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ehine, we copy from the Complete Farmer, a valuable 

 agricultural work published at Boston. 



"Brooks' silk spinning and reeling machine, which 

 was invented by himself, is found to be a very simple 

 and easy operating machine, and yet one of the most 

 perfect that has been invented for the purpose of reeling 

 and twisting silk from the cocoons, and manufacturing 

 it into sewing silk. By the different arrangements of 

 this machine, it will operate upon a single or double 

 thread, as may be required, and prepare it for twisting 

 or weaving. Experience has fully proved, that by 

 uniting the filaments of silk as they are drawn from the 

 cocoons, wet in their natural glutinous substance, be- 

 fore they dry, the thread is more firm, smooth and strong. 



"The simplicity of the machine, and the very easy 

 way in which it is used, brings it within the comprehen- 

 sion and capacity of any person to use it. Mr. Brooks 

 has received a premium for his invention from several 

 societies, and of late a premium and medal from Scott's 

 legacy in Philadelphia." 



Mr. Cobb has tried the invention of Mr. Brooks in 

 his extensive manufactory for sewing silk ; and although 

 he highly approves of it as an invention eminently 

 adapted for making sewing silk in families, yet for large 

 manufacturing establishments, like his own, he gives a 

 decided preference to the new and highly improved 

 English machinery, for making sewing silk. We confi- 

 dently hope that Mr. Brooks will add those improve- 

 ments to his machine, which will render it as well 

 adapted to extensive factories as it already is for the use 

 of families. 



DENNIS' REELING AND SPINNING MACHINE. 



Jonathan Dennis of Portsmouth, R. I., has very lately 

 invented and taken out a patent for a machine for making 

 sewing silk, direct from the cocoon, at a single opera- 

 tion, which is stated by him to be far more perfect and 

 expeditious in its evolutions than any other machine yet 



