chimney in the center so it will answer for 6 rooms. The chimney for the kitchen I have put in the woodshed, close to the wall, so that there will be no leakage in the roof. I should have a set kettle in the woodshed so as to have hot water for washing, and cooking for the hogs, &c., without interfering with the kitchen. I should have one end of the woodshed furnished for a sink-room and wash-house. Every room in the house but one is lighted from two sides. Hi If you think this is worth putting in your paper, I want you to find all the fault with it you can, only let the front door alone, as I would so build the portico that I could put sash in in winter, and have open work in summer. The idea of this plan originated with the first cheap plan for Register for 1855. JOSEPH M. WADE. Rhode Island. We have added a simple perspective view of this house; The back is formed by two glass doors, opening outbut instead of having the roof flat, we have given consi-ward on hinges each side, (but made to fit tight,) so that derable descent to its sides. A cheap or shingle roof will the plants, &c, can be regulated or removed (tray and all) leak badly and rot soon if made flat. A metal roof may when necessary. The glass case stands on a frame formbe flat, but is costly. A pitch and gravel covering is hard- ing a sort of table, without top. The four legs supportly tested enough yet for dwellings. ing the case, are stiffened by strips 3 in. wide and half inch thick all around under the top pieces. The legs can be made high or low, as preferred. The tray for holding the plants, &c., in the case, should be made of copper or galvanized iron, and made to fit as snugly as will permit, being raised up and drawn out when necessary. The edges, around the edge or top, (to stiffen the tray,) and a handle or sides, of the tray are 1 in. deep, with stout wire on each side for lifting. When heavy pots are to be put in, a few small iron bars should be laid across the tray, We have made but a single alteration in the plan, by removing the stairs from the corner to a more central part of the house, as will be perceived by comparing the two figures. In the original plan, the stairs must be necessarily very steep, from the short space they occupy-only eight feet in length in the sketch furnished by our correspondent; while in the improved design they may be ten (before putting in the sand,) to support their weight and quainted with the vast amount of business which is conprevent the tray from getting out of shape. d Fig. 2. stantly on hand; when I have witnessed the toil, the anxiety, the perplexity and constant losses incident in trade and barter-when I have taken a peep at almost every livelihood, and have fairly and impartially compared. them all with farming with honest, hard-working, sunburnt toil, I am induced to exclaim: Give me the farin, with the even, uninterrupted flow of happiness and enjoyment, with a fair competence, all of which every farmer may call his own; for the hot haste and impetuous rush of the care-worn citizens of our large cities and villages, have no charms for me. In the center of the tray, at h in fig. 2, is a half inch tube, about 10 in. high, through which the boilers c and d are filled with boiling water, and when not in use for that purpose, is covered with a cap to prevent the escape I never hear a man affirm, that farming does not pay, of steam among the plants, and to retain the heat in the without thinking-Friend, there's a leakage in your boiler, boilers; and by this tube the depth of water in boiler cor a screw loose in some of your machinery. can be known at any time. There is also a small tube connecting with the bottom of small boiler d, to draw off the water from both boilers by a stop-cock on the left side of the stand. With the above description, I think most persons would be able to build one. The cases, &c., may be made as large as 3 ft. by 3. ft. or 4 ft., with inclined tops, or 4 ft. to 6 ft. high above tre stand, with fat, tight top, door in the rear, and shelved for plants in pots, as a two-wick spirit-lamp will generate sufficient heat (in a room where | fire is kept,) to keep the thermometer up to 70° to 80°. In moderate weather there is no need of using the lamp, as sufficient heat can be furnished by occasionally filling up anew with boiling water, which can be kept hot a long time, if a blanket-jacket is fitted on under the boilers, when the spirit-lamp is not used. References, Fig. 2-a, tray of copper or galvanized iron; bb, stout wire handles to lift the tray; c, boiler, made circular if the frame is square, or oval if it is oblong, with inch flange to strengthen it when soldered on the bottom of the tray. It is about two inches deep in the center, and holds about four quarts of water. d is a small oval copper boiler, soldered on the bottom of c, holding 3 gills-e, a small inch tube (section shown at i,) an inch and a half long, connecting with the boiler d on the right, and soldered fast to the boiler e, in which is a small hole which lets the water into this small tube, and fills the small boiler d-f, a small tube, also connected with the boiler d on the left end, and passes up close to the convex bottom of c, until near the upper edge where it is bent over and enters the boiler e through a hole, thence passes down to the bottom of c, where the water is discharged, and again enters the boiler d through the hole at e-thus keeping up a rapid circulation as long as the heat of the spirit lamp is applied. Boiling water should always be used for filling the boiler c. My case when completed cost me nine dollars and fifty cents, and was kept in use all last winter, in a room without any fire, at an east window. HENRY C, SLeight. Genesco, Ill., Jan. 12, 1860. [For the Country Gentleman and Cultivator.] Why Farming does not Pay Better. The question is very frequently asked, and I have had it put to me, times without number, during the past season: "Can you make farming pay?" I often heard the same question discussed when I was but a small lad; and as a general rule, the decision was in the negative" It pays poorly." Agreeable to my promise, when I was with you in Albany, I will now give you a few brief articles, commencing with the subject at the head of this article. What would farmers, or any other class of citizens say, were they to go into any of our large manufactories where agricultural implements are made, and see one-fourth of all they had manufactured during the year, thrown aside as worthless-a dead loss-simply because they had been manufactured of unseasoned timber? What would they say, were they to go into some large cotton or woolen factory, and see bale upon bale of cloth mildewed, mouldy and rotten, because the roof of the building was so poor that it would not carry off half the rain? What would sensible people say of a merchant, or bookseller, who would attempt to keep his goods in a building that was so dilapidated and decayed, that he lost a good share of his profits by rats and mice, and water and snow, which rendered his property almost worthless? Now, this is precisely the way thousands of farmers manage; and then whimper and whine, and murmer and complain, that they "work like a dog," and receive but a poor compensation for their labor. There must be a leakage somewhere. Let us take a walk out on the farm, and examine the sys tem of management. There is one bad leakage already; farming will not pay well until it is stopped. For thirty, and perhaps forty years, everything that has grown on certain fields has been carted away, and nothing has been returned to the soil; and more than this, the soil has been so wet most of the time, that it was next to impossible for half a crop to grow; but it required just as much plowing, just as much seed, just as much harrowing, and just as much to fence it, as if the land had been well drained and well manured. No man can reasonably expect to make farming pay a reasonable profit, who does not drain his fields that are too wet, and who does not return every few years, to the soil, a good supply of manure, after having taken off several exhausting crops. There is another very bad leakage on many farms, whose proprietors are ever whining, because farming does not pay better; and I wish I could say that the error is not a common one, but I cannot; for I see more and more of it every year. I refer to cutting ditches through the barnyard, and filling them nearly full of small stone,.. for the purpose of carrying away the water and the liquid manure in order to make a dry yard. We cannot expect to hear anything else of a farmer, who wastes his liquid manure in this way, but that "farming returns poor pay." Another bad leakage in farming, which is well caleulated to render it a non-paying operation, is the practice of threshing most of the grain, as many farmers are in the habit of doing, in the field; and of allowing the straw to rot down in one place, without ever distributing it again in the form of manure over the fields where it grew. Such a practice is but little better than that in which everything is carried away from the fields, and nothing returned to them in the shape of manure. I received my existence on a farm, and have always labored on a farm; and although have passed through many very discouraging times for farmers, I never remember of being in circumstances, or of seeing the time when I entertained the idea, that farming does not pay as well as almost any other occupation. I have seen many times when I almost wished that I could exchange farming for When a farmer fails to provide comfortable sheds for some other livelihood, but when all things have been all his cattle, and they do not have enough to eat during taken into deliberate consideration-when I have esti- the season of foddering but lose from one to two hundred mated the loss and gain, and expenses incurred in carry-pounds of flesh in a few months, which is of very common ing on manufactories-when I have gone into lawyer's occurrence, what right have we to expect to hear from offices, printer's establishments, editor's rooms, and into him, any testimony that will tend to refute the affirmapublishing houses, and have become in a measure action that farming does not pay? None at all. There is a farmer, who strenuously insists that "farming is poor business-it does not half pay." There is certainly a screw loose in his system of management.His tools and implements are always most miserable apologies for farm implements, and are in very poor order, so that no man is able to perform a job with them in a decent manner. As a sure and certain consequence, he is always behind hand with his farming operations, and he labors hard to accomplish a little; and often loses enough in one job to purchase a set of good tools; but, as he cannot make farming pay, he holds on to the old ones, and labors a little harder, and gets along a little slower, and performs his jobs far less completely. never recovered so as to make good pork when the rest were ready for market in November. This being a very cheap and simple remedy, I would be glad to hear of others trying it, and report if it prove suc cessful or otherwise. We have had none of it in this neighborhood since the summer of 1858. Clark Co., Ohio, Jan. 21. J. T. WARder. [For the Country Gentleman and Cultivator.] Homeopathic Treatment for Fowls. Some of my fowls have been attacked by a swelling and sealing of the eyes. After using a lotion of arnica with some There is another consideration, by no means a trivial success, I had one whose eyes were so bad that I despaired one, which is well calculated to bring farming into disre- of his recovery. One eye I thought, past recovery; but hoping to save one, I commenced the administration of bellapute, which we meet with almost everywhere; which is a donna-a few globules in a little water. Before giving it, I want of system in planning the operations of the farm, washed the eyes in the arnica lotion, and turned out of them and in executing those plans. If a farmer is not a thinka mass, that looked like a kernel of corn in size and color, (a ing man-if he does not look far ahead into the future, pale yellow.) After the administration, in about eight hours. and lay all his plans wisely, and make calculations to ap- I found both eyes open, so that he was enabled to eat. I propriate all his time and energies, both of workmen and then discovered that his head was terribly affected-in short, teams, to the best advantage--if he squanders away his he exhibited all the symptoms of roup, as described on page long winter evenings, and rainy days of summer, at the 108 of the Cultivator for 1857, (and a very bad case too,) viz.: hotel or at other places of public resort, when he ought to running at the nose, and almost choking with phlegm. I be at home, superintending labors that may be performed then commenced doctoring him as for influenza, giving one at one time as well as at another, or be reading agricultu or two doses of acconite in alternation with arsenicum, with an occasional dose of belladonna for the eyes. The effect of ral journals and comparing his practices and system of the medicines has been marked, and he is now nearly well management with those of other successful farmers, we-sight nearly restored-running about eating and drinking need not be disappointed to meet with leakages which freely as ever. His head has been badly frozen, and he will render farming a non-paying business, as long as he therefore yet requires care; but if the weather was warm and follows it in the manner alluded to. dry, I should have no fears of turning him out with my other fowls. Being a Dorking, and having been at some pains to exchange for him, and knowing of no other chance to get one at any reasonable price, has alone caused me to take so much W. E. C. Cleveland, O. pains with him. I have not noticed one-half of the reasons, why farming does not pay better than it does, in multitudes of instances; but I trust enough has been said, to set every intelligent, thoughtful farmer to thinking, and to induce him to make an effort to shun the rock on which multitudes have split. The remedy for non-paying farming, is a plain and practicable one; and I propose in my next, to show how it may be most effectually and successfully applied. Lake Ridge, Tomp. Co., N. Y. S. EDWARDS Todd. [For the Country Gentleman and Cultivator.] THE HOG CHOLERA. MESSRS. EDITORS-Your correspondent in no. 3, does not describe the disease known as hog cholera in this neighborhood. With us it is always accompanied with excessive purging, (succeeding the loss of appetite,) which lasts sometimes a few hours, and then again one or two days, and generally when red blotches appear on the skin, and blood passes from the nose, the the discase has run its course, and will prove fatal very soon. [For the Country Gentleman and Cultivator.] Lime for Fowls. In winter, when fowls have less access to the ground, or when they are confined in small enclosures, they have less opportunity to select the mineral substances which they require; hence, an artificial supply becomes necessary. How shall this be given? We answer, by placing the articles within their reach, so that they may take voluntarily, just slaked lime, broken into small pieces the size of peas, on the quantity which they are prompted by nature. Place shelves where fowls can readily pick it up. By slaking lime in a vessel, in considerable water so that it will form a paste, and letting it dry, it can readily be broken into the desired form in which it appears to suit the fowls best. Old mortar and broken shells, where they can be had, will answer the same purpose Eggs are, if at any time, a luxury in winter, and whatever promotes their production is of interest to the majority of our readers. I had some experience with it in June, 1858. I was feeding corn, and the hogs were running in a wood pasture, The wants of poultry for lime are very clearly shown by a and the nearest point to a public road was 80 rods, and correspondent of the Boston Medical Journal, in the following further to any neighbor's stock. The purging first attract- amusing article: "A most pleasing illustration," says the ed my attention in the evening of one day, and 24 hours writer, "of the want of lime, and the effects of its presence, after, we had buried 8 out of 120, though at the first sight came under my notice on my voyage from South America to of the disorder we had removed those not showing it. 'Sunny France. We had omitted to procure gravel for our Within three days we lost 25 head, when my attention was poultry, and in a few days after we were at sea, the poultry directed to an article in a Cincinnati paper, from a phy-began to droop, and wound up their afflictions with the pip. or, sician, recommending some one to try alum as a substance as the sailors term it, the scurvy. Their feathers fell from their bodies, and it was perfectly ludicrous to see the nulikely to constipate the bowels. This being a cheap rememerous unfeathered tribe in the most profound misery, mody, I prepared a bucket full of very strong solution of alumping away their time in an utter state of nudity. Amusing in cold water, and with a rope and slipnoose, a horn with myself one day by fishing up gulf weed, which floated in imsmall end sawed off to the hollow part, proceeded to dose mense fields upon the surface of the ocean, I shook from it all I could find affected. With the rope behind the tusk, numerous small crabs, about the size of a pea. The poultry we could keep the mouth up, and by shaking could com- with one accord, aroused themselves from their torpor, and pel the animal to swallow the drench poured through the seemingly, as if by instinct, aware of the therapeutic qualihorn. Out of 23 we drenched, only five died, though three ties of these interesting animals, partook of them with greater were in the last stage, and were already bleeding at the avidity than any invalid ever swallowed the waters' of the nose, two of which were saved. I also fed to the lot a 'springs.' After a few hours the excellence of the remedy pound of pulverized alum in a bucket of middlings per day strut and look saucy, and in a few days all appeared in quite was apparent; the roosters began to crow, the hens began to -fed to them as I would salt at their feeding ground-a holiday suit of feathers, derived from the lime, the constituand in the course of two weeks all signs of the disease was ent part of the crab shells." C. N. BEMENT. Springside. gone, except the change in the appearance of the hogs that had been attacked, which had generally been the finest and He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper, but he thriftest in the lot, but soon took the other, and many is more happy, who can suit his temper to any circumstances. [For the Country Gentleman and Cultivator.] THINGS IN IOWA. STATE AG. SOCIETY.-The annual meeting of this Society at the Capital, second Wednesday in January, elected Hon. Ex-Chief Justice George G. Wright of Keosauqua, Van Buren county, President; Mark Miller, our very excellent editor of the North Western Farmer, Vice-Prest. ; Hon. J. H. Wallace, Muscatine, re-elected Secretary; M. L. Morris of Iowa city, Treasurer; Jos. Bridgman of Muscatine, Chief Marshal. The next State Fair is to be held at Iowa City, Oct. 2d-four days. Some time ago the manufacturers of the Manny Reaper offered one of those valuable machines as a premium for the best five acres of wheat, to be awarded by the State Ag. Society. The result was-J. S. Hunt of Benton Co., 42 bushels 51 pounds per acre-variety Canada Club." D. C. Lindley, Johnson Co., 30 bushels 16 lbs. Spring Tea wheat." Drury Overton of Marion Co., 26 bushels "Wild Goose." The premium was awarded to Mr. Hunt. This was a very unfavorable season for wheat in all the southern part of the state, and a partial failure in the central. IOWA FARMER'S COLLEGE.-I have but little to write in regard to this institution. You were informed that the trustees located it in Story county last June, near the center of the state, upon a piece of wild land, of prairie and timber. Owing to our limited means, we have made but little improvement. There is barely funds sufficient to put up a farm-house and barn, and open a quarter section for farming. It is hard times out here in Iowa, as you may know by the report of your subscribers, and it is doubtful if our Legislature appropriate money to build a college before the next session, which is two years. The Farmer's College of Iowa was earnestly commended to the favorable consideration of our Legislature, by our very worthy Governor, J. S. Kirkwood. A large majority of our people look upon it with favor, and will move it into active life as soon as we can gather a little material aid in our private and public purse. FARM CISTERNS. MESSRS. EDITORs-Will you please inform me the best and most economical manner of building cisterns for the farmyard; also the size requisite to supply a stock of say 60 or 100 head of cattle during the winter. A SUBSCRIBER. Perth, C. W. Cisterns are often made by digging out a space about the shape of, but larger than a potash kettle, plastering the bottom and sides with water-lime mortar, and covering the top with timber and plank, and then with a foot of earth, to prevent freezing, leaving a curb through which the water is drawn, the cistern cleaned, &c. But the top being broad, requires much timber to cover it; and this cov ering, unless supported by posts, will be apt to fall in in a few years. It is better to build a wall of stone-a foot thick will do, in the form represented in the annexed cut. CURB CISTERN The wall being built as an arch, can never fall in, and the earth being packed well outside, it cannot burst by the pressure of the water within. The amount of plank to cover it is small, and it is very capacious. If it is true that daily manual labor will preserve the health of the student-will help the poor scholar to pay his way-if it is true that our farmer's sons, mechanics, professional, and sons of the city, ought to learn some- Cisterns are commonly made much too small. About thing of Agriculture, Horticulture and Forestry, practical- three feet of rain falls each year, or 72 barrels on ten feet ly, and never to depart from the respect and honor of in- square, or over 2,000 gallons. Cattle will drink an averdustry, so true will these Agricultural and Horticultural Industrial schools prevail, extend and multiply, until this age of six gallons a day or more, and rather over ten feet nation shall be a nation of men and women in the broad-square would therefore be required for each head. But est sense of numbers, in intelligence, integrity, domestic as these only drink from the cistern in winter, half that and national happiness, wealth and physical strength, such as the world never saw. WILD LAND-GOVERNMENT LANDS.-I am comparatively an old resident of the west, and have for the past year traveled considerably over this state. I lament to see so great an extent of our lands bought and lying unoccupied. Our settlement of 700,000 is scattered over 56,000 square miles. This scattering of our population over so great an extent, is a serious detriment. There is something radically wrong in our government putting up land at auction, and making merchandize of it for speculation. This prac tice of our government leads and encourages men into ruinous folly-not merely ruinous to individual prosperity, but still more ruinous to public prosperity. I have never thought it very wise policy to give a home to any one who will ask, but to sell to actual settlers only, and that too without profit to the government. SUEL FOSTER. surface may answer-and 100 head would need a roof 50 feet wide and 100 feet long, or its equivalent; which would afford yearly no less than 3,600 barrels. The cistern should hold at least one-half of all that falls in each year, and should therefore have a capacity of about 2,000 barrels. To hold this amount, ten cisterns, each 10 feet in diameter and ten feet deep, would be required; or two each 20 feet diameter and 12 feet deep, or one 30 foot in diameter and 11 feet deep. TEA SPRING WHEAT.-I noticed in the Co. Gent. of Jan, 19, (p. 44,) short notice of the Tea Wheat, a description of color, &c. Allow me to state that that variety of wheat was sown in this county to some extent, and has proved itself to be as valuable a variety as it was recommended to be. It is a very heavy wheat, weighing more than any BUCKS Co. (Pa.) AG. SOCIETY.-This Society held its another variety of spring wheat known. My neighbor says nual meeting at Newtown, Jan. 19, when the following officers were elected: President-WILLIAM STAVELY. Managers-John Blackfan, Solebury; Lewis Buckman and Samuel Buckman, Newtown; Wm. R. Beans, Upper Makefield; David Cor. nell, Northampton; Jos. Fell, Buckingham; Cyrus Hillborn, Wrightstown; Hector C. Ivins, Falls; Jonathan Knight, Southampton: John Kelsey, Lower Makefield; Isaiah Michener, Buckingham; James W. Newbold, Middletown; John Robbins, Falls; Wm. T. Rogers, Doyles town Edward H. Worstall, Newtown, his crop will turn out one-third more than any other variety ever sown, and will weigh 66 lbs. to the bushel. The kernel is very plump, large, and extremely hard, and grinds equal to any winter kinds.. The bread is white and sweet, (knowing from experience.) All who had the genuine Tea Wheat are loud in its praise. My seed was purchased from the Shaker seed-store, and weighed 64 lbs. to the bushel. I sowed the same on clay soil, and am perfectly well satisfied with the result. Will send you a sample of the true seed. A SUBSCRIBER. Buffalo, N. Y THE YALE LECTURES. NEW-HAVEN, CT., Feb. 15, 1860. The course of Lectures has now progressed to more than half its allotted limits, with no symptom of abating interest. The attendance I find to be just of that kind, in a large degree, which it was the first object of the projectors of the course to draw out, that is, farmers and farmers' sons. The first week, when Scientific subjects were mainly under discussion, the numbers present I understood were from a hundred to a hundred and fifty. The second week, when Horticultural matters caine before the "convention," larger audiences still were collected, owing to the greater interest taken by those in the vicinity in Garden and Orchard culture. The present week is devoted to Practical Agriculture, and next week to Domestic Animals. By looking over the register of names, I ascertain that some thirteen States and Canada are represented, and it has been a matter of gratification to recognize, as I have done, the names of most of those from a distance, as among the constant readers of the COUNTRY GENTLEMAN. The morning sessions for discussion open at 9 o'clock; there is a lecture at 11, and adjournment for dinner shortly after its conclusion; the second lecture takes place at quarter past two, and the third immediately succeeds-an arrangement made because many were found desirous of taking the evening for return home. But there have been discussions or extra lectures nearly (or quite) every evening, so that no available part of the 24 hours is wasted. Prof. PORTER and his coadjutors appear to regard the success of the Course as quite as great as the most enthusias tic could have anticipated, for a beginning; moreover, the generosity of a New-Haven gentleman, eminent for his public spirit and for the munificence he has shown in assisting to develop the Scientific Department of the College, stands behind Prof. P., I suspect, to afford that absolute certainty of pecuniary solvency to the undertaking, which was so necessary to its satisfactory progress. It is to be hoped, however, that the tickets sold will have sufficed to cover the expenses incurred, without recourse to this proffered liberality. In the N. Y. Tribune, the N. Y. Times, the New-Haven, Hartford and other papers, reports of the lectures have been given from day to day. It was considered impracticable to present abstracts in the Co. GENT., because so much has been going on that an adequate summary would have been quite inadmissible with such a constant pressure of other matter as the present season of the year always affords, and an attempt at very close compression can only be made at the hazard of conveying wrong impressions, and often at the entire forfeit of all the real value of what is said. I am glad to notice, however, that the reports of what I have been personally present to hear, are in general so truthful and accurate; and I have no doubt that the wide dissemination given to them, will attract greater public attention to similar courses that may hereafter take place. It had been objected by some that so constant and protracted attendance must become wearisome before the month is over. But while the audiences are in some measure constantly changing-some selecting one week or one series of subjects, and some another-I have met with a number of those who are here for the whole course, and I have been pleased to hear from very practical and entirely disinterested sources, a uniform expression of entire sat isfaction with all they have thus far seen and heard, and of belief in the usefulness and value of the scheme as thus realized, beyond the expectations they had formed. It it not impossible that in undertaking the project a second time, less rather than more would be put down in the programme. Somewhat less of opportunity has been given for general debate than was perhaps expected, but it may be quite as advantageous to listen to the well considered opinions of the invited speakers as to join in a rambling talk. And, particularly with those to whom such meetings are an entire novelty, it would be difficult to devise a plan better calculated, as I think, than the presentto enlarge the views, convey knowledge of a practical sort, prompt to more activity of mind, and lead to pleasant and profitable associations, both as regards the lecturersamong whom there are some whose acquaintance is a good thing to put within any young farmer's reach, while no object is perhaps of greater importance than to bring him into more immediate contact with others of his own class, to awaken in this way his interest in what they are doing his ambition as to what he can himself accomplish, and lastly, to arouse a better appreciation of their pursuit in the minds of those ready to forsake it. Durable Whitewash. L. H. T. their durability, but we never yet found anything at all equal We have tried many kinds of lime-wash recommended for to oil-paint. They are always more or less soaked by every rain that falls upon them, and when this is followed by a frost before they become quite dry, they crack and scale off. Whitewashing, however, if repeated every year or two, is cheaper than paint, and assists greatly towards rendering fences, out-buildings, &c, more durable and especially prevents the growth of moss. A comparatively cheap oil-paint for such structures may be made by mixing ground waterlime and some gypsum with the oil. A portion of ochre will modify the color. If any of our correspondents know of a durable and cheap whitewash which has stood the test of years, we should esteem it a favor if they would describe it, the mode of application, and what it has accomplished. [For the Country Gentleman and Cultivator.] How to Make the best Ice Cream. MESSRS. EDITORS-I fully intended answering Jenny's appeal for a recipe for ice cream, but idleness prevented until I found myself anticipated, this week by" an old subscriber." As however, I think my own infinitely the best, and having a rural antipathy to those wretched substitutes for eggs, so much in vogue now-a-days, whether isinglass, arrow-root, flour, Oswego starch, or what not, I will smoothly frozen,) as good as the very best. I will only obstill copy mine, which has been pronounced (when well and serve, that its quality greatly depends upon the freezing, as well as on the richness of the milk, which must always be new milk, with as much cream as you can afford. Mine is often made entirely of milk, but a proportion of cream greatly improves it. To every quart of milk, take three eggs and a heaped up cup of crushed sugar; put the milk and sugar in a tinpail and set it in a kettle of boiling water over the fire; stir it occasionally to dissolve the sugar, and when nearly scalding, take it off and let it stand a few moments, while you beat your eggs well up; then stir them into the milk and put it over the fire again, stirring it constantly until it thickens, but do not let it boil or even curdle-take it off; and when nearly cold, flavor it to your taste and send it to the freezer. I think I use a half a bottle of Mitchell's or Meakim's extracts of vanilla, to every four or five quarts. II. II. P. S. My cook, whom I taught to make it, corrects some of my measurements. She says she always adds a little extra sugar; generally another cupfull, when making six quarts, and so in proportion; and also that a bottle full of extract is not too much for six quarts. PRUNING PINE TREES.-A writer in the N. H. Journal of Agriculture, has been pruning his pine trees in the winter, sawing off neatly one tier of branches each year, and he finds the wounds heal over fast, and the trees look green and healthy, while those pruned in the summer with an axe, several tiers of branches at a time, look stunted and sickly. |