This cultivation might even become an article of export. The consumption is very great here, and must increase with our population. I have looked at the Secretary's report, but cannot find opium amongst imported articles. You can ascertain the price and estimate the quantity used. January 25, 1827. [Present price in this market is $3.50 per pound; probable annual consumption, about 100 cases of 33 pounds each.] cess cannot be; the children have a knife or piece meat, or as above, by adding strong gravy. It is covered with earth; and says, if it could be so conof iron, and scrape off the exudation into a shell intended, of course, to save the glaze. trived as to nourish the young shoots from the fibres or cup. They go from one poppy head to another; Tomatas with gravy. This is simply stewing your produced at the incision, when it is buried in the the poppies are in rows about a foot wide, and the tomatas in a little good gravy till quite tender, soil, and thus dispense with the large ramorse roots walk between is about as wide; so the children can keeping them whole; drain them on a sieve, dish often unfurnished with fibres, and which only serve easily reach to every poppy head. them up, and pour a little half-glaze, and a tea spoon to consume the sap prepared by the leaves, it would full of vinegar mixed with it, quite hot, over them. be of great advantage. Tomatas may likewise be put into vinegar as a Transplantation of trees. An Italian journal has pickle. published a long paper on this subject, containing Towit of tomatas. Take a pint of the tomatas; the results of many experiments made by M Caradd a pound of fine sugar, reduce it in the same radori; these are, 1st. To cut as little off the roots way as a jam; add the juice of a lemon: this makes as possible; 2d. That transplanted things require no a very good towit. other nourishment than water, and are injured by Tomatas as dried fruit. The pulp may be reduc- manure; and 3d. That too much care cannot be ed, say a pint, with a pound of fine sugar, till quite taken to shelter them from the sun. stiff; pour it on your tin; it must be dried in a stove; Culture of silk in Sweden. This it seems was atwhen nearly dry, cut in what shape you please; it tempted a number of years ago, and in 1823 it was does for ornament in the dessert. renewed. The mulberry grows very well in some Grafting the Pine and Fir tribe. The Baron de of the provinces, and the silk produced is said to be HORTICULTURAL ITEMS, Tschudy has made a great many experiments on of a finer and stronger quality than that of India. grafting trees and herbaceous plants, some of which The silk produced in Bavaria is in like manner said From Loudon's Gardener's Magazine-1826. we have noticed in the second edition of the Ency- to be superior to that of Italy. Remarkable variety of the Apple.--In the Annals clopædia of Gardening. The pine and fir tribe he The Agricultural Society of Stockholm celebrated of the Linnean Society of Paris, for May, 1824, M. inocculates before the buds have pushed, which is in February last their twelfth anniversary. The Tillette de Clermont-Tonnere has described a re- found to succeed much better than any other mode. King himself was present, and made a speech on markable apple tree, as growing at St. Valery, in In herbaceous vegetables, he has grafted the melon the importance of the subject, observing that the Normandy. This apple tree, which they believe to on the briony, the result of which was, fruit of the result of their efforts had, notwithstanding the sebe between thirty and forty years growth, has con- size of a citron, very sweet. The artichoke he verity of the climate, exceeded their hopes. stantly produced flowers of one sex, and conse-grafted on the cardoon; the cauliflower on cabbage; quently barren. The flower is composed of an in-love-apples on potatoes; and so on.-Ann. de l'Agr ternal and external calyx, with neither stamens nor Franc. RURAL ECONOMY. corolla. The female organs consist of fourteen Potatoes. Voltaire, it seems, was the first to call styles, with oblique stigmas. At the time of flow- the attention of the French to this valuable tuber, METHOD OF MAKING BUTTER IN BRITering, it is customary for every young woman of St. in 1777; and after him, Parmentier and Cadet de TANY. Valery, to go and make her apple, by fixing a nose-Vaux. Nantz, 31st Dec. 1819. gay of the blossoms of any common apple tree, on Preserving Potatoes in a dried state. Wash them, (From the Memoirs of the Phila. Agricultural Society.) a tuft of those on the one described: this is attach-cut them in pieces; steep them forty-eight hours in ed by a piece of ribband in such a manner, that in lime water, then forty-eight hours in fresh water; SIR,-The recollection of your attention in showautumn every one knows the fruit that her nosegay dry them in an oven. One hundred parts of fresh ing me your cow establishment in Germantown, has has been the cause of producing. It is remarked potatoes will give thirty, so prepared and dried. In suggested the idea of forwarding to you the process that these fruits differ among themselves in flavour, this state they may be kept for years, or ground at they have in Upper Brittany of making butter, colour and size; and that they bear some relation once into flour. This flour, mixed with a third which is a little different from the American mode. to those of the different hermaphrodite trees, the part of that of rye, is said to make an excellent Should it be of any service to you, I shall feel much blossoms of which have been used in their fecunda- bread. The same author proposes to moisten po- gratified. FRANCIS DA COSTA. tion. Grafts from this tree remain always barren, tatoes dried as above with olive oil, and then to REUBEN HAINES, ESQ. notwithstanding attempts to fecundate the blossoms grind them and use them as coffee. artificially. Seeds sown have come up very well, but the plants are yet too young to produce blos soms. Tomatas. The following recipes were obtained from an eminent French cook: Primula Sinensis. This plant is greatly prized in France and in the Netherlands, where, under the protection of glass, without fire heat, it flowers most abundantly the whole year.-Annal. de la Soc. Linn. de Paris, Mars, 1825. Mode of making butter, as it is practised in the neighbourhood of Rennes, in Brittany, where the best butter in France is made. Milk is composed of three parts, essentially dif ferent from each other, they are as follow: 1st. The aqueous part, called whey. 2d. The cheese part, which is substantial. 3d. The butter part, called cream, of an oily nature, and which comes up naturally to the surface of the milk even before its decomposition. Tomata sauce for cold meat. Boil tomatas when Ringing Fruit Trees. A pamphlet has been pubripe, rub them through a tammy cloth; to every lished on this subject by M. C. Bailley, of Paris; it quart of pulp add ounce of garlick and 1 ounce of is in two parts; the first treating of the effect of ringshallots; salt to taste; boil half an hour; strain out ing on fruit trees in general, and the second of the the garlick; add to every quart half a pint of com- effect of ringing the vine. mon vinegar, and a wine-glass full of Chili vinegar; 1st. Ringing increases the diameter of the parts It is this cream that is turned out into butter by let it stand a day or two before corking. of trees, but not their length; a fact explained by churning. Potted Tomatas. Reduce your tomatas over the the theory of the ascending and descending sap. In order to make good butter, the decomposition fire till they are quite thick, stirring all the time to The latter is arrested in its progress by the circular of milk must have begun; I mean its three parts keep them from burning; rub them through a tam incision, as is proved by the thick edge which takes must be exactly separated, as it happens when it my, put them again in your stewpan, with an equal place on the upper margin of the wound, and by begins to turn sour. Milk must necessarily be sour quantity of glaze, and reduce again over a sharp the diameter of the shoot, which, in the vine in before beginning to churn; but it is urgent to churn fire till you think the whole will be quite firm when particular, acquires double the thickness above the it as soon as it is sour, and not to wait its fermencold, (or like glaze;) put them in a white earthen wound that it does below it. But in proportion as tation. pot; when cold, cover them with writing paper the shoots are benefitted by ringing, the roots are It must have curdled and soured of itself without dipped in brandy; pour over some warm hog's lard, injured by the want of the regular circulation of fire. In the winter season, however, it is proper and cover all over with a bladder tied quite tight. the descending sap; the great art, therefore, is to to pour a little sour milk into it, to make it coaguA small piece added to a little gravy, or melted but-adjust the dimension of the incision to the degree late. ter, will make an excellent sauce for cutlets or of sufferance which the system of roots can un- Though the cream is the elementary part of the chops. dergo, without material injury. 2d. The effect of butter, and neither the whey nor the cheese part Tomatas quite plain. Reduce as before, only be ringing vines which have ligneous stems, is similar contain any of it, yet it is necessary to throw into more careful in evaporating the water from them; to that produced on fruit trees in general; and, the churn the three parts of the milk, and to churn rub them through a tammy, put them when cold therefore, M. Bailley confines himself to the effect them all together. The reason of it is evident. into fruit bottles; they must be corked very tight of ringing those vines which are annually cut down The churning, which must be always uniform and and tied down; put the bottles nearly up to the cork to lower shoots, as is the case in most of the vine- continual, communicates a slight degree of heat, in cold water, over a gentle fire, till they boil; then yards of France. To vines of this description, he which would give a disagreeable taste to the butter, set them on one side till cold; take them out and considers the practice disadvantageous, as weaken if the cream were churned alone; while churning dip the cork in good cement, of bees'-wax, rosin, ing the root; but he excepts certain cases, in which, the whole together, the acidity of the whey tem&c. This may be used in making sauce for cold as in provines, the shoots are annually laid down and pers the heating effects of the churning, the cheese part helps the separation, and the butter comes without humidity, which would give a mouldy taste either with the churn-staff, or dashers. I was obligfresh out of the churn. It is to preserve that fresh to milk. ed to attend to these circumstances when I had a R. P.) INTERNAL IMPROVEMENT. taste, that in summer our butter women, as soon as The churn is made of chestnut wood; it is scald- very large dairy. 1st. That milk must have been curdled and soured, but not fermented. a Buttermilk. OHIO CANALS. At a late meeting of the Board of Canal Commissioners, General Thomas Worthington was appointed additional acting commissioner. We understand that he will superintend the surveys about to be made on the southern end of the Ohio Canal, and should any part of this section of the line be put under contract in the ensuing season, that he will superintend its construction. In order to keep this buttermilk many days, one must extract its whey, that is sour; the means are as follow: In the lower extremity of the churn level to the As it is expected that part of the canals will be bottom, an opening must be made, that is, shut by completed by the 1st of July next, the Board have peg of about three or eight lines in diameter: af- established the rates of toll to be paid on the proter the butter is taken out of the churn, it is left perty to be transported on the Ohio and Miami Cato settle some time, to let the whey have time to nals; and have appointed the following gentlemen separate from the curd; then one takes out the peg Collectors, viz: 3d. That all the milk should be put into the and makes all the whey run out into a basin, taking churn together, and churned without extracting any care to put the peg in as soon as the curd comes parts of it. 24. That milk must have been naturally soured, without any help but a small quantity of sour milk, and especially without warming it. 4th That the churning should be continual and always uniform, avoiding to strike the bottom of the churn. SAMUEL M'HENRY, Cincinnati. Middletown. Cleaveland. Akron. Rates of toll established by the Board of Canal Commissioners, to be paid on property transported on the Ohio and Miami Canals. out. This whey is given to the hogs. if all the whey is not out of the churn, and the curd has a sour taste, one throws some pints of cool water in the churn, takes out the peg, and the water runs 5th That churning, without interruption, com out, carrying with it the remaining whey. This municates to the milk a slight degree of heat, which milk may remain in the churn many days without is necessary, and which in winter may be accele- any inconvenience; it may be given to hogs, to rated, by adding some warm water from the mo- horses, and even to calves, mixed with a little sweet On flour, meal, whiskey, all kinds of grain, and ment one begins to churn, and without stopping the milk. all other agricultural productions (not otherwise churning motion. The butter made according to the above men- provided for,) salted provisions, domestic animals, 6th. As soon as we perceive the little globules of tioned process is of an excellent quality, and supe- pot and pearl ashes, and on salt, for the first 100 butter forming, we must then think only to cool, rior to the best Wonderly's butter, in the spring, miles, or any distance less than 100 miles, one cent with spring water, if in summer, for in winter it is found in the Philadelphia market. I have been and five mills per ton per mile; and for each mile in not necessary. told when in England, that in some counties, as well addition to 100 miles, one cent per ton per mile. 7th. If, when we wish to churn, we have some as in some counties in the south of Ireland, the On merchandize, (including dry goods, groceries, sweet milk not yet sour, but which it is wished to mode of churning the cream and milk of one milk-hard and hollow ware, wrought iron and steel,) for churn, it must be put into the churn with the cur-ing, altogether, was in general use. the first 100 miles or any lesser distance, four cents dled milk twelve or fifteen hours, more or less, acper ton per mile; and for each mile in addition to cording to the relative quantity, before beginning to 100 miles, three cents per ton per mile. churn, in order that the part of sweet milk which [In Europe few, if any dairy farms, possess the On mineral coal, for the first 100 miles or any was added be entirely curdled. great advantages we derive from our milk-houses lesser distance, five mills per ton per mile! and for 8th. This mode is, no doubt, much longer than built over springs of water; and substitutes are re- each mile in addition to 100 miles, three mills per when the cream alone is churned; for one must sorted to, for cooling the butter and keeping the ton per mile. churn during about two hours in the most favoura- milk, unusual with us. I have seen the milk, in On gypsum, brick and lime, for the first 50 miles ble season, and it is common in winter to take four large cheese dairies, churned without suffering it to or any lesser distance, one cent per ton per mile; hours churning to have your butter made. rest, as we do, and throw up cream. Butter, too, for the second fifty miles or any part thereof, seven is made from the fresh or new milk, of excellent mills per ton per mile; and for each mile in addition quality. But it is questionable whether or not our to 100 miles, five mills per ton per mile, When butter is made, if the weather be hot, it is mode be not the most economical and convenient. On staves and heading, stone for building, stone well after having gathered it in the churn, to let it There is much difference of opinion, as to washing for lime, for monuments or tomb stones, sand and cool about two hours; but when it is very hot wea-out the buttermilk by cool water, in moderate quan- grind stones; for the first 50 miles or any lesser disther, as that time is not sufficient to cool it, it is tities; or working it out entirely by the ladle. Suc tance, five mills per ton per mile, and for each mile well to put it in a very cool place during some cess attends both modes practised by intelligent in addition to 50 miles, three mills per ton per hours, till it is very firm, in order to extract the dairy women. The hand should be applied spar-mile. ingly, if at all; the ladle (of wood,) being far pre- On iron ore, for the first 10 miles or any lesser Preparation of Butter. buttermilk out of it. FRANCIS DA COSTA. It is by kneading and turning repeatedly with a ferable. There is, too generally, a great omission distance, two cents per ton per mile; and for any wooden box spoon, in a beech dish made out of one of carefulness in attending to the cream collecting distance in addition to 10 miles and not exceeding piece, that the women about Rennes extract the for churning. The vessels or cream pots should in the whole 50 miles, one cent per ton per mile; buttermilk; leaving it now and then to rest and (in warm weather,) be kept in proper places, sur- and for any distance in addition to 50 miles, five grow hard, and then beginning again till it does not rounded by cold water; and it is indispensable that mills per ton per mile. yield any buttermilk: it is only in the last extremi- the cream should be agitated or stirred by clean On pig metal, for the first 50 miles or any lesser ty, and in the hot days of summer, that they knead rods or a flat spatula, twice every day. This is distance, two cents per ton per mile; and for any it in cool water in order to extract the buttermilk highly advantageous, and not generally attended to. distance in addition to 50 miles, one cent per ton out of it: they put nothing in it, but some salt for The chemical reasons for this operation would, per mile. preserving and relishing it. perhaps, be unnecessarily theoretical. The oxygen On boards, plank, scantling and other sawed They never touch the butter but with the wooden of the air is essential to the preparation of the stuff (reduced to inch-board, superficial measure,) box spoon, which must be impregnated, and also cream; or the conversion of it to butter in the for the first 50 miles or any lesser distance, one the dish, with some light brine, to prevent the but- churn. The more the particles are exposed to the cent per thousand feet per mile; and for each mile ter from adhering. influences of the air, gradually in the cream-pot-in addition to 50 miles, five mills per thousand feet All the utensils employed for milk must be care- constantly, but not violently, in the churn-the per mile. fully washed with boiling water every time they sooner its conversion occurs, and the more valuable On timber, squared or round, for any distance, have been made use of, then washed again with is the butter. Churning by water or machinery, one cent per hundred cubic feet per mile. cold water, and exposed to the sun, to prevent them often agitates the cream too violently; so that the getting a musty smell It is necessary to remove oily parts are not sufficiently oxygenated. An injufrom the dairy all disagreeable or strong smells, and rious fermentation is also produced by the violent to observe the most scrupulous cleanliness in it, but motion. Moderate movement is always the best On shingles, for any distance, two mills per thousand per mile.. On posts and rails fencing, for any distance, three cents per thousand per mile. On wood for fuel, for any distance, one cent per cord per mile. SPORTING OLIO. THE DOG. A frequent association with good company is essential to give an elegance of manners, and thereby On boats made and used chiefly for the transpor-add to mental excellence. But company without tation of property, two cents each, for each mile of mental improvement, cannot give the value and intheir passage. terest to individuals, which is so desirable; it alone From the strong instinctive attachment of the cannot render them good companions, good parents, Dog to the human race, his fidelity and multifarious and good citizens. The one is useful to us only in uses, the conjecture is by no means incongruous, the higher walks of life; the other will be a trea- that he was the first animal subdued, or invited sure to us, even if our lot should place us in the and admitted into the social contract, by Man. To earth-built cottage of the forest. On boats made and used chiefly for the transportation of persons, twelve cents on each boat, for each mile of their passage. On all articles not enumerated, for any distance, three cents per ton per mile. LADIES' DEPARTMENT. (From the Ariel.) MENTAL IMPROVEMENT. "The form alone let others prize, The features of the fair! I look for spirit in her eyes, And meaning in her air." "But Oh! where both their charms unite, With every image of delight, And graces ever new." illustrate this position by an example, quite pat to our common sense and experienced feelings-suppose a section, large as you please, of an unfurnished,uninhabited world, upon which should drop down from the clouds, or arise from the depths of the When females have it in their power thus to adorn earth, simultaneously, a man and a dog, within one themselves, and increase their own worth and hap- hundred yards of each other, what would be the repiness, how careful should they be to improve each sult?-why; the dog immediately after the alarm of opportunity to the best advantage, and how justly his descent or ascent should have subsided, would in after life, may they censure themselves, if they cast his eyes and his regards towards the man; and suffer the golden hours of youth to pass unimprov-in a little space of time, lowering his head, and putThe human mind has been handsomely compar- ed. No remark can be more true, than that the ting forth his feet leisurely, would advance with ed to marble in the quarry, which shows none of only way to charm long, is to secure mental im-cautious and measured steps, towards his future its inherent beauties, until the skill of the artist provement. Mere personal beauty may fascinate master by legitimacy and divine right, and, wagging smooths and polishes the surface, and discovers the inconsiderate for a day; but like the ephemeral his tail, lick the hand advanced to him. A few every ornamental spot, cloud and vein. The mind flower, it fades, and leaves none of its former de- words to the purpose, are as good as a thousand; uneducated, has inherent qualities and powers, which lights; while beauty of mind increases with age, and we flatter ourselves thus to have settled the often would pass unknown, were it not for the de- and will be bright in the evening of life, when all matter, almost equally as well, as if Buffon himself veloping influence of education. The mental pow- transient beauties have passed away. SENEX. had settled it. ers are not only brought to light by education, but Our present races of Sporting Dogs are thus disthey are improved and strengthened, just as any of tinguished and denominated: Hounds-the Bloodthe locomotive organs are by exercise. And as men- RECIPE FOR FINISHING A YOUNG LADY hound, Stag and Buck Hound, Greyhound, Fox tal strength and energy are preferable to corporeal, Take a daughter of a cheese-monger, a tallow-Hound, Terrier, Beagle, Harrier, and Lurcherso will be the inducements to cultivate and prac- chandler, or any other tradesman, who has some Gun Dogs-the Pointer and Setter, Land and Watice those means, calculated to produce that effect. money but not much information, and if she be an ter Spaniel, the Newfoundland Dog and Poodle. Science, as well as a knowledge of men and the only child, so much the better for your purpose.— The Shepherd's Dog, Mastiff, Vermin Cur, Fox world, contributes to divest us of many unreasona- Stuff her with plum cake, and praise her till she be Cur, Draught Dog, Turnspit, Bull Dog, Dalmatian, ble prejudices; it liberates us from errors, which, nine, then teach her the horn book, and let her prac-Italian Greyhound, French and German Lap Dogs, through ignorance, blind the intellectual eyes of tice for three or four years at such reading as may English Comforters, Dutch Pugs, Cur and Mongrel many, and enable us to view things and principles be selected for her by Mary, the maid of all work varieties. in their proper light. Nothing can be more unfa the said Mary taking especial care that Miss is her The Dog, as well as the Horse, seems to have vourable to the character of a female, than those confidant in all her little matters in the sweet-heart- been unknown upon the continent of America, so little prejudices which result from ignorance, and ing line. When she enters her thirteenth year, send long as that immense continent was unknown to Euwhich represent objects to the mind with erroneous her to Miss Diddlefidget's "Establishment," to be rope. The fox, past all question, naturally, if not impressions, and poison it with extravagant super finished. Here she must read a little, and spell scientifically, a member of the canine genus, we presome; but avoid every thing like grammar as a sume must have been equally unknown. Dogs pro stitions. The knowledge derived from a good education, vulgarity and a plague. Put her up to "wooly-woo create in their first year, and the bitch carries her affords a constant fund for conversation, without parley woo play tail," and she is Frenched. Strum young, perhaps never, except accidentally, less than descending to those trivial discourses, to which the her up six octaves and a half of the pianar, and sixty-two days; but generally a few days longer.uninformed necessarily are obliged to resort. Not down again, and make her look charming at the She produces about half a dozen whelps ordinarily; only does it thereby elevate its possessor above the harp, and she is Musicked. Inform her that Tamer- sometimes as many as a dozen; at others, only two ignorant; but it gives animation to the countenance lane succeeded Charles XII. as the Emperor of or three. In these respects, the dog and cat agree and air, without which none can be really beauti- China, and that Julius Cæsar defeated Cromwell on somewhat nearly. The bitch in her season, is a ful; for what signifies elegance of form, and softness the banks of the Macquarrie river in Nova Zembla, general lover, and her taste, when small, for the of expression, without the sacred inspiration which and she is completely Historified. Tell her that largest males she can find, often proves fatal to her the mind alone can give? Chimborazo is a great salt lake in Siberia, and that and her offspring, producing death instead of an inthe Po is a burning mountain in Arabia Felix, and crease of individual life. "A damask cheek and ivory arm, That speaks a mind within." Dear females, let not the season of youth be bar ren of improvements, so essential to your future worth and felicity. In youth, the character of every one, and especially of females, is in their own power, to give it in some degree whatever complex. ion they will; hence, in some measure, they have the direction of their own fate. Youth is the proper season likewise, for cultivating the humane and benevolent affections, and of subjugating and train let her give a whirl or two to the globe, and point Of the common, or merely favourite breeds of be culled, and the underling or ill-shaped whelps put out of life, in which they cannot be wanted.— The remainder, in order to confirm and assure their worth, together with the bitch, should be kept perfectly dry, warm and clean, and be well fed, and as much as possible from the kitchen and diary. THREE FAULTS OF NURSES. 1st. To lisp in baby style, when the same words ing the passions; for whatever impressions are made in an endearing tone would please as well; the reon the mind in youth, will generally be most perma- verse should be: the voice clear, emphatic, each The dog lives to twenty, or even twenty five years nent in subsequent life. And, whatever may be syllable articulated, for imitation. 2d. To tell of of age, and his chief maladies are the Distemper, the the situation in life, nothing can be more necessary witches, ghosts, and goblins coming down chimney, access of which is at a period of about his half to peace and happiness, than the acquirement of if they cry; whereas, children should be taught that growth; and Madness, for which there is no cure virtuous dispositions and habits. These in part if they behave well, nothing can harm them. Such but death; and that remedy should, on every ground may be acquired by reading biography: "for by ob- superstitions impressed upon young minds, are rare of commiseration and prudence. both for the brute servation and reflection upon others, we begin an ly got rid of. 3d. To direct a child to act like a man; and human race, be administered on the first noearly acquaintance with human nature, extend our whereas, it is not often becoming for a little boy to tice. views of the moral world, and are enabled to ac ape the man, but only to conform his demeanour to quire such a habit of discernment, and correctness his age: every age has its own peculiar decorous of judgment, as others obtain only by experience." Iness. [Galaxy. In the Distemper the puppy should be kept dry and warm, and his food and medicine should be of the cooling and aperient kind, at the same time, WM. A. COLMAN, MISCELLANEOUS. MR. LATHROP'S SPEECH Or nourishing. As to worming the puppy as a preven-Sporting Works which can be had in London. ported, that "of the whole number of permanent tive of the rabies or madness, it is merely to make ders forwarded the first of every month-by paupers (6,896) the returns and estimates will warthe poor animal's tongue sore, in order to humour a rant the assertion, that at least 1,585 male persons groundless, old woman's whim. On this affair and were reduced to that state by the excessive use of various other particulars, which however useful, it ardent spirits, and of consequence, their families is impossible to enlarge in this work, we refer, once (consisting of 989 wives and 2,167 children) were for all, to the British Field Sports. The dog should reduced to the same penury and want-thus prehave air, exercise and grass, and particularly, if senting strong evidence of the often asserted fact, high fed and indulged, should be purged two or that intemperance has produced more than two three times in the year, and as often as necessary On a motion to indefinitely postpone a bill for the thirds of all the permanent pauperism in the state; have sulphur mixed with his water. Warming and support and maintenance of the poor. and there is little hazard in adding, that to the same combing should not be neglected. With such care, Mr. Lathrop said, he was as willing as any one, cause may be ascribed more than one half of the his health, hilarity and cleanliness are assured, and to have the wants of those who are unable to supoccasional pauperism." much disagreeable trouble avoided. port themselves attended to; but he believed there In Scotland, where knowledge is diffused among The food of the dog, regularly fed, should be had been a very general mistake in every country, all, industry thus encouraged, the few poor they two daily portions, however small, of some kind of as to the proper mode of their relief. This is evi- have, supported by their relations, religious and flesh. With this may be joined farinaceous and dent from the different systems in operation, and charitable institutions, the expense for many years vegetable articles-oat-meal, fine-pollard, dog-bis- the contrariety of the opinions of those who have has been more than twenty times less than in Engcuit, potatoes, carrots, parsnips-soups made from investigated this matter. land, with her hereditary paupers, supported out of the public treasury. Years. Expenditure. Wheat, per bushel. the above, or with sheeps' heads and trotters. It He thought he could not better explain his views Dear Sir-Will you allow me the sportsman's corner of your valuable paper, to convey to your numerous readers, that the following sporting books may be had at Wm. A. Colman's Literary Repository, 86 Broadway, New York. 5 10 1750 1760 l. 713,000 1770 1,306,000 1780 From this, Mr. Speaker, it clearly appears by the experience of other states and countries, that the system sought to be established by this bill, will not answer the purposes intended by its friends. Its provisions are such that it could not be carried into effect without great inconvenience to the commissioners, and great expense to your counties. All that appears to me to be necessary, is so to change your laws gradually, that voluntary charitable institutions, in which there is strict economy, may take charge of the poor and really necessitous, and with kindness administer to their relief. LIVING IN SPAIN. A family that I got acquainted with in a provinThe population of England in 1750, was 7,500,- cial town in Spain, gave me an account of their ex000; and in 1820, about 11,000,000. In Scotland penditure. They were decent people, and though the support of the poor is left principally to volun- with small means, were visited by the rich. Their tary benevolent institutions. house was the resort of very agreeable company. The family consisted of a man and wife, their two daughters (grown up) and a maid servant. SCOTT'S SPORTSMAN'S REPOSITORY-comprising a series of forty highly finished line engravings, representing the Horse and Dog, in all their varie- Years. ties, from paintings by Marshall, Reinagle, Gilpin, 1800 Stubbs and Cooper; accompanied with a compre- 1820 hensive historical and systematic description of the different species of each, their appropriate uses, 1820 management, improvement, &c. interspersed with anecdotes of the most celebrated Horses and Dogs, and their owners; likewise a great variety of practical information of training, and the amusements of the field. 4to. London price, 3l. 3s. To enable any gentleman to remit the amount for a copy, 15 dollars only will be charged. Also, a few copies of SCOTT'S BRITISH FIELD SPORTS, with thirty-four fine engravings, embracing practical instructions in Shooting, Hunting, Coursing, Racing, Fishing, &c. with observations on the breaking and training of Expense. $245,000 368,645 470,000 Per cent. of paupers. 3-10ths of 1 per cent. 1 per cent. In Massachusetts. Years. 1817 130 Breakfast, at eight o'clock.---The beef, bacon, peas, onion, and a little spice, boiled for an hour in three pints of water, and the broth poured on a pound of bread, cut in thin slices. They take this soup with mint finely powdered. Dinner, at one o'clock.-The same meat and peas Expenses. boiled again for two hours with a cabbage, or piece $16,497 of pumpkin, about 5lb. weight, seasoned with pepper. 16,982 The broth of this second boiling put on sliced bread, 15.351 and boiled separately for half an hour. This soup 16,051 is served up first, then the cabbage, and then the The report of the Franklin county poor house is, bacon.-N. B. If there are any children, this bacon Dogs and Horses; also on the management of Fowl-"That the managers consider such institutions high is squeezed between two slices of bread for their ing pieces, and all other sporting implements. In ly necessary for the blind and infirm, that have met supper. one large volume, 8vo, London price 17. 18s. Price with misfortunes, and have not wherewith to sup- Supper-The same beef chopped or minced, and $10 single copy; or $19 for two copies. port themselves: at this time (1823) we have a put to boil for an hour, with tomatoes, capsicum, or JOHN LAWRENCE'S PHILOSOPHICAL AND PRACTI- number here, that, if there was no institution, they a head of garlic, with two spoonsful of oil, finishing CAL TREATISE ON HORSES, and on the moral duties would not be a charge; they calculate on being kept with a plentiful dish of salad, onions or cucumbers, of man towards the brute creation-comprehending a considerable time before they acquire an order of according to the season. the choice, management, purchase, and sale of eve- relief. Dissipation and other bad habits is the Drink.-Water on all occasions. ry description of the Horse; the improved method of cause." shoeing; medical prescriptions, and surgical treat Delaware county.-"The establishment of a house The house in which they lived was their own; and their income, which was very little more than the is 4d a day, came from the rent of three houses in the town, their only property. They had expectations from an uncle, a dignitary in the church, but 'he gave nothing. RECIPES. FOR YOUNG HOUSE KEEPERS. COMPOSITION CAKES. One pound of flour, one of sugar, half a pound of butter, seven eggs and a gill of brandy. LOAF CAKE. ever, the plate be boiled a little in water, with an is undergoing a change, as certain as the change of Five pounds of flour, two of sugar, three quarters of a pound of lard, the same quantity of but ter; one pint of yeast, eight eggs, one quart of milk; roll the sugar in flour; add the raisins and spice after the first rising. TEA CAKE. Three cups of sugar, three eggs, one cup of butter, one cup of milk, a small lump of pearl ash, and make it not quite so stiff as pound cake. PINT CAKE. One pint of dough; one tea cup of sugar, one of butter; three eggs; one tea spoonful of pearl ash, with raisins and spices. SOFT GINGERBREAD. Six tea cups of flour, three of molasses, one of WAFERS. One pound of flour, quarter of a pound of butter, two eggs beat, one glass of wine, and a nutmeg. JUMBLES. Three pounds of flour, two of sugar, one of but-ways weak, because it is ever in danger of corruption from abroad, and of internal dissention and ter, eight eggs, with a little carraway seed; add a violence. little milk if the eggs are not sufficient. SOFT CAKES IN LITTLE PANS. We hold up to other states the example of New York, and some idea may be formed of what has One and a half pounds of butter rubbed into two been accomplished there by enlightened legislation, pounds of flour; add one wine glass of wine, one by the following extract. of rose water, two of yeast, nutmeg, cinnamon and The following fact goes far towards proving that instinct differs chiefly in degree from reason:-A currants. few years since, a pair of sparrows, which had built in the thatch roof of a house, at Poole, were observed to continue their regular visits to the nest long ing out some of the whites, a little mace and rose One pound of flour, one of sugar; nine eggs, leav-day presented to the House of Assembly, the annual report required of him as superintendant of after the time when the young birds take flight. water. common schools. This unusual circumstance continued throughout the year, and in the winter, a gentleman who had WONDERS. all along observed them, determined on investigat- of sugar, half a pound of butter, nine eggs, a little mace and rose water. er, by means of a piece of string or worsted, which [A recipe more valuable than any of the above.formed a part of the nest, having become accident- To preserve the powers of digestion and a sound ally twisted around its leg. Being thus incapacitat-constitution, and the means of obtaining solid com ed from procuring its own sustenance, it had been forts, abstain from all these superfluous compounds.] fed by the continued exertions of its parents. [Zoological Journal. PLATE POWDer. In most of the articles sold as plate powders, under a variety of names, there is an injurious mixture of quicksilver, which is said sometimes so far to THE FARMER. BALTIMORE, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1827. It appears by this report, that of the 723 towns and wards in the state, 721 have made reports according to law, and that only two towns are delinquent, and that one of these delinquencies was occasioned by the death of the town clerk. That there are in the towns which have made report, 8114 school districts, and consequently the like number of common schools organized; and that returns have been received from 7544 of those districts. That 341 new school districts have been formed during the year 1826, and that the number of districts which have made returns, exceeds that of the preceding year by 427. That there are in the districts whose trustees have made returns, 411,152 children between the THE PROSPECTS OF MARYLAND.-In a late num- ages of 5 and 15-and that in the common schools penetrate and render silver brittle, that it will even ber we made some hasty remarks on the prospects of the same districts, 431,601 children have been break with a fall. Whitening, properly purified of Maryland, supposed to be applicable to some taught during the year 1826; the general average from sand, applied wet and rubbed till dry, is one other states The colours of the sketch were gloo of instruction having been about 8 months. of the easiest, safest, and certainly the cheapest of my, and we would fain hope, if we could, that they There are six towns in the state, in each of all plate powders; jewellers and silversmiths, for were not "true to the life," but further reflection which more than 2000 scholars are taught, viz: small articles, seldom use any thing else. If, how-convinces us that the whole character of the state Camillus, Manlius, Marcellus, and Pompey, in the |