Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1820-11-07

tnem--aS upon experiment the hneSC
slowed salt, and coarse fishery salt differ
ed in very trivial degree as to the kind
or proportion of their ingredients, and
which are adapted TO different uses, tho
large grained salt being peculiarly fitted
for the packing of fish and other provi-
sions; for which the smaller grained
salt is much less suitable, and for which
he accounts as follows :-ss Their differ
, ent powers of preserving food must de-
pend on some mechanical property; and
the only obvious one, is the magnitude OF
the chrystals, and their degree OF COM
pactness and hardness. Quickness Of
solution, 1t is well known, is pretty near
ly proportionate, all other circumstan-
ces being equal, to the quantity of the
surface exposed. And since the sur
faces OF cubes are as the squares of their
sides, II should follow that salt whose
| chrystals are of a given magnitude villa
dissolve four tunes more Slowly, than
one whose cubes have half the size.
That kind of salt then which possesses
most eminently the combined properties
OF hardness, compactness and perfection
OF chrystals, will be best adapted to the
purpose of packing fish and other pro-
visions, because it will remain pcrma-
nently between the layers, or will be
very gradually dissolved by the fluids
which exude from the provisions thus
furnishing a siow but constant suttiy
Qf saturated brine. On the other hand
for the purpose of preparing the pickle
or striking the meat, which is done by
immersion in a saturated solution of salt,
the small grained varieties answer equal
~ well, or on account OF their greater,
solubility even better"
From the foregoing, it appears thas
the salt necessary for preserving pro-
visions, should be of large hard grains,
and which can only be prepared by
gentle heat.--V iolent coction invariably
produces the reverse, which is of soft
loose grain, and disposed to grow moist
in the open air; the latter method is
generally adopted in the Western Coun-
try, and to which may be attributed the
reason why it will not answer as proper
preservative of meat.
baltimore, September 22nd, 1920.
1Ae heath ofthe Planters and Farmers,
and Of their families.
The blessings of health are equally
necessary to profit and to comfort 1t
often depends upon the more reasonable
attention to the mere dictates OF plain
common sense.
u The satssssssssl 4issss~o, VI ssio asarisR
and tebrile character, form the chief aud
first class of country disorders tcrtan,
putrid, and bilious feyers. The con-
hrmed tertian, repeated in the spring,
becomes the difficult and tedious quar-
tan. Nothing contributes so muc TO
produce these disorders, as the situation
of the family -dwelling and out-houses
of the planter and farmer. Whenever
these buildings are placed on the north
e'm or eastern side of any fresh water,
particularly of dull, sluggish or stag
nant water, they are subject to the recep-
ton Of the evening damps, vapors, and
fogs, blown from such water into the
houses, by the prevailing southwest
summer winds, where they produce sure
disease. And in the morning the fogs,
jdamps, and yapors, that rise upon these
lwaters, and upon wet and watery places,
are famed by the 0ou4hrym and zpesters
zuinds over to the eastern and northern
sides, or are drawn from such watery and
moist places by the ratification Of the air,
|by the Northeastern rising sun, over to
the north and east, and produce the same
1morbid i'll effects. Under such circum-
stances third day agues and fevers, and
other autumnal complaints among men,
women, and children, are certain and un-
avoidable. Two rules, therefore, are
strongly recommended to all planters,
farmers, -four, saw, and other mil
lers, and persons in general, in country
life.-First. That they never build their
dwelling, works, barns, or other out
houses, where their people live, or are
employed, on the northern or eastern
side of any stream, marsh,' mill-dam,
pond, swamp, or other watery, wet, or
moist place; and secondly, that they ale
ways build their dwellings, mills, barns,
&c. on the south and west sides of such
waters, wet, and watery places, particu-
iarly stagnant pools, ponds, mill-dams,
marshes, swamps, ditched meadows, sc.
Every physician will confirm this simple
I advice. Holland, and the yicinities OF
the Lincolnshire, Romney, and Teeswa-
ter marshes in England, are as famcns
: for autumnal complaints, though fart -
: north than most of our northeastern sea-
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