Iowa territorial gazette and advertiser. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa Territory [Iowa]) 1840-1846, 1843-03-11

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REPORT OF TIE COMMISSIONERS
I OF PATENTS.
We make the following extrac. from a
recent Report Of the Commissioner oi
the Patent Office, which will be found
highly interesting to the western reader.
"indlan corn may be raised in the
West at So per acre-ihe cost Of plough
ing, planting, aud tilIing, with the cult
ya;o'-and then turned in.o pork by
allowing the hogs to gather 1.-THE corn
thus costing but n little over 6 cents per
bushel, (ears). Hogs in this way may be
brought without feeding 10 weigh 500
lbs. nj which size after taking off the
two hams, they may be tried up by the
new stean,lag process. and made TO yield
an average Of 60 per cent, Of lard By
this process hogs may be made TO net in
i the West So TO $3.50 per hundred in.
stead Of 81 so, which is the average now
realized for them a new article of lard
of the ,urest white. very hard. and unaf-
icctcd by the heat of the climate, is pro-
duced by recently discovered process.
at an extra cost OF only half cent per
pound. Hogs may be easily KEEP, through
the winter by sowing fields Of rye, and
allowing them to run on them. Thus
pork my be produced in unlimited guam
iily at cost of S per hundred.
Lard OIL is now manufactured in vast
quantities a, the West, and the business is
rapidly extending. 1t is superior to
olive Or sperm Of! for machinery, for the
manufacture Of wooiens, Sc, and can be
furnished al half the price. Upon che
meal analysis, il is foun4 to be scarcely
different in its elements from sperm.
An increase Of enly one cent per lb. on
the product Of lie pork made in the U.
States would amount TO S3O,OOO,OOO per
annum, and more than this may easily
be effected. if the skins Of hogs were
, taken off on killing, the cost would be no
greater than now the pork would taste
better, and the skins would be worth
many millions Of dollars. The bris,lcs,
too a re generally wasted, as they should
not be. The foreign marke, for pork,
lard and Oil is Just opening, and is almost
bound!css. The quantity produced NAV
easily be doubled, and its productivcness
greatly increased.
new mode Of building cottages, or
ordinary dwellings, has lately been ndop-
ted. The material is formed by remov.
ing the soil, digging up the common clay,
(Which is almost universal, especially at
the West,) mixing it with water and
straw, and treading it into mortar by
oxen; from this brick arc made Of lG by
y by inches, or l2 by Z by s inches,
in plank mould, and struck with a piece
OF iron hoop. These brick are dried
upon the ground, in 10 or l2 days, while
the foundation Ut the building is prepar
ing, and prairie wood stills or (Which is
better) course Of slate laid, on which
the dried but unburnt brick are put up,
foot in thickness; the windows and doors
being put in As it proceeds; division
walls, brick wide, or seven inches; roof
Of shingles or thatch, projecting q foot
or two each way. The walls arc then
plastered with good lime mortar, and
second time with the same. pebble-dash
ed; tho inside without dashing-and the
house Is built. This house is very
cheap, is warm in winter and cool in
summer. and affords no retreat for yer
min Its walls are not damp, unburnt
brick absorbing no water, which the
burnt, being porous, will do. Such
house may be SAFELY carried up two or
three stories, is almost lireprooi, and
nearly ascheap as a log cabin, Gin some
places more SOY and will last a century.
ii the foundation be we'll laid
A new heat has been introduced from
the Mediterranean, which is i,npregnabie
TO the assaults of the Ilesslan iiy and the
rust.
a new mode Of Fencing has been adop-
/ ted: trench is run with a plough ana
/ POSTS set in il; a heavy furrow is then
turned up to them with plough and
scraper, ,.aaiing ridge OF some two feet;
above which three light rails are inserted
into the posts. each having its end
si1arpcned angu!arly from one side 10 the
other-or rather they a,e cut angularly,
and when inserted in the pot exactly fit
TO each other. just filling the hoe in the
post, and SO iolnted that one can hardly
be removed without tearing up the poet.
This fence can be put up with unprece-
uS.'leu i"P.ulty, Gnu requires Dul nlEc
rails Of half the weight TO forty on the
old Virginia plan. This improvement is
OF great value every where, but especial
~ on the Western prairies.
The experiments of the last year have
fully established the prac,icability and
profit Of making Sugar from the stalks of
the maize or Indian corn. The yield is
10 per cent. of saccharine matter. while
the Cane yields 81 and the beet but 8.
The Silk Culture is established in this
country. The American raw Silk is
admitted 10 be superior to any other
known. Its production is increasing in
New-England, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indi-
ana, Kentucky and Tennessee One
establishment in Ohio pays 81 per pushed
for cocoons, and probably manufactures
Silk to the amount Of $1,000 per month.
One person there will feed 100000
worms next year. Very great improve
ments in the business have been made
within the last year
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