Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1850-10-25

DolLiNG bUTTER.-A physician who has travelled !
through Switzerland describes process of preserving
butter as adopted in that country, and which he
states to be far preferable to the English plan of sal
nng The process is as follows Into clean copper
pan (better no doubt, tinned) put any quantity of
Dutter say from twenty pounds to forty pounds,
ana place 1t over gentle fire, that it may melt
slowly and let the heat be so graduated that
the melted mass does not to the boil in less
than about two hours. During all this time the
butter must be frequently stirred, say in FIVE
or ten minutes that the whole mass may be |
thoroughly intermixed, and the top and bottom
change places from time to time When the melted
mass boils the fire is to be regulated as TO keep
the butter at gentle boil for about two hours the
stirring being continued but not necessarily fire.
quent as before. The vessel is then to be removed
from the fire and set aside to cool and SETTLE still
gradually this process of cooling is supposed also
to require about two hours. The melted mass is
then while still liquid to be carefully poured into
the crook jar in which it is to be kept. In the
process of cooling there is deposited whtish. cheesy
sediment, proportional to the quantity of butter,
which is to be carefully prevented from intermixing
last for years perfectly good without any particular
precaution being taken to keep it from the air. or
without the slightest addition of salt
indian NIiIIe1.
In an article on the subject of screen Food for
Soiling," the Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer gives the
following history of Indian Mllet:
Much has been said and written about the advan-
tages of cutting green food for cattle and horses,
rather than let them run upon the grounds and
trample down much they eat. In the North
States corn is extensively used for soling, is
also clover but there is no grass or grain that we
have ever seen that can compare with the Indian
millet. 1t is highly relshed by stock and after be-
ing cut to the ground it will in ten days be Fit to cut
again. There is telling the amount of fodder
that acre of millet will produce. The yield of
clover field at the North is thought to be great when
it is cut twice in the season. but this millet may
be cut at least ten times, and each cutting will
yield as much sweet nutricious food for horses or
stock as the same anount of land in clover.
This milet was brought to this section of country
some years ago from Florida, by the late Martin
Brooks; and we are not aware that it is generally
known among cultiyatOrs. The blade resembles
corn. In good soil it grows eight or ten feet high.
the seed is produced the end of the main stock,
in the shape of cat tail 1t is cultivated in drills
the assertion, that of millet, judicously
cut will yield more soiling or drying than eight
of other grass grain that is known to cult
vators. Every man that keeps horse should tend
q small field of mllet
1t is cruel to keep a horse entirely dry fodder
| through the summer; occasional feed of green
stuff necessary to the health of the horse
the vegetables of the spring to the health and
fort of man. There is danger OF securing horse
fed on green miet: it seems entirely adapted to
/ the South; and if we cultivate it green dry we
need not the fact that the clovcrs cannot be
proftably cultivated in the South.
WATER-PRooF CLorH.-The best waterproof cloth
made is that of India rubber; other cloth e.
quail it. Oil cloth comes next in order. WOolen
and cotton cloth may be rendered nearly water proof
! by dipping them in solution of alum and the sui
phate of copper. These two substances should be
used in about equal quantities. The cloth should be
dried in a room afterwards. If cotton cloth is
dipped into very weak solution OF glue, and after
wards into hot and strong solution of alum, and
then dried at high temperature, very good water
proof cloth is the result ave. and that is nearly
incombustible. Scientific American
LOSING AN INFANr-Those who have lost an infant,
are never, it were without an infant child. The
other children grow up to manhood and womanhood,
and suffer all the changes of mortality but this one
alone is rendered immortal child; for death has
arrested it with his kindly harshness and blessed it
into eternal image of youth and innocence"
Weknow not who is the author of the above thought
but it is beautiful as it is true. Many mother,
who has wept in passionate agony over dead babe,
has lived to love the memory of the lost better
than she loves the survivors. We speak not of
the unhappy instance where those whom death has
spared grow up to be the pain ola parents existence
but of the frequent where the ties of gra-
titude, so strong in childhood, gradually become
weakened by absence where the mother is almost
forgotten by the child, where the babe grows up
to the stearn hearted and emotonless man. On such
occasions the parent scarcely realize that the
| stern, selfish who stands before her was the
babe she handled in her arms, and who then
smiled gratefully upon her, and she may we'll recall
is to her the prattlng happy babe. Thus, even in
sorrow, there is consolation We lay the child in
the tomb and weep 5ers of agony we do it but
forget what tie ,ations it escapes what changes
it is preserved from Nor is this all We doubt if
there is mother living who does not love best to
think of her children pure and holy infants than
as men full grown, even though honors may thicker
around them and thousands call them great.
/ Exchange paper.
i Good Joke.
1t is said that about the time they were searching
for General Hinton, of our county takers
answering his description, short and thick, clare
face but strictly temperate, jogging along thro
Brecksville, with his big portfolio under his arm
when he accosted by countryman and charged
with being the veritable mail robber The chicken
counter Disconnected. He was a stranger in
strange country. The description answered hin
WE'LL and to add to the suspicion his census bag was
taken for mail bag, and he was toted noLens ueen
off to cooper shop, where he put under keepers
until he could prove that he was not Gen. Hinton
We heard of another story akin to this, A vel
known joker of this city, little under the weather
at the time, looking the handful describing
| Hinton, and was heard to read and respond thus
Breads from the bill y
i" He is man about IS or 60 years of age THAT.
me weighs $50 or 100 lbs, that's me Il dark hair
stout built that's me J forid complexion, that's
me = and looks though he was a hard drinker
, but is strictly temperate-By Cd that amt me.
can't be the man. [ can prove by half dozen, a
least, that do occasionally drink"
The Forest Rose.
Air-'' Lucy Long, sung rather slowly.
WORDS NJ. DUFFIELD, OF JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI.
In wild grove, green and fairy,
r Gay natures gala hall,