THE FARMERS' CABINET, 



DEVOTED TO AGRICULTURE, HORTICULTURE AND RURAL ECONOMY. 



Vol. I. 



Pliiladclpliia, :«ay 15, 1S37. 



Wo. 21. 



For llip Farnipr-;' Cabinet. 



Agricultural luiplcinents. 



NO. VI. 



THE PORTABLE HORSE MILL. 



So long as the demand for the labor and 

 services of men is greater than the supply, 

 it is the interestof farmers, and all consumers 

 of the produce of farms, to have as much of 

 the labor as possible performed by horses and 

 o.xen, as a substitute for that of men. With 

 these views I send the following remarks for 

 the Cabinet, thinking they arc sufficiently 

 explicit to enable most persons to direct the 

 building of a machine. 



The shafts, boxes, bolts and nuts may be 

 composed of iron, and all the other parts of 

 hard seasoned wood, of such dimensions as 

 the proprietor may choose; this will depend 

 upon the amount of moving force to be ap- 

 plied, the required velocity, &c. The whole 

 may be placed upon runners or on wheels, 

 and thereby made portable, and be used to 

 convey a continuous circular motion to the 

 corn sheller, described in a former communi- 

 cation, and other kinds of machinery upon a 

 ftirm, by means of cogs, rope, band, chain or 

 otherwise, and by using a crank an alterna- 

 ting motion may be obtained. 



Suppose a horse placed upon a horizontal 

 wheel, and drawing at a fixed object with 

 sufficient force to move the wheel by his 

 feet round a fixed vertical shaft ; this wheel 

 is supported by three small vertical wheels, 

 placed at equal (or other) distances asunder, 

 each with one end pointing toward the fixed 

 vertical shaft, and the horse placed with his 

 middle over one of them, and at right angles 

 to the radius of tiie horizontal wheel; the 

 vertical wheels extend from the periphery of 

 the horizontal one toward its centre, a suffi- 

 cient distance to be turned by its lower face, 



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acting on their peripherics, and the one be- 

 neath the horse extends beyond the periphery 

 of the horizontal one, a sufficient distance to 

 convey motion to other machinery by coge. 

 rope, band, chain or otherwise. 



If two or three horses should be used at 

 the same time upon the wheel, each horse is 

 placed over a vertical wheel. 



Fig 7(1. 



The horse A drawing at the fixed object 

 B, parallel with the dotted line, turns the 

 horizontal wheel C round the fixed vertical 

 shaft at its centre; tliis moves the vertical 

 wiieels D D D and band E, and turns the 

 pulley or wheel F in a continuous circular 

 direction ; and an object attached to the crank 

 G will be moved in an alternating direction. 



ClteBler co., Pa., 29th April, l.~:i7. 



For lli(! Faiiiiirs' Caliinet. 



Allcrnntins Elevator for tlic Po-\v«r of 



9Icii. 



In my last communication I gave a de- 

 scription of the "Altkrnatixg Elevator 

 FOR Horse Power." This will give one for 

 the application of the power of men, which 

 may be used to advantage in situations where 

 horse power cannot be procured, or where 

 the situation will not admit of its being u^cd. 



The useful efiect of horse power compared 

 with that of men, where both are applied to 

 the greatest advantage in elevating ponder- 



