1859. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER, 



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CHAFER'S MACHINE fOK UKJEfcidiiVOr MljbLi-fclTONES. 



The ahove cut represents Draper s Inipruved 

 Patent Ahtclirni; for Ihc^siny Jhil-Sf.uiies. The 

 Bubscribers present iv to the public with perfect 

 confidence, as* one of the most labor-sa\ing ma- 

 chines in use, while from the uniformity of stroke 

 and perfect adaptation of the chisel to the stone, 

 one-half, at least, of the expense of sharpening 

 Uols is saved, and the character of the dress 

 much improved. 



The machine being attached to the spindle of 

 the mill, is put in motion by the revolution of 

 the same, being capable of striking eight hundred 

 times in a minute, with a convenient arrangement 

 for graduating the stroke to any required weight, 

 and adjustable to any draft, doing the work with 

 a precision not easily acquired by hand-dressing, 

 and being wholly under the control of the oper- 

 ator. It is readily adapted to any kind of dress 

 for either burr or granite ; for the latter, the 

 time usually required for dressing is from ten to 

 fifteen minutes, and for burr, from fifteen to 

 thirty, cracking the face in perfect lines, parallel 

 with the furrows, without breaking the surface 

 between the lines, thus producing a much more 

 perfect dress in one-eighth part ]of the time re- 

 quired for dressing with the hammer. Thus the 

 Btone is preserved for longer use, and makes 

 more, and a better quality of meal, in the same 

 time, than by the usual method of dressing. To 

 the most ordinary observer, the advantages must 

 be obvious. Application may be made to the 

 Bubscribers, at South Dedham, Mass. 



T. W. & R. M. Draper. 



The Horticulturist. — The number of this 

 popular journal for May is a capital one. The 

 "leader" by the editor, upon "Life in the Coun- 

 try Railroad Cars," seems as natural as the way 

 to breakfast. We have been in those cars, some- 



times, and have had ocular and olfactory expe- 

 riences there ! As Sancho Panza said of the 

 '•man who invented sleep," so say we, — "bless- 

 ings on the man who will devise and put in exe- 

 cution some mode of correcting the evils of our- 

 gregarious mode of railroad travelling." 



This number of the Horticulturist is eminently 

 practical. See the article on "The Useful and 

 the Beautiful, in Gardening ;" one on "Bad Graft- 

 ing — How Wood is formed" — with illustrations ; 

 and one on "Budding and Grafting." The fron- 

 tispiece presents a fine, colored engraving of the 

 "Hartford Prolific Grape." Published by C. M. 

 Saxton, New York. 



For the New England Farmer. 

 TUKNIPS. 



As the turnip ordeal was passing, I was feed- 

 ing out my crop of some eight hundred bushels. 

 To gratify your correspondent at Lowell, Vt., I 

 wish to say I rolled them from the root cellar to 

 the barn floor in a wheelbarrow, there split them 

 up with a long handled square pointed shovel, an 

 implement of the cow-house, and shovelled them 

 into the mangers. When they were given to the 

 dairy cows, it was directly after the morning's 

 milking. VVhether they "thinned or thickened, in- 

 creased or diminished, the quantity of milk," my 

 observations do not allow me to say. The im- 

 proved condition of the animals, indicate that 

 their products during the whole of the coming 

 season will be materially increased both in quan- 

 tity and quality. 



The time saved from the fifteen minutes per 

 bushel, which it took the hired man of your Mas- 

 sachusetts correspondent to feed theii out, to- 



