1858. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



513 



APPLE PARING MACHINES. 



bushel and raised 7-^ bushels ; 1 bushel of them, 

 82 in number, weighed 65 pounds. -^u. 



Canaan, JV*. H., Sept. 15, 1858. 



QUESTIONS AXD ANSWERS. 



What time of the year is best to spread clay 

 on sandy land, and on grass ground ? 



How much fowl-meadow grass seed ought to 

 be sown on an acre of low land that has been 

 plowed, and what time of year is the best to sow 

 it? Where can it be bought, and 

 about what price ? Is this spear that 

 I enclose the genuine kind ? 



Will it pay to sow the seed on 

 grass land and not do anything else 

 to it? 



I send you, also, a leaf of a young 

 tree that I found on my farm. Can 

 you tell what kind of a tree it is ? 



Will potatoes that are cut, one 

 eye to a piece when planted, get 

 ripe as early as larger ones ? 



I think that potatoes are not so 

 good that ai-e cut very small, be- 

 cause they do not set so early, there- 

 fore do not get so ripe. 



George Estes. 



North UencicJc, Me., 1858. 



Remarks. — Haul out clay in the 

 autumn, and drop it on sandy land, 

 or on grass land ; and the winter 

 frosts will enable you to spread it 

 in the following spring. If hauled 

 on to grass land early in the au- 

 tumn, it should not be left in heaps. 



2. We learn, upon inquiry, that a bushel of 

 fowl-meadow grass seed is not too much for an 

 acre. Sow in August, early in September, or in 

 April or May. There is but little seed in the 

 market, and it is quite high — as much as $3 to 

 $4 a bushel. The spear you sent is the true 

 fowl-meadow. 



3; Cannot tell by the leaf sent what tree it 

 came from. 



4. Cannot tell about the potatoes. 



The above engraving represents ope of Whit- 

 temore & Brothers^ patent apple-paring machines. 

 Five revolutions of the crank pares, cores and 

 slices the apple in the neatest manner. The fig- 

 ure at the left hand corner of the engraving 

 shows the apple sliced. Taking the whole op- 

 eration of preparing the apple for the pan, there 

 is probably no machine which performs the 

 work with so much certainty and facility. 



TURN-TABLE PARING MACHINE. 



This machine is on an entirely new principle. 

 It has no snapping or reverse motion ; is 

 made entirely of iron and not liable to get out of 

 order, being simple in its construction. After 

 the apple is pared the knife is carried round by 

 means of the Tum-Tahle, to the rear side of the 

 apple, thereby giving no obstruction to remov- 

 ing or replacing the apple ; it then passes under 

 the fork arbor, to commence paring, as seen in 



