The Middlebury people's press. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1841-1843, 1843-01-04
AGRICULTURAL.
LARD OIL AND CORN-STALK SU-
GAR

GAR.
In an address 10 tho American Institute
in New York last fall, Mr.. Ellsworth, Com
missioner Of Patents and superintendent of
Tire Patent office at Washington, having re-
turned from the west made the following re-
marks:
To creditors who have demands upon the
West. there is great encouragement: pres
ent difficulties may require delay, but no
country has greater resources than the grea,
West TO meet her engagements. This |
trust they will do al some convenient time
redeemng fully her furnished honor, if not
meeting al the same time your entire ex
peciations. (Applause.) Your kind ap-
probation induces me 10 ask your indulgence
for details that hope will not be unintsres-
ting.
What, then, is the ground of such hope
from the West? ! answer, the luxuriance
Of her soil, connected with the facilities of
transportation. To these may be added
new sources of wealth, giving alike indepen-
Gence at home and articles for expectation.
BESIDES the great staples Of wheat and lndi-
ar corn, there has lately been added oil and
sugar Yes. these articles are destined TO
affect deeply both their Interests and your
own. No longer is the sperm oil needed
there for light or mechanical purposes
Lard and tallow, form a subsituie-bo of
which articles are converted by a similar
process. cheap and simple, into oil and can
dies. Permit me 10 say, that have very
lately seen large herds of swine slaughtered
for a new manufacture. Such are the ben
Gifts found by converting swine almost Who'll
ly 10 new purpose of manufacture, that |
ought not 10 omit TO say that the whole hog,
with the exception of the hide and hams, is
converted into lard - the leather when man.
ufacturcd sometimes being found equal in
value to the price offered for The hog alive.
! have brought to the Institute sample of
refined lard, which was presented 10 me at
the West. 1t will soon prove a new and
beautiful article oftrade. Such, too, are
the improvements of The day. that few
weeks since on the shores of Lake Erie a
yoke of cattle were, with the exception of
some lean meat reserved for drying. CONVEX
led into tallow. and thus produced more than
double what was offered for the beef when a.
live. Nor were the bones lost (; but thew
we're carefully calcired in a close iron CYL
inder, and considered worth one cent Der
pound for animal carbon. Recollect now
that for lard and tallow, foreign markets are
ever open-the duty, if any, being quite
small lard, for instance, being taxed about
one hafa cent per pound, where shipped TO
England from N,w York CITY, and only a.
bout one fourth OF that sum when introduced
through The Colonies.
Allow me 10 mention one thing more
Tie sugar of the west. Yes, the corn-stalk
Sugar. | know there is much incredibly
on this subject. Experiments this year
have, however, settled the point, that The in
habitants of the interior can supply Them
selves with sugar from the corn-stalk alone.
Al Indianapolis, in Indiana, found an en-
terprizing citizen, Mr.. Blake, who had pre-
pared several acres of the stalk, boiling with
FIVE kettles the juice expressed. From "a
gallons of juice he obtained four gallons OF
cryslallizable syrup. Another gentleman
near Lafayette thought he should get one
thousand pounds ofsugar to the acre. From
six hundred to one thousand pounds per a.
ere may confidently be expected. 1t is an
old saying that you cannot take off the cream
md then make butter nor can you raise
corn and make sugar from the same stalk.
! am asked TO stnte the process: will cheer
fully do il.
If the young ear is plucked off and all the
saccharine matter that nature designed for
the grain, is suffered TO remain in the stalk,
may we not expect great quantity of su-
garl 1t is found by Beaume's saccharom-
eIer that the juice from stalks is four
times sweeter than that Of The maple sap,
and three times sweeter than that of the su-
gar beet, and equal 10 the ordinary sugar
cane Of this country, where it may be con.
sidered an exotic. 1t is indeed happy
thought, that the farmer in the interior can
by few days labor raise the stalk which
can SO easily by converted on the domestic !
hearth with only the aid of common ket.
ne and little time, into one Of the greatest
, Iu may not say necessa-ies, of life.
VIII not this discovery indeed tend much to
.Deeten life?
will not, however, enlarge. came this
evening to admire the display YOU have
Eads and The progress. Of the arts. Tho