1859. 



KEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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FANNING- AND ASSORTING MACHINE. 



We speak^of this machine after a personal in- 

 spection of it, and after witnessing repeated op- 

 «!rations of its work. We saw a variety of seeds 

 as thoroughly mixed in a box as they could be, 

 turned into the hopper of the Assorting Machine, 

 and in a few minutes returned, thoroughly clean, 

 and each kind of seed, as well as all imperfect 

 seeds, in a box by itself! You may mingle grain 

 and grass seeds, garden and flower seeds, beans, 

 peas, coffee, rice, and they will be rapidly re- 

 turned to you, clean, and each by itself! Peas 

 and beans may be assorted according to their 

 size, and thus give them a uniform appearance, 

 which increases their market value. The machine 

 is simple in construction, not liable to get out of 

 order, and is so easily operated that a boy a dozen 

 years of age, can comfortably do it. It was in- 

 vented by Mr. RuFUS Nutting, of Randolph, 

 Vt., who may be addressed by those interested. 



A Simple Remedy for BRoxcniTis.— A 

 writer in the Baltimore Snn\vh.o has been afflict- 

 ed severely in his family by that appalling dis- 

 ease, bronchitis, has found relief from the follow- 

 ing remedy : — "Take honey in the comb, squeeze 



it out and dilute with a little water, and wet the 

 lips and mouth occasionally v.ith it." It had 

 never been known to fail, in cases where children 

 had throats so swollen as to be unable to swal- 

 low. It is certainly a simple remedy, and may 

 be a very efucacious one. 



Delays of the Law. — In one of Judge 

 French's letters from London, published in the 

 Farmer in August, 1857, in speaking of the ad- 

 ministration of justice, he said, "England had 

 made many advances, while we in New England 

 have stood quietly still, awe-stricken and uncov- 

 ered in our veneration for old legal fictions and 

 forms, which are really entitled to no more re- 

 spect or reverence, than are the old horse-hair 

 gray wigs, which in England every judge and 

 every barrister is compelled to wear in the 

 courts." "Of these matters," he added, "I may 

 have something to say at some proper time and 

 place, when further observation shall have assist- 

 ed my knowledge." 



It appears that this sort of a half-promise was 

 gladly received by some persons, and they have 

 been waiting patiently for its fulfilment. Upon 



