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THE CULTIVATOR. 
The purple paper which comes on loaf sugar, boiled in cider or 
vinegar, with a small bit of alum, makes a fine purple slate colour. 
Done in iron. 
Dairy Secret .—Have ready two pans in boiling water, and on the 
milk’s coming to the dairy, take the hot pans out of the water, put 
the milk into one of them, and cover it with the other. This will 
occasion great augmentation in the thickness and quality of the 
cream. 
Corn Husks for Beds. —As soon as the husks of Indian corn are 
fully ripe, they should be gathered when they are dry in a clear air. 
The outer hard husks are to be rejected, and the softer inner ones 
to be fully dried in the shade. Cut off the hard end formerly at¬ 
tached to the cob, and draw the husk through a hatchel, or suitably 
divide it with acoaisecomb. The article is then fit to use, and 
may be put into an entire sack as straw is, or be formed into a mat- 
trass, as prepared hair is. Any upholsterer can do the work. This 
material is sweet, pleasant and durable. 
Cockroaches .—Take a deep plate or dish, and nearly fill the bot¬ 
tom part with molasses and water; set it near their haunts, with 
some chips from the shelf to the edge of the dish for the insects to 
travel upon. In this way they may be caught, and apparently 
drowned, but will often revive when thrown out of the plate. To 
render their extermination sure, they should be stamped on, or 
thrown into a fire. 
Young Men’s Department. 
ON THE PLEASURES AND E11J0YMENTS CONNECTED WITH THE PUR¬ 
SUITS OF SCIENCE. 
What a sublime idea, for example, is presented to the view by 
such an object as the planet Jupiter, —a globe fourteen hundred 
times larger than the world in which we dwell, and whose surlace 
would contain a population a hundred times more numerous than all 
the inhabitants that have existed on our globe since the creation ! 
And how is the sublimity of such an idea augmented when we con¬ 
sider, that this immense body is revolving round its axis at the rate 
of twenty-eight thousand miles in an hour, and is flying, at the same 
time, through the regions of space, twenty-nine thousand miles 
every hour, carrying along with it four moons, each of them larger 
than the earth, during its whole course round the centre of its mo¬ 
tion ! And if this planet, which appears only like a luminous speck 
on the nocturnal sky, presents such an august idea, when its magni- 
mde and motion are investigated, what an astonishing idea is pie- 
bciued to the mind when it contemplates the size and splendor of 
the sun,—a body which would contain within its bowels nine hun¬ 
dred globes larger than Jupiter, and thirteen hundred thousand globes 
of the bulk of the earth,—which darts its rays in a few moments to 
the remotest bounds of'the planetary system, producing light and 
colour, and life and vegetation throughout surrounding worlds i And 
how must our astonishment be still increased, when we consider the 
number of such globes which exist throughout the universe; that 
within the range of our telescopes more than eighty millions of 
globes, similar to the sun in size and in splendor, are arranged at 
immeasureable distances from each other, diffusing their radiance 
through the immensity of space, and enlivening surrounding worlds 
with their benign influence, besides the innumerable multitudes 
which, our reason tells us, must exist beyond all that is visible to 
the eyes of mortals ! 
But the motions, no less than the magnitudes, of such bodies pre¬ 
sent ideas of sublimity. That a globe* as large as the earth should 
fly through the celestial regions with a velocity of seventy-six thou¬ 
sand miles an hour,—that another globef should move at the rate of 
one thousand seven hundred and fifty miles in a minute, and a hun¬ 
dred and five thousand miles an hour,—that even Saturn, with all 
his assemblage of rings and moons, should be carried along his 
course with a velocity of twenty-two thousand miles an hour,—that 
some of the comets, when near the sun, should fly with the amazing 
velocity of eight hundred thousand miles an hour,—that, in all pro¬ 
bability, the sun himself, and ail his attending planets, besides their 
own proper motions, are carried around some distant centre at the 
rate of more than sixty thousand miles every hour; and that thou¬ 
sands and millions of systems are moving in the same rapid manner. 
* The planet Venus. t The planet Mercury. 
are facts so astonishing, and so far exceeding every thin* 1- we behold 
around us on the surface of the earth, that the imagination is over¬ 
powered and confounded at the idea of the astonishing forces which 
aie in operation throughout the universe, and of the power and en- 
ergy by which they are produced ; and every rational being feels a 
sublime pleasure in the contemplation of such objects which is alto¬ 
gether unknown to the ignorant mind. 
I he vast and immeasurable spaces which intervene between the 
great bodies of the universe likewise convey august and sublime 
conceptions. Between the earth and the sun there intervenes a 
space so vast, that a cannon-ball, flying with the velocity of five 
hundred miles an hour, would not reach that luminary in twenty 
years ; and a mail-coach, moving at its utmost speed, would not ar¬ 
rive at its surface in less than twelve hundred years; and, were it 
to proceed from the sun towards the planet Herschel, it would not 
arrive at that body till after the lapse of twenty-two thousand years. 
And yet the sun, at that immense distance, exerts his attractive en- 
er gy> retains that huge planet in its orbit, and dispenses light and 
colour, life and animation, over every part of its surface. But all 
such spaces, vast as at first sight they appear, dwindle as it were 
into a span, when compared with those immeasurable spaces which 
are interposed between us and the regions of the stars. Between 
the earth and the nearest fixed star a space intervenes so vast and 
uncomprehensible, that a ball flying with the velocity above men¬ 
tioned, would not pass through it in four million and five hundred 
thousand years; and as there are stars, visible through telescopes, 
at least a hundred times farther distant from our globe, it would re¬ 
quire such a body four hundred millions of years, or a period 67,000 
times greater than that which has elapsed since the Mosaic crea¬ 
tion, before it could arrive at those distant regions of immensity. 
The grand and noble designs for which the great bodies to which 
I have adverted are intended, suggest likewise a variety of interest¬ 
ing and sublime reflections. These designs undoubtedly are, to dis¬ 
play the ineffable glories of the Eternal Mind,—to demonstrate the 
immensity, omnipotence, and wisdom of Him who formed the uni¬ 
verse,—and to serve as so many worlds for the residence of incal¬ 
culable numbers of intelligent beings of every order. And what an 
immense variety of interesting objects is presented to the mind when 
its views are directed to the numerous orders and gradations of in¬ 
telligence that may people the universe,—the magnificent scenes 
that may be displayed in every world,—their moral economy, and 
the important transactions that may have taken place in their his¬ 
tory under the arrangements of the Divine government! 
Such are some of the scenes of grandeur which science unfolds to 
every enlightened mind. The contemplation of such objects has an 
evident tendency to enlarge the capacity of the soul, to raise the af¬ 
fections above mean and grovelling pursuits, to give man a more 
impressive idea of the dignity of his rational and immortal nature, 
and of the attributes of that Almighty Being by whom he is upheld, 
and to make him rejoice in the possession of faculties capable of be¬ 
ing exercised on scenes and objects so magnificent and sublime.— 
Dick on Knowledge. 
ME. HAWKINS’ REMARKS ON THE ADVANTAGES OF SCIENCE IN HUS¬ 
BANDRY. — Continued from last No. 
ACCOUNTS. 
In a business embracing so many particulars as farming, it is es¬ 
sential to be able to distinguish the profit and loss upon each. No¬ 
thing is more easy or more common than for a man who keeps no 
accounts, to continue for a series of years, to lose money upon some 
particular department without knowing it, or, which is almost as 
bad, to employ his time and capital in less profitable speculations, 
when he might have applied them to such as were more so. A 
farmer grows many sorts of crops, and keeps several species of ani¬ 
mals,—breeding some and buying others, and uses many kinds of 
manure. Assuming that he has a general profit of ten per cent at the 
year’s end, how is he to tell whether all the branches of his business 
have contributed rateably to this result-—how, I say, is he to tell 
this without accounts ! The cost of one acre of corn, for example, 
is by no means self-evident; it is “compounded of many simples, 
extracted from many objects,”—rent, tithe, taxes, seed and tillage— 
horses’ keep and man’s keep—rates for the poor—the church and 
the highways, and so with every other crop- Suppose now, that in 
the case of oats, all the items of expenditure accurately set down, 
shall amount to £5, 15s. annually, and thht the crop shall sell for 
£5. 10s. Upon forty acres, here would be a loss of £10 a year ; 
