The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1849-04-07

that the legislature interIered in 1884,
and passed a law, entitled can Act a.
gainst ploughing BY the 'Tayle, and pull
Ing the Wool off living Sheep This
act was regarded as an infringement Of
inallenable ri ghts and it is said came near
exciting rebellion
ASHES, MEADows.-Whenw we increase
the crop of grass in meadow, by means
OF gypsum we remove greater quantity
Of potash with the hay, than can under
ordinary circumstances be restored.
Hence after lapse Of years, the crop of
grass dimnishes on meadows MANFRED
with gypsum, owing TO the deficiency
OF pot ash. If the meadow is strewed
occasionally with house or leache ashes;
the grasses will thrire as lunwssat!y as
erer. Boys remember tbs
SUGAR CURING or BrTrEn.-Persons
who pnt up key butter for their own use,
or for distant market, usually salt their
butter very high.-This high sailing ne
cessarily detracts from its quality, IN
iures its ready sale, and reduces its price
If We can modify this excess ofsalt by
using more pa.ateab'e substances, ofequal
efficacy, as preservatives, il will be an
Improvement. Chemists tell us that SUI
gar IS one OF these substances; and expe-
rience gives us the same information.
Who is not familiar with sugar cured
hams! II pork can be cured with sugar.
why may not butter be so preserved
also? Is common senseinqury. Expe-
rienCp has shown that it may. DR.. Jas.
Anderson, the celebrated agrIcuturist,
(whose treatise on the management OF
the dairy, particular with respect to the
making and curing of butter, is still the
highest and best authority on the subjcct)
found, from some years trial of ii, that
the following named ompostlon-the
properties OF which we believe were dis
covered by his amiable lady--were far
preferable to salt alone, as It not on Y
preserves the butter more effecuaIlv
from all faint and rancidity, but makes
It look better and sweeter, richer, and
more marrowy, than portions ofthe same
butter cured with common salt.
Composition: Take OF sugar one part. of
n!tre one part, and OF the best Spanish
great salt Tor rock SALTY two parts Beat
the whole into fine powder, mix them
well together, and put them by for use.
The doctor ContInues:-"Of this COM
position one ounce should be put to ev-
cry sixteen ounces Of butter; mix this salt
thoroughly with the butter as soon as it
has been freed from the milk, and put
it. without loss Of time, down into the
vessel prepared to receive it, pressing it
SO close as to leave no air holes or any
kind OF cavities within it. Smooth the
surface, and if you expect it will be a.
boye day or two before you can add
more, cover it up close with piece of
clean linen, and above that piece of
wetted parchment, or for want ofthat,
fine linen that has been dipped in melt
ed butter, exactly fitted to the edge of
the vessel all around, so as to exclude
the air as much as possible, without the
assistance of any watery brine; when
more butter is 10 be added, these cover
ngs are to be taken of, and the butter
applied close above the former; pressing
it down and smoothing it as before. and
so on ill the vessel be fill. When it is
quite full let the two covers be spread
over it with the greatest care, and let a
little melted butter be poured all around
the edges, so as 10 fill every cavity, and
efectually exclude the air. A little salt
may then be strewed over the whole, and
the cover to be fixed down to remain
close shut till it is opened for use. If
all this be carefully done, the butter may
be kept perfectly sound IN this climate
for many years. How many years cam
not tell; but have seen it two years old
and in every respect as sweet and as
sound as it was when only a month old.
cit deserves TO be remarked, that bnller
cured in thif manner does not taste well
till it las stood at leas, fortnight after be-
ing sailed, but after that period has elapsed
it eals with rich marrowy taste that no
other butter ever acquires; and it tastes so
little of salt, that person who has been &C
cus,omed to cal butter cured with common
salt only, would no',magine it had got one
fourth part of,he salt necessary 10 preserve
itn
Ii is 10 be hoped that some Of our farm
ers or reading the above will follow its di-
rec!lons.-The compo sition mentioned is,
we have understood, is much used in CO.
shen; Orange comfy, New York, place
famous for its superb butter. Great care
should be taken 10 got the purest sa|tand
sugar. Tha, known through the country as
the ground alum is the best salt. The sn.
gar should be of the priest white-either
The loaf or tue fallen loafn-t'armer and
Mechanic,