NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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nicrljamcs' Department, 2lrts, $Zt. 



LOCOMOTIVE BUILDING. 



John Souther, Esq., at the Glohe Works, South 

 Boston, has just completed a finely built locomo- 

 tive called the "Indiana,"' for the Terre Haute and 

 Richmond Railroad. It is about twenty tons 

 weight, and is a first class machine. Ttis tobecon- 

 veyed via railroad to Buffalo, and thence to Cleve- 

 land by water. We understand that the business 

 of locomotive building was never better than at 

 the present time. All the shops are crowded with 

 work, and some manufacturers have orders which 

 cannot be answered during the present year. In 

 connection with the Globe Works, South Boston, 

 Mr. Souther has in full operation at Richmond, 

 Ya., the Tredegar Works, where are manufactured 

 locomotive and stationary engines for the Southern 

 trade. He has for both shops orders for about 

 eighty locomotives, of which twenty-five are for 

 roads in the State of Ohio. 



The Boston Locomotive Works, Harrison Aven- 

 ue, are also taxing their energies to fulfil the or- 

 ders the Company have on hand, and are now 

 turning out two locomotives every week. 



Scth Wilmarth, at the Union Works, South Bos- 

 ton, has contracts for twelve of his superior loco- 

 motives, all to be completed within three months. 

 Several of these locomotives are intended for the 

 Hudson River Railroad, and are to be capable of 

 running a mile a minute. 



The shops at Manchester, Lowell and Taunton, 

 are crowded with work, while the locomotive 

 builder, Rogers, of Patterson, N. J., has more than 

 he can do, notwithstanding his great facilities for 

 extensive operations. 



The cause of this great demand is the opening 

 of a large number of new railroads at the West 

 and South, and locomotives will have a ready sale 

 for years to come, as plans have been laid to cover 

 the whole of the North Western States with a net 

 work of iron rails. There is also a demand for 

 eastern machinists at the West, and numbers are 

 leaving every month for railroads and machine 

 shops in that section of our country. — Traveller. 



New Carpet Loom. — We saw in operation on 

 Monday, at Mr. Bickford's machine shop in this 

 city, a new carpet loom, the invention of John 

 Goulding, Esq., a gentleman of well-known me- 

 chanical ingenuity. It is much more compact, and 

 occupies much less room, than any other carpet 

 loom now in use ; requiring a space 20 by 10 feet 

 in a room 10 feet high. It weaves nearly twice 

 as many colors as any other loom, of any pattern 

 of Brussels carpeting that may be desired ; and 

 performs the work with much neatness and pre- 

 cision ; and gives to the web a high finish. It is 

 a beautiful machine, of great simplicity in its con- 

 struction, and all the parts apparently so adjusted 

 as to be durable in operation. It is much superi- 

 or to any carpet loom now in use. — Worcester Pal- 

 ladium . 



Iron. — The uses to which iron is put are be- 

 coming more various every day. We have not on- 

 ly iron railroads, iron locomotives, iron ships and 

 steamboats, but iron bedsteads, iron furniture, and 

 ir 'ii crockery. We have iron stores, iron cottages, 

 ir m fish hooks, iron viaducts, and iron light- 

 houses. We have not only iron rolling pins, and 



iron bereaus, but iron ball rooms — the latter ar- 

 ticle being just ordered by the Queen of Manches- 

 ter. We have iron stools, iron rocking chairs, 

 and in a few years will have iron overcoats and 

 iron counterpanes, sheets of iron being already 

 very common. Whether we shall ever reach iron 

 cocktails, or pork made of pig-iron, is yet to be 

 seen. We should not be at all surprised, however, 

 if we did. 



A New Machine. — A machine for painting win- 

 dow blinds has been invented by Samuel Fields, a 

 painter of Worcester. The blinds are first dipped 

 inte a tub or long box of paint ; they are then af- 

 fixed to circular pieces of board which run upon a 

 shaft within a large cylinder made of zinc. The 

 blinds are then turned within this cylinder for a 

 few minutes, then taken out and brushed over. 

 By this machine one man can paint easily 80 pairs 

 of blinds in a day and not work over ten hours. 



The Tunnel Machine. — We still receive accounts 

 of the success of the great Hoosac Mountain Bor- 

 er. The machine more than answers the expec- 

 tation of the builders. It was warranted to bore 

 six feet a day every day, and place the rock in a 

 position to be taken away, or the builders were to 

 receive no pay for the machine. The Greenfield 

 Gazette says, that it is found that it will bore more 

 than double that distance. In fact, it has, with 

 the present imperfect state of its working, bored 

 at the rate of twenty inches an hour. The rock 

 operated on so far is the hardest kind of quartz 

 rock. — Boston Journal. 



Cables' Department. 



DOMESTIC RECIPES. 



BccKwnEAT Cakes. — One pint of buckwheat 

 meal, one quart of water, salt just to taste, one 

 gill of home-made yeast. Mix the water (which 

 should be lukewarm if the weather is cold,) with 

 the meal, add the salt and yeast, beat it well ; 

 when light, bake them on a griddle. Grease the 

 griddle, pour on a little of the batter, spread it so 

 as to form a cake about the size of a breakfast 

 plate. The cakes should be very smooth at the 

 edges. When they are done on one side, turn 

 them ; when brown on both sides, put some but- 

 ter on the plate, place the cake on it, butter the 

 top, bake another and put on it, butter it, and 

 send them to the table. Buckwheat cakes are 

 much better if they are sent to the table with only 

 one or two on a plate. 



Soda Biscuit. — Six ounces of butter, six ounces 

 of sugar, one tea-spoonful of the carbonate of soda, 

 one pint of milk, flour enough to form a dough. — 

 Melt the butter in the milk and dissolve the soda 

 in it. Stir in the sugar, and add flour enough to 

 form a stiff dough. Knead it well, roll it out thin, 

 then knead it up again until it is smooth and light. 

 Roll it out in sheets about a quarter of an inch 

 thick, cut it into cakes, and bake them in a rather 

 hot oven. 



Kisses, or Cream Cake. — The whites of three 

 eggs, one drop of essence of lemon, as much pow- 

 dered sugar as will thicken the eggs. Whisk the 

 whites to a dry froth, then add the powdered su- 

 gar, a tea-spoonful at a time, till the egg is as 



