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We find it is used and much approved 

 now, in some parts of Pennsylvania, for 

 supplying farm-houses, factories, gardens, 

 etc. Its comparatively trifling cost, (not 

 more, in many cases, than that of a well 

 and pump,) as well as its simplicity and ef- 

 fectiveness, must soon make it extensively 

 known to the public. 



This machine is now manufactured in 

 Philadelphia, of all sizes, to suit the sup- 

 ply of water at hand. By giving the man- 

 ufacturer the amount of water which the 

 brook or spring yields, as an overflow per 

 minute, the head or fall that may be pro- 

 cured, and the height and distance to which 

 it is desired to convey the water, the proper 

 ram and pipes can be sent to any part of the 

 country. 



Mr. BiRKENBiRNE has one of these rams, 

 which raises water sixty-five feet, with six- 

 teen inches fall. A supply of half a gallon 

 of water per minute, is sufficient to drive 



the smallest sized ram, while the largest 

 jnade at Philadelphia, requires fifty gallons 

 per minute. Our readers may learn the 

 proportionate cost, when we inform them 

 that a ram calculated to fit a spring with an 

 overflow of six gallons per minute, Avhere 

 a fall of five feet can be obtained, and which 

 will raise twelve hogsheads of water daily 

 to an elevation fifty feet high, would cost in 

 Philadelphia but eighteen dollars. 



The fact that the hydraulic ram is self- 

 acting, and that it works with an amount 

 of water power infinitely less than any 

 other machine, must, we think, as soon 

 as its construction is known, bring it into 

 general use, in this country. There are 

 many places within our knowledge, where 

 the economy it would effect, in giving 

 an abundant supply of water to all parts 

 of the country-house and grounds, would 

 be equal to double its cost in a single 

 year. 



REVIEWS. 



Transactions of the New- York State Agri- 

 cultural Society. Vol. VI. 1846. Albany. 

 C. Van Benthuysen & Co., Public Printers. 

 The Transactions of our State Agricultural 

 Society, are printed at the expense of the 

 State, and distributed largely by the mem- 

 bers of the Legislature. Five hundred co- 

 pies are also placed at the disposal of the 

 State Society itself; five hundred in the 

 hands of the American Institute, New- 

 York ; and forty copies are given to each 

 county society, for distribution among its 

 members. In this way, the work is placed 

 gratuitously within the reach of all our citi- 

 zens really interested in the progress of 

 agriculture. 



The present volume, compiled under the 

 direction of B. P. Johnson, Esq., the pre- 



sent Secretary, comprises 716 pages. Be- 

 sides the actual business reports of the So- 

 ciety, the reader will find a variety of very 

 interesting essays, by many of the most in- 

 telligent farmers and agricultural writers 

 in the State. Among these, we may espe- 

 cially point out those of Mr. Randall, on 

 the management of merino sheep ; Mr. 

 NoTT, on the wool trade ; Mr. Geddes, on 

 flank roads; Mr. Howard, on Galloway 

 cattle ; Mr. Pell, on the use of lime, and 

 on soiling ; Dr. Fitch, on the Hessian fly ; 

 Mr. Stevens, on the Canada thistle, etc. 



There are two articles which commend 

 themselves more especially to our notice : 

 one, the report of the committee on Fruits, 

 and the other, the communication of N. 



