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NEW ENGLAND FARMER, 



October 31, 1832. 



many thousands of bushels of potatoes, corn, tons I by the full and very strong recoranieudations|n 

 of hay, &c, and individuals themselves become written certificates from the Selectmen, Survffc- 

 d fall into the worst of habits — into idle- I ors of roads, Contracters for repairing turnpije 



and other roads in Saugus, Chelsea, Readiir, 

 Andover and 3Icdford, with an estimate of a sa 



poor 



iiess, gaming, drinking, iS;c. 



There is no kind of economy in the farmer, 

 which will not be well rewarded. Early rising 

 will contribute to his health, and preserve his fields 

 from the inroads of unruly creatures, which com- 

 monly begin their trespasses just as the day begins 

 to dawn. Close mowing and careful raking, will 

 enable him to winter one cow extraordinary. 

 Feeding his hogs by weeds and other vegetable 

 substances, will enable him to pay his shoe-mak- 

 ers. Scraping his door and barn yards, after rains 

 and showers, will clothe his boy. Saving his 

 early apples, and which are commonly lost entire 

 ly, will pay his tailor ; his poultry well attended, 

 will pay his maid. His calves will pay all his 

 taxes, and some part of his liired labor, if proper 

 care be taken of them. In fine, let a farmer who 

 possesses only fifty acres of good land — who owes 

 no man, and who has a common blessuig on the 

 labors of his hands, strictly attend to the manage- 

 ment of his affairs, live a life of patient industry, 

 and practise agreeable to the principles of econo- 

 my, and I think he may live well — may be ex- 

 cused the hardest of labor ; leave his hoe and spade 

 to the next generation, by the time he has been 

 fifty years, when most men begin to think of com- 

 fort, ease and independence. 



BRIGHTON CATTLE SHOW REPORTS. 



TliC Committee on Invejitioits and Improvements, 

 report as folhies : 

 That Mr Lane, from the State of I\Iaine, entered 

 for premiia|^ a machine moved by horse power, 

 for cloari^Pgrain from the straw ; this machine 

 and apparatus is believed the best, (all things con- 

 sidered) to produce a rotary motion by the action 

 of a horse or other animal, that is at present 

 known. It is compact, occu lying about nine feet 

 by three feet, and in height about two feet below 



ing of fifty per cent, in many instances, as stated i 

 figures by two persons. 



The Committee award to Mr Draper for lis 

 machine for repairing roads, §10,00. 



Mr Draper also entered for premium, mud shot , 

 to be used on horses' feet in wet, soft, marsl r 

 ground, by the use of which, horses, in lig t 

 wagons, withsuitahle wheels as to width, can r • 

 move hay with much greater despatch, than in tl i 

 usual mode with carts and oxen, and not poach r 

 cut up the ground. They were reconmiended 3 

 having been used to great advantage, iu certi ■ 

 cates from Mr Oliver of Saugus, and Mr Jose] i 

 Harris of Chelsea. 



The Comnnttee award Mr Draper for his mi i 

 shoes, §5,00. 



Samuel Chamberlain of Westhorough, enter 1 

 for premium, an improved method of enlargii ; 

 barns, by dividing the building lengthwise in tl ; 

 centre, removing the two parts asunder, and fillii 

 the space liy continuing the pitch of the roof, an 

 boarding up the ends, and splicing the beams c 

 ends and in the centre ; by this method, if tl i 

 situation will admit of it, more cubic feet of roo i 

 is obtained, and at much less expense, than by nd ■ 

 ing to the building, or by increasing it on eith r 

 or both sides. Mr Chamherlahi produced a ce 

 tificate of actual expenses 

 enlarging a barn upon 



the Committee of the economy and advantage ot 

 it, that they awarded to Mr Chamberlain §10,00. 



Mr J. R. Newell, of the Agricultural Warehouse, 

 entered for the Rev. J. R. Barbour of Newbury, 

 an apparatus invented by him for removing bets 

 with great facility from one hive to another, with- 

 out destroying the bees, injuring the honey, or 

 the young bees or maggots that are in the cells, 

 and they can be transferred to the new hive with 



;hamherlahi produced a ce ■ 

 uses incurred in altering arm 

 his (jhin, which so far satisfici 



where the horse treads. The horse, mule or ox, 



or any animal used for the moving power, steps ' out difliculty, and the colony increased if desired 

 on an endless chain, made of roi/nd iron bars, ■ The whole apparatus fit for use, is with Mr J. IL 

 about eighteen inches long, and supported at the j Newell, at the Agricultural Warehouse, who wil 

 ends by iron wheels movirg on a plate of iron ; j explain the manner in which it is to be used, anl 

 the machine for clearing the grain from tlie straw | furnish any person (who may be desirous of pui- 

 is attached to the horse power by a leather belt ; I chasing) at a reasonable rate ; the Committee ha] 

 it appeared to clear all the grain from the straw, satisfactory evidence of its having been used to 

 at the rate of about ten bushels the hour; in ad- ! great advantage in repeated instances, and award 

 dition to the advantage of despatch it has over to Mr J. R. Newell for Rev. Mr Barbour, §'JO,OC. 

 other machines in clearing the gkin from the: Mr C. AVillis entered for premium, in behalf of 

 straw, it is compact and portable, — ^ill answer for ', T. G. Fessenden, Esq. (the inventor) a patent poria- 

 a town, and when taken for a siigle farm, the I ble apparatus for ^^ arming apartments by steam and 

 horse power can be applied with eaje to the grain bot water, which is described to the Committee by 

 ' cleaner, the apple grater for cider, tl* corn sheller, i the inventor as follows : " This apparatus consists 



the turning lathe and grind-stone, byiremoving and 

 applying the belt. It has been usefl in the State 

 of Maine, and is approved and lighly recom- 

 mended. I 



The Committee award to Mr Lap a premium 



of §20,00. r 



Mr Ira Draper of Saugus, enteredffor premium, 

 a road former and machine, for removing earth 

 with facility and despatch, filling and levelling deep 

 ruts, particularly in light soil. The Committee 

 had not an opportunity of seeing the machine in 

 operation, but examined the principle on which 

 it was constructed, and the manner in which it 

 was designed to perform the work ; in addition to 

 the opinion they formed of it, from the opportu- 

 nity they had of examining it, they were influenced 



of a hollow iron cylinder, standing perpendicular- 

 ly on short legs, within this cylinder, are a grate, 

 an ash pit, and a fire place, with proper doors to 

 admit fuel, take away ashes, &e, ^c ; directly 

 over the fire ))lace, and also within the cylinder, 

 is a boiler ; and over the boiler two or more fiat 

 cylindrical vessels, fitted with tubes, leading from 

 the boiler, and from one to the other, to receive 

 sseam and yield heat to the air of the room ; the 

 tubes iMMMiig the channels of communication be- 

 twee^^rooilerand receivers, terminate within the 

 latte||two or three inches above tbeii- bottoms, by 

 whigli means water is retained iu the lower parts 

 of « receivers, while their upper parts are heated 

 by ttfam, the extra steam not condensed in the 

 receivers, is carried off by a small tube leading 



into the smoke pipe." Mr Fessenden considers 

 the jiriuciples of this invention to consist in forming 

 an easy and portable apparatus, which furnishes 

 convenient modes of arresting ami detaining much 

 of that heat produced by fire for warming apart- 

 ments, which in common stoves is suffered to es- 

 cape through the stove pipe and chimney. This 

 is eflected by exposing as large surfaces of water, 

 inclosed in proper metallic vessels, as is conven- 

 iently practicable, to the action of the heat of the 

 fire place, distributing the caloric thus detained, 

 within the apartment to be warmed, and conden- 

 sing and bring hack to the boiler the steam thus 

 arising, without the appendages of valves, syphons, 

 iS;c, «S:c, heretofore thought indispensable in beat- 

 ing by steam. The inventor gave a further ex- 

 planation of the advantages arising from the use 

 uf his stove, and showed certificates from scientific 

 and very respectable gentlemen, that had given it 

 a fair trial, and expressed themselves in such 

 strong terms of its usefulness, that the Committee 

 have no hesitation in awarding to Mr Fessenden 

 §10,00. 



IMr Alpheus Smith of Lowell, entered for pre- 

 mium a [jlough plane, which the Committee 

 thciught of excellent workmanship, and the addi- 

 tion of screws for adjusting an improvement. 



Sir Samuel Durfee of Providence, R. I. entered 

 fill premium a door fender, and notwithstanding 

 it.>- merits, the Committee do not award a premium- 

 Mr A. Footc entered for premium a revolving 

 stiam washer; he was too late to come within the 

 e!(ablished rules of the Society, to be entitled to 

 ai examination for premium, the Committee not- 

 withstanding, looked at his certificates, which were 

 jiiimerous, and respectable vouchers from other 

 States, and many towns in the State, of its use- 

 fulness, both as to its performing the wash better, 

 in much less time, and at far less exp.ense than in 

 any other mode in common practice. BIr Foote 

 gave the Conmiittee a minute description of his 

 machine, and the principles on which it operates. 

 It was thought ingenious and combining several 

 old principles advantageously, without introducing 

 a new invention. The machine has been used at 

 the public house kept by IMr Brigham, in Elm St. 

 Boston ; and Mr Brigham's certificate is very full 

 n recommending the machine after a careful trial, 

 as superior to any as yet introduced for washing 

 clothes. Mr Footc wishes the public may be re- 

 ferred to Mr Brigham, at which place Mr Foote 

 resides at present. 



Mr J. R. Newell, of the Agricultural Ware- 

 house, Boston, also placed in the Hall of the So- 

 ciety for exhibition only, many useful implements 

 of husbandry, of a form and finish that do great 

 credit to our country, with many articles in com- 

 mon use of such workmanshii), as commanded the 

 attention and approbation of visiters, and was 

 gratifying to the Committee, who consider them- 

 selves bound to notice particularly, the fineassort- 

 of ploughs highly finished and improved in con- 

 struction, one of which was entered at the plough- 

 ing match in competition with all the ploughs on 

 the field ; for a new and distinct premium, on 

 the merits of the plough, in reference to its con- 

 struction, the two Committees on ploughing were 

 unanimous in awarding the premium of §10 to 

 Mr Howard of Hingham, for his improved plough. 

 Mr Newell also exhibited a corn sheller, im- 

 proved by IMr Willis from the best heretofore in 

 use, that has reduced the price 50 per cent, and 

 greatly increased its usefulness as a corn sheller. 



