The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1828-07-02
From the .Ne,O Englaud Farmer.


| SAGE CHEESE. To make sage cheese,
take the tops young red sage, and having
pressed the juice from them by beating
| in mortar, do the same with the leaves OF
spinach, and then mix the two juices to-
gether. After putting the rennet to the
milk, pour in some of this juice, regulating
the quantity by the degree Of color and taste
it is intended to give the cheese. AS the
curd appears, break it gently, and in an equal
manner, then emptying it into the cheese
vat, let it be little pressed in order to eat
mellow. Having stood for about seven
hours, salt and turn it daily for four or FIVE
weeks, then it will be fit for the table. The
/ spinach besides improving the flavor and
correcting the bitterness of the sage, will
give it a much more pleasing color, than
can be obtained from sage alone.
| TREES TIMBER, &C. Every farm ofany
considerable size should have a wood lot, to
afford supply of fuel and timber. That
part of farm should be devoted to this pur-
| pose, which is at least adapted By nature to
| tillage or grass. Land which is swampy,
with very thin soil over sandy bottom
! land that is rocky and mountainous, or
which will not endure drought, may answer
well for forest trees. 1t is very bad policy
to suffer any such places to be destitute OF
/ growing trees.
Some farmers in this country have thought
they would make a lot of ten or dozen
acres answer the purpose of supporting one
constant kitchen fire. This, however, is
thought by good judges to be too small a
quantity of land for that purpose, unless il
be very fertile.
In France, large forests were carefully
preserved, even during the widest periods
of the revolution, when almost every thing
else was abandoned to destruction. 1t is
said to be the practice of the French peo-
pie not to cut off their woods oftener than
\ once in twenty or twenty five years, and by
lGtc, when they are cut over, the owner is
obliged to cut all smooth with the exception
of very few trees, which the officers Of
government had marked to be spared for q
, larger growth And when wood lands are
cut they always ought TO be cut smooth, if it
is wished that the timber may be reproduc-
ed, that the new growth may start together
and not be shaded by trees of a larger
growth. Selecting now and then a large
! tree, destroying a number of trees in order
! to obtain access to it, and Telling lin such
a manner rs to inure and break down many
others, is a wasteful practice, which is in
sufierahle where wood or timber possesses
any value.
PRrcocIrY. Hcineken was born in Lubbock,
/ in 1921 He had acquired complete knowi.
a edge Of the scriptures at Ia months old, and
!, was esteemed an excellent classical and scien-
!; tifc scholar in the fourth year of his age. He
/, died at the age of FIVE. His life was published
: in 9 vols by Martini, in 1890. The precocious
: talents Of shis infant are thus noticed by the
facetious writer Of the new poem entitled
4 Thaumaturgus
D q Fame blazes loud the pow'rs precocious
OF Chritchton, Heineken, and Grotius; !.
The second, ere bis months reached twenty, tooh
! Long learned letters in the Pentatcuch
> And when his fragile clock oflife
5 Had struck the little age offive,
A With aptness premature he ran on
0 Through codes of Civil Laws and Canon
/ Gulphed mathematics, mixed and pure, up;
+ But ere tn expecting hand of Europe,
}, The frnt thus early blown could gather, all