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and season with pepper and salt. Melt
the butter in another basin, placed in a pan
of boiling water ; then add the eggs, stir
ring them till they thicken, and then pour
ing them out on pieces of buttered toast
placed in the bottom of a dish. The egg
should preserve their clotted bright color,
and be as thick, only, as cream.
LIVE POSTS—WIRE FENCES, ETC.
Under the caption of “wire fences,” in
the June number of the Agriculturist, .1 see
a statement that a wire fence has been built
for S2OO per mile, sufficient to turn cattle,
horses, &c. Cheap as this may appear, I
think lean offer a plan of constructing a
fence sufficient to turn cattle, at a far less
cost, say $lO or sl2 per mile, which, if
it prove practicable, would be some saving.
The plan I propose, is, to procure about
eight quarts of long-leaved pine seed, and
sow them on a breadth of land where the
fence is wanted, not exceeding two feet in
width. There is no danger of getting them
too thick, the thicker the better—say as
thick as you would sow buckwheat, I should
think might answer. They will require
the cattle and other stock to be kept from
them for about four years, but will need
neither cultivation nor attention of any kind,
except to destroy the worms which will be
likely to attack some of them, in the month
of June, in the second, third and fourth
years, after which they will be out of dan
ger of worms and stock ; and, by the sixth
or seventh years, cattle could not force their
way through them, and if they come thick
enough, there will be but little danger to be
apprehended from animals of the smaller
kind.
I have a pine thicket now growing, not
sown, however, with design of fence, in
many places of which a sucking pig of a few
weeks old could not pass between them,
and I infer, if the pines will grow so close
without arangement, they would do the
same with. The above is a theory based
upon observation. You can take it for
what it is worth ; but I intend to put it into
practice the coming winter, to some extent.
Should it prove practicable to make a fence
of tnis description, large farms could be en
closed with it without much loss, especially
when land is cheap, and a great deal of
waste land, or commons might be enclosed.
THINNING FRUIT.
Those cultivators who have not had much
experience in raising fruit, neglect to thin
it; consequently, their fruit is inferior, both
in size and quality, and the quantity no
larger. Owing to its inferiority, it sells at
a much less price than it would under ju
dicious management.
One peach-grower informed us that he
had taken off two thirds of his peaches, and
as they increased in size, and appeared too
thick on the trees, he said that he was sorry
that he had not taken off one half of the
other third. One man complained to his
neighbor, that a certain variety of the poach
which his friend had advised him to culti
vate was a poor bearer. “ Stop your com
plaint,” was the reply, “ untill you sell your
fruit.” He raised on one tree three dozen
of peaches, sold them at two dollars per
dozen, and was satisfied.
SUPPLEMENT TO THE RECORDER.
In many cases it is necessary to thin fruit,
reducing it, sometimes, to one-half the
specimens, and sometimes a still greater
reduction is necessary. Besides the injury
to the fruit from too large a crop, the tree
is also injured by exhaustion, which will
stint its growth, render it unhealthy, and
cause light crops in future, particularly in
the next season.
Experience in this business is necessary,
for but very few persons can be taught, by
precept, the great importance of thinning
fruit; so they will go on allowing too much
to remain on the trees, till they gradually
learn, from practice, the good effects of
thinning.— New England Farmer.
GREEN VEGETABLE MANURES.
This has been used for upwards of two
thousand yeais, and in countries where the
art of culture has been most attended to.
Various crops have been sown with no oth
er view than to be buried in, when fully
grown, to render the soil fit for crops of more
importance. Every species of vegetable,
in a green state, acts more or less as fertili
zers, some probably more than others, ac
cording to their power ofdraining organic
matter from the subsoil. It is therefore, no
detriment to the soil to be covered with
weeds, providing they are not allowed to
seed, and that they be dug into the ground
instead of being hoed down and raked off,
which latter process is a direct robbery of
the soil. Green vegetable manure is most
effective on light sandy soils, and least so on
peaty lands. It is surprising how much
valuable manure is wasted in gardens, by
carrying it to the compost heap, instead of
at once burying it in the soil; and how
much is lostor neglected in woods and waste
places, frem mere indolence, or from want
of knowing that rampant nettles and rank
growing plants constitute a great amount
of the food of plants. Tree leaves and the
mowing of lawns are valuable manures,
and far too seldom turned to useful account.
For using green vegetable manure, it should
be applied as soon as possible after it is
cut.— North British Agriculturist.
THE TWO FLOWERS OF CREATION.
Women love flowers; and flowers are
like women in their beauty and sweetness ;
so they ought to grow up together. No
flower-garden looks complete without a
woman in it; no woman ever seems so love
ly as when she is surrounded by flowers.
She should have her fragrant boquet at the
party; some rich and rare flowering shrubs
in her conseivatory ; but belter than all
these, and supplying all, every woman
should have a flower-garden.
Every man who has the least gallantry
or parental feeling should make a flower
garden for his wife and daughters. Every
house—the smallest cottage in the country
as well as the largest mansion—should have
around it the perfume of lilacs, pinks, and
other hardy odoriferous flowers that cost
no trouble, but bring with them every year
a world of beauty and fragrance.
Kettles. —Brass kettles, before using,
should be carefully cleansed with salt and
I vinegar.
Coconut Sugar.— Ceylon newspapers men
tion a new source of sugar, as likely to be
of importance to that colony. The sugar is
obtained by cutting off the coconut flow
er stem, attaching a vessel to it,and evaporat
ing the liquid ; it flows over in quantities so
great as to be almost incredible, and I have
seen samples of the sugar equal to anything
ever obtained from the sugar cane, and pro
duced in such abundance from a tree as to
promise immense returns yearly to the own
er of it. Would you kindly state your
opinion as to the chances of a tree so bled,
living in health any length of time. [A coco
nut tree comes to full bearing in seven
years, and will continue in vigor for 70 to
100 years in Ceylon, producing from 100 to
300 nuts yearly. We should imagine a
tree so tapped would live but a very few
years.]— Agricultural Gazette.
Preservation of Green Kidney Beans.—
The following is the process employed by
M. Gehen de Montigny, for the preservation
of green kidney beans :—ln fine weather,
gather the pods, before the seeds are too
visible; take the threads off, plunge the
pods in boiling water, and then take them
out immediately ; let them cool, put them
in a tub in layers five inches deep, alter
nating with vine leaves, which must begin
and end the series; on the top of the last
layer of vine leaves, put a stone heavy
enough to keep the whole well pressed.
Then pour in some salt water until the top
is covered ; replace the water as it evapo
rates. The beans can thus be preserved
quite fresh.— Flore des Serres.
The Michigan Farmer gives in substance
the following, which must go for what it is
worth: A lady farmer said the meadow
moles had annoyed them greatly, and had
distroyed two fine pear trees. She tried
an expedient for them with triumphant
success. Their subterranean passage was
uncovered, and two cow’s horns, with the
large ends from eaeh other, placed in it, so
that the moles, coming either way may
enter the horns. Such is the “ natur
crittur” that ir never back” ”*** ol a sc ’ a P e »
persevering ahead makes its way or die
in the attempt. The latter it does in the
present instance.
The building for the Great Fair— lt is
stated that the building for the exhibition
of 1851 Jvill contain five hundred mil s of
window sashes, one bundled miles <>f putty,
twenty-four miles of zinc guttering, eight
miles to drive under cover. The building
will bewhollyof glass, wood frame, and iron
pillars. In one position, the spectator will
be able to see one thousand feet before him
in one unbroken view. It is believed that
the building will be so superb that the pub
lic will be the first to oppose its rmoval.
A writer in the “ Builder” states that one
hundred and fifty tons of putty will be re
quired to make the building.
To Burnish Britannia Ware.—ln
burnishing Britannia ware, rub the surface
gently, in the first place, with a woolen
cloth, dipped in sweet oil ; then wash in
tepid suds, rub with soft leather and whit
ing. Articles burnished in this way retain
their lustre till the last, if carefully used.
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