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To MEASURE GRAIN IN A BIN .- Find the number of cubic feet, from which deduct one-fifth. The remainder is the number of bushels-allowing, however, one bushel extra to every 224. Thus in a remainder of 224 there would be 225 bushels. In a re- mainder of 448 there would be 450 bushels, &c.
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VALUABLE RECIPES.
VALUABLE RECIPES.
[The following recipes are vouched for by several who have tried them and provenl their virtues. Many of them have been sold singly for more than the price of this book .- PUB.].
HORSES.
RING BONE AND SPAVIN .- 2 oz. each of Spanish flies and Venice turpentine; 1 oz. each of aqua ammonia and euphorbium ; } oz. red precipitate; }4 oz. corrosive subli- mate; 17% lbs. lard. When thoroughly pul- verized and mixed, heat carefully so as not to burn, and pour off free from sediment.
For ring-bone, rub in thoroughly, after removing hair, once in 48 hours. For spav- in, once in 24 hours. Cleanse and press out the matter on each application.
POLL-EVIL .- Gum arabic ×4 oz; common potash X4 oz ; extract of belladonna X dr. Put the gum in just enough water to dis- solve it. Pulverize the potash and mix with the dissolved gum, and then put in the extract of belladonna, and it will be ready for use. Use with a syringe after having cleansed with soap suds, and repeat once in two days till a cure is affected.
SCOURS .- Powdered tormentil root, giv- en in milk, from 3 to 5 times daily till cured.
GREASE-HEEL AND SCRATCHES. - Sweet oil 6 ozs .; borax 2 ozs .; sugar of lead 2 ozs. Wash off with dish water, and, after it is dry, apply the mixture twice a day.
CHOLIC IN HORSES .- To x pt. of warm water add 1 oz. laudanum and 3 ozs. spirits of turpentine, and repeat the dose in about 34 of an hour, adding X oz. powdered aloes, if not relieved.
BOTs .- Three doses. 1st. 2 qts milk and 1 of molasses. 2d. 15 minutes after, 2 qts. warm sage tea. 3d. After the expiration of 30 minutes, sufficient lard to physic .- Never fails.
MISCELLANEOUS.
PILES-PERFECTLY CURED .- Take flour of sulphur 1 oz., rosin 3 ozs., pulverize and mix well together. (Color with carmine or cochineal, if you like.) Dose-What will lie on a five cent piece, night and morning, washing the parts freely in cold water once or twice a day. This is a remedy of great value.
The cure will be materially hastened by taking a table-spoon of sulphur in a half pint of milk, daily, until the cure is affected.
SURE CURE FOR CORNS, WARTS AND CHILBLAINS .- Take of nitric and muriatic acids, blue vitriol and salts of tartar, 1 oz. each. Add the blue vitriol, pulverized, to either of the acids; add the salts of tartar in the same way; when done foaming, add the other acid, and in a few days it will be ready for use. For chilblains and corns apply it very lightly with a swab, and re- peat in a day or two until cured. For warts, once a week, until they disappear.
HOOF-AIL IN SHEEP .- Mix 2 ozs. each of butter of antimony and muriatic acid with 1 oz. of pulverized white vitriol, and apply once or twice a week to the bottom of the foot.
COMMON RHEUMATISM .- Kerosene oil 2 ozs .; neats-foot oil 1 oz .; oil of organum } oz. Shake when used, and rub and heat in twice daily.
VERY FINE SOAP, QUICKLY AND CHEAP- LY MADE .- Fourteen pounds of bar soap in a half a boiler of hot water ; cut up fine ; add three pounds of sal-soda made fine; one ounce of pulverized rosin ; stir it often till all is dissolved ; just as you take it off the fire, put in two table-spoonfuls of spirits of turpentine and one of ammonia ; pour it in a barrel, and fill up with cold soft water ; let it stand three or four days before using. It is an excellent soap for washing clothes, extracting the dirt readily, and not fading colored articles.
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VALUABLE RECIPES.
WATER PROOF FOR LEATHER .- Take lin- seed oil 1 pint, yellow wax and white tur- pentine each 2 ozs. Burgundy pitch 1 oz., melt and color with lampblack.
To KEEP CIDER SWEET .- Put into each barrel, immediately after making, % 1b. ground mustard, 2 oz. salt and 2 oz. pulver- ized chalk. Stir them in a little cider, pour them into the barrel, and shake up well.
AQUE CURE .- Procure 1X table-spoons of fresh mandrake root juice, (by pounding) and mix with the same quantity of molas- ses, and take in three equal doses, 2 hours a part, the whole to be taken 1 hour before the chill comes on. Take a swallow of some good bitters before meals, for a couple of weeks after the chills are broken, and the cure will be permanent. -
CURE FOR SALT RHEUM OR SCURVY .- Take of the pokeweed, any time in sum- mer ; pound it ; press out the juice; strain it into a pewter dish; set it in the sun till it becomes a salve-then put it into an earth- en mug; add to it fresh water and bees' wax sufficient to make an ointment of com- mon consistency ; simmer the whole over a fire till thoroughly mixed. When cold, rub the part affected. The patient will al- most immediately experience its good ef- fects, and the most obstinate cases will be cured in three or four months. Tested .- The juice of the ripe berries may be pre- pared in the same way.
SUPERIOR PAINT-FOR BRICK HOUSES .- To lime whitewash, add for a fastener, sul- phate of zinc, and shade with any color you choose, as yellow ochre, Venetian red, etc. It outlasts oil paint.
FELONS .- Stir 1 oz. of Venice turpentine with X tea-spoonful of water, till it looks like candied honey, and apply by spreading upon cloth and wrapping around the finger. If not too long delayed will cure in 6 hours.
A poke root poultice is also said to be a sure remedy.
WATER-PROOF BLACKING AND HARNESS POLISH .- Take two and a half ounces gum shellac and half a pint of alcohol, and set in a warm place until dissolved; then add two and a half ounces Venice turpentine to neutralize the alcohol; add a tablespoon- ful of lampblack. Apply with a fine sponge. It will give a good polish over oil or grease.
MOSQUITOS .-- To get rid of these tormen- tors, take a few hot coals on a shovel, or a chafing dish, and burn upon them some brown sugar in your bed-rooms and parlors, and you effectually banish or destroy every mosquito for the night.
CHEAP OUTSIDE PAINT .- Take two parts (in bulk) of water lime ground fine, one part (in bulk) of white lead ground in oil. Mix them thoroughly, by adding best boiled lin- seed oil, enough to prepare it to pass through a paint mill, after which temper with oil till it can be applied with a common paint brush. Make any color to suit. It will last three times as long as lead paint, and cost not one-fourth as much. IT IS SUPERIOR.
CURE FOR A COUGH .- A strong decoction of the leaves of the pine, sweetened with loaf sugar. Take a wine-glass warm on go- ing to bed, and half an hour before eating three times a day. The above is sold as a cough syrup, and is doing wonderful cures, and it is sold at a great profit to the manu- facturers.
How to Judge a Horse.
A correspondent, contrary to old maxims, undertakes to judge the character of a horse by outward appearances, and offers the fol- lowing suggestions, the result of his close observation and long experience:
If the color be light sorrell, or chestnut, his feet, legs and face white, these are marks of kindness. If he is broad and full between the eyes, he may be depended on as a horse of good sense, and capable of be- ing trained to anything.
As respects such horses, the more kindly you treat them the better you will be treat- ed in return. Nor will a horse of this de- scription stand a whip, if well fed. 1
If you want a safe horse, avoid one that is dish-faced. He may be so far gentle as not to scare ; but he will have too much go- ahead in him to be safe with everybody.
If you want a fool, but a horse of great bottom, get a deep bay, with not a white hair about him. If his face is a little dish- ed, so much the worse. Let no man ride such a horse that is not an adept in riding -they are always tricky and unsafe.
If you want one that will never give out, never buy a large, overgrown one.
A black horse cannot stand heat, nor a white one cold.
If you want a gentle horse, get one with more or less white about the head; the more the better. Many persons suppose the parti-colored horses belonging to the circuses, shows, &c., are selected for their oddity. But the selections thus made are on account of their great docility and gen- tleness.
Measurement of Hay in the Mow or Stack .- It is often desirable, where conveniences for weighing are not at hand, to purchase and sell hay by measure- ment. It is evident that no fixed rule will answer in all cases, as it would require more cubic feet at the top of a mow than at the bottom. The general rule adopted by those who have tested it, is that a cube, each side of which shall measure eight feet, of solid Timothy hay, as taken from mow or bottom of stack will weigh a ton. The rule may be varied for upper part of mow or stack according to pressure.
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TWENTY YRAR CALENDAR.
Almanac or Calendar for 20 Years.
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EXPLANATION .- Find the Year and observe the Letter above it; then look for the Month, and in a line with it find the Letter of the Year; above the Letter find the Day ; and the figures on the left, in the same line, are the days of the same name in the month.
Leap Years have two letters ; the first is used till the end of February, the second during the remainder of the year.
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ST. LAWRENCE COUNTY.
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ST. LAWRENCE COUNTY.
ST. LAWRENCE COUNTY was formed from Clin- ton, March 3, 1802. It derives its name from the river which forms its northern boundary. That portion of the county known as the Ten Townships, was annexed to Clinton, upon petition of its inhabitants, as the town of Lisbon, March 6, 1801, previous to which time Herkimer, Montgomery and Oneida counties, to which they belonged, extended to the river St. Lawrence. The erection of this county was the result of a petition signed by one hundred and fifty-five persons, and supposed to contain the names of nearly all then living within its limits .* The petition sets forth the inconveniences which the remoteness of the county seat at Plattsburgh engendered, and which the annexation to Clinton county was designed to remedy. The act erecting the county thus describes its boun- daries :
" All that tract of land, beginning in the line of the River St. Lawrence, which divides the United States, from the dominions of the King of Great Britain, where the same is intersected by a continuation of the division line of great lots, numbers three and four, of Macomb's purchase; thence running south-easterly, along the said line, until it comes opposite to the westerly corner of the township of Cambray; then in a straight line to the said corner of Cambray; then along the rear lines of the said town- ship of Cambray, and the townships of De Kalb, Canton, Potsdam and Stockholm, distinguished on a map of the said townships, and filed in the secretary's office by the Surveyor-General; then by a line continued in a direct course from the line of the said township of Stockholm, until the same intersects the division line of the great lots numbers one and two in Macomb's purchase; thence northerly along the same to the lands re- served by the St. Regis Indians; then westerly along the bounds thereof, to the dominions of the King of Great Britain; thence along the same to the place of beginning, shall be, and is hereby erected into a separate county, and shall be called and known by the name of St. Lawrence."
By the same act, all that part of the tract above described, lying west of the west lines of Lisbon and Canton, and em- bracing the present towns of Oswegatchie, DePeyster, DeKalb, Morristown, Macomb, Gouverneur, Hammond and Rossie, ex-
* Hough's History of St. Lawrence and Franklin Counties, where the names are given.
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cept a small portion lying in the south-east corner of the latter, was formed into a town by the name of Oswegatchie; Lisbon and Canton were formed into one town, which retained the name of the former, and that applied to the Ten Townships upon their annexation to Clinton county ; Madrid and Pots- dam were formed into a town with the name of the former; and the residue of the tract, embracing the present towns of Louisville, Norfolk, Stockholm, Massena, Brasher, and about one-half of Lawrence, formed the town of Massena. All that part of the present limits of the county lying south and east of the above described tract, and previously embraced in Herki- mer, Montgomery and Oneida counties, was provisionally an- nexed to this county and considered as part of the town of Massena.
The county, having an area of 2,880 square miles, is the largest one in the State. It is centrally distant from Albany 140 miles. Its surface, though somewhat broken, is nowhere mountainous, except in the south-east part, where it approaches that character, the summits of the hills being 2000 feet above tide. The elevations generally present gradual slopes rather than abrupt declivities. A series of ridges, having their high- est summits in the county upon the south border, where they rise to an altitude of 1000 feet above tide, extend diagonally across it in a north-east and south-west direction, and gradu- ally decline to the general level of the river bank on the north border. It is well watered by numerous large and small streams, tributary to the St. Lawrence, which afford valuable hydraulic privileges ; while the extensive and fertile alluvial flats which characterize their valleys, are a source of wealth to the agriculturist. The streams, owing to the nature of the surface, become sluggish as they approach their confluence with the St. Lawrence, and present instances of remarkable flexure. They rise in the highlands to which the hills upon the south border belong, and which extend through the center of the great northern wilderness, forming the watershed between the streams which flow into the St. Lawrence on the north, and the Mohawk on the south, and after flowing some distance in a north-west direction, turn to the north-east, and run nearly parallel with their recipient until they intersect it. The prin- cipal streams, in addition to the St. Lawrence,* are Oswegat-
* The Indian name of this river was Cat-a-ro-qui. The origin of this, as well as many other names of rivers, lakes and places, is derived from Hough's History of St. Lawrence and Franklin Counties, to which we shall have frequent occasion to refer.
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chie,* Indian,t Grass,į Racket,§ St. Regis| and Deer T rivers. Timely measures have been taken to preserve the waters of these streams in anticipation of a time when the supply will be rendered less plentiful by the depletion of the forests in the vicinity of their headwaters, by utilizing the lakes and ponds about their sources as reservoirs. The commercial advantage of most of them has been enhanced at the expense of the State, by rendering them susceptible to log navigation; and some have been made public highways by special acts of the Legis- lature. The waters of the Grass and Oswegatchie rivers are united by a natural canal. The surface in the south part is dotted by several small lakes, the principal of which are Black, ** Tuppers, tt Cranberry, Yellow,t Silver, Trout, Cedar, Mount and Hickory. Black Lake is a narrow body of water, some eighteen miles long, and is the outlet of Indian river. It unites with the Oswegatchie River a short distance above the mouth of the latter, and its waters have been used to improve the me- chanical power of that river, though the raising of its waters above a fixed level is prohibited by an act passed May 1, 1864, under which the low lands upon its south-east border were re- claimed by lowering the bed of the outlet.
The geological aspect of the county presents little diversity. The southern half is underlaid by azoic, or primary rocks, known more familiarly under the general name of gneiss. This
* Indian name, Swe-kat-si, supposed to be a corruption of the Huron word meaning "black water." It was variously named Wegatchi, Swe- gatchi, Oswegatchi and Oswegatchee, and was, at an early day, supposed to be the Black River.
+ Named on Morgan's map O-je-quack, and known to the St. Regis In- dians as O-tsi-kwa-ke, meaning, "where the ash tree grows with large knobs for making clubs."
¿ Named by the Indians, Ni-kent-si-a-ke, meaning " full of large fishes," or " where the fishes live," a name which, before the dams and saw-mills which mark its course were erected, was, says Dr. Hough, peculiarly applicable. Salmon and other fish were caught in great abundance as far up as Russell. Its English name was suggested by the grass meadows near its mouth. On an old map in the clerk's office it is named Ey-en- sar-ye, but the letter y does not occur in the Iroquois language.
§ Named by the Iroquois, Ni-ha-na-wa-te, meaning, according to dif- ferent authorities, " rapid" or "noisy river"; and by the French, Ra- quette, meaning " snow shoe "-a name suggested by the shape of a marsh near its mouth, and which has become anglicized into Racket, from noisy river. It was named by the St. Francois Mas-le-a-qui; and on Morgan's map, Ta-na-wa-deh, supposed to be a Seneca word.
|| Named by the Indians Ak-wis-sas-ne, meaning " where the partridge drums."
1 Named by the Indians Oie-ka-ront-ne, meaning "trout river."
0 ** Known by the same appellation as Indian River.
++ Named by the Indians, Tsit-kan-i-a-ta-res-ko-wa, meaning "the big- gest lake;" and Pas-kum-ga-meh, "a lake going out from the river." The latter is the name applied by the St. Francois Indians, and was sug- gested by its location with reference to Racket River, with which it is connected, though it is not in its course.
** Named Kat-sen-e-kwa-r, " a lake covered with yellow lilies."
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formation characterizes the major part of the State north of the Mohawk and east of Lake Ontario, and is a special feature of the great northern wilderness, where it is frequently projected to the surface through more recent depositions. A notable in- stance of this character is observable in Potsdam village. Its presence is generally marked by a broken surface, presenting all the gradations from low ridges to high mountain ranges, as witnessed in the gradually increasing elevations from the south- east part of this county to Essex county, where the altitude of mountains is attained. This rock generally dips toward the north, and this tendency results in peculiar conformations of surface, where ridges, which on the north side have a rise so gradual as to render them susceptible of profitable cultivation, frequently terminate in steep and rugged cliffs upon the south. Gneiss possesses but little commercial value, as owing to its exceeding hardness, it cannot be worked with sufficient econ- omy to bring it into general use. It is, however, sometimes found with so fine a texture as to be especially valuable for building purposes, where great strength and permanence are required. A kind possessing this quality and a uniform gray color is found in the south part of Canton,* and other fine qualities of white, mottled, jasper and porphyritic syenite have recently been found in Gouverneur, in the history of which town fuller particulars will be given. North of the azoic rocks lies a belt of Potsdam limestones, which extends from the Black River limestones in Jefferson county to the St. Lawrence in Franklin county. It has a mean width of about seven miles, having its greatest width about the south lines of Hammond and Rossie, where it enters the county, and in Franklin county as it approaches the St. Lawrence, and its least, in the central part of this county, east and west of Potsdam. North of this is a belt of calciferous sandstone, which extends to the St. Lawrence. In the west part of the county white limestone is found underlying the Potsdam sandstone. It has been used to some extent for building purposes, and mills for sawing it were operated at an early day in Rossie and Fowler; but the coarseness of its texture renders it objectionable, except for the most massive structures. For the manufacture of lime, how- ever, it has, perhaps, no superior. It is commonly found at the line of junction of the sandstones with the primitive rock, and its position with reference to the latter has induced a belief in their identity. Along this line are also found the more splen- did minerals so eagerly sought after by scientists and founders of mineralogical cabinets, and for its great variety in which
* Hough's History of St. Lawrence and Franklin Counties, p. 676.
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this county is noted .* The Potsdam sandstone is admirably adapted for flagging and building purposes, and in Potsdam,. where it is abundant in quantity and excellent in quality, it is quarried and shipped to a considerable extent. Its evenness of stratification and softness, when first exposed to the air, ren- ders the process of quarrying it easy and economical, and its siliceous nature engenders a surface of extreme hardness after a little exposure to the atmosphere, and preserves it from those ungainly parasitical mosses which other limestones nourish by
* Among the principal minerals found in this county are : actinolite, in Edwards and Fowler; agate, in Fowler; albite, in Fowler, Gouverneur and Rossie; amethyst, in Gouverneur and Rossie; amphibole, in Rossie; anglesite, in Rossie; ankerite, in Rossie; apatite, in Edwards, Gouver- neur and Rossie; arragonite (coralloidal), in Rossie; asbestus, in Fow- ler and Gouverneur; automolite, in ' Rossie; babingtonite, in Gouver- neur ( ?); blende, in DeKalb, Fowler, Macomb, Morristown and Rossie; bog ore, in Fowler; calcareous tufa, in Gouverneur and Rossie; calcite, in Canton, Gouverneur, Macomb and Rossie; calc spar, in Canton, Gouver- neur and Rossie; celestine, in Rossie; chalcedony, in Fowler; chalk, in Gouverneur; chondrodite, in Rossie; copper pyrites, in Canton, Fowler and Rossie; dolomite, in DeKalb, Gouverneur and Rossie; dysyntribite, occurring with all the red iron ores; epidote, occurring with chlorite in bowlders, but not in situ; feldspar, in Gouverneur,(!) Hammond, Pots- dam and Rossie ; fluor spar, in DeKalb, Gouverneur, Macomb and Rossie ; galena, in Fowler. Macomb and Rossie; garnet, found only in bowlders; graphite, in DeKalb, Gouverneur and Rossie; greenstone occurs in lime- stone dykes in Rossie, and is common in bowlders; heavy spar, in De- Kalb, Fowler, Gouverneur, Hammond, Macomb and Rossie; hornblende, in DeKalb, Edwards, Gouverneur,(! ) Pierrepont and Potsdam ; houghite, in Rossie; idocrase, in Gouverneur and Rossie; iron pyrites, in Canton, (massive) Fowler, Gouverneur, Hammond, Hermon and Rossie; kaolin, in Gouverneur; labradorite, in Oswegatchie; limonite, in Rossie; loxo- clase, in Gouverneur(! ) and Rossie; magnetite, in Clifton and Pitcairn ; mica, in Edwards, (brown and silvery,) Gouverneur, (black and copper colored,) Macomb, Potsdam, (black) and Rossie; muscovite, occurs in bowlders, of which one in Gouverneur presents a noted instance ; parga- site, in Hammond, Hermon, Rossie and Russell; pearl spar, in Rossie; phlogopite, in DeKalb, Edwards, Fine, Fowler, Gouverneur, Hermon, Macomb, Rossie and Russell; purple fluor, in Hammond; pyroxene, ill Canton, DeKalb, Gouverneur, Hermon and Rossie; quartz, in DeKalb, (spongy,) Edwards, (crystals,) Fowler (crystals,) Gouverneur, Hermon, Rossie, (crystals,) and Russell (dodecahedron); rensselaerite, in Canton, Edwards, Fine, Fowler, Gouverneur, Pitcairn, Rossie and Russell; rutile, in Gouverneur: satin spar, in Edwards, Fowler, Pitcairn and Rossie; scopolite, in Edwards and Gouverneur; serpentine, in Canton, Colton, DeKalb, Edwards, Fine, Fowler, Gouverneur, Hermon, Pitcairn, Rossie and Russell; spathic iron, in Gouverneur, Hermon and Rossie; specular iron, in Canton, Edwards, Fowler, Gouverneur, Hermon, Rossie and Rus- sell; sphene, in Canton, Gouverneur and Rossie; spinel, in Gouverneur and Rossie; steatite, in Gouverneur; sulphur, in Rossie; sulphuret of copper, in Canton, Edwards, Fowler, Gouverneur, Macomb and Russell; syenite, in Gouverneur; tale, in Canton; tourmaline, in Canton, (brown,) DeKalb, Gouverneur, (schorl,) Hermon, Potsdam, Rossie and Russell; tremolite, in DeKalb, Edwards, Fowler and Gouverneur; white lead ore, in Rossie ; wilsonite, in Rossie; and zircon. in Hammond(!) and Rossie. -Dana's Mineralogy; American Journal of Science; Silliman's Jour- nal; Hough's History of St. Lawrence and Franklin Counties; and Paper from D. Minthorn, chemist and mineralogist, on the ores and minerals of Gouverneur.
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