1856. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



161 



ing 14 Sabbaths, one only was pleasant from morn- 

 ing to night." 



In this county, during those 14 Sabbaths, we 

 hardly noticed a diminution of the usual congrega- 

 tions, on more than one or two, on account of the 

 state of the weather. Two only do I remember, 

 which may be said to be stormy, and one of these, 

 only in the morning. Our house of worship is on 

 high ground, and exposed to wind from all points 

 of the compass. Thermometer has been once or 

 twice 21 or 22 degrees below zero, and on usual 

 days, from 2 to 10 below, in this town, but our 

 stages have not lost a single trip, or been delayed 

 much beyond their usual time. The thermometer 



has been lower in some villages contiguous to 

 streams, in our valleys, though not, so far as I have 

 learned, so low as 30. We have, in all, some two 

 feet of snow in the north part of the county, and 

 probably more than that at the head of the streams 

 which flow in to Memphremagog lake. The town, 

 in which I write is 12 miles south of Canada line, and 

 is generally three or four hundred feet above the 

 level of the lake, or about one thousand feet above 

 the ocean. The weather, thus far, has not been 

 such as to make it uncomfortable to perform out-of- 

 door work, with the exception of a very few days. 

 There has been hardly any interruption to travel. 

 Jan., 1856. Yours, &c., Orleans. 



EMERY'S RAILWAY HORSE-POWER. 



The time has been, says the Rural JVew- Yorka , 

 when the implements used in agriculture were of 

 the rudest and simplest construction ; when the ig- 

 norant hind who used them, possessed an intellect 

 scarcely above the abiUty to yoke a pair of bullocks 

 to a forked stick for a plow, and to tread out the 

 ripened grain by means of cattle. As civilization 

 advanced, and intelligence became diff'used among 

 the people, the agricultural laborer was not slow to 

 avail himself of the lights of science in order to 

 ameliorate his condition. He hastened to adopt 

 improved implements of husbandry, until at length 

 complicated and elegant machinery has superseded 

 a vast amount of manual labor. The horse-power, 

 the threshing-machine, the gang-plow, the mower 

 and reaper, &c., &c., must now be reckoned among 

 the necessities of the farm. 



To keep pace with the demand for improved 

 machinery, vast and extended workshops for its 

 manufacture have been erected in various parts of 

 the country, employing hundreds of men, and re- 



quiring the investment of a great amoimt of capi- 

 tal. Among those establishments which have be- 

 come distinguished, may be reckoned the works of 

 Messrs. Emery & Co., at Albany, N. Y. Their 

 manufactory occupies a building four stories in 

 height, built of brick, and the machinery and im- 

 plements turned out by them are models of their 

 kind. Emery's Horse-Powers and Threshers are 

 especially known and appreciated in the grain- 

 growing districts of the North and West. Those of 

 our readers desirous of procuring information rela- 

 tive to, or purchasing, these or other machines 

 manufactured at the above-named Works, will re- 

 ceive prompt and faithful attention by addressing 

 the proprietors as above. 



To J. D., Wakefield, R. I. — How's cattle-leader 

 will be for sale at the Agricultural Warehouses 

 soon. 



The price of the Cider Mill you inquire for is 

 about $40. 



