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TIIE CULTIVATOR. 
May. 
and then strain and set it by to cool. Take one gill 
three times a day'before eating. It is an excellent re¬ 
medy. I have several times received great relief by it. 
H. k. South Salem , Westchester Co., N Y. 
Recipe for Making Johnny Cake. 
Three tea cups of Indian meal, 
One 
do 
Wheat flour, 
Two 
do 
milk, 
One 
do 
cream, 
One egg. one tea spoonful of salaeratus and half a 
teaspoonful of salt. A. Farmer’s Daughter. 
Tuscarora Corn. 
Eds. Cultivator —In your January number is a 
short notice of the Tuscarora corn. To prevent its 
moulding, it should be husked immediately after being 
harvested, leaving on enough husks to braid it together; 
after which it should be hung up a few weeks, either in 
or out of doors, as most convenient. A kind of bread 
is made of this corn when green, by the Tuscarora 
Indians. It may be taken off the cob by a coarse gra¬ 
ter and made into balls or rolls, which are wrapped in 
corn leaves and boiled an hour, if the roll is as large 
as a goose egg. A Subscriber. Lewiston, Niagara 
Co., March 9, 1849. 
Butter Worker. 
Eds. Cultivator —As I observed an inquiry address¬ 
ed to me in the February number of The Cultivator, 
respecting the cost, &c., of a butter worker, I will an¬ 
swer by giving a short description of mine—plain enough 
if possible, to enable those wanting the article to get 
one made, (as I did,) by mechanics in their own neigh¬ 
borhood. 
The machine is simply a table, the bed of which is a 
white maple plank, 3 ft. long, by 2 ft. 2 inches wide. 
A conduit is cut with a gouge half an inch deep, on 
both sides, and diagonally across the lower end, to a 
point in the centre, so as readily to carry off all brine 
and butter-milk. This table is placed upon a strong 
frame, so constructed that one end is 2 feet 2 inches 
high, and the other 2 feet 9 inches from the floor to the 
surface, showing an inclined plane of a little more than 
two inches to the foot. Above this, and near the cen¬ 
tre of the left hand side—(as you stand at the upper 
end)—is attached a brake by means of an iron shackle, 
formed of a bolt passing down through the frame of 
the table, on that side, and secured by a nut, in the low¬ 
er pnd of which is an eye. To the lower end of the 
brake, by means of a bolt entering it endwise, is secu¬ 
red a short shackle with an eye in one end, through 
which the bolt passes into the brake, and in the lower 
end is to receive a short link, to attach it to the lower 
bolt. The whole long enough to let the square edge 
of the brake lie level across the table. The brake is 
about 4 feet long, 5 inches wide and 2 inches thick— 
one edge square and the other round. The lower end 
worked off and banded, and that part extending over 
the table, worked into a handle. 
The table should be prepared for the reception of the 
butter, by being thoroughly scalded with hot, and cool¬ 
ed with cold water. With a convenient ladle to turn 
and handle the butter, and the temperature of 56° or 
58°, a man can work 100 lbs. of butter in one hour, 
which I think the dairy-women will agree with me in 
saying, is altogether a very great saving of labor. The 
cost of the brake is about $5. B. A. Hall. New Le¬ 
banon, February 19, 1849. 
Plow deep while sluggards sleep, 
And you shall have corn to sell and keep. 
®lit fjovticultnral Shparhnnit. 
CONDUCTED BY J. J. THOMAS. 
Cultivation of Peaches. 
Eds. Cultivator— Is it a general fact that the peach 
will degenerate in quality on being produced from seed? 
I had from my agricultural or horticultural reading, 
derived the opinion that the peach would diminish in 
quality if a continued reproduction from seed were per¬ 
sisted in. I ever doubted the correctness of that opinion, 
as indicating imperfection in the arrangement of nature ; 
and of late, I have been led to doubt it still more. 
Passing through, near the central part of this county, 
[St. Joseph, Mich.,] I called at the residence of Mr. 
H. K. Farran, whom I afterwards found to be a very 
intelligent farmer and fruit growerand whose fine 
looking peaches, I thought offered quite an inducement 
to the cultivation of taste . Upon trial, I found them to 
be delicious. I remarked, that I supposed he had ob¬ 
tained his fruit by budding; he said no, he raised them 
from pits brought into the county with him ; that they 
had been reproduced three times, and had improved at 
each successive reproduction. I alluded to the opinion 
of eastern cultivators of the peach; “ I know,” said 
he, u they believe it degenerates, and perhaps it does 
on most eastern soils - but here/ 7 continued he, a is the 
home of the peach.” He remarked further, that u he 
had raised fruit every year since his trees began 
bearing, and that a friend of his near by, had raised 
large quantities every year for fifteen successive years.” 
A lady of my acquaintance here, informed me that 
she planted the pits of some very inferior peaches, and 
this year, the trees were burdened with the most deli¬ 
cious peaches she ever tasted. I could adduce numer¬ 
ous additional cases, on good authority, where the same 
results have followed the planting of the seed, or pits. 
Chas. Betts. Burr Oak Farm , Mich., 1849. 
We suppose a similar law prevails in the production 
of peaches from seed, as in the production of other 
fruits by the same mode. That the degeneracy of a spe¬ 
cies should follow from this mode of propagation, would 
be contrary to nature. But if we plant seeds of our 
finest varieties of fruits, it is not to be expected that all 
the varieties so produced, would be equal to the parent. 
Experience proves that in raising from seed, the pro¬ 
portion of those kinds which are really first rate, is 
very small. Eds. 
Supports for Climbing Plants. 
The editor of The Horticulturist, gives us in a late 
number, the following interesting and valuable hints on 
the supports for honeysuckles and climbing roses, with 
the first of which we have been long familiar, and have 
never, in all the highly finished, carved, and painted 
supports, ever seen its equal:— 
“ How to make arbors and trellises is no mystery, 
though you will do doubt, agree with us, that the less 
formal and the more rustic the better. But how to 
manage single specimens of fine climbers, in the lawn 
or garden, so as to display them to the best advantage, 
is not quite so clear. Small fanciful frames are pretty, 
but soon want repairs ; and stakes, though ever so 
stout, will rot off at the bottom, and blow down in high 
winds, to your great mortification; and that too, per¬ 
haps, when your plant is in its very court dress of bud 
and blossom. 
“ Now the best mode of treating single vines, when 
you have not a tree to festoon them upon, is ono which 
many of you will be able to attain easily. It is nothing 
more than getting from the woods the trunk of a cedar 
tree, from ten to fifteen feet high, shortening-in all the 
