NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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HAND AND HORSE GRAIN MILL. 



This mill is very efficient and durable, and may be 

 operated by hand or horse power, or by steam, water, 

 or wind. It may be regidated so as to produce fine 

 meal, or only for cracking grain, or making coarse 

 meal for stock. It is simple in its operation, not 

 liable to derangement, and when the grinding plates 

 become worn, they can be replaced by new ones at 

 a very small expense. 



In many parts of the country, farmers arc not well 

 accommodated with grist mills in their vicinity, and 

 these mills would be very advantageous. There is a 

 great profit in cracking corn and oats before feeding 

 them to stock ; and with this machine it may be 

 done at leisure, so that the cost will frequently be 

 but a trifle. The cost of the^o mills is fiom twenty 

 tij thirty dollars. 



PEARS ON THE SHAD BUSH. 



Mr. George Fitch, of South Bridgton, Mo., informs 

 us that he set some pear scions, last spring, in the 

 Shad Bush, or June Berry, (generally called Sugar 

 rium, or Sugar Pear, in Maine,) which flourished 

 tolerably well. He also set pear scions in the White 

 Thorn. Tliey all did well, and one, in its native 

 locality, made an exceedingly Large growth. Two 

 scions were set in tins stock ; the main branch of one 

 {^•cw five feet and ten inches in length. The growth 

 of both scions, with their branches, was twenty-three 

 feet. 



REVIEW OF WOOL MARKET FOR JAN- 

 UARY. 



A short run among the manufacturers and d( alors 

 lias convinced us that all our previous estimates of 

 the amount of wool on hand is jjcrfcctly correct. A 

 few manufacturers have a tolerable supply on hand, 

 but as a general thing, not more than enough to stand 



them in hand until the next clip, even if it comes into 

 market enrly. The large majority have not enough 

 to keep them fviUy supplied for only a short time. 

 The dealers have but light stocks on hand, and we 

 are still of the opinion that all the wool in the country 

 might be worked up by March, if it were an object. 



The present hii^^h price of coarse and medium woola 

 is bringing in a large amount of foreign, and we 

 shoiild not be surprised if the importations this year 

 reached at least twenty millions. Fine wool con- 

 tinues depressed, and will not bring its relative value, 

 though it is doing better than during the last month. 

 One drawback upon the fine wool market, has been 

 in the largo quantity brought upon the market from 

 the Springfield depot. This once disposed of, and 

 we hope the market will be more firm and steady. 



Sales are making here of prime Saxony, at .50 ® 

 50 cents ; full-blood, 45 (a) 48 cents ; grade Saxony 

 and Merino, 38 ta> 42 cents ; common and medium 

 grades, .33 fa) 38 cents. These prices vary with the 

 necessity of the manufacturers. 



AsTOR IIousi:, Ni;w Yokk, Jan. 24, 1850. 

 — Editorial Corrcsp:mdoncc of the Wool-Clriywcr. 



FoKKiGN Wool, Market. — We also copy from the 

 Wool-Grower the following rcmai'ks on the wool 

 market in foreign countries : — 



There is a considerable rise and a brisk business in 

 the wool markets of the old country. And indeed 

 it cannot he otherwise. Tlie market has been greatly 

 depressed by the political disturbances Western Europe 

 has been laboring under for the last two years, and 

 trade and confidence have been shaken to the utmost. 

 Now ])cacc and q\iiet have been restored, at le.ust for 

 a while, and buyers, reassured by tliese more favor- 

 able signs of the times, appear again in the market, 

 and business brightens up. Another cause of tho 

 renewed activity of the purchasers of wool, and their 

 eagerness for clearing the market, is the almost entire 

 d(^struction of most of the improved sliccji-folds in 

 Hungary, which used to supply the markets of tho 

 east, as Breslau and Berlin, wilh the choicest lots. 

 Every thing that could be made use of, even_ if 

 inferior to the last-mentioned wools, has therefore 

 been sought for; and hence the comparative higher 

 prices and much activity in the wool market 



