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If MAW,IT 7 MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 79 f 
j. Y v . v The only varieties recommended by the Porno- 
vrnrr r t/TTU PTf logical Society for Gknp,ral Cultivation, are the 
JP-liljCllU rt/HU VJlCUUtlU Catawba, Diana nmUsahel/a. Th e Delaware, Con- 
-- - - cord and Rebecxa are the only varieties recorn- 
' GRAPES AND HUMBUGS. mended afl PE0 *‘ S,Na ( VVrM “ gftV « * f ! W 
_ weeks since a description ana drawing of the 
It Heems that, one portion of the people are very Delaware, and as toon its we find room we will 
busily engaged in endeavoring tohumbuganother give a full desolation and engraving of the Re- 
portion, and that this other portion are being very beccn. Ihe To KuUm und Union Village, new vo- 
sncoessfully and satisfactorily humbugged. Many, rieties, were well spoken of by those who were 
who arc so fearful of being cheated that they are acquainted with them,and the Northern Muscadine 
incessantly on the watch, for fear some one will was unanimously condemned, as being foxy and 
take advantage of them, seem to be the first to be unfit for the table. These facts we have before 
taken in by a fraud a little out of the ordinary published in the Rural, so that our readers cannot 
line, though bo bold and so bald as to show its blame us if they allow themselves to become the 
character to any one with ordinary discernment dupes of the designing and dishonest. 
Many will not take an Agricultural paper, be- Now, we do not say that these comprise all the 
cause they think the editor don’t know much more good hardy varieties of grapes in our country; but 
about (arming or fruit growing than themselves; we do say they are the best known to those who 
and because some correspondents make statements make the study of frnit their business and their 
that are notto bo relied on, giving results of ex- pleasure. Those who offer, with high-sounding 
periments not made with sufficient care. So, for names, and at high prices, other sorts, you may 
fear of being cheated out of a couple of dollars, set down, with a good deal of confidence, as deci- 
they remain in blissful ignorance of what ia going ded humbugs. 
on in the world. Pretty soon some one comes There is one variety, the Clinton, a hardy'sort 
along with wonderful seeds, the like of which was that will bear almost any amount of cold, which 
never known before; or grape vines that will we think will be valuable to some of our readers, 
grow raisins, all ready cured 1 , and as large as eggs We were never so mnell impressed with its value, 
—the kind that took the premium at the World’s as in our Western travels last summer. Wc saw it 
Fair at Washington, or Kamsehatka,— the variety growing beautifully on trellises, and covering ar- 
grewn so successfully by the man in the moon! hors, mukiug a beautiful appearance and a delight- 
i’he bait takes; the over-careful wise-acre gels bit. ful Bhade; while those arbors in the same gardens 
He losea his money, and his neighbors laugh. that had beeu covered with the Isabellawind Ca- 
FINE APPLE3 FROM PENNSYLVANIA. 
It is for my interest, as a fruit denier, to have 
nice, fruit produced in my own native State. As I 
perceive thnt it is the aim of yonr paper to in¬ 
duce fruit growers to improve the quality as well 
as the size of fruit, I would like to lay before 
your readers ao account of some apples that I pur¬ 
chased of 8 . D. Thompson, of Portland, Me., at 
Philadelphia, in Dec. lost. I paid him ten dollars 
per barrel, and sold them at two dollars profit, per 
barrel. I weighed Four, the gross weight was four 
pounds and one ounce. Now, if ihe farmers in 
this State would raise ten barrels of those, would 
it not he belter than to raise one hundred such as 
are usually brought here? Mr. Thompson bought 
those of a farmer from the interior of Pennsylvania, 
the same day that I purchased of him. He return¬ 
ed with the farmer to get 3cions to carry to his 
own State. The apple bore the name of “Trunk 
Apple.” The name of the owner of the trees has 
been forgotten by me, or I would have given it, so 
that our fruit-growers might procure scions.— g. g 3 
tion how to manage the trees by you, or any of 
ygur correspondents, as to the cause and cure, 
will be thankfully received by a—Y oung Farm¬ 
er.— Lisle, N. Y., Feb. 10, 1857. 
Remarks,— Cut off every limb that is affected, 
and burn it up. If in doing this yon have to de¬ 
stroy the tree, it cannot be helped. If let alone it 
will surely die. If not too badly diseased you can 
save yonr trees in this way. 
Mixing of Varieties of Melons. —As your 
paper constitutes a medium of communication, I 
wish to make an inquiry or two. If different varie¬ 
ties of the watermelon are planted together, will 
they mix or become hybrids? If so bow may this 
mixture he prevented? I am aware that diflerent 
varieties of the cncnrbita tribe will produce hy¬ 
brids if planted near each other, such as the 
cucumber, &c., but whether this is true of the 
watermelon alone, I know not How can sneh mix¬ 
ture be prevented when want of room and many 
varieties compel me to adopt close planting? — 
Gkorgb Forbes, New York, Feb., 1856. 
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Black Currant Wine.— At the late Convention 
of Fruit Growers of Western New York, several 
gentlemen presented facts in relation to the manu¬ 
facture of Currant Wine. These gentlemen were 
Remarks. —If different varieties are planted near 
each other, they will mix. There is no way to pre¬ 
vent it 
To Make Peach Trees Hardy. —Will some of 
yonr numerous readers inform me by what method 
The. greatest of all the humbugs wo have heard 
of in this line, is the one described by our corres¬ 
pondent: 
En. Rural: —As yonr excellent paper takes 
high ground against humbugs, and imparts much 
useful information to its many readers on fruit, Ac., 
I send you the inclosed handbill, with which two 
men with a box of grape vines passed through the 
country lust fall, selling vines at $1 a piece, (worth- before the Isabella, and is a very great bearer, 
tawba, were entirely bare — these varieties having and squeeze the currant when fully ripe. To one E. P., Almond, Portage Co., iscomm. 
been killed by the severecold the previous winter- gallon of juice add six quarts of water, and to each 'Remarks. — Mg know of noway to accomplish 
It is black, and the berries small, as maybe seen gallon of this mixture ado three and a half pounds the object you desire, other than planting the most 
by the engraving, and the bunches very compact of brown sugar. Mix well together and strain.— hardy varietiesin a dry, sandy soil, where thewood 
It is rather acid when first gathered, but improves p u t into a cask and let it be ventilated till it shall will become well ripened before winter, 
very much by keeping. It has been cultivated h ave passed the active or vinous fermentation, ~ 
here for a great number of years, and never fails w fi en it may be well corked. As it will improve Eds. Rural:—P lease to inform me throng your 
to produce a crop. It ripens two or three weeks by age it may be well to let it stand undistarbed valuable paper where I can o tainit e e u ' c > 
-------- - J fc 3 Red Cherry, White Grape and White Dutch Cur¬ 
rant Slips, and the price of them per thousand, 
and whether gravelly soil will be good for the cul- 
less no doubt.) 
LIST OF GRAPES* 
Tint COME COVE id Hie largest grape that grows, It is 
a Tough, Hardy Grape, will grow in any climate, and will 
grow twenty feet jn one season. We have raised them 
that weighed seven ponnda to the cluster. The MEXICAN, 
iB the nest In Bise, and took the premium at the World’s 
Fair in Washington. The MAMMOTH MUSCATINE 
GRAPE. The RAISIN Grape la a good Grape, and 
will grow m any climate. CatawtsBu Blackberry is iho 
largest berry that grows, the berry w ill grow from one to 
two inches loDg, nicer than anything that ever grew, ol 
the berry kind; lliey are sweet enough lor table nse; 
there are two kinds, one la white, the other is black. — 
These vines are raised by tho most skillful nurseryman in 
Philadelphia, and warranted to grow. 
All of thes# varieties can be had of 
THOMAS JONES, 
124 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. 
Look at the bill. Seven pound clusters ol grapes! 
World’s Fairat Washington! Raisin grapes grown 
in any climate! Catawissa Blackberries two inches 
long. Ac. The more effectaaily to excite, and to sell 
their vines they showed a scaled bottle filled with 
alcohol, and inclosing grnpes ol the four kinds 
they were selling. And mammoth grapes they 
were—monstrous in size, and said to be grown at 
Forcstville, Chaut. Co. Enough truly to tempt 
for years unless wanted for medical purposes.— 
A correspondent of the Wisconsin Farmer, in q be same precaution should be taken in regard to 
Madison, says—“the Clinton here is as hardy as a j tg frequent use as to other fermented and intoxi- 
Black Oak, but the Isabella and Catawba must be eating drinks, lest a morbid appetite be created 
taken from the trellis and covered in the fall.” therefor. • Moses Long. 
-■ * - Rochester, Feb. 7, 1857. 
FRUIT. --— 
- Early Lettuce and Tomatoes. —Perhaps it 
fruit growers’ society of western new YORK. raa y not have occurred to some of your readers 
The richest- of temporal legacies, and the least that this open weather affords an opportunity to 
ilftljanic Ms, &t. 
THE WONDERS OF INDIA RUBBER. 
Among the recent applications of India rubber, 
none are so remarkable aa the manufacture of 
what is called “hard India goods,” into which the 
rubber enters most largely. There ia in New York 
a company called the Beacon Dam Company, 
which is devoted to the manufacture of this class 
of goods. By a fuocess that originated with Mr. 
Chaffee, coal tar is mixed with the rubber, and the 
compound makes one of the most solid, elastic 
and elegant articles that can be found in the mar¬ 
ket. It resembleB polished stone, is as black as 
coal, needs no finish, and has of itself as hard and 
exquisite a polish as it is possible for any ruetal to 
bear. There seems to be no end to the articles 
into which it. can be made. Canes of the most 
elegant form, are made of it, and are as tough as 
so mnch steel, while they have all the elasticity of 
whalebone. Cabinet work, inlaid and mosaic, or¬ 
namental to the parlor and the chamber. Specta¬ 
cle bows and glasses for the eye are made so light 
as to be uo annoyance, while their elastic charac¬ 
ter causes them to sit firm to the head; opera 
glasses, castors, saud stalls, ink stands, brushes for 
the hair, that cannot be harmed by hot water, tape 
ljnes, pen holders, pencil cases, cigar cases, gov¬ 
ernment boxes for the army and navy, government 
buttons, and an endless variety of articles are thus 
made, and the articles are of a most elegant char¬ 
acter; syringes of a novel form and character; 
machines for oiling cars and engines, on a new 
principle, indicate that this new use of rubber is 
to work a complete revolution in the arts and 
manufactures. 
But one of the greatest applications of this new 
rubber and manufacture, is the new telegraphic 
wire that is made from it It needs no poles, as it 
i 3 laid in the ground. It needs no covering; a 
trench of a few inches is dug; the rubber tele- 
tivation of the above-named currants, and oblige— graph wire is put in ami covered up; the wire is 
appreciated, is fruit. Potatoes are common on 
people’s tables, and -pork and tea —can any man 
tell, can any woman, why these articles are to be 
preferred to choice apples, pears, plums, cherries 
raspberries and strawberries? I’ll bet my hat 
against the meanest jacknife in Christendom that 
a committee from Congressmay start atthe mouth 
of the St. Johns and go to the Gulf of Mexico, 
and make an inventory of what people have on 
their tables, and in nine cases out of ten they shall 
find that meals are made without what is usually 
denominated fruit. Excepting apples, fruit is 
omitted in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred. 
We take pride in being good cooks, and com¬ 
pound substances very variously as the printed 
recipes do show, but would we not do as well to 
take a liule cream and put it on some ripe pears, 
sow lettuce nud tomatoes, and thereby get an ad¬ 
vance of the usual time of sowing in the spring. 
Well, it. did so occur tc me, and upon the thought 
I have practiced. Last week, of a pleasant morn¬ 
ing, before business hours, I spaded and raked a 
good sized bed, seeding tho inside with tomatoes, 
and outside w ith lettuce, thus giving the seed the 
privilege to grow upon the first approach of spring, 
in a mellow soil, and producing two crops upon 
one piece of ground. The lettuce is out of the 
way by the time the room is wanted by the toma¬ 
toes, and I will get returns two or three weeks 
earlier than by the ordinary mode of out-door cul¬ 
ture.—S. N. Holmes, Syracuse, N. K, 1857. 
A Subscriber. 
Remarks. —One year old plants yon can get at 
almost any nursery. We don’t know any one wbo 
sellsslips or cuttings. The White Grape and Cher¬ 
ry Currant can be bought for about $25 per 100, 
aud the Red and White Dutch for about $15 per 100. 
Winter Squashes. —I was troubled in raising 
Winter Squashes, similarly to yonr Onoudaga cor¬ 
respondent I detected the grub in the vines, by 
their leaves wilting, took my knife and slit the 
vines, so as to find and kill the grubs, when the 
vines recovered and bore a good crop.— W. D. O., 
Port Byron. 
ftorawtic icuttumg. 
me to buy the vines. They were as large around as I or peaches, or berries? Art and Science have la¬ 
the monstrous charter oak, or large Fox grape, but 
not like the mammoth Foxes, rouud and depressed 
at the ends, but more like a large, longisa oval 
plum, with a small suture and indenture on the 
stem end. I examined them closely by bolding 
the bottle up and turning it over until I was per¬ 
fectly satisfied that they were nothing more or less 
than plutnH; and it caused some effort on my part 
to keep cool and not give them a blowing up at 
the time. Yet, strange to tell, they palmed off to 
one of our most intelligent merchants, right in 
sight of acres of grayie vines, and where, too, all 
the new and best varieties are extensively culti¬ 
vated, six vines for $ 6 .— Lincoln Fay, Portland, 
Chaut. Co., Feb., 1857. 
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THE CLINTON GRAPE. 
Now, it does seem to us that, in tho present day 
a person who takes a good Agricultural paper is 
in no danger of being deceived by such a bold 
humbug. Even a reference to the proceedings of 
the Homological Society, at its last meeting in 
this city in September, and published in the Rural, 
where this Bubjoet was discussed by the most in¬ 
telligent pomologista in tho world, and new varie¬ 
ties preiented for consideration, would convince 
every one that these pedlars of th* “ Come Coys '’ 
were trying to " come” it ovor the green-horn*. It 
was truly a “coy,” aud scorn* to huve been suc¬ 
cessful. 
bored together assiduously to produce pnddtngs, | 
cakes and pies, and flavor them to people’s taste; j 
but can any Y’ankee—nay, can any Frenchman | 
season a Bartlett pear? It is due to the inhabi¬ 
tants of tho cities to admit that they show some 
appreciation of lruit; hut in the country if a man 
hires his board, it is equivalent to this—A. B. con¬ 
tracts with C. D. to furnish him bread, meat, po¬ 
tatoes, tea, salt (and butter, when it can be had,)for 
two dollars per week. Living is with ns reduced to 
an “exact science!” Mathematically it is thus: 
Breakfast=bread + potatoes -r pork. 
I confess I approach domestic matters in the coun¬ 
try with feat and trembling, warned by the fate of 
the Tribune. But if I was a candidate for office, 
even, I would not, to please any political party, deny 
that I love strawberries and cream!—peaches and 
cream 1 It is true fruit don’t grow in the winter, 
but I ain told it can be hermetically sealed. There 
are winter pears; I have never seen or tasted one, 
but 1 hear they arc eatable, if you can get them— 
then there is the process of drying. 
A prominent feature of Eden was fruit—it was 
not forbidden except in a particular case. I am 
afraid people labor under amistake in tills matter. 
I have been led into this train of remark by 
noticing the proceedings of “The Fruit Growers’ 
Society of Western N. Y.,” at Sts late Annual Meet¬ 
ing. I was desperately determined to attend that 
meeting, but I did not see the notice till it was too 
late. I wished to tell the agitators in behalf of 
Isabellas and Newtown Pippins that I was with 
them—that I honored them aud endorsed them 
most decidedly. Enclosed is a dollar to pay for 
membership. Do me the kindness to hand it over 
to the Treasurer. I’ll tell yon what I did with ap¬ 
ples last winter. 1 boiled about six bushels of 
apples every two days and mixed in two bushels of 
corn meal. On that 1 fed eight hogs and kept 
them growing nicely, and also fed five or six cows 
a pail of the feed every day. I fed it warm, and it 
was about the consistency ot mush for table use. 
The cows gave milk freely during the winter, and 
were very much improved every way by it. Ap¬ 
ples are very valuable for all kinds of stock. 1 
should like to sec the animal that wouldn't relish 
a clean, pleasant flavored apple fed in a proper 
manner. Apples for stock are better than turnips, 
and don’t coat half as much. Farmers, make it a 
point to raise apples for your stock, and a variety 
of choice fruit for table use. Don't lorget to 
countenance and encourage those individuals and 
associations that are engaged In the improvement 
of fruit. u. t, u. 
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A Substitute for Bean Poles. — How many 
gardens huve their appearance spoiled by unsight¬ 
ly bean poles, as the old saying is, “ standing seven 
ways for Sunday.” I have a way that looks belter, 
and aa for the productiveness, there is half differ¬ 
ence in favor of my plan. Set posts twenty feet 
apart, six feet high, aud fasten No. 8 or 10 wire on 
the top. Plant under the wire in hills two feet 
apart, leaving two plants in a hill to grow. Stick 
with willow or any kiud ot sprouts, pealing the 
ends to prevent growiug. Tio them to the wire 
and cut off the top* Ot the vines two or three 
inches above the wires. The row* should run 
north aud south and be four and a halt feet apart. 
—C. H. R , Storniuille, Dutchess Co., N. Y. 
Death of a Horticulturist.— It becomes our 
painful duty to make an announcement which will 
awaken emotions of sincere regret on the part of 
many of our readers---the decease of James H. 
CAKES, COOKIES, ETC. 
Eds. Rural :—Having tried many of the recipes 
in your excellent paper, and found them to be 
good, I wish in turn to benefit some one else. 
Buckeye Cake.—O ne pound sugar, 1 cup batter, 
Watts, Esq., of this city, for many years Treasurer j 4 cups flour, 1 '.up sweet miik, t> eggs, 1 teaapoou- 
of the Genesee Valley Horticultural Society, and 
well known to the Pomologists of tho couutry. | 
Mr. Watts was an intelligent and enthusiastic j 
Horticulturist, and did more than any other one 
to introduce the celebrated Northern Spy apple. 
He died on the evening of the 26th nlL, aged 
forty-nine years. 
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Proceedings of the American Pomological 
Society. —We are indebted to the President, M ar¬ 
shall P. Wilder, for a copy of the Proceedings 
of the sixth session of this Society,held in Roch¬ 
ester, Sept. 24, 25 and 25th. It is a very neat 
pamphlet of 240 pages, and coutains several illustra¬ 
tions, of new fruit, fruit houses, Ac. In October 
last, we gave in the Rur al an official report of the 
discussions at this convention. Wo may, hereafter, 
give some extracts from the State Reports. We 
consider this the most valuable document issued 
by the Society. 
Radishes. —If any of your readers, who cannot 
raise good Radishes, on account of worms, or suita¬ 
ble soil, will strew common wheat bran, one inch 
thick, on any good soil, and hoe it in, and then 
plant their seed, they may eat as trood Radishes as 
any body can grow.—W. D. O., Port Byron. 
Inquiries sift gnsims. 
To Save Vines from Bugs.—Eds. Rural: —As 
it is about time to begin to plant seeds for vines, 
it may uot be amiss to make a few suggestions in 
regard to the culture of them. 
I would give my experience in regard to the ene¬ 
mies of tho vine. On my vines, first appear, as a 
general thing, the small black bug or fly—the only 
ful soda dissolved in the milk, 2 teaspoonfuls cream j 
tartar rubbed in the flour. Stir the sugar, batter, 
and yolks till light; then add the well-tjeaten 
whites of the eggs; then the flour and milk; bake 
quickly. 
Clove Cookies. —Three pounds flour, 1 pound 
butter, 1 pound sugar, 4 eggs. Rub the butter and 
sugar together; add as much molasses as will mix 
the flour; l teaspoonful of saleratus; cloves to 
your taste. Roll thin, and hake in a quick oven. 
Keep in a stone jar. 
A Rich Custard — Excellent .—One quart cream, 
the yolks of six eggs, 6 oz. of powdered white 
sugar, 2 teaspoonfuls of brandy, 1 oz. blanched al¬ 
monds pounded to a paste. Mix the cream with 
the sugar and yolks of the eggs well t eaten; scald 
in a tin pan placed in hot water, stirriDg occasion¬ 
ally till of the consistence of thick cream; when 
, cool add the other ingredients, and pour into cus- 
j tard cups. 
Scotch Cake.— Three-quarters of a-baby’s 
crying—please accept these—more next time. 
Lucy. 
Remarks.—W e will guarantee that Lucy is an 
inclosed with the rubber; no dampness can affect 
it; no storm render the wires inoperative; no in¬ 
sect sever; no rust corrode. It would appear fab¬ 
ulous if we should state the miles of this wire 
that have already been engaged, and the goods 
cannot be made to meet the demand. 
The government of tho United States is now the 
best customer of the Beacon Dam Company. The ] 
call for the Navy and Army button is immense; 
the article is elegant; the naval button bus on it 
the motto, “Don’t give up the ship.” And so 
tough are these rubber buttons, that, if one is 
placed on an oak plank and pressure applied, it 
can be sunk clear into the plank, and wilt come 
out unharmed; aud the governmeatshavingboxes, 
wbicb are about three inches in diameter, are so 
strong that a man weighing 200 pounds can press 
his whole weight on one of them, and not hreak 
them. 
AM. AND ENGLISH AG. IMPLEMENTS. 
At a dinner recently given at Aylsford, Kent 
Co., Eng., to celebrate the return of Mr. Betts, the 
celebiated railroad contractor, from a tonr in the 
United States and Canadas, he stated that our peo¬ 
ple in America were behind the people in England 
in agricultural implements, excepts eg mowing 
machines, in which wo excelled, and one of which 
lie had brought with him, and which, drawn l y 
two horses, had cut eleven acres per day. He 
stated that America was a magnificent country, 
ono far better for the poor man, but possessing far 
less comforts and privileges than England for 
those who possessed capital. 
We think Mr. Betts did not travel altogether 
with his eyes open in our country. There are just 
as many comforts and conveniences for those who 
have capital in this country as theroare in England; 
’ of course, this is not the case in the newly settled 
* parts of our country; this cannot be expected but 
' ! in the older States and iu our cities. And even in 
1 our new States, enterprise is so active that in a 
1 very few years after any place is settled it attracts 
most of the refinements and luxuries of life to it» 
1 We know that his opinions respecting American 
agricultural implements are wrong. Ourhayfoiks, 
axes, cultivators, planters, scythes, rakers, hoes, 
3 aud even our plows, yes, most ot our agricultural 
implements, are now superior to thoge made and 
used in England. A most credilable and marked 
a improvement has been made uring ihe past few 
excellent housewife. Her taste iu the culinary years in all our agricultural tools and implements. 
- butter; one egg: wet with milk; bake 20 minutes. 
To Save Vines from Bcgs.-Eds. Rural:- As goFT GlNUERBSKm -Half a pint of molasses; 
it is about time to begin to plant seeds for vines, tw0 oance3 0 f butter; two eggs; one teaspoonful 
it may uot be amiss to make a few suggestions in sa i er atus; half a teacupful of thin cream; half 
regard to the culture of them. a pound of flour; bake thirty minutes iu a moder- 
I would give my experience in regard to the ene- ate oven, 
mics of tho vine. On my vines, first appear, as a Crullers. —Eight eggs; three-fourthsof a pound 
general thing, the small black bug or fly—the only of gagar . quarter of a pound of butter; a little 
thing t ever fouud to drive them off is Scotch snuff nutraeg . wit h sufficient flour to form a stiff batter; 
sprinkled on the vines. I have found that the roll tb j D . cut thin; cut them in diamond shape 
most effectual preventive against the effects of and boil in l ar d .—Homestead. 
the striped bug, cut-worm or black By—and in fact __ 
all ot these enemies of the vine, (or cabbage,) is as Indelible Ink Stains. —To remove spots of ni- 
follows:—Make a box about 7 inches deep by 6 trate of silver, indelible ink, moisten them for a 
inches square on top, and 8 on bottom. Ibis to e evf moments with moist chloride of lime, which 
department and evident promptness in the care of It is true that there are too many poor implements 
“ the AaAy” are worthy of all commendation. Many manufactured so as to be sold cheap, but this is the 
thauks for the recipes received.—Ena. case in every country; we do not refer to these, 
_._ bat to those of the best quality, which can be ob- 
Biscuit.—O ne pound of flour; two ounces of tained of every respectable dealer. We are of 
itter; one egg: wet with milk; bake 20 minutes, opinion, judging from what we have seen our- 
Soft Ginuerrxkad.— Half a pint of molasses; selves, that American Agricultural Implements, as 
•O nances of butter: two ezzs: one teasnoonful » whole, are the best in the world.— Set. American. 
few moments with moist chloride of lime, which 
be placed over the hills as soon as the viues begin forms chloride of silver, and then dissolve the lat- day’s work: it tamed out only about one-third the 
to break the ground. I have had my vines cut off ter by ca qsti c ammonia. It may be sometimes work of the shingle machine. The size of its 
wheu the blow was just breaking into sight. These nece3sary to repeat the operation. Cyanide of driving pulley was increased to give it a speed of 
boxes are the only thing that I know of, that will potassium may also he employed. 1,200 revolutions per minute, and it now cuts with 
prove effectual. __ eaae three times the quantity of lumber in the 
If this should prove acceptable to you and your Muffins.— Melt half a teacup of butter in apint same space of time; “there is no loss of time now 
readers, you may bear from me again, if all is au)1 a half of milk; add a little salt, a gill of experienced in backing out the saw to allow it to 
well,— Uncle Bill-had. Bradford, ieb,, 135i. yeast and four eggs: stir iu flour enough to make recover itself.” He is opinion that the most eco- 
Reuarks.—W e have several inquiries on hand, ( a batter rather stiffer than for griddle cakes; if nornical speed to run large circular saws, is from 
which the above will answer. Putting a box, or ! kept in a moderately warm place, it will rise suffi- j 12.000 to U 000 feet per minute at their teeth.— 
rather a frame around the hills of vines is a good ciently iu eight or nine hours. Scientific American. 
SPEED OF CIRCULAR SAWS. 
A correspondent residing in Ralston, Pa., in¬ 
forms us that in a mill in that place, in which he is 
interested there are two circular saws; one thirty 
i: cites in diameter, for sawing shingles—speed 
1,850 revolution* per minute; and the other 3-t 
inches in diameter, for sawing studding. This 
latt: r saw was at first geared to run at the rate of 
950 revolutions per minute, a speed which was 
recommended by several hundred machinists.— 
At this speed it was incapable of performing a fair 
day’s work: it turned out only about one-third the 
work of the shingle machine. The size of its 
driving pulley was increased to give it a speed of 
1,200 revolutions per minute, and it now cuts with 
ease three times the quantity of lumber in the 
same space of time; “there is no loss of time now 
well.— Uncle Bill-had. Bradford, l eb., 1857. j yeast and four eggs; stir iu flour enough to make 
Remarks. —We have several inquiries on hand, | a batter rather stiffer than for griddle cakes; if 
which the above will answer. Putting a box, or 
rather a frame around the hills of vines is a good 
plan. This frame may be made of boards, or cloth 
secured to the ground by four stakes. 
kept in a moderately warm place, it will rise suffi¬ 
ciently in eight or nine hours. 
secured to the ground by four stakes. Indian Meal Fp.ied Cakes.—O ne pint of sour Transatlantic Telegraph Company.—T he 
- milk, a small teaspoonful of saleratus, a little salt, stock of the company engaged in the mammoth 
Black Knot on Plum Treks.—Eds. Rural:—I two and a half coffee cups of flue Indian meal.— enterprise of uniting Europe by telegraph amounts 
have purchased a farm this winter on which are Drop from a spoon into hot lard, aud let them boil to seventeen hundred and fifty thousand dollars, 
a number of plum trees that are covered more or until a nice brown. Iths9 been subscribed as follows, the shares being 
less with a sort of black knot. As I am not ac- -- $'>,Uf)0 each:—London capitalists Uke 101; Liver- 
quointed with the plum tree, I do not know what i Hair, or even straw mattrasses, are more healthy pool, 86: Glasgow, Ji; Manchester 28; ot.ict Eng- 
to do for them. Shall I cut the branches off, or to sleep on than feather beds. Keep your sleeping lish townA 10, and the balance, S8shaie>, in Atner- 
j must l out the trees down, or is there any way that rooms very clean and well aired, and do not cumber ica. America owns, theretore, $•* G'.bOO, oi a ittle 
the trees can be cleared of them ? Any informa- hem with unnecessary furniture. more than one-fourth of the cab.c. 
