No. 20 



THE farmers' cabinet. 



500 



decay, during the life of the animal, and par- 

 ticularly so when we consider its exposed 

 situation. 



There is a medium between all extremes, 

 whicli it is hurtful to pass; and the present 

 case is one tliat seems to illustrate the folly 

 of pretending to a knowledge of things'', wiiilo 

 the facts that are to establish the truth, are 

 only on tiie way of investigation. 



The hollow horn, is a kind of general term 

 friven by ignorant people, to all the diseases 

 of whicli cattle die in the spring season ; and 

 this want ot knowledge is perhaps as near 

 the truth, as that exce.ss of intbrniation which 

 pretends to know, that such a disease " has no 



existence in nature. 



A Sl'BSCRrBER. 



For the rarin«rs' Caliiiiet. 

 Altmiatiiis Elevator for Horse Power. 



As the application of horse power iiisicnd 

 of men is generally considered advantageous, 

 1 have concluded to send a description of a 

 macliiuc, which will be found very useful in 

 raising ponderous substances, such aa hay, 

 grain, and oth«- articles, to the higher parts 

 of barns and warehouses, or materials for the 

 construction of buildings, &c. Suppose one 

 end of a rope made fast to a hook or other 

 Buitable apparatus, to sustain or hold the ob- 

 ject to be elevated, and passed over a station- 

 ary wheel or pulley at a point above tliat to 

 which the objects are to be raised, and under 

 another stationary pulley, placed at a point 

 two or three feet above the ground or object 

 upon which the horse is intended to move, 

 and under another stationary pulley at the 

 same height above the ground or horse's 

 course, as the last mentioned one, and at a 

 distance from it two or three feet more than 

 the height or space through which the objects 

 to be elevated are intended to pass; and over 

 another stationary pulley above the point to 

 which the objects are to be raised, and down 

 to the point from which the objects are to be 

 taken, and the other end of the rope attached 

 to a hook or suitable object to sustain or bear 

 the article to be raised while the other end of 

 tlie rope descends. 



Now suppose one end of the rope to be at 

 the highest point, and the other end at the 

 lowest point, and the hook or other apparatus 

 connected with the object to be raised, and 

 the horse or other power attached to the rope 

 between the two lower pullies, and near to 

 that, one between him and the lower end of 

 the rope, and made to move toward the other 

 pulley, a distance equal to the space through 

 which the ends of the rope are desired to 

 pass; this causes the loaded end of the rope 

 to ascend and the unloaded one to descend 

 the required distance. The load is then de- 

 tached and another load attached to the other 



end, and the horse or other power made to 

 move in an opposite direction, which raises 

 the .second load while the end of tiie rope 

 that at first ascended, now descends, and so 

 on each end of the rope ascending loaded, 

 and descending unloaded alternately, as the 

 horse or other moving power passes to and 

 fro between the two lower |)ullies. Where 

 the two lower pullies cennot be placed at a 

 sufficient distance apart, the horse or other 

 moving power may make en angle or an<ile.s 

 and the rope to which the same is attaciicd, 

 be permitted to turn a friction pulley or 

 pullies. 



An increase of power may bo obtained by 

 using bl(x;ks and systems of |tullies, and in- 

 creasing the relative distance for the moving 

 power to pass to and fro, compared with the 

 space through which the elevated objects are 

 to move. 



Fig. 75. 



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The horse moving from E to F raises the 

 weight or object A to C, and lowers the object 

 B to J^, and when moving from F to E raises 

 the object B, and lowers A the same distance. 



Chester county. Pa., Jipril Yi, 1837. P. 



[Thefollowing letter from an intelligent and 

 practical farmer, addressed to Be.nj. i\I. Hol- 

 LiNSHEAB, Esq. of this city, we most respect- 

 fully commend to the attention of our readers.] 

 Sugar Bect§. 



In answer to thy inquiries as to the value 

 of the Beet-root crop, I may state the following 

 facts as the result of my own experience, and 

 from which I come to the conclusion, that, for 

 the purpose to which I have applied them, 

 there is no crop better adapted. Tlie first crop 

 of Beets 1 raised was in 183-5, when I planted 

 about the sixth part of an acre in the middle 

 of the sixth month, and from which I gathered 

 75 bushels ; these 1 planted in rows about 

 three feet apart, and about one foot between 

 each plant ; from this experiment I found, that 

 to raise 450 bushels of the Beet-root on an 

 acre of ground, required much less labour 

 than a crop of common potatoes. Neither do 

 I consider this an averaire estimate of what 



