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THE GENESEE FARMEE. 



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Price — £5 15s. 6d. ; mill for crushing oats, (fee. only, £5 5s. ; mill for crushing beans 

 only, £3 to £4 ; mill for crushing linseed only, £.5 to £6. All these mills may he liad 

 of a larger size, for horse or steam power, if required. 



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CROSKILl's ARCHIMEDEAN ROOT-V/'ASIIER. Fig. 6. 



.CroskilPs Archimedian Root-washer. — Fig. 6 represents this very useful machine. 

 "\^Tiere roots are fed to cattle or horses, it is very important that they should be perfectly 

 clean ; and where large quantities are consumed, washing in the ordinary way is a 

 tedious and laborious process. In this " Archimedean" washer the roots are delivered 

 into a hopper, and pass thence in an inclined cylinder having two chambers. In the 

 first they are confined and washed by turning the handle in one direction ; then by 

 turning the handly round the other way, they pass into the second .chamber, which is 

 constructed in a spiral form, along which they pass and drop into a spout outside. This 

 costs in England, $17.50. 



Steam Engines for the Farm. — Steam is the wonderful power of the age. Wonder- 

 ful in the tremendous force it creates, and in the vast diversity of operations which it is 

 capable of performing at one and the same time with the utmost attainable accuracy. 

 "It can not only in one mill turn a lathe, and in another weave a stocking — in one 

 hammer circular bars of iron, and in another dress a piece of broadcloth; but the same 

 engine can, bv the machinery which it drives in the same building, if necessary, hammer, 

 and cut, and file, and turn — can spin, and weave, and dress — can, in fact, taie tlie raw 

 material at one end of the building, and by one single original motion feed itself Avith 

 coke and water, which itself pumps up, move the machine which takes in the wool, 

 transfer it to the other machines ready for its manufacture, and bring it out broadcloth 

 ready for the tailor. Of such a power as this may not the agriculturist avail himself to 

 carry on his multifarioiis operations ? Why may he not thresh, and plow, and sow, 

 and roll, and harrow, and mow, and stack, by a power which accomplishes for the man- 

 ufacturer processes far more difficult ?" And steam engines really are at this moment 

 used by extensive cultivators to a very considerable extent, and in the great exhibition 

 the large number of engines for farm purposes exhibited, furnish a striking proof that 

 their use has passed beyond the bounds of theory. I have seen several in operation on 



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