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only appears as yet but as an isoIaTed and very 

 recent result, and is at present deprived of that in- 

 fluence, vvhicli can only be obtained by its repro- 

 duction by different persons, under other circum- 

 stances and in other jilaces, ami it sliould also re- 

 ceive the sanction of time. The author of this 

 experiment merits encouragement without doubt; 

 the attention of those who are interested in it ought, 

 at the same time, to be roused, and possibly re- 

 strained; new trials appear desirable to the true 

 frientis of our prosperity — that is to say, gentlemen, 

 to you all, it is important that those trials be con- 

 tinued, lor that which attracted your attention, has 

 also attracted the attention of the able cultivators 

 of the South — strangers to all prepossessions, su- 

 perior to all prejudices, they await new trials with 

 an eagerness the more leiritimate, because they 

 well know, that the experiments which are now 

 making in the North, cannot but be advantageous 

 to the South, which is ready to receive with grati- 

 tude new methods of culture which appear to them 

 sufiiciently well tested; they know that the indus- 

 try on which large fortunes are founded in the 

 South, will be able without injuring them, to cre- 

 ate like fortunes in the North, and gradually re- 

 lieve the common country from the tribute of forty- 

 five millions of francs, which it annually pays to 

 foreigners for raw silk; and which the agricul- 

 turists of the North, herealter the emulators and 

 not the rivals of those of the South, will be able, 

 in a quarter of a century, to divide with them, as 

 brothers, the ever increasing fruits of their own in- 

 dustry. 



From these various considerations, gentlemen, 

 your Committee on Agriculture has charged me 

 with the honor to propose to you, that this report 

 be inserted in the Bulletin, and referred to the 

 Commissioners on medals. 



Approved, at a meeting held on the 30th of Sep- 

 tember, 1835. 



SOULANGE BODIN, Reporter. 



Extracts from the Journal of the Franl<lin Institute. 



LIST OF PATENTS ISSUED IIV OCTOBER, 1835, 

 FOR IMPROVEMENTS OF MACHINES, &.C. TO 

 BE USED IN AGRICULTURE. 



IVith remarks, by the Editor of the Journal of the 

 Franklin Institute. 



For a machine for Thrashing and Cleaning 

 Clover or Rice; Mo~es Davenport, Phillips, So- 

 merset county, Maine, October 6. 



The machine here described consists of a long 

 trough, containing the feeding, rubbing, and other 

 apparatus. It is too complex for verbal descrip- 

 tion, but its characteristic feature appears to be, 

 the passing of the seed between rubbing boards, 

 covered with perforated metal, or otherwise made 

 rough, the lower board being stationary, and the 

 upper one, as it vibrates, bearing on the seed in 

 one direction only, it being raised in the return 

 stroke. 



For an improvement in the mode of Rearing 

 Silk Worms; Gamaliel Gay, Poughkeepsie, Dutch- 

 ess county, New York, October 6. (See speci- 

 fication.*) 



* The specification of the improvement which is 

 given afterwards at length, describes merely one or 



I For a Chaffing Thrashing Machine;- Russel 

 Bradley, VVilliston, Chittenden county, Vermont; 

 October 6. 



We cannot afford more lines to this apparatus 

 than there are pages in the specification of it. 

 The unthrashed straw is to be laid lengthwise in 

 a feeding trough, where it comes into contact vvilli 

 a revolving cylinder, carrying circular saws, at 

 short distances apart, serving to cut the whole 

 into chaff'; it then descends to a thrashing cyhn- 

 tler, and thence passes through a winnowing ma- 

 chine of the ordinary construction. The claim is 

 to the application of the circular saws. 



For a Plough; William Walker, Washington, 

 Columbia county, Pennsylvania, October 6. 



The claim is to "the peculiar formation of the 

 sheath, or standard, and the projections on the in- 

 ner side of the mould-board, which give them 

 sheath, or standard, a leaning position, and cause 

 the plough to take land." 



For a Horse Power; Moses Davenport, Phil- 

 lips, Somerset county, JNlaine, October 10. 



The claim under this patent is to "the method 

 of construction, or combination, by wdiich the se- 

 veral parts of the jointed platform are put together; 

 of the cylinder heads, and of friction rollers." 

 This combination in most of its parts, exists in 

 numerous other endless platforms; the peculiar- 

 ities of the one before us, ought, therefore, to have 

 been pointed out, as upon these alone could any 

 valid claim be founded. 



For a machine for Hulling and Cleaning Clo- 

 ver and Timothy Seed; Asa Burgess, and Herman 

 Baldwin, Washington, Litchfield county, Connec- 

 ticut, October 10. 



Ten pages are devoted to the description of this 

 machine, but our remarks upon it will be as brief 

 as the specification is prolix. The leed is to be 

 regulated by sliding boards, not differing essen- 

 tially from such as are already in use. The seed 

 is to be rubbed out by a revolving cylinder, flir- 

 nished with points, or teeth; and below this there 

 is a fan, so enclosed and constructed as to blow the 

 chaff' and dust away, without annoyance to the 

 operator. The claim is sutTiciently comprehensive, 

 extending to many points m its construction, and 

 also the situation in which it is placed in a build- 

 ing, for the purpose of blowing- the chaff entirely 

 out of it. 



For a Gravitation Churn; Asahel Bacon, 

 Windsor, Broome county, New York, Octo- 

 ber 10. 



There i« to be a weight wound up as a main- 

 taining power to a pendulum, a train of wheels 



more revolving aprons of cloth, something like those 

 of net work, which are sometimes used to convey the 

 straw from a thrashing machine— these being to work 

 under the hurdles on which the silkworms feed, and to 

 convey away the litter which falls through. To our 

 humble comprehension, it seems unaccountable why 

 tliis invention should have passed without a sarcastrc 

 comment from the editor, or why the specification of 

 so triflng a matter should have been afterwards inserted 

 in full.— Ed. Farm. Reg. 



