The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1804-06-16


ment or Official paper, which the Houfe may
have refo!ved to have printed, and 70 forth, with
the ref of the pubic work. By this means the
public printing is done better, quicker, and
cheaper than it politely can be, when it is con-
asned to the labour of one printer.
A.. ALCIBIADES.
FROM THE baltimore TELEoRAPHE.
SIR,
Be 60 good as to iniert the following dire6ti-
ons for curing butter in csiks. Should the far
n.ers comply ftrictly with them, have no doubt,
of the benefit which would refult from it, as
well to the agriculturifts, as to the exporting
merchants of Baltimore.
AoRIcOLA.
As the prefent is the feafon for making but
ter, it may not be improper to give farmers and
houfewives fone Information relative to that i'm
portant article. II is for the farmers intereft
&hhis wife's credit, that their butter be made in
the beft manner pollible.-Good butter will al
ways bring higher price than bad or ndiffer-
ent, and the fame quantity of milk that makes
firkn or caik of bad or Indifferent butter, will,
with care and cleanliness, make the fame guam
tity of good butter. 1t is very necefiary that
their milk veiiels and churns be always kept per-
fectly clean and free from tate, as rich milk is
be kept free from fmoke, or from any favour of
pine refs, orwood; as foon as the butteristaken
off the churn, let it be well Wafhed in clean cold
water, let it be dreGed, falted and wrought, 70
that no part of the milk remains in il. Care mutt
be taken that due proportion of falt only be
given, 10 that 4 very little or no unmelted
falt may remain in the butter, which if properly
wrought, drei1ed and packed from the churn,
will in itielf retain pickle, and if put into tight
cafks, one churning after another, as it is made,
with the help of little frefh pickle put into the
cafks intended for expectation, it will ftand good
IN any climate as long as is neceiIary. Care
ihould be taken to put the butter into very tight
caiks thatwill bold the pickle, otherwife it will
never aniwer for aforeign market. If butter is
taken OIL one, two, three, or more Cummings,
and laid by without dreffing, falling & packing,
until quantity is got together, that butter will
fnrely corrupt, and the falt will not melt or in
corporate with it. Let not old and new butter
be put into the fame cafks, as the old always
corTupts the new.-Care mutt alto be taken not
to fill the cafks too full, 70 as to prevent the
heads being well fecnred and the pickle prefer
we'd IN the cafks, which ought 20 be perfectly
fweet and free from blemifh.
FROM THE NokTEdA,rToN GAZETTE.
Mr.. Butler,
part of mankind, the grand auction is, how we
may cultivate our lands to the beit advantage.
Having the laft year made. an experiment By
putting Platter of Paris on Potatoes, / have
thought IT might be of advantage to the intercft
OF agriculture to communicate it through the
medium of your paper.
The experiment made by putting about a
table ipoonfuli of PLATTER to each hill of Pota-
toes which was put on the latter part of June,
on about every fourth row, ] foon found
me vines OF thoie that were plaitered to alIume
a different colour, and the talks to grow much
larger and in greater quantities. When I came
topull them in autumn, had more than double
The quantity. The potatoes were of much
better quality and much larger. AS potatoes
are OF great ute to farmer in fatting fwine and
beet cattle, would recommend it to thofc peo-
PPle, who ufe the Platter, to make the expert
Inent for themfelves, BY paiteiing their Potatoes
foon after the frft hoeine.
JUsTUs FORWARD, Jun.
Bechertown, May, 1904.
-FRoM THE N. YORK DAILY ApvERr1sER.
Ma. ED1roa,
THEOfrich which we bought on the 9Th of May
at from on board thefhip seEas lately arrived from
the Cape OF Good Hope, died on the fira infant.
This animal, whole fngular appetite prompts it to
iwaliow indileriminately all fnbAsnces which come
within its reach, fwslowed on;he 9Th ult FINAL COT
ton handkerchief which go: too ar down its throat to
De taken Dat again, when it perceived. 1t daily
walowed quantity gravel pieces of china, queens
ware gias, broken nails, and all metallic ubfances,
whichit could bDd in the yard which it was kept in
the day hIne. It's common food was bread potatoes
corn and grals which it continued eating in great ple
~ during the rf eight days, after having wal!owed
she laid handketchiefbut in the beginning Of the fe-
eond week it loh its appetite, and were obliged TO
cram il, TO keep it alive.
PreisDlrg that the infpe2ion of the interior COP
hFcsior OF this extraordinary animal, would be inte-
reitng to the lovers of natural hfory, and the gentle
men OF temedicallne in general we invited feveral of
them to be prefent at the opening othe body ndhase
been henoaredby the Prefenee Of Dr. d. Hoiael,, Dr.
Wright Poif, Dr. William Moore and Dr.S. Borrowes,
who examination Of the homach have found that
was quite full, and do nded by quantity of partly d.
geed grafs, mixed win corn and potatoes undigefted
and with great quantity of gravel, pieces of china
queen sware, gals, brafs buttons old nails piece of
mail key, &c which gravel and metallic lubAances
appear to have undergone hrong friction, IL they
had been rubbed or poliihed with file.
The handkerchief found uuaItsred on the tor of
the contertsot the omach and is thought that has
cauied an ndigetion, which feems to have accelerated
ttadeath OF the animal; which however, would not
have lived much longer of general inHan,-
nation which dilcovered on the outide Of the ieo-
mech on the breah and on the rump occahonedb by for
iner brnhcs received ON board or when fhipped
We have infinitely taken the dnenforis of the feve-
n4,I1 l.. IL n