STOVES. thing else, a new era has dawned, and the solid The quantity of air that rushes up a stove-course of instruction now given in colleges for lapipe in windy weather, is much greater than dies will be triumphantly appealed to. Ladies, when it is comparatively calm, unless the room is however, who possess these solid acquirements uncommonly tight. On this account every stove- who like Lady Jane Grey, prefer Plato to a picpipe ought to have a valve or damper to regu- the kitchen. They will thoroughly understand nic-will be least likely to neglect the economy of late that quantity. But there is another reason why there ought to be a valve: when the the dignity of the employment, and call to mind fire is newly kindled, much smoke has to pass off, all the poetry of cooking. To say nothing of the dinner which Milton describes Eve as preparing and may need the whole capacity of the pipe; but when the wood is nearly reduced to coal it when "on hospitable thoughts intent," there are may be partially closed; and during the process killed their own meat," and at which queens the Homeric banquets, at which kings literally of combustion, they who sit near the stove ought to be attentive, and regulate the draft accordingand princesses turned the spit for the roasting, ly. Since I wrote last, a valve of this description or drew the water and chopped wood for the boilhas been fixed in the pipe; and I am satisfied ing. Cooking is classical, and no lady will disthat in windy weather, one-half of the wood is dain to take part in it who has read of these saved. In calm weather, it is of less account, that it is the middle and working classes on feasts in the original Greek. Let it be observed though still very useful. The fire now keeps whom we wish to urge the importance of the as well through the night as on a hearth. -Country Gentleman. AN INVALID. Ladies' Department. study. An earl's daughter can afford to be so ignorant of common things as not to be able to recognize chickens in a poultry-yard, because they do not run about with a liver under one wing and a gizzard under the other, though our modern poultry shows, it must be confessed, have done much to dissipate this error. A knowledge, howWHY DON'T LADIES LEARN TO COOK. ever, of the art of cooking is of more importance to Among the common things to the teaching of the wives of the laboring population than to those which public attention is now so strongly direct- of the middle classes, because it is the art, when ed, it is to be hoped that the art of cookery-one properly cultivated, of making a little go a great of the commonest, and yet, apparently, one of the way. A French army can subsist in a country most neglected of all-will not be forgotten. The where an English one would starve, and chiefly instruction of the female peasantry in this useful for this reason-a French soldier can cook.art would be as advantageous to themselves when Mark-Lane Express. married and settled on their own hearths, as to the families of the middle classes, in which before marriage they officiate as domestic servants. Emigration and abundance of employment have given TEA CAKE.-Rub into a quart of dried flour of to the servants at home the upperhand as com- the finest kind, a quarter of a pound of butter; pletely as if they were in Australia. On all sides then beat up two eggs with two teaspoonfuls of we hear complaints of the difficulty of finding, and sifted sugar, and two tablespoonfuls of washed of retaining when found, a cook who can roast a brewer's or unwashed distiller's yeast; pour this leg of mutton, and make batter pudding or pea- liquid mixture into the centre of the flour, and soup. In point of fact, we have heard of ladies add a pint of warm milk as you mix it; beat it up who have it in serious contemplation to dispense with the hand until it comes off without sticking; with servants altogether, as the least troublesome set it to rise before the fire, having covered it with alternative. Without wishing matters carried a cloth; after it has remained there an hour, quite so far, we are convinced that many of our make it up into good-sized cakes an inch thick; fair friends would lose nothing, either in point of set them in tin plates to rise before the fire during respectability or happiness, while they could add ten minutes, then bake them in a slow oven. These at least one-third to the effective incomes of their cakes may be split, toasted, and buttered after husbands, if they were to spend a little more time they are cold. ENGLISH RECEIPTS. in their kitchens superintending the preparation ICING FOR CAKE.-Beat the white of one egg of the family dinner, instead of contenting them- perfectly light-then add eight teaspoonfuls of selves with ordering it-if, indeed, they conde- loaf sugar, pounded fine and sifted, very gradually, scended to do even that. Some forty years back beating it well; after every spoonful, add one drop ladies were driven to shoemaking as a fashionable of the essence of lemon, or rose-water, to flavor it. way of killing time. Why not try a little cook- If you wish to color it pink, stir in a few grains ing? Thanks to the modern stoves with their nice- of cochineal powder or rose-pink; if you wish it ly arranged skillets and stewpans, which science blue, add a little of what is called powder-blue. and skill have substituted for the blazing kitchen Lay the frosting on the cake with a knife, soon afhearth of other days, young ladies of the nine-ter it is taken from the oven-smooth it over, and teenth century just passing its prime, may cook let it remain in a cool place till hard. To frost a without soiling their fingers or injuring their com-common-sized loaf of cake, allow the white of one plexions. Were it not so, we would not recom- egg and half of another. inend them to cook. We would rather live on bread and cheese all our lives. It will be said, perhaps, that our notions with PLEASANT.-Going to "meet her by moonlight," regard to female education and employment are and after waiting for two hours, to find yourself too antiquated that in these matters, as in every-still "alons.” THE subscriber is now prepared to receive orders for the Im-issue has 61 engravings, making in all 220 illustrations, although proved Poudrette. It has been manufactured under the ad- only four numbers have been published. These relate to Science, vice of some of the best agricultural chemists in the Country, Art, Mechanics, Agriculture, and Useful Knowledge, in accordand is now commended to the public as the most certain and cheap ance with the general plan of the work. No publication of the kind Fertilizer that can be obtained, acting favorably on all crops, has ever been produced with such magnificence or at so cheap a and on all soils. Six different articles are used in its composition, price. It is admired and taken by every one who sees it which combined make it a perfect manure for every crop raised TERMS.-To Subscribers-One Dollar a Year, or Fifty Cents for in New England. It is finely adapted to corn, and the present Six Months. Subscriptions may be sent by mail in coin, post and prospective high prices of this indispensable crop, ought to office stamps, or bills, at the risk of the publisher. The name of induce all farmers to increase the quantity planted, which they the Post Office, County and State, where the paper is desired to can do profitably by using the Improved Poudrette. be sent, should be plainly written. Address, postage paid, EDWARD HARRISON'S PATENT GRIST MILL Received the highest premium at the World's Fair; and more than two hundred and fifty of them have been sold within two years. The stones are French Burr; the frames and hoppers, cast iron; and the spindles, cast steel. They will work both for flouring and on all kinds of grain, and will keep in repair longer than any other mill. Having just completed my new buildings, for manufacturing and running them, I am now prepared to supply all orders for all the sizes, from twenty inches to four feet diameter, including a superior farm and plantation mill, which will grind corn in the best manner, by horse power, or even by hand. Public attention is invited to this small mill in particular. Descriptive circulars, with cuts, sent to post-paid applications. EDWARD HARRISON, Sole manufacturer, and proprietor of the Patent. New Haven, Ct. April 29, 1854. 6m BACK VOLUMES of the NEW ENGLAND FARMER, ele gantly bound in Muslin, Gilt and Embossed, are now for sale at this office. Monthly Farmer for April-A Good Yield of Butter.........264 Peruvian Guano. Preparing Seed Corn-Extravagant Prices for Stock.. Do Soils Lose their Manures by Leaching?. 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PARKER, WHITE & GANNETT'S The subscribers have recently enlarged their Warehouse by the addition of two stores, running cast to the corner of North Street, so that they are now able to show their friends and customers a more complete stock in their line of manufacture and trade, than ever before, viz.: Machines and Implements.-Improved Greensward, Stubble, Michigan, Subsoil and Double Mould Board Plows, Seed Sowers, Cornplanters, Cultivators, Harrows, Ox Yokes, Wheelbarrows, &c. Tuttle's, Graves & Hatche's, Markham's, Jackson Mason's, Clark's and Waterbury Hoes. Ames', White's, Vaunghan & Cobb's, and other Cast Steel Shovels and Spades. Tools of all sorts, Seeds, Trees, Fertilizers, at CALENDAR FOR JULY. SIMON BROWN, "Then came JULY, boiling like to fire, He boldly rode, and made him to obey: * * Behind his backe a sithe, and by his side, EDITOR. FRED'K HOLBROOK,, ASSOCIATE plants, French marygold, marvel of Peru, and roses and lilies. So the woods and groves produce new flowers, and the roadsides are ornamented with the blue-bell and other gay blossoms to gladden the traveller's eye. Before the month closes, the rye will be yellow and ready for the sickle. The "oats will whiten N JULY, the great Hay Month, apace, and quiver, each individual grain on its the principal portion of this important crop is gathered. There air." The wheat and barley assume a dull green light stem, as they hang like rain-drops in the is something in the collecting of this delightful harvest which in- that blows over them. while their swelling ears bow before every breeze There is a beautiful spires animation and pleasant adaptation of things to each other, and of particemotions in all. The mowers, ular things to the whole. the spreaders and the rakers, in their white shirts, make the landscape a most lively scene, while the sweet odors of the drying blossoms come to the senses upon every breath. How the farm has filled up-what a fulness there is all about the homestead. The fences are "The poetry of the earth is never dead; And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead; So all the lower orders of creation live their lit half hidden in the spires of the ripening red-top, tle life in joy, happy in the adaptation of their the heads of the herds-grass, and sweet blossoms of habits and wants to the condition of things about the red clover. How your neighbor's house is them. Some pour forth their melodies before hidden from view by the thick foliage of the old the sun streaks the east in the early morning; apple trees, the stately ash and the drooping elm. some chirp and sing in the hot and fervid noon, Honeysuckles of varied hues and odors twine and others utter their plaintive notes in the cool around the pillars of the piazza, or climb kindly and sombre evening. The farm is full of profitaover the lattice of the old porch to shut out the ble teachings to every reflecting mind. noontide sun. "The woods and groves have dark- Though late in starting, vegetation has had a ened into one impervious mass of sober uniform rapid growth, and now the crops generally look green, and having for awhile ceased to exercise well. Without much more rain, the grass crop the more active functions of the spring, are rest- will be, at least an average one, and so will the ing from their labors, in that state of 'wise pas- small grains, though rye, perhaps, may not be as siveness' which we, in virtue of our infinitely great- heavy as for two or three years past. er wisdom, know so little how to enjoy." Corn looks well-it has had a good color from How appropriately is every thing ordered! The the start. But guano and the crows have been heat is now greater than in any other month, just unusually destructive upon it; much now will deat the moment when it is most wanted to save one pend upon the heat of the season, and upon of our most important crops. But fervid as are HOEING.-Many persons continue to throw up the days, nature is still lavishing her favors, for hills about the corn, and even upon quite dry soils. besides the flowers of last month, there are now This mode of cultivation may answer on low lands, the candy tuft, the catch-fly, columbines, egg- but we cannot believe it a good one, on such land as is generally used for the crop. Is it known tivation, a large portion of it will be found to whether the Indians hilled their corn before the have gone beyond the depth of its most efficient English cultivated it among them? A proper hoe-action. Hence it is advisable to spread it on the ing of the corn must not be neglected, during the allow it to remain in grass as long as good crops ground after plowing; then harrow it well in, and early part of haying. Keep the ground clear of can be had. When the lime is settled down beweeds, and the surface in such fine tilth as to re-low the reach of the common plow, the subsoil ceive the greatest benefit from the sun, rain and plow will prolong its effect, by enabling the atdews. mosphere and the roots of plants to penetrate the subsoil likewise. HAYING. Do not delay this work too long. By selecting a field here and there, or even a part of a field, that has come into fit condition to be cut, you will gain in the excellence of the fodder, far more than the loss will be of cutting in small parcels. Do not make the hay too much. In a bright, hot, July day, herds grass or red top, cut early in the morning, spread evenly and frequently stirred, can be made sufficiently in one day, to keep sweet and perfectly well through the winter. The juices are fairly burnt out of a great deal of hay, and it is carried to the barn so wiry and hard that the cattle eat the leaves and refuse the rest. A little salt may be added to hay with advantage. HARVESTING GRAIN.-The cutting of wheat, barley, rye, and oats, is often delayed too long, and the loss arising from it is in several ways. By carly cutting, 1. It will not fall out and be lost upon the ground. 2. The grain cut early will make more bread, and the color will be more delicate. 3. You prevent an unnecessary exhaustion of the soil-for after the stem reaches a certain state, if nutriment is gathered by it, it is not conveyed to the grain. And, THE CHILD AND THE FLOWER. Like the blue of the beautiful skies ?" He made the earth, the sky, the sea, "Is His home, dear mother, that souchern land, In bowers that are ever gay ?” And bring them to this land of ours." I would paint a wreath so strangely fair BUTTER. Not one pound in five of the butter sold in the market is fit for human food. Buttermakers should remember these few short rules: The newer and sweeter the cream, the sweeter and higher flavored will be the butter. The air must be fresh and pure in the room or cellar where the milk is set. The cream should not remain on the milk over thirty-six hours. 4. The straw will be altogether better, whether it is to be used for fodder or domestic purposes. Whenever the straw becomes dry its action upon the grain has probably ceased. But is it not too long to wait until the whole stem is dry? The stem is smallest directly under the head, and when that part is dead the crop may be harvested, and will produce the greatest weight of grain. which put a spoonful of salt at the beginning, Keep the cream in tin pails, or stone pots, into TURNIPS.-Where the peas, potatoes and other then stir the cream lightly each morning and eveearly crops have been taken off, put in ruta bagas, ning: this will prevent it from moulding or sourand later in the month the flat turnip. set. ing. CABBAGES.-Cabbages for late crops may be oftener as circumstances will permit. Upon churning, add the cream upon all the Use nearly an ounce of salt to a pound of but MELONS, squashes, cucumbers, and all the gar-milk in the dairy." den plants, should be kept clean and carefully tended every way. It will not be too late to put ter. in melons and cucumbers for pickles early in this Work the butter over twice, to free it from the month. Celery may be planted out in trenches. buttermilk and brine, before lumping and packSEEDS.-Collect all seeds as fast as they come to ing. maturity. Be sure that it is entirely free from every particle of buttermilk, or coagulated milk, and it LIME. To receive the greatest benefit from lime, will keep sweet as long as desired. it must be kept as near the surface as possible. In Scotland, a syphon is sometimes used to The reason is this: its weight and minuteness give separate the milk from the cream, instead of it a tendency to sink; and after a few years of cul-skimming the pans. |