No. 2. 



Machine for removing Corn-Stalks. — Elders. 



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MACHINE FOR REMOVING CORN-STALKS, 



Our excellent friend, Mr. Benjamin Cooper, 

 of Camden, N. J., has favoured us with the 

 drawing of a machine, for removing corn- 

 stalks from the field, which deserves to be 

 universally known. ]3y such, a lad may, of 

 himself, clear the heaviest crop in a very ex- 

 peditious way, and in the most easy manner 

 imaginable. This machine has been in use 

 on his farm for many years ; is most simple 

 in its construction, strong, and not liable to 

 be put out of order. The importance of 

 clearing a corn-field immediately on cutting, 

 is oftentimes very great ; especially when it 

 is wished to plough the land for wheat, or to 

 give space to the under-crop, turnips, clover, 

 or buckwheat, &c., for turning in ; and by 

 means of this instrument, the stalks are re- 

 moved without unbinding, and are placed in 

 whatever situation it is desired, exactly in 

 the same position in which they were taken 

 up, without loss of time and very little la- 

 bour. A pair of fore wagon-wheels, or others 

 of small size, are used, it not being neces- 

 sary to have them for this express purpose, as 

 they are required but for a very short time 

 every year, and, after using it, the machine 

 might be packed away into a small place, re- 

 served for future operations. 



Fig. 1. A front view of the machine. 



Fig. 2. A back view of the machine. 



Shafts, 12 feet long. 



Axle, between wheels at hubs, 6 feet long. 



Width, between shafts at axle, 4ft. 8 in. 



Size of axle, 4^ inches square. 



Roller, 6 inches diameter. 



Frame, E, 4ft. 6 in. high, 5ft. wide at bot- 

 tom, 4ft. 4 in. at top. 



Arms of frame, G, 3ft. 6 'in. long, so as to 

 clear the ends of axle. 



Edwin Chandler, manufacturer of aarricul- 

 tural implements. No. 196 Market Street, 

 Philadelphia, proposes to build these ma- 

 chines (wheels and rope not included) for $11. 



For the Farmers' Cabinet. 

 How to kill Elders. 



In a recent excursion in Chester county, 

 as is my custom on such occasions, I made 

 many inquiries about the crops, the mode of 

 culture, the results of any experiments made, 

 with a view to the increase of agricultural 

 knowledge, &c. On making particular in- 

 quiry of a farmer as to the damage done to 

 his wheat-crop by the fly, and whether he 

 had not found less injury to the crop where 

 it was put in immediately after grass, than 

 when sowed after barley or oats, his answer 

 was, " not at all, I had one field put in after 

 grass and one after oats, and I could not see 

 but that the wheat which followed the grass 

 was quite as badly injured by the fly as the 

 other, if not worse." He then said, " there 

 is one thing I have found out, which I think 

 is worth being known ; that is, how to kill 

 elders. A neighbour of mine told me if I 

 would cut elder bushes and spread them green 

 among my wheat, when stacking it, the rats 

 would not disturb it. I did as he told me. 

 The next year I took my scythe and went to 

 the same place for more elder-bushes, when 

 I was surprised to find there were very few 

 elders there. I cut what remained ; and 

 next year none were to be found in this place. 

 So it is simply to cut the elders off by the 

 ground, in time of wheat harvest, to insure 

 their destruction." 



Now, as many of the readers of the 

 " Farmers' Cabinet" (and I am told it has a 

 wide circulation) may be troubled with the 

 spread of elder bushes, let them try this easy 

 method of ridding the ground of them and 

 test it for themselves. Sadsbury, 



Extravagance in clothes is one of the most 

 frequent causes of misfortunes to families, and 

 is of all passions the most ridiculous and irra- 

 tional. 



