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F A R M E R S REGISTER 



[No. 5. 



For the Fanners' Register, i 

 MACHINE FOR RAISING MARL. 



In your Essay on Calcareous Manures, yoi \ 

 give instructions tor digging and carting marl. I 

 This method I pursued for several years, bul found 

 the labor hard on my hands, ami tedious. _ Marl 

 here is generally found in deep ravines, or in wet 

 grounds. My operations have been slow, from 

 the difficulty of maldnir firm and lasdng ways, 

 and the labor of ascending steep hills. Last win- 

 ter I made a model, arid this spring I built a ma- 

 chine for raising ma 1 - 1 , to be worked by a horse. 5 

 have been using it to advantage, and now send 

 you a draught, of it, as it may I to th ise 



"who have wet marl pits like mine. By means of 

 a pump to throw off the water, pits may be work- 

 ed at a considerable depth; and even if marl is 

 dry, if it lies deep, I think it may be used to ad- 

 vantage. I use two boxes, and by means ol 



hinrrps and a latch, the marl is discharged from 

 he bottom. I have double blocks: the rope | ass- 

 s through the swoop about eighteen inches from 

 he end, and runs down to the post which sup- 

 ports the swoop, and passes through it, on a small 

 roller, and in like manner through the next post, 

 to the cylinder, to which a reel is attached to in- 

 crease the motion. The post which holds the 

 swoop and the cylinder, runs on iron pins let into 

 thimbles. The levi r is in two pieces, one fastened 

 tlir cylinder with a groove at the end, into 

 which the oilier is let. and secured by a sliding. 

 iron clamp. When the marl is discharged from 

 he box, and the swoop swung round over the pit, 

 in nautical phrase, by unshipping the end of the 

 levei', the rope unwinds, and the box descends 

 without moving the horse. The, circle in which 

 he horse travels ought to be twenty-one feet in 

 diameter, and the second and third posts support- 

 ed by side bi 



The cost of the machine is small, though I can- 

 not, make an exact estimate. The carpenter who 

 did the work, was hired by the day on the. farm, 

 and was taken off with other jobs: but his bill 

 could not exceed eight dollars. The cost of the 

 iron work was ten, and one hundred and six y-five 

 feet of inch rope, at eighteen and a half cents a 

 pound. The timber, taken from my own woods, 

 may be estimated at five dollars. The rope I find 

 soon wears out, and I intend to supply its place 

 with a light iron chain. 



When the marl is uncovered, with one efficient 

 hand in the pit, and a less efficient one to discharge 

 the boxes and drive the horse, five hundred bush- 

 els may be raised in a day. The work is not op- 

 pressive to the laborers. The teams stand on 

 high, dry ground: no sloughs to plunge through, 

 and no hills to climb. The swoop is turned by a 

 email rope over the carts, and the marl immedi- 

 ately discharged into them. I work four carts, 

 with two sets of oxen to each. They came out 

 of the winter lean and weak; and now with green 

 clover for their food, at the distance of a half to 

 three-quarters of a mile, I draw out from four to 

 five hundred bushels a day; and my oxen have 

 improved. My work goes on with ease and ex- 



pedition, without stoppage to mend roads, or to 

 clear ditches. 



WILLIAM CARMICIIAEL. 



Wye, Queen jiane^s co. Md. July 15, 1835. 



CULTIVATION 



OF BEET-ROOT 

 FRANCE. 



SUGAR IN 



A hectare of land (nearly 2 J acres) sown with 

 beet, produces, in most cases, 2,400 kilogrammes 

 of the root, which is equivalent to 47 cwt. 36 lbs. 

 avoirdupois; and there are many instances in which 

 a single grower raises from 80,000 to 90,000 kilo- 

 grammes (6,260 to 7,098 cwt.) The cultivation 

 costs the farmer about 8s. the 1,000 kilogrammes 

 (20 cwt.) The quantity of sugar extracted by 

 the present process is in the proportion _of se- 

 ven or eight parts of saccharine matter out of 100 

 parts of the raw root. From the molasses, sugar 

 is obtained, and the pulp furnishes nearly as much 

 fattening food for cattle as the root in its simple 

 state; the leaves also are much sought after by the 

 grazier for his cows during those months of the 

 year when green fodder is not easily obtained. — 

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