1858. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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BOLES' PATENT? STONE-DIGGEK AND "WALL-LAYEB. 



A, Is the rock just raised above grouud. F. 

 the windlass. G, the connecting wheels between 

 the windlass and crank-shaft H. H, the crank- 

 shaft, with drum, secured to or detached from 

 the shaft at pleasure. B B, the hoisting-rope, 

 wound on the drum or crank-shaft H, and runs 

 under a roller and through a shreeve near the 

 end of the tongue, to which a horse is attached 

 to hoist the rock. The small crank and shaft 

 under crank-shaft H, is to wind up the rope when 

 the rock is hoisted high enough and the horse is 

 detached. The proprietors of this machine and 

 patent right claim, that it is one of the greatest 

 labor-saving improvements of the age. It will 

 take rocks out of the earth of five tons weight 

 or less, M'ithout digging to relieve them, with 

 great ease and rapidity, and move them into the 

 line for a wall, if desired, and place smaller ones 

 on top until the wall is five feet high. The ma- 

 chine may be operated by men or by horse-power. 

 The united power of two men will lift a rock of 

 five tons weight from the ground in ten minutes, 

 or it may be done by a horse in one minute. 

 The proprietor has many certificates from prac- 

 tical men showing the efficacy of his machine. 

 For further particulars address Thomas Ellis, 

 Rochester, Mass. 



kind of sweet well-made hay, cut it with a knife, 

 and with your hands press it well around the 

 hams in the bag ; tie the bags with good strings, 

 put on a card of the year to show their age, and 

 hang them up in the garret or some dry room, 

 and they will hang five years, and will be better 

 for boiling than on the day you hung them up. 

 this method costs but little, as the bags will last 

 forty years. No flies or 1 ngs will trouble the 

 hams if the hay is wellpres'-"d around them ; the 

 sweating of the hams will )■■: taken up by the hay 

 and the hay will impart a fiae flavor to the hams. 

 The hams should be treat el in this manner be- 

 fore the warm weather sets in. — Southern Far- 



To Pkeserve Ham through the Summer. 

 — Make a number of cotton bags, a little larger 

 than your hams : after the hams are well smoked, 

 place them in the bags ; then get the very best 



THE HOHSE NOT OEIG INALLY IMPOBT- 

 ED PKOM TUB EAST. 



It is well known to our readers that Professor 

 Holmes, of the College el Charleston, has been 

 for many years engaged in exploring the fossil 

 beds of Ashley river. A large number of inter- 

 esting relics have been collected, and the savans 

 of Europe and America have expressed their 

 great satisfaction at the results of these explora- 

 tions. Professor Agassiz in a lecture some lime 

 since, just after a visit to the Ashley with Pro- 

 fessor H., said, "it was the greatest depository 

 of fossil remains he had ever seen." Professor 

 Tuomey called it "the great shark sepulchre of 

 America," and now Professor Leidy, the distin- 

 guished American anatomist, has prepared a val- 

 uable paper on the remains of the horse and 

 other animals, found fossil on the Ashley, which 

 had been placed in his hands for examination by 

 Profesor Holmes ; and it will appear, from the 

 short extract we make, that the investigation now 



