The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-08-06 00:00:00

coils. with the rat

4fter the dew is off next
- --n, the han, nto
;; the intervals narrow, o grai wide,with according d
toi the
ht of the crop. Then turned over before dinner,
)k out again after dinner, turned over again by four
-tole

mornir

le into foot

well shook out a.

ings each, and put into co(
Next day ^' -

Ind-rows of five or seven turn

s of about one hundred weight

.a snook ut and d benner,
id after dinner tuned over again,turne being thenforemade into
find carted to barn or stark ; or, made
or six cwt. each, to be carted the

large wind-row

into big cocks of fly

- k.are is taken to cock u ever niht
before the dew falls, which is of considerable importance
in making good hay. Neither should the sun be allowed
to burn one part by its lying undisturbed half or a whole
day. By this mode hay is made in one or two days less
time than by a more careless manner of making. In
showery weather the farmer has to be exceedingly watch-
ful to see that it is always put into cock before rain. In
other parts of the country far less care is taken in hay-
making, but I am quite satisfied to the loss of the farmer.
Very frequently allowing it to lie in the swath a whole

uay, ana sometimes in showery weather several days ; and
the same spread out. A saving of wages seems to be the
principal object of the farmer more than makinz rood

nay. -rco importance Is Wrbern"g—wlt'w`lig
dew in the night, or scorched with sun in the day ; and
very little importance to its being wet with rain, when
after the process is advanced. What would a houswife
think of having her tea watered, and perhaps remaining
in a damp or wet state for a day or twn. And than

s.a ucia
before being put into the tea-pot' for use ?r.su
ItL shouldUrICU
be
borne in mind that dew, when the grass is made into hay,
will do the same in both, and both cut on the same day ;
yet, from management alone, I calculated the difference
in value when carted at 50s. per acre.—Rothtvell's Ag. of
Lancashire.
Cocoa-nut Sugar

source

—Ceylon newspapers mention a new
likely to ha of irnr.n,4.....,... .., +1,...

- - &Lacs), LU (A, of importance to that
colony. The sugar is obtained by cutting off the cocoa-
nut flower stem, attaching a vessel to it, and evaporating
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
produced in such abundance from a tree as to produce im-
mense returns yearly to the owner.

Preservation of Green Kidney Beans.—The following
is the process employed by M. Gehen de Montigny, for
the preservation of green kidney beans. In fine weather
gather the pods, before the seeds are too visible, take the
threads off, plunge the pods in boiling water, and take
them out again immediately ; let them cool, put them into
a tub in layers 5 inches deep, alternating 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
evaporates. The beans can thus be preserved quite fresh.
—Fiore des Serres.

Destruction of Wasps.—The annual sport among the
youths of Traquair came to a close on Saturday, the Ist
of June. They have bagged less game, and also less
money, than usual this year. Let us take a retrospective
view of the havoc that has been made among wasps for
the last seven years, which will show how anxious the
Earl of Traquair is to get rid of this destructive pest in
his neighbourhood :-1n 1844 there were destroyed 244
dozen ; in 1845, 1,573 dozen, weight 4 lbs. 91. oz. ; in
1846, not a wasp to be found ; in 1847, 4 dozen only,
weight 4 oz. ; in 1848, there were destroyed 1,2731 dozen,
weight 41bs. 7 oz. ; in 1849, 8651 dozen, weight 2 lbs,
8 oz. ; in 1850, 5281 dozen, weight 1 lb. 112 oz. Total,
44591 doz., weight 13 lbs. 8 oz. during the last seven years,
or rather five years, as in 1846-47, only four dozens were
taken : these dozens will make the number of wasps to be
53,514—a good round number certainly in a circuit of
three miles. Now, if all, or even one-half, of the proprie-
tors in the country would use the same means to extermi-
nate these insects, a wasp would soon be as rare a sight
as a red deer on the hills around us.—Edinburgh Eve-
ning Courant.