The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-11-06 00:00:00

SUPPLEMENT TO THE LIVERPOOL STAN 168 -salt to - the liqudr,' and continue to turn and baste the . neat .for ten 'ddys longer. At the end of thiS time, take it. from the pickle, rub it :with coarse cloths till . perfectly dry, then slacken . a piece of quick-lime in - water, rub it very thick over the surface of the meat with a brush. • Hang the ham in a chimney, where nothing but wood is burnt, for a fortnight: The white lime. wash not :only preserves the nieat from flies, but will indicate by itecolour whether or not the ham has • beeniufficiefitly, smoked. . To SALT OR PICKLE BACON.- - As soon as the bacon comes from the butcher's hands it should, have a • covering of salt, dried and rolled to a fine powder, well rubbed in with the hand to every part, using the finger to every hole and joint, as it is most important that the meat should take the salt when - it is quite fresh. In twelve hours . all the brine and damp salt not absorbed should be scraped off the bacon and re moved from the vessel, and dry salt added .again, as much as is needed to cover it as. before, and well rubbed in. This process should • be repeated every twelve hours for three days, when saltpetre should be added, getting off previously all the damp salt and - brine, as before, and applying the saltpetre as the common salt, adding a handful of the latter. A quar ter-of-a-pound of. saltpetre to a side of bacon weighing 701b§. is sufficient. Then mix one pound of coarse brown sugar, and one .pound of treacle, and pour over the saltpetre on the bacon, adding a little more com mon salt daily for three days, which serves to make the pickle keep well, and the whole liquor should be ladled with a teacup over the bacon, as often as con , venient, four times a day for the first two weeks after it was first put to the bacon, and then never less than - twice a day for : the remainder 'of the time' needed for - its pickling, which is four weeks, or longer if larger 'bacon ; and then it should be sent to the drying-house, and smoked over wood fite.—Agrieultural Gazette. cheap cultivation are immediately overcome. Let navvies be employed to level the breadth of a ridge or two running in the direction of the most prevailing wind ; and let their work be instantly followed by a copious irrigation. On the warm wet sand, which the winds in that state will not stir, spread plenty of guano, or bone dust, and sow clover, with a few grains of barley, and perennial rye-grass, and in a few days there will be a beautiful verdure, laving to the owner the choice of sheep grazing or cutting with the scythe. Speaking of a ridge-breadth formed like a road, it is only meant that such is a beginning ; and that the levelling,and sowing keep pace ; and evident it is that neither extent nor exposure on such a plan can prove any hindrance ; though it may be expedient, on account of the freaks of the wind, to leave it, for a little time, a narrow space to play upon, between the unlevelled brow of the desert and the new sown ridge, taking care that that narrow space , itself be duly watered. Where irrigation from the sea is found most convenient, there will be also the advantage of a saline manure ; and ,it is observed that sheep are always exceedingly fond of grass that has been showered by marine spray, or washed by the tide. It is needless to speak of enclosures which will be proper where the waste regions are large, as doubtless thorns will grow, especially the sea-thorn, where grass and corn can be made to thrive. And it need not be observed that the planting of hedges should be at the first, when they would get their share both of the guano and irrigation. After the hedges are well grown, the surface consoli dated, and the soil has acquired some admixture of vegetable mould, the plough may be thought of, but till then it will be as wise to let well alone. For aught that the writer can see, there is no reason to fear the perfect and economical success of the methods now suggested ; and it is earnestly to be hoped that some noble spirited proprietor, such as the Earl of Eglinton, who is not a , little interested, will try the experiment. AGRICULTURE. TILE SUNfLOWER .18 now much cultivated for its -oil, and as food for cattle and poultiiy. One • acre will produ,ce fifty gallons of oil, "and 1,5001b5. of oilcake. The stalks, when burnt for alkali, give 10 cwt. of potash: - ' DISEASE IN - SHEEP.--411 Lincolnshire , a disease has prevailed among the lambs to a great extent ; , the nature of it is described. as inflammation of the lungs, but upon diSsection it has been found that the ,air tubes. of the lungs have in them a very considerable ',quantity of thread-like worins, in length from one to three and a half inches. This disease does not pre vail with the sheep. A correspondent stales that he ' has; successfully.. cured the diseaSe by the Tollowinc , application :---" Give the lamb a table spoonful of turpentinein warm beer, - and in two hours afterwards four .table spoonfuls of linseed oil should be admi nistered. CULTIVATION OF SiND-HILLs.--At the late meet inn. of the British Association, the ReV. Dr. Paterson, •of Glasgow, read a paper " On the Cultivation of Sea Sand, or 'Sand-hills." , The -writer assumes that in Britain there are many hundred thousands of acres of sea sand, driven into heaps by the wind, and absolutely useless. Being on the level of the sea; such deserts enjoy the best of cliinate, bid continue hopelessly ,b,arron, . on. account .or the hitherto unconquerable difficulties of dealing with the 'subject. The shifting 'nature Of the thasS. from the action of the winds—very :like . the driving of snow—renders every effort abortive, and soon Obliterates"• what the hand of industry had ' wrought. Should these difficulties, however, at a 'moderate cost, be overcome, the encouragement is immense—say a million of acres turned into clOver and waving cOrn,instead of, waves of desert sand. The writer has seen a small sheltered corner reclaimed which yielded £lO Per acre of annual rent ; and the soil was originally no better, and in fact no other, than that of the Common sand-hills: The method proposed is first to have a cbmmand of water raised from the sea, or from the nearest river or -brook, and ready for distribution, after the" manner already -in use for the application of liquid manure to - a farm. I n th e latter case, the cost of the - apparatus, is profitably incurred, when the object is only the applying of manure ; in the former the application would b, in the first instance, to the creation orthe soil ; whilst it would still remain for the' purpose of manuring as occasion might require. Havincr-thns a command of gea or river water, all the PbsCael&s to ati easy and HORTICULTURE. KITCHEN GARDEN.-- - -If not already done, take ad vantage of, dry days, when the ground is in working order, to take up and store •carrots; beet i . parsnips, and stack them in sand in a cool place, where they, will be conveniently got at when required for, use. • FnurT.,—Any fruits remaining. on the trees should be gathered at once, for there will be little gained by allowing them to hang longer on the trees, While there will be some danger of their being blown down and bruised. Keep the fruit-room,cOol and airy, but pears approaching maturity will be improVed in flavour by removal to a warm dry roof a few days before they are wanted for use, particularly such Us are .not fully ripe.. Proceed, with the planting of Young . treeS, and root-pruning, or lifting such as require this atten tion, and take care after disturbirig the roots to secure the trees well against wind, so as to prevent their being rocked about and the roots injured, and do this .before there is any .chance of their being blown down. _ FLOWER GARDEN.—The season is now so • far advanced that it will be very unsafe to trust such things as large plants of scarlet geraniums, fuchias, &c., which it may be intended to winter for use next season to, the mercy of the weather any longer, and these should be taken up and placed in safe quarters without loss of time. Plants, however, which are still in good condition, and which can be covered at _night when there is reason to apprehend frost may be left for sometime longer. It will also be advisable to get the whole stock of variegated geraniums into their winter quarters at once, for the hardiest of theie will not bear much frost without the foliage and young wood being injured, and where the plants haire to be wintered in situations which are not very suitable for them they should be taken up before they are at all injured by. frost, as they will be much more liable to damp and die back in winter if the wood is at all injured by frost. Unless where there is a sufficient stock of these they should not be cut back, as is usually done with the old starlets, but should be kept over the winter just as they are lifted from the beds, and cut back early in spring after starting them into growth, when the cuttings will root very freely in. heat, and in the case. of "Flower of the Day," or other free growers, will make useful sized plants by turning out time, and even the strongest growers, of these do not cover a bed very- quickly unless planted thick, and the plants should therefore be wintered in as large a state as the , ARD Nos' sl accommodation will permit. The au of verbenas, &c., must be well at them perfectly clear of greenfly, ai l freely to the air on every favourable to prevent anything like g rowth a fte keep the plants hard, in which st ate less liable to fog and die o ff under confinement in winter than if tlio growing soft state until overtaken b: Things which are not sufficiently however, be treated somewhat moreis but little chance of carrying s ' severe winter unless they are at leas these might with advantage be Oa' bottom-heat to encourage the roots , the, atmosphere close and moist, for be encouraged after this season. FASHIO,IVS SEVERAL dresses, composed of we; rious colours, and adapted for even' just been prepared. They are triveta l without flounces, and some have (I°,' flounces, as well as the skirts of double jupes, are bordered by a pa t i t ' consisting of wreaths of flowers ; tu t velvet and the foliage in plush. moire with two skirts has the edge e' a wreath of flowers of various colour s mingled with foliage in green 0 1511 ' p one skirt, and without flounces, ar rows, or stripes, of black cut velvet dinally. On moire of bright tints, til: cut velvet consists of an imitation e' sleeves and corsages of these dresse s bows of ribbon and lace. Velvet, it is expected, will hold an among the fashionable trimming; whether woven in with the mater' is, affixed to it. Cut and plain vela et ' I d. employed for this purpose. 4(11, •c o ._ o f t t i e Dresses consisting of broad perr,e o 4 , 6 0 velvet, disposed alternately with s'i 11 0 4ilte . A 0 , tique, or brocade, may be number V o b o r elegant novelties yet introduced fo r , ei t at e The stripes of velvet and silk o ;.trif e . ii coloured, and frequently the sill', o l oll/7 tR ' with a flowered pattern in various ', e ce o 4 l l ness of the material precludes the, g / "cles e e l. cel Yi ming on the skirt of dresses of thli, e t o iri.„l . corsage generally consists of a ia c t i l e ' l , : ibl; 1 ? same colour as the velvet stripe h. l l pre . 0 , IP $ winter advances, these dresses I' l re more and more favour. f 1) , We have seen several dresssea t with three or four flounces, each u °l ., wide moire ribbon chequered with es s contrasting colours. These dresis.il,' out-door costume. In one, th e trimming is sufficiently broad t h e ri each flounce. The ground of thisek green, and the chequers are of bla, • e till basque attached to the corsa o e 0 - , by a ribbon like that on th: treme edge of the basque, there ts, fringe, intermingled with tassels The corsage is high, and closed u, ‘ malachite buttons. The sleeves ar t l i , in at the shoulders in flat P laits ; elbe close to the arm as far as the . 0. lower part of the sleeve by fornun_aii,. trimmed both inside and out an lx e dged lar to that on the flounces, ant! _'..,(' flour ci black fringe. The under - sleeve., 7 . , just described, are composed of 2 form , lace ; the collar, of the square . 11 , finished at the lower part by lace. With this dress is worn, 1 .,,",,, 1 bonnet of black lace, trimmed with g' it., black chenille. 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