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Vol. 7~No. 6.) 



. SAN JOSE, CAL., JUNE, 1876. 



(Subscription Pbice, $1.50 a Year. 

 I Siuyle Copies, 15 Cents, 



MATLICKS HAY DERRICK. 



A good derrick to use iu the hay field, 

 and at the stack; one that iseasily moved 

 from place to place; always iu readiness 

 for work; that will lift light or heavy 

 weight perpendicularly and swing it at 

 once to its place without trouble, 

 and return to its former position; that 

 can be managed with the least number 

 of hands — such a derrick has long been 

 desired by our farmers, and is shown iu 

 our illustration. It is constructed upou 

 an entirely different principle from the 

 old arm-derrick that is held up with guy- 

 ropes. It is the embodiment of an orig- 

 inal idea, wonderful at once for its sim- 

 plicity and adaptability. The upright 

 post upon which the horizontal beam is 

 pivoted, is thoroughly braced to a frame, 

 which, as will be seen iu the illustra- 

 tion, IS a sled that can be drawn and 

 placed where wanted bj- the same team 

 that is used to raise the weight. This 

 same frame can beset upou wheels if de- 

 sired, but for ordinary use it is not 

 necessary. The horizontal beam is sup- 

 ported at two points, first upon the cen- 

 ter post, and second upon the long brace 

 that the cut shows to be .ittailnd to one 

 corner of the sled 

 frame and reach- 

 ing up to uear the 

 end of the beam. 

 This brace is the 

 real genius of the 

 derrick. The only 

 rope used is the 

 one to which the 

 fork is attached. 

 This runs through 

 blocks over the 

 beam and iow n 

 through a block ^- 

 attached to thi "^ 

 corner fartli 1 

 from the bi i ~ 



The horse puUin^, -=s 

 from this block raises the fork directly 

 from the ground or load, the derrick 

 beam remaining motionless, until at a 

 given bight a stop in the rope causes the 

 motion of the team to swing the beam 

 around with a slight upward motion to 

 where it is desired to drop the weight, 

 after which the beam at once returns to 

 its place without any assistance. This 

 voluntary motion is induced by the grav- 

 ity of the swinging bi-aco, which presses 

 iu that direction from the position of its 

 foot. Wo have thus particularly ex- 

 plained the working of this derrick be- 

 cause it is constructed upon a new prin- 

 ciple, and is deserving of the attention of 

 evei"yone wanting an apparatus for the 

 purposes for which this is designed. 



Mr. Matliek, the inventor, has been 

 introducing his derricks in our county 

 lately, and we hear but one expression, 

 and that a verj' favorable one. 



forward, and propose to take hack seats 

 no longer. Year after year they have 

 been content to be run over and thrown 

 dust upou by the fast men and horses, 

 who have monopolized agricultural fairs 

 for purposes of gambling and grand ca- 

 rousal. Not exactly content, perhaps, 

 for they have kept up an incessant 

 grumbling, but nevertheless have sub- 

 mitted in a manner that showed a sub- 

 jection anything but sublime. Our local 

 Santa Clara Valley Agricultural Society 

 has really treated them better than any 

 other, and has, in consequence, been 

 favored by better exhibits of stock. Sev- 

 eral stock breeders, for a year or two 

 back, have declined to exhibit at all at 

 the State fair until a dift'erent order of 

 things prevails. 



Finally, the matter seems to have 

 come near enough to a tangible focus to 

 show some force. All that is now needed 

 is a very general unity, not only of all 

 stock breeders, but of all legitimate in- 

 dustrial interests, upou the ground that 

 the horse-race gambling and liquor- 

 drinking have got to be separated from 

 the respectable exhibits of worthy pro- 

 ductions. This will be radical because 

 emphatically right, but it will effectually 



STOCK AND AGRICUL- 

 TURAL FAIRS. 



It is a cheery sign for the early inaug- 

 uration of something better than horse- 

 race gamVjling at our county and state 

 fairs, when our stock men come boldly 



cure the uow disorganized condition of 

 fairs generally. As there can be no har- 

 mony between right and wrong, the 

 question of policj' as to which should 

 rule is the all-important one. Will it 

 not be best to make short work of the 

 thing, and end the trouble at once, by 

 ruling out the pool-race and ruling in the 

 worthy and the beneficial productions? 

 If you cannot draw as big a crowd, you 

 can get a better one; and it you don't 

 take in as much money at the gate, you 

 can make the fairs a moral and material 

 success, jiro bono publico, which is some- 

 thing which has not been accomplished 

 heretofore to any gi-eat extent, surely. 



Col. Younger's address before the 

 Cattle-Breeders' Association, shows the 

 true spirit of the stock breeders upon 

 this important question. And as a proof 

 that they are in earnest, we now append 

 a series of resolutions reported by a com- 

 mittee of the Association. Owing to the 

 reluctance of other papers to publish 

 them in full, wo are the first to spread 

 them before the jiublic. We only regret 

 that the resolutions are not more radical: 



Mr. President, and Gentlemen of the TJio- 



roitijhbred Cattle-Breeder's Association: 



Y"our Committee, appointed for the 



purpose of drafting resolutions relative 

 to the exhibition of cattle at the State 

 Fair, would most respectfully report as 

 follows: 



That after duly considering the whole 

 matter, and believing that the cattle in- 

 terests of this State, as well as all the 

 Western States of the Union, is second 

 to no other interest, as is plainly shown 

 by the cattle receiving the gold medal 



over all other stock for several years past 

 at the annual exhibition of the State 

 Society; and, whereas, under an act to 

 incorporate a State Agricultural Society, 

 etc., the latter part of section '2d of said 

 act reads as follows, viz: "and for an ex- 

 hibition of the various breeds of horses, 

 cattle, mules and other stock, and of 



agricultural, mechanical, and domestic 

 manufactures and productions, and for 

 no other purposes;" and, whereas, it is 

 very plain, from the above quotation of 

 said act, that there was no provision for 

 a speed programme Cin our opinion), 

 and as the report of the State Board 

 shows that they spend more money on 

 the race-horse thau on all other stock, 

 and more time is devoted to the inter- 

 ests of the race-track than all other in- 

 terests combined; therefore, be it 



Besolved, That we hereby request the 



State Board of Bgriculfure to give more 

 attention to the cattle interests of this 

 State, and do away with the daily parade 

 of cattle, as we believe that it is very in- 

 jurious as well as expensive, and no 

 good derived from it; we also ask that 

 the ton per cent, entrance fee, wherever 

 it applies to cattle iu the premium list, 

 be stricken out, as we think and believe 

 it unjust to make an exhibition and pay 

 for it; we further request and ask that 

 our cattle may be exhibited and passed 

 upon in front of the grand stand, the 

 ribbons tied on the successful animals, 

 and the award declared at the time by 

 the Marshal, as is done iu other States. 



Hesolved, That we make the above rea- 

 sonable requests, and that unless they 

 are complied with, this Association will 

 make no exhibition of cattle at the State 

 Fair. 



Resolved, That a copy of these resolu- 

 tions be sent to the secretary of State 

 Board of Agriculture, to bo by him laid 

 before said Board; and that the said sec- i 

 retary is hereby requested to nctify the , 

 secretary of this Association what action ; 

 they may take on the above resolutions. , 



(Signed) Robt. .\sHEt:r.NEi!, ) 



CvKCs Jones, /- Com. I 



J. D. Garb, ) . ' 



Sacramento, April 19, 1876. 



TABOR DERRICK HAY-FORK. 



Next in importance to a good derrick 

 is a good hay-fork — one that will gather 

 up, hold onto, and carri' into place a 

 large or small grab with equal facility, 

 and that is under perfect control in all ' 

 positions. Such an oneis the Taber, the 

 late invention of Orriu Taber, of San . 

 Jose, and manufactured in San Jose. 



This is certainly a meritorious 

 invention. Our illustration will 

 give au idea of the way it works, 

 but to be appreciated it must 

 be seen. It grapples onto the 

 hay with a leverage power, in- 

 creased with the weight of the 

 load. The grapple forks are sep- 

 arately axled into a huge bail, as 

 shown. Each jaw of the fork has 

 two arms at right angles with , 

 its axle, one of which the weight 

 of the fork draws upon to open 

 the jaws; the other and opposite 

 lever arm the whole weight draws 

 upon to close the jaws when 

 gathering and lifting. An admir- 

 able arrangement for dropping 

 the load completes this almost 

 perfect thing. Besides hand- 

 ling long hay and straw with 

 perfect ease and certainty, it will also 

 gather in its huge grasp chaff or grain 

 heads. With this fork a header wagon 

 can be unloaded speedily. 



Mr. Taber has already more orders for 

 these forks thau he can fill this season, 

 but will probably be able before another 

 year to supply the demand. Meanwhile, 

 snch of our readers as are interested will 

 do well to remember this and examine 

 into its work and merits. 



Born.— San Jose, JlajrUth, 1876, to tlie wife 

 f S. Harris Ht-niug, a sou. 



