No. 3 MolVs Agricullurist'' s Furnace. — Culture of the Sun Floiver. 89 



Mott's Patent Agriculturist's Furnace. 



This article was constructed in conse 

 quence of a suggestion from the American 

 Institute — that a simple, portable, and low 

 priced furnace was much wanted by farm- 

 ers, for boiling and steaming food, preparing 

 maple for beet-root sugar, and for many me 

 chanical purposes. 



It is so formed, that a space from one to 

 two inches is left between the boiler and 

 the casing that surrounds it, causing the 

 heat in its passage to the pipe, to encircle 

 all parts of the boiler, even to its upper 

 edge ; and hence requiring but little fuel. 

 Being portable, it affords many advantages 

 over boilers set in brick-work, besides re 

 quiring less room and fuel. Any farmer 

 may conveniently construct a steamer and 

 add to this furnace, for steaming food for 

 stock, if he prefers steaming to boiling. To 

 be had at No. 176, Market street, Philadel 

 phia. 



Cultivation of the Sun Flower, «&c. 



Mk. Fleetwood has written a pamphlet, 

 in which he enumerates, from positive, and 

 unerring data, many circumstances concern- 

 ing the successful cultivation of this plant, 

 and the production of its oil : the generally 

 useful applicabilities of which must ensure 

 for it an almost unlimited sale, independent- 

 ly of the valueof itscake, or residuum, after 

 expression of oil from the seed. 



This cake has been found, on repeated 

 trials, to be far superior to linseed cake, as 

 diet for cattle. He has pointed out the causes 

 of miscarriage which have hitherto attended 

 others in the cultivation of this flower ; and 

 which, if left unremedied, must deprive the 

 inhabitants of these islands of the manifold 

 blessings which it is capable of conferring. 

 He has, further, given from the best authori- 

 ties, a distinct view of the waste bog, and 



other uncultivated grounds, in the respective 

 shires and counties in the United Kingdom ; 

 with the hope of stimulating those who, in 

 the agricultural world particularly, may 

 have it in their power to encourage its cul- 

 ture. In alliance with the subject of the 

 kelianthus or sun-flower, he has noticed the 

 importance and utility of propagating gin- 

 seng as an article of export to China. — 

 Throughout the northern portion of the 

 American Union, though not an indigenous 

 plant, it is already cultivated to such an ex- 

 tent, that within the last twelve or fifteen 

 months, no less than a million of dollars' 

 worth has been exported to the Celestial 

 Empire ; where it met with an immediate 

 market, as appears by the report of the Com- 

 missioner of patents to the American Con- 

 gress, dated February 1st, 1843. The pamph- 

 let likewise invites public attention to the 

 cultivation of sage on a grand scale, that 

 herb being an article of considerable impor- 

 tance in Chinese commerce. Valmont de 

 Bornari's Dictionaire d'Histoire Naturelle, 

 states that the Chinese are so fond of sage, 

 (which does not grow in their vast empire,) 

 that they wonder how Europeans should 

 come to their country for the purchase of tea, 

 seeing they possess so valuable an herb at 

 home. De Bomari further states, that the 

 Dutch buy up the whole of the sage which 

 grows on the coast of Provence, and carry it 

 to China, where they have a ready market 

 for it, both with the Chinese and Japanese ; 

 in many cases obtaining in exchange for one 

 chest of sage, two or three of green tea ! 



As the experiment of cultivating and ex- 

 porting sage to China, could easily be made 

 at a very small expense, by the united efforts 

 of half a dozen growers — and if the asser- 

 tions of M. de Bomari be confirmed by its 

 success, the benefit that would accrue from 

 the extensive cultivation of this garden herb 

 in these islands would be immense. So san- 

 guine is Mr. Fleetwood, with respect to his 

 theories, that he has announced his intention 

 to negociate with land proprietors through- 

 out the United Kingdom, for various plots of 

 waste or other lands, from five to ten or twen- 

 ty thousand acres, for the cultivation of the 

 sun-flower, the seed of which, from Turkey, 

 the Levant, America and Germany, he has 

 obtained at considerable pains. At Miller's 

 farm, near Kingston in Surrey, he has plant- 

 ed this year twelve acres, where lovers of 

 agricultural improvement and the useful 

 arts, are invited, for the purpose of inspec- 

 tion ; as well as to a limited plantation of 

 between two and three hundred square yards, 

 at his own residence. No. 12, East Suffolk 

 Street, King's Cross, London. — Chambers' 

 London Journal. 



