails; 2),505 tuuB 
of sheets and plate; 2,675 tuns of hammered bars. 
The Gazette says:—“The iron produced in the 
United States for the same period is estimated at 
one million of turn: consequently »mr State con¬ 
tributes nearly one-half of the domestic supply.— 
During that period the whole country consumes 
1,386,000 tuns, one-third of which was furnished 
from Pennsylvania. It is conjectured, on the 
basis of such facts as ccnl 1 he searched out by 
a gentleman pre-eminently versed in this subject, 
that the snm total of iron manufactured in all 
countries fifty years ago, did -not exceed 500,000 
tuns.— a trifle over the present production of this 
State. 
Our manufacture equals that of England in the 
year 1823, although in England the business had 
been in progressive operation at that time for 
more than one hundred and fifty years. The yield 
in Great Britain for the past year, was, in round num¬ 
bers, three and a half millions of tuns; the produc¬ 
tion of Pennsylvania was, therefore, nearly one- 
seventh of that stupendous and almost incredible 
amount, a fact gratify ingin itself, and full of promi¬ 
ses for our future. With the exception of Great 
Britain, France alone, of all the European coun¬ 
tries, produces a larger amount of iron than our 
own State. It made 650,000 tuns in 1855. Prussia 
comes next, having made 400,000 tunsiu that year; 
and Russia is still further behind, its production 
having amounted to no more than 300,000 tuna.” 
It is certainly very gratifying intelligence re¬ 
specting the rapid progress of a branch of manu¬ 
facture upon which all the arts are so dependent. 
In ten year3 from the present date, more iron, we 
believe, will he manufactured annually in our 
country than in England. 
To CditHEsroN dents. —lb 0-, of Jackson, Michi¬ 
gan, will receive attention in our next. Wc shall 
answer the questions of W. I. in our third article 
on Small Prints-, which will he given in a week or 
two. Our friends need make no apologies lor ask¬ 
ing questions. Send on your inquiries, and if we 
cannot answer satisfactorily, we will Lay the matter 
before our tens of thousands of readers. 
THE SMALL FRUITS.-No. II 
GOOSEBERRIES. 
The Gooseberry is peculiarly an English fruit.— 
There it grows in its highest excellence, and in 
the greatest profusion. It is the principal fruit in 
the little gardens of the poor cottagers, and 
abounds in the more extensive grounds of the 
wealthy and great. In city or country, wherever 
a rod of ground is cultivated, there is to he seen 
the Gooseberry bush. It is sold by the half-penny 
worth at the “ Green-grocers ” shops, graces the 
sumptuous tables of the wealthy, and is the prin¬ 
cipal attraction at many Horticultural Exhibitions. 
Gooseberry shows are held in many parts of the 
country, Gooseberry prizes awarded, and Goose¬ 
berry books published. The house-wife uses them 
for puddings, pies and tarts when green, and pre¬ 
serves them in bottles for winter use, and when 
ripe they furnish a rich desert fruit for about three 
months. The school-hoy takes his dessert among 
the Gooseberry hushes, and fills his pockets, to eat 
on the way, or to share with his schoolmates.— 
Those of our readers who spent, their youthful 
days in England, know much more about the 
Gooseberries than the “roast beef'' of old England. 
Fifty Dollars is the prize offered for the best speci¬ 
men exhibited, at the principal shows. Judging 
from what we have seen, we almost feel warranted 
in expressing the opinion that more bushels of 
Gooseberries are consumed in England than of 
apples. 
LornoN says, “ Happily this wholesome and use¬ 
ful fruit is to be found in almost every cottage 
garden in Britain. During the hot summer months 
when the Gooseberry ripens, there is no other fruit 
so generally within the reach of all classes of the 
population. In Lancashire, aud some parts of the 
adjoining counties, almost every cottager who has 
a garden, cultivates the Gooseberry with a view to 
!” It will he seen by this that we have not 
reddish brown color, and thin skin. The flesh is 
tender and sweet. It is a great bearer, the fruit 
hanging in clusters, as seen in the engraving, and 
even the smallest and youngest plants produce 
abundance of fruit. It is well worthy of Cultiva¬ 
tion. We hope soon to he able to announce an 
American Seedling, with the same freedom from 
mildew', aud equal in size and flavor to the best 
English varieties. 
As the gooseberry is better able to resist the at¬ 
tacks of mildew when in a vigorous state of growth, 
thorough Culture and manuring is of course neces¬ 
sary, and pruning must not be neglected. The 
form of the hush should be like that recommended 
for the currant in our last article, hut three or four 
inches is enough for the stem. Some wc kuow, 
prefer the hush rather than the t ree form, both for 
the currant and gooseberry, I ait. we think the tree 
form the best and easiest method. The head 
should be formed by four or live main branches, 
placed as near as may be at equal distances. On 
procuring a young gooseberry hush from the nur¬ 
sery, say two years from the cutting, it will have a 
stem three or four inches in height, and a few 
branches at the top. These branches should be 
each cut hack to one bud, and if the soil Is rich 
and well cultivated, each of these huils will throw 
out a strong shoot. The following spring these 
shoots should Vie cut back from one-third to one- 
lnilf their length. Cur. the leading shoots back 
every spring about one-third of their length, and 
any lateral branches not needed to fill up open 
spaces, or any that cross each other, or are in any 
manner out of plaeO, > at hack to about three buds, 
LIST OF PATENTS 
Issued from the United States Patent Office for the week 
ending December 30, 1850. 
John Broughton, Chicago, improvement in door springs. 
James Culbertson, Covington, Ky., improvement in 
grindimr mill. 
William Cady, Eaton, U,, improved cross-cut sawing 
William Cady, Eaton, 
mactiiuc. 
Tristam Campbell and Ilenry B. Poonnan, St. Louis, im- ] 
provemi-m in bullet molds. 
,1. Parley Derby, Boston, improvement in bosom studs. 
John I}. lErnstj Harrisburg, tire hook. 
James FurnaM, Boston, improved method of attaching 
filt.-re to -supply ript s. 
Russell W. Gates, Homer, Mich., improved machine for 
upsetting tiro. 
Charles Croon, Retliel. O , improved mortising machine. 
Andrew B. Gray and Alex. II. Brown, Washington, D.C., 
improvement in Telociineters for vessels. 
Ai,-oi Hardy, Dorchester, Mass., improved rotary shears. 
CL JiUson, Woicoster, monufuetare ot animal traps. 
Henry Loeweiitery, New York, improvement in traveling 
trunk 4 . 
J. J. Laabneh, Easton, improvement in forming joints 
for sheet metal. 
Evan Morris, Philadelphia, improvement in hats. 
Joetah 8. Pommy, Chicago, improved method of adjust¬ 
ing circular saws to any required dish. 
L. K. Seldeu, fiaddatn, Conn., improvement in folding 
umbrellas. 
James Smith, Cleveland, improved weather strips for 
doors, windows, .ic. 
James it. Thompson, Newark, X. J., improved raking 
attachment foi reapers. 
Andrew Teal, Aurora, Ill., improvement in metallic cross 
ties and chairs for railroads as a new manufacture. 
James Tuerlingx, New York, improvement in maintain¬ 
ing power lor lime pieces. 
Set a Ward, Princeton, Iud-, improvement in riding sad¬ 
dles. 
Henry S. Wentworth, Napoleon, Mich., improved self- 
regulating wind director Per wind-mills. 
George P. Woodruff, Watertown, Conn., improvement in 
burklee. 
Jas. IX Greene and Edward Ivors, Philadelphia, assignors 
to -Its- D. Greene, afortsaic!, improvement in air healing 
furnaces. 
Daniel S. Beardsley, New Haven, Conn., assignor to 
John D. CtuberfieM uid IXmiel 8. Beardsley, same place, 
improvement in ship's cooking stoves. 
Benjamin Clarice, Oriskany Kails, assignor to E. I.. Fer¬ 
guson and C. B. Clark, same place, improvement in exten- 
I don tables. 
Cornell Bntdlcv, Manchester, Va., improvement in valves 
for steam engines. 
A. B. Grossman, Huntington, N. Y., improvement in 
rudders. 
John W. Crannell, divert, Mich., improvement in car¬ 
riages. 
Francois Durnnd, Paris. France, improvement in looms, 
ledivin Daniels, J-nfayette, Wis., improvement in tanning 
hides. 
Thomas D. Dalton, New York, improvement in anchors. 
Henry Eddy, North Bridgewater, Mass., improved mode 
of constructin'.; -tails for horses. 
Robert H. Fletcher, Brooklyn,Improvement in operating 
slide valves of steam engines. 
James Jones, Rochester, improvement in instruments 
for measuring boards. 
Benjamin W. Jewett, Gilford, X. H., improvement in ar- 
] tiiicial tecs. 
Orwell H. Needham, Xew York, improvement in milking 
shields. 
Kamuel Wetherill, Bethlehem, Pa., improvement in pro¬ 
cesses foT reducing zinc ores. 
Nathaniel Whitmore, Somerville, Mass., assignor to G. 
W. Keene, I.vnn, Mass., xnd X. Whitmore, Somerville, 
aforesaid, improvement in cop tubes. 
. Samuel H. Little, St. Louis, improvement in hemp brakes. 
G. W. B. Gidiiev, New York, improvement in pumps. 
James P. Cramer, Schuyler villn, N. V., assignor to Hiram 
Cramer, improvement in cultivator teeth. 
A contract for the heaviest pumping machines 
ever made or used in America will soon be award¬ 
ed by the parties engaged in pushing forward the 
Brooklyn Water Works. Twenty millions of gal¬ 
lons of water per day are to he hoisted 170 feet by 
steam. There are many plans before the Commit¬ 
tee of Engineers employed to decile on the sub¬ 
ject, some involving uew and untried, and in some 
cases very unpromising devices, while others in¬ 
volve a degree of expense and magnificence too 
serious to he entertained. The fact is, American 
engineers, with all their smartness in some lines of 
business, do not seem to understand pumping 
water on a large scale. The very large, slow, 
single-acting engines and pumps in the mines at 
Cornwall, in Great Britain, are believed to he the 
most economical in the world; and although there 
exists in theory toojii for considerable improve¬ 
ment on these, w ith shame bo it said, wc cannot 
even imitate them. The proportion of water rais¬ 
ed to the coal burned varies, of course, with, the 
height to which it is to be raised; bntreducing the 
effect in all cases to that of lifting water only one 
foot, the Cornish engines, in Cornwall, lift from 75 
to 100 millions, and in some cases as high as 125 
million pounds of water per pound of coal burned, 
while the latest and, we think, the Lest of our 
American imitations is that at Belleville, which 
raises the water for Jersey City, and attains a duty 
of 62 millions. American designers of steam 
engines and pumps, must rub up their ideas.— N. 
Y. Tribune, 
prizes 
over stated the value of this fruit in England.— 
Another fact is worthy of note, and that is, that 
the best varieties of Gooseberries—those that take 
the prizes at the shows—arc not raised by profes¬ 
sional gardeners or nurserymen, but by mechanics, 
mostly by the weavers of Lancashire, who have 
made this fruit a special hobby, and are extremely 
skillful in its culture. 
This ia the character of the Gooseberry in Eng¬ 
land. Its position is far different in our own 
country, it is scarcely ever seen on our tables, in 
our markets, or at our Horticultural exhibitions. 
Not one in a thousand ever tasted even a fair 
specimen. And this i* not because our people do 
not plant if, for hundreds of thousands of fine 
English sorts are imported every year, and sold at 
onr nurseries. Almost every one who plants a col¬ 
lection of small friri plants the Gooseberry, The 
fact is, wo are snrn to say, our climate is not fa¬ 
vorable to its growth. It is at home in the cool, 
moist climate of England, hut our hot, dry atmos¬ 
phere causes it to mildew. This mildew attacks the 
berries when about half grown, or less, and entirely 
stops their growth and destroys them. Hundreds 
of remedies and preventives have been recom¬ 
mended, some of a little value, and others useless, 
which we shall not annoy our readers with pub¬ 
lishing, hut shall give all the knowledge we have 
on the subject. 
In the first place, the strong growing varieties, 
spell as the Whitesmith and Crown Dob, engravings 
B of which we give in 
_th* 9 article, are not 
• ! - tlniM' varieties 
M(w0[ Jr that make a more 
Zmf'Tym' I ftfei % feeb,e growth.— 
'WM&l 'ii,ili/a*!l| !l ll l li)!kl Wh « n grown on a 
W^'*WFfw4 0m, '17 X 
i the fruit is almost 
in 
" YVf™’' etb " e have grown 
' them very succoss- 
crown bob. fully on the north 
side of a tight hoard fence. A heavy mulching 
of tan-bark, moss, or any other material that will 
keep the ground cool 
J au <i moist, will do much 
S J ir t0 prevent the attacks 
MM // ' Ayftllm of mildew. In Lower 
If \d Vfl’i, MI Canada, Maine, and in 
ffflf IliiiijjlllSl ? 6 T ml “' rl0 P« 
Figure 1. 
The third year, after the shoots have made from ] 
four to six inchea growth, rub off alt the new shoots 
but six from the horizontal vine,leaving one good 
shoot between each two of the perpendicular shoots 
as shown by dotted lines marked b b in engraving, 
to train up like those of the previous year, to bear 
fruit the coming year. The side shoots or arms 
from the last year’s perpendicular vines will now 
bear fruit. As soon as the fruit is in the blow, cut 
these arms or side shoots all off two joints beyond 
the last fruit stem, ns seen in figure 2, the branch 
n being r(ready pinched off; the branch b being 
marked with a dotted line c at the proper place for 
pinching. This will throw the sap into the fruit, 
giving it a rapid growth, and produce larger 
hunches and berries. Tn five or six days the buds 
at the ends of the arms, will throw out uew shoots; 
when these grow six or eight inches long, pinch 
off the ends. Y'ou may have to go over the vines 
two or three times more for this purpose. They 
must be thoroughly trimmed, letting no more 
hunches or leaves remain than are necessary to 
elaborate the sap, and prepare it for the fruit,— 
The fruit requires all the light,heat and air we can 
give it, to bring it forward fast as possible to ma¬ 
turity. A quick hand that understands his busi¬ 
ness, may trim 200 vines a day, trained in this way. 
In November, shorten in the vines for winter, and 
prepare them for next year’s crop. To do this, cut 
off the new vines at the top of the trellis for the 
coming year’s crop, and the old ones that bore this 
CULTURE OF THE NATIVE GRAPE 
Ova readers will recollect in the Report we gave 
of the discussions at the late meeting of the Fruit 
Growers’ Society of Western Now York, much 
was said in relation to the method pursued by Mr. 
McKay and others in cultivating the Isabella, and 
other native grapes. So successful have they been, 
as to astonish such veteiau fruit growers as Col. 
Honan, of Buffalo, and others. 
Ship Btilthnc. at New York.—D uring the past 
year there were launched at New York 12 steam¬ 
ers, 11 ships, 12 barqnes, and 20 others, with an ag¬ 
gregate tonnage of 15,620 tuns; while there are on 
the stocks 6 steamers- 3 ships, 3 barques, end 9 
others, whose aggregate tunnage will amount to 
17,150 tuns. This result shows an increase in the 
amount of tunnage launched, of 6.03S tuns over the 
year 1855; while the tunnage oi vessels now on the 
stocks is 6,145 tuns less than at the same time last 
year. 
Many of the steamships belonging to New York 
have been very unfortunate during the past year. 
The Collins’ line has lost one, and those belonging 
to Commodore Vanderbilt have been laid up, and 
have done nothing for a number of months.— Sci¬ 
entific American, 
Stephen U. Ains¬ 
worth, Esq., of West Bloomfield, who stated to the 
Convention the method pursued by himself, in 
pruning and cultivating the grape, and other in¬ 
teresting facts in regard to the profits realized, 
promised to send us a more full and detailed 
account than that presented to the meeting, which 
promise he has very kindly fulfilled. Wo give one 
chapter, illustrated with such engravings as we 
hope will make it plain to our readers. 
Select a location favorable to the sun, the warmer 
the better. If not already dry, blind ditch it thor¬ 
oughly 3i feet deep. Plow aud subsoil the land 
from 16 to 20 inches deep. If the land is very 
rich, the better; H not. it must he made rich with 
barn-yard’manure. The ground is now ready for 
the roots. They can he set with safety in the fall 
Or very early III the spring. Select good vines, 
well rooted, of either 1 or 2 years growth from the 
culiiugs, and cut them back to two buds; they are 
now ready to plant Lay out the rows north and 
south, 12 feet apart, and plant the vines 12 feet apart 
in the rows. Dig the holes no larger than neces¬ 
sary to secure the roots without cramping them, 
and only deep enough to plant the vine the same 
depth it was in the nursery. Use no v*ater, press 
the ground but moderately, and not the roots. See 
that the interstices are all well filled, as well as the 
hole, w ith good, rich top soil. If you plant in the 
fall, cover the whole v ine 3 inches deep with soil, 
and remove it in the spring. Mulch the vines well, 
ami if po^siblc’nianure the whole ground thorough¬ 
ly, and .work it*inwith acultivatoror a small plow. 
II you wish, yon can plant two rows of potatoes or 
beans between tho’grapos the first year. Bo sure 
to cultivate, or in some way loosen the earth from 
two to three inches deep, at least twice a mouth 
during the summer of each year. Alien the vine 
starts, select two of the strongest shoots aud nib 
all the others off. and keep them off through the 
season, so'as to give the whole force of the root to 
those two branches, and even keep the side shoots 
or anus o ("these two main shoots rubbed off three 
or four foot from the ground. This will give strong 
and large canes. 
You had beUeijput up trellises the first year — 
but if you cannot do that, then stick a stake six or 
eight feet long to each root, aud train the vines up 
that. They'must he tied to the stake, when about 
one and a half feet long, or they may break off— 
When they grow two feet more, they should be tied 
again, and so on through the season. 
The best trellis is a post and wire one, made as 
The New Cent. —The editor of the Providence 
Journal has received a New Year's present in the 
shape of a new cent, which has just been struck at 
the mint He says of it: 
“ It. is a little larger than a dime, and nearly 
twice as thick. The color might he mistaken for 
gold. On one side is a flying eagle, with the in¬ 
scription, ‘United States of America, 1856,’around 
the circle. On the other side is ‘one cent,’ within 
a wreath. It is altogether the handsomest coin of 
so low a denomination that we have ever seen.” 
Figure 2. 
year, near the horizontal or main branch at the 
bottom of the dotted lines b b in fig. 2, to throw up 
new shoots the coming year for fruit the year after. 
Follow this method, both for summer and fall 
pruning. Protect the vines in winter by laying 
them on the ground, and you will he quite certain 
of a good crop of well ripened fruit each year. 
were 
mnch 8nr P r|sed 10 sce 
Gooseberries growing in 
wt snch perfection in Chi' 
whitesmith. cago aud its vicinity.— 
We never saw liner fruit, with the same cure, even in 
the best counties of England. This is a fad of no 
small importance to oar friends in Chicago. 
The fruit ia less liable to mildew when the plant 
is in a vigorous condition, hence it will he often 
noticed that young plants bear u good crop in a 
year or two, and after this never produce a fair 
berry. Observing this fact in onr ground for a 
number of years, we formed a theory of the cause 
and care of the mildew. A'out this time H. N. 
Lang worthy, Esq., made us a present of half-a- 
dozen fine gooseberry hushes, which we planted in 
a sandy loam, where they had u good chance to 
mildew. The first season they bore a good crop. 
The next spring wc pulled up five of the six, and 
planted them again in the same places. As we 
expected, the five hushes that were taken up bore 
flue fruit, and the one .that was allowed to remain, 
mildewed. Our theory we now considered pretty 
well proven, but to make the matter certain, bc- 
youd a doubt, we pursued the same course another 
season, takiug up five, and allowing one to remain. 
This time, as ue did not expect, the whole six niil- 
How to Detect Photographic Bank Bills.— 
The sure method of detecting a photograph is to 
touch it with a solution composed of 60 grains 
of cyanide potassium in an ounce of pure water. 
This solution is a poison. It will remove the pho¬ 
tographic impression almost instantaneously, but 
it will not touch the carbon ink of the bank note 
plate printer. It can he put up by any apothecary 
for eighteen pence. 
A whiter in the Working Farmer, states that 
Mr. Edwin Shaterell, of Rahway. New Jersey, rais¬ 
ed from a single seed, twenty Valparaiso Squashes, 
weighing in the aggregate 2,500 pounds. One 
weighed 154 pounds. The seed was planted on a 
heap of pond muck which had lain exposed to the 
weather about a year. The same writer says (Mr. 
William Marshall, Jr., of Somers, New York, pick¬ 
ed last season from a piece of ground measuring 
15 by 21 feet, one hundred and sixty-two quarts of 
strawberries, or the rate of 268 bushels 12 quarts 
per acre. 
New Sailcloth. —An officer of rank (a major 
in the United States Army) has transmitted to 
Woolwich (Eng.) dockyard some samples of sail¬ 
cloth composed of fibres of the palm tree from 
South Africa, interwoven with the ordinary thread 
canvas. The fibres have been withdrawn, in order 
to verify the inventor’s assertion “that sheets 
made of the material will resist the teeth of old 
Boreas in his rudest of tempers.” 
Vluminum Cueai* as Iron. — In an interview 
we recently had, says a writer in the Loudon Medi¬ 
cal Times, with one of the firm of Rosseau, who 
have obtaiued a patent, for the process of ohtaiuing 
aluminium from clay, this , entleman informed us 
that he had little doubt of being able to obtain the 
metal at as low a price as iron; thus in a few years 
we may he carried across the ocean in ships of 
aluminium, aud our bells and musical instruments, 
all our cooking utensils, aud an immense number 
of articles of daily use and ornament, will, in all 
probability, he made ot this light, beautiful, inde¬ 
structible product of clay. 
Mice. —It is during such weather as we are now 
having in Rochester, that field mice generally gir¬ 
dle fruit trees. Their labors are carried on beneath 
the snow. See that the snow is well trodden down 
around every tree, where there is the least danger 
to be apprehended from mice. 
Musical Instrhments. —About 600 piano-fortes 
per week are produced in the United States, of 
which about 200 are made in the vicinity of Bos¬ 
ton. The total manufacture of musical instru¬ 
ments in Massachusetts amounts to $2,295,680 per 
annum. 
