AMERICAN 
PAYENT: 
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sonally as I have never tasted it. But those who 
have, tell me that it has no improper smell; and 
it is too well known to be shaken by any such 
unsound writer as “ Penn Yan.” The fact is, It 
is very unsafe for a man to speak of wines he 
evidently never saw or tasted. There is more 
justice iu his insinuating that Concord wine is 
not the best in flavor, for though I have tasted 
good Concord wine, and made it often, yet I 
never have seen any that did not give me its pe¬ 
culiar aroma, as if the wine had beeu scalded. 
Evidently we shall never make any progress if 
we have no writers more candid than “ Penn 
Yan.” 
While on wine, let me say that it is only nine 
years since any well-founded facts wore known 
ou American wines, and it is not strange that 
we cannot yet have with certainty eood wines. 
Belore 1859 we tried making it on Solon Robin¬ 
son's hopeless plan, to put grape juice in a cask, 
with or without sugar, and hoped that by the 
“Farmers’ Club” hocus-pocus, some fortunate 
scamp would get the luck to make good wine. 
The plan was jis reasonable as to All a cask with 
sand and hope to tap it three or four years after 
and draw out gold dollars. Solon Robinson 
says, by chance somebody did get good wine. 
So by chance he might gold dollars—but I don’t 
believe it. Now, our wiue making is daily 
growing better. It takes years for the leaven of 
wine truth to work, hut it is clearing out all 
tmsh, and will in the end refine us nice wines 
everywhere. He is a poor thinker who don't 
see the way our German friends make wine with¬ 
out sugar, when they do use sugar. He is not fit 
to taste wine in our Agricultural Fairs, “ without 
sugar” “ absolutely pure,” who cannot taste the 
ctlierial spirit (nut oil) engendered by that pe¬ 
culiar process, simple as it is. Now, I do not 
call a German vine, made with sugar—Mai is all 
fermented out of it, so that it has non* left In it— 
the best wine, and it never will he a popular 
wine with Americans, I fear. But a wine, made 
by the hints I have given in this letter, and with 
a small quantity of free sugar in it, will be the 
popular American wine, our German friends to 
tlio contrary notwithstanding. 
The day for wine has dawned, and though 1 
cannot in this letter give a book on wine, yet I 
have indicated, I hope, the path of our progress. 
Yours, Ac., S. J. Parker, M. D. 
Ithaca, N. Y., 1867. 
For cuttings, take vigorous brandies near the 
ground; ent them off smoothly, and insert them 
in flower-pots, so that the ends of the cuttings 
will touch the side or bottom of the vessel. The 
two or three inches of soil in the pot should be 
covered with sand. Bury the cuttings to the 
seeoud joint, and leave two or three with leaves 
above the sand. Cover with a large glass tum¬ 
bler. Some place the cuttings in the shade; 
(one, who was quite successful,generally placed 
them in the sun.) The application of “bottom 
heat," in a bottle, is advisable. Some say, 
plunge the cutting in a piece of potato, and in 
this condition plant it. A thorough trial should 
be given to this singular method. o. n. 
Walton, N. Y., May 29. 
A Goon Fruit Packer.- A local of the Milwaukee 
Sentinel describes a fruit packing arrangement which 
goes (hr towards the annihilation of space. The 
writer says that by using thi9 fruit packer eighty 
quarts of fruit, can he transported in a Space but little 
larger than a bushel basket. The boxes are pint ones, 
hence one hundred and sixty of them would be nec¬ 
essary for the eighty quarts. How these are to be 
compressed in the space of thirty-two quarts, or a 
bushel, is a puzzle to the editor of the Wisconsin 
Farmer. 
Repudiation Already Broun. —The ladles 
everywhere are repudiating the common yellow 
soaps, and substituting Pyle’s economical, labor- 
saving, O K Soap, ranch to the chagrin of gro¬ 
cers that have large stocks of other kinds. Keep 
on, ladies, ami your wardrobe will sustain you. 
REPLY TO “PENN YAN."-GRAPES, 
WINE, &C. 
Eds. Rubai. New-Yorker :— I am always sorry 
to see in your excellent journal—the cheapest 
and best agricultural paper we have — an unfair 
article* Such I cannot but regard “ Penn Yan’s,” 
in ^our issue of May 27th. I dread to see a 
writer like “ Reuben” of the Horticulturist, 
and “Talks About the Farm,” No. 39, or 09, or 
109, of the Agriculturist* They are like a pic¬ 
ture in Harper’s Magazine of a spider, fastened 
by a forked board, and a reel pulling his spider- 
threads out of the tail , not brain , of the unfor¬ 
tunate insect* Now the position is not a very 
graceful one, nor very healthy, and the process 
may he good lor spiders, hut a contemptible one 
for a writer; even if he has not the good sense 
to see it. So “ Penn Yan,” poor hanger-on to 
dead committees, like “Reuben,’’ and that other 
_near Rochester “ on a farm,” doles out 
over a column; relieved only now and then by a 
line of common sense, and a few independent 
thoughts. 
Now, I do not like to talk in this way, but 
how shall we correct old offenders without some 
plain words. The tmtli is, committees and 
business meetings, often make the best men 
" man-monkies,” like several in Boston; hut 
the puhlic moves on regardless of them. Skill¬ 
ful advertising may sell to raw beginners poor 
grapes, but soon we leave advertisements and 
committees in the forgotten past. 
The remarks on Dr. Jackson’s analysis are 
very unjust. For example we did not know till 
Dr. J., iu 1859 determined it, what acid we had 
in our grapes. That was a step onward, that 
poor “ Penn Yan” does not appreciate. Again, 
in 1859 we knew nothing of the real reasons of 
the value of Catawba, that “ Penn Ynn,” who 
does not give his own name, but stabs in the 
dark better men than himself, says has “ made 
good wine.” 
Now, examine the analysis of Dr. J., p. 45, 
Report, 1859, of Catawba. It is: specific grav¬ 
ity 1.0715, pg. 57, acid 1 per cent. Now, to the 
common wine maker this is all Chinese or He¬ 
brew, as it seems to be to “Penn Ynn.” Let us 
translate it, Beai me’s hydrometer is one any 
person may use, and get everywhere. By this 
the 1.0715, translated in rough language, means, 
Catawba juice , as ordinarily ripened, stands, by 
jBeaumc's hydrometer, at ten. degrees. This 1 Lave 
myself verified by at least fifty samples from va¬ 
rious parts of the country. And it is not pre¬ 
cisely accurate, but is near enough to guide any 
man. Next—any half-witted man, in the use of 
wine-testing Instruments, knows that no wine, 
such as Americans will use can be made without 
grape sugar enough to have the hydrometer re¬ 
ferred to Stand at fifteen degrees. Now, “ Penn 
Yan ” can get one eye open if lie has half an eye 
for wine. But pg. 57 says the acids are 10 lbs. 
in 1,000 lbs. of juie.o, or one per cent. Now, 
“Penn Yan,” look, and open your other dull 
eye. You know, or if yon do not you ought not 
to write on wine, that only four to six pounds of 
acid in one thousand pounds of juice can be alloieed, 
and good wine be made of any grape v Call it- Jive 
pounds in one thousand, or one-half of one per cent. 
My own tests of Catawba, In 50 
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are numerous. Among them are full weights 
and perfect goods. 
The Garden Soil. — Constantly improve this; en¬ 
deavor to reach the point where Its productive power 
cannot be improved. You will be astonished at the 
result, and think the land round about you little bet¬ 
ter than a desert. Sods from old grass land, piled 
with leaf mould or stable manure and leached ashes, 
make a compost that will improve any soil. But if 
the soil be clay add sharp sand also. This is the sea¬ 
son to make the compost, heap, 
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HORTICULTURAL GLEANINGS. 
Fruit Prospects ,—The Illinois journals gener¬ 
ally concur in the opinion that fruit will be quite 
abundant iu Central and Southern Illinois. 
Planting Trees Late ,—A writer in the German¬ 
town Telegraph is of opinion that trees may be 
successfully planted after they have leaved out 
if the expanded leaves arc carefully removed be¬ 
fore transplanting the body. If the trees are 
promptly removed and placed in the ground 
they will grow quite as readily as If transplanted 
before the buds expanded into leaves. 
Hoio to Raise Plums .— Colman’s Rural World 
states that many people have an impression that 
it is a very difficult matter to raise plums when 
it is not so if the right course is pursued. A 
few trees—a dozen or so — will only supply the 
plums necessary to feed the cureulio, but increase 
the number of trees to fifty or one hundred on a 
farm and there will be plenty of plums, both for 
domestic use and for market* The rule is that 
large plum orchards arc certain to pay well, 
while a few trees produce little or nothing be¬ 
yond supplying the plum pests with their fruit. 
Disease of Par Leaves .—A correspondent of 
the Cultivator suggests that the cause of the 
blighting and dying of the leaves of the pear 
tree, frequently noticeable, is owing to the char¬ 
acter of the article used for mulching the trees. 
He mulched some two years ago with hogasse, 
which was followed by disease of the leaves— 
blistering and drying np. Last year lie treated 
a portion of them in the same way with a like 
result. Those not mulched were not injured at 
all. If cane, thus used, will affect the trees ad¬ 
versely, may it not he true also that mulching 
witli corn-stalks, and kindred refuse stuff, will 
prove deleterious y At all events it is best to be 
sure of the effect of mulching material before 
making a liberal use of it among trees so sensi¬ 
tive as are many varieties of the pear. 
Fruit Presenting .House .—The N. E. Farmer 
states that a company in Cambridge, under the. 
Presidency of Dr, George B, Torino, have 
erected a building for the preservation of fruits, 
vegetables, fresh meats, fish and the like, which 
promises to become popular with the public, ft 
is built on a principle suggested byfl’rof. Nyub 
of Cleveland, Ohio. The building is two stories 
high, walls three feet thick, eased inside and out 
witli sheets of galvanized Iron, between which 
and the wall iB a packing of wood shavings. 
The second story is the iee-room, separated from 
the fruit-room by a floor of galvanized Iron, 
made water-tight and so inclined as to allow the 
water from the ice to How off. The floor of the 
fruit-room is also of galvanized iron, underlaid 
with shavings and the like, to prevent the en¬ 
trance of moisture. The floor is also covered 
with a compost of some patentable matter for 
absorbing moisture and infecting the air—secur¬ 
ing a uniform dryness and coldness of temper¬ 
ature, the exclusion of light and as far as possi- 
ble the oxygen of the air. The success of this 
plan of preservation is deemed to be beyond 
question. 
Where to Plant Orchards. — Colinan’s Rural 
World considers the question of orchard plant¬ 
ing In a variety of aspects, and comes to the 
conclusion that au elevated position, with a 
northeni exposure is best for fruit trees. The 
trees, in such a position, are kept back in the 
spring from early flowering and not exposed to 
late spring frosts so much as they would be 
with a southern exposure and a less elevated 
position. In the spring-time, when frosts are 
predominant, they are found to he heaviest on 
low grounds—the warm air rising and investing 
the summit of the hills, and preventing the ac¬ 
cumulation of frost in such positions. Hence it 
is inferred that elevated ground is the be*tfor 
orchard planting. Yet it is but just to sajj that 
low planted orchards sometimes do bettenthan 
elevated ones. This is especially true \vil|i re¬ 
gard to the peach in some places the present 
yeur, but these may be only exceptions which 
are said to substantiate the correctness of the 
general rule. If we were to plant on both Sigh 
and low ground, success would seem to be ler- 
tain with one or the other. 
Gelekt Plants should be pricked out in rich beds. 
Celery for late fall and winter use should not he Bet 
in the trenches or rows until July. If the tops are 
likely to get too large, most of the growth may he 
cut oil' once or twice. 
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siime time advances the real wolflm* of the race, de¬ 
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Stir the Sort frequently in the garden when It. 
gets dry; it will require a good deal of work to get it 
light and mellow after the heavy spring rains. But 
the soil must he stirred and air admitted or your 
garden will foil. 
Cucumbers.—M. Sutton, Irondequoit, has furnish¬ 
ed us a fine sample of cucumbers, grown tinder glass 
on his premises. They are well developed and have 
a promising look. 
Thin Out such plants as stand too thick; all plants 
more than have ample room arc no better than weeds, 
and should be treated as such. 
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VARIOUS ORIGINAL RECIPES, &c 
The Cheapest and Best Ventilating: Baa* 
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Illustrated Circulars sent free. 
Being interested in the Domestic Economy 
column, I thought perhaps a few of my recipes 
might not come amiss, If you think them worthy 
of a place in your most, excellent paper: 
Currant Cake.— 1 cup of butter; 3 of sugar; 
3 eggs; 1 cup of water or milk; teaspoon l'uI 
of salcratus; a little grated nutmeg, and 1 cup 
of currants; flour to make a thick hatter. 
Ocean Cake. —2 cups of powdered sugar; % 
cup of butter; whites of 5 eggs; J. cup ol'sweet 
milk; 8 cups of Hour; 3 teaspoonsful of cream 
tartar; 1 of soda; flour to the taste. 
Corn Starch Cake.—O ne cup each of corn 
starch, flour and butter, nibbed to a cream ; the 
whites of 7 eggs heat to a froth; mix in 1>£ cups 
of white sugar, anil flavor. Stir all thoroughly 
together. 
California Sponge Cake. — 1 cup of sweet, 
milk; l cup Of sugar; 1 egg; 1 spoonful sour 
cream; 3 teaspoonsful cream tartar; 1 of soda; 
flour to make u thick batter. Season if you like, 
and I lake twenty minutes. 
Will some of the Rural readers please inform 
me how to color scarlet red for making flannel; 
also how to make Corn Starch Cookies, and 
oblige a— Farmer’s Wife, Racine, Ifi.i 
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THE FARMERS’ JOURNAL 
EntTORH Rural:—I too am disappointed when 
I find no Domestic Column in the Rural ; and 
in company with “ M. N. P.” most earnestly 
exhort good housekeepers to forward recipes, 
us well as practical hints for housekeeping in 
general. 
Sponge Cake.'— Five eggs; 1 heaping cup of 
sugar; 1 level cup of flour; beat the yolks and 
sugar together; then add the whiteB thoroughly 
beaten. Bake in long narrow tins. 
Custard. —The yolks of 10 eggs; 2 qte. sweet 
milk; sweeten and flavor to suit the taste; beat 
the sugar and eggs thoroughly together, then 
add the milk. These ingredients should be 
beaten thoroughly in a tin pall, which must be 
placed in a kettle of boiling water and allowed 
to cook slightly ; stir while cooking. When 
cool, place in deep dishes, and turn on the 
whites, having first beaten them to ft stiff froth. 
Tills is rather pretty dotted over with red sugar 
sand just before placing upon,the table. 
Inquiries.—W ho will send to the Rural a 
recipe for making good rolls, nice corn-starch 
enke, and Tapioca pudding.—F armer’s Dacgh- 
TF.R. 
Washing Fluid.— A “ Farmer’s Wife,” Cas¬ 
cade, Mich., referring to washing fluid, writes; 
“Take 1 lb. soda ash—not sal soda; }{ do. lime 
to 4 gals, rain water; boil 30 minutes, then cool 
it otf and put It into jugs or bottles. When pre¬ 
paring to wash fill the boiler half full of water; 
put in one teacupful of the fluid; soap the clothes 
the same ag if they had been washed; put them 
in the water while cold. Raise to the boiling 
point, and continue from twenty to thirty min¬ 
utes. Take the clothes from the suds and rinse 
and place on the line to dry. Flannels and cali¬ 
coes may be cleansed la the same Slide by scald¬ 
ing them as above, rendering them clean and 
pliable and not iujuring them in the least. A 
pound of soda ash costs but little, and will last 
a family of six or eight persons three months. 
Try it. _ 
Bleaching Common Beeswax. — In a late 
number of the Rural, a “Reader” asked in¬ 
formation for bleaching common beeswax. As 
I have seen no reply, I will tell her how I do it; 
I put my wax into a pail or kettle, adding water 
enough to nearly till the vessel. When the wax 
is melted, I wash a pane of glass with suds, and 
dip it in the wax and get two thin sheets. I 
then wash and dip the glass again; continuing 
this process till the wax is ail dipped, off. I 
then spread these sheets on boards in the sun 
kear a window. In a short time I have nice, 
ybitC w'ax, much better than any I can buy. 
pleaching with acid impairs the strength of the 
tic wax.—H. H. H., Perry Center. 
A Book that, bo ID runldlv among tin* fanner* everywhere. 
It Is a complete and simple Account Book— containing 
printed blanks lor keeping nil tbe accounts ol the Farm 
Ittiii Ii'n in 11 c IV 111 1-itaf. Ilio 1 * 11 'tTf'vf. fVl mini'll f lUilu fh run tn 
Specimens os 
above, give nearer 14 lbs. in 1,000 of juice than 
the 10 lbs. of Dr. Jackson. And on that, I make 
my Catawba wine. I bring these facts together 
by reducing the acids to 5 lbs. in 1000, and sugar 
to fifteen degrees Beaume, and good wine always 
is made. I rather think Dr. Jackson, though 
full of the silly “ Bostonese” of unfortnnute 
Boston, did do some good, even if “ Penn Yan” 
is so stupid us not to know or value it. For had 
lie used it, he would have been a wine maker and 
a good one, too. So I might translate Clinton, 
Hartford Prolific, Isabella, Concord, aud other 
grapes in the repudiated analysis, and show 
“Penn Yan ” aud others too lazy to understand 
what they read, that no wine cun he made that 
was not made in accordance with the very facts 
of these analyses of Dr. Jackson, and I would 
do so, it it were not too long aud too simple a 
story. 
But “Penn Yan,” witli his eyes even half 
open, says, “Delaware has made true wine.” 
Now, is not that “right smart," as self-wise 
Southerner would say ? Tell us when and where ? 
I have tasted over 100 samples, and made Dela-* 
ware scores of times, and never yet saw the 
“true” in any Delaware wine. And the best 
judges say Delaware is good only to sweeten 
other wines, I can make a beverage with a 
woody, leafy taste of Delaware, hut nothing else. 
I have in my cellar samples of Delaware, made 
by some of our best wiue makers, aud they are 
no better. The reason is apparent; and is, that 
while the acid is about right, the sugar is less 
than L usually reputed to be m the grape, and 
the aroma is insignificant. The aroma of the 
Catawba is three limes that necessary, and lienee 
its great value. The truth is, Delaware has been 
like a petted girl, decked out in all the extrava¬ 
gance possible, and has proven to be unworthy 
the name she had, grapes, wine and all. 
After this random way of 14 Penn Yan,” it 
need be no surprise that Norton’s Virginia wine 
is condemned by him. I have tasted of three 
and Family. Will Iasi tug largest famicra from three to 
llvi; years, and a school-boy can keep It as well us au ex¬ 
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STRAINING TRELLIS WIRE 
Grape growers are often seriously troubled 
to strain the trellis wires sufficiently to be firm 
in supporting the vine, ami to make a neat ap¬ 
pearance. The wires arc generally strained at 
the end posts, and on long strings of trellis it 
must be imperfectly done. We herewith illus¬ 
trate two simple devices for tightening the trel¬ 
lis wires. The larger implement is made wholly 
of iron aud may be put on the wire any where 
along its length. Tbe wire is seen passing 
through the ends and through the axle in the 
center. By applying a wrench to the square 
head of the axle the wire is strained to any ex¬ 
tent and the ratchet-wheel and pawl keep np 
the tension. Tbe smaller device is simply a bar 
of hard wood with two spikes driven into one 
side. In using it the wire is brought between 
the spikes aud the bar twisted over and over—a 
strong leverage being gained —and when the 
wire is strained enough the bar of wood is tied 
to it, as shown, which prevents its loosening. 
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TO PROPAGATE BY LAYERS OR CUTTINGS, 
In reply to a query by your correspondent, it 
may be observed that the propagation of the 
rose is somewhat difficult when shoots do not 
spring up from the roots. To try layering , cut 
half through a shoot, putting a twig between 
the separated parte; then peg down the divided 
joint In the soil. A branch wounded may also 
be surrounded by moist earth, which is kept in 
its place by a small oyster keg, having a hole iu 
the center below large enough to admit the 
branch or shoot. Pitched cloth has answered 
instead of the keg, a ring of bark having been 
taken from* the plant. Cut off the branch below, 
when rooted, and pot.it, 
How to Grow Cucumbers.— ‘-Yorick” tells us how) 
to raise a large crop on a small territory. Spade np a! 
plot ten or twelve feet In diameter, as near the back 
door as practicable; take an old barrel, both heads 
out, aud sink one end of it six indies iu tbe center of 
the plot; fill the barrel nearly full of yard manure, 
any kind, pound it in well; plant a row of Heed six 
inches from and quite around it, and direct the kltcheu 
girl to empty her dieh-water, at least once a day, 
into said barrel, and yon will hoou have cucumbers 
at wholesale. No bugs, hum or other, about this. 
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