The Middlebury people's press. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1841-1843, 1843-03-15
AGRICULTURAL.

IMPROVEMENTS IN THE AGRICULTURE, Arts,
AND Production OF THE UNITED STATES.
Mr.. Henry w. Ellsworth, u. 8. Com.
missioner of Patents, and at the head of the
Patent Office, has recently published his an.
nual report of inventions. Improvements in
machinery, in arts, 10 economical processes,
together with various statistics of popula.
ton. PRODUCTION, &c.
We have not seen the report. but we find
an abslrac, from il in the N. York Tribune,
which shows it 10 be one ofgr al interes,
as throwing much light on the resources,
wealth. productive power, and The general
capabilities of this country.
We copy from The Tribune as follows:
Indian corn may be raised in the West
ut So per acre-the cost of ploughing, plan
ting and iiling, with the culiivaior-and
then turned into pork by allowing the hogs
10 gather 1.-THE corn thus costing but a
lille over cents per bush,l, (ears.) Hogs
In this way may be brought without feeding
10 800 lbs., al which size. after taking off
the two hams, they may be tried up by the
new ,teaming process, and made 10 yield al
average of 80 per cent. Of lard. By this
process hogs may be made 10 net in the
Wesr SO 70 SO so per hundred instead oil
S st. which is the average now realized
for them. A new article of lard of the pu-
rrst white, very hard, and unaffected by the
heat of The climate, is produced by a recent
" discovered process, at an extra cost OF
only half cent per pound. Hogs may BE-
e,slly kept through The winter by sowing
fields Of rye, and allowing them TO run on
them. Thus pork may be produced in un-
limited quantily al cost "f s per hundred
Lard oil is now manufactured in vusi
quaniiies al the West, and the business is
rapidly extending. Ii is superior 10 olive
or sperm oil for machinery, for the manu.
faclure of noolens, &c, and can be furnish
ed al half the price. Upon chemical anal
ysis, it is found to be scarcely different in
lis elements from sperm.
An increase of only one cent per ID. on
the product Of the pork made in the U. S.
would amount TO S3O.OO0,0O0 per annum,
and more than this may easily be effected.
If the skins Of hogs were taken of on kill
ing the cost would be no greater than now,
the pork would taste better, and The .kins
would be worth many millions of dollars. -
The brstles. TOO. are generally wasted. as
they should not be. The foreign market
for pork, lard and oil is Just opening. and is
almost boundless. The quantity produced
may easily be doubled, and its productive
ness greatly increased.
A new mode of building cottages. or or
binary dwellings. has lately been adopted.
The material is formed bv removing the
SOIL, digging up the comnon clay, (Which Is
almos, universal. especially at the West.
mixing it with water and straw. and tread
ing Ii inio mortar by oxen from This brick
are made of Is by IL by 9 inches. or II by
by 8 inches, IN plank r,ouId, and struck
with piece Of iron hoop. These brick
are dried upon the ground, in 10 or IL days,
While the foundation of the building is pre-
Daring. and prairie wood sills or (which is
oeiier) course of slate laid, on which the
cried but unburnt brick are put up, fsoi
In thickness the windows and doors being
pu' 10 as it proceeds; division walls, brick
WIDE, or seven inches; roof OF shingles or
match, pr'leciing q foot or Two each way.
The walls are then plastered with good
lime mortar, and second time with the
same, pebble-dashed the inside withou
dnsiiiDg-and The house is built. Tbi,
house is very cheap, is warm in winter anc
cool in summer. aud affords no re,rea, 70,
Sermln. It's walls are not damp, unburo
brick absorbing no wafer. which the burn,
being porous, will do. Such house ma,
De safely carried up Two or three stories i
almost hre-proof, and nearly as cheap as
log cabin, lin some places more SOY an,
VIII last century. if the foundation be we
laid.
A new Whea, has been introduced fror
u"e Mediterranean, which is impregnabl
10 the assaults of the Hessian fly and tn
rust.
A new mode of Fencing has been adoT
va; trench is run with plough and pos
"t mi II: a heavy furrow i. then turned I
10 Them with a plow and scrsper, making
noge of some two feet above which thr'
light rails are inserted into the posts, eat
having its end sharpened angularly fro
one end to the oihsr-or rather they a
cut sngulsrly, and whsn inserted to the pc