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THE GENi:SEE FARMER. 



COUTEUK S POTATO DIGGER. 



POTATO DIGGEES. 



The inventive talent of the country has for a few 

 years past heen turned in the direction of improved 

 machinery for agricultural purposes. Among other 

 machines, those for digging potatoes have received 

 A full share of attention. As far as known, few ot 

 them prove of much real utility. Morton's Cyclo- 

 pedia of Agriculture, a standard English work, 

 gives the accompanying cut and description of a 

 potato digger made under direction of Colonel Le 

 OouTEUE. The figure is thus explained: "The 

 toothed wheel «, as it revolves in the wake of the 

 K'low, works into the pinion J, on a shaft parallel 

 with the length of the plow, and gives motion to 

 roar arms or paddles, e, by which the earth, as it 

 «3omes from the short mold-board, is scattered from 

 the furrow and the potatoes thrown out." 



. WETHERELL S PATENT HORSE -HOE. 1 



We also give the annexed cut of an implement 

 embodying tlie same principles, made by Mr. "Weth- 

 EBELL, of Worcester, Mass., known as " Wetherell's 

 Patent Ilorse-IIoe." This is designed not only as 

 i potato digger, but as an implement for cultivating 

 all kinds of hoed crops, as corn, potatoes, etc. We 

 understand that it works very satisfactorily, not 

 only as a cultivator but as a potato digger. It ap- 

 pears to us as an ingenious and desirable remodel- 

 ing of the English digger, illustrated above. The 

 'Xjothed wheel has been made to perform the duty 

 of turning the paddle arms, and acting as a beam 

 wheel at the same time. It is relieved of the cum- 

 bersome weight of the "digger," simplified, and 

 inore readily adapted to the wants and economy of 

 American farmers, by whom, we hear, it is much 

 prized. 



JOHN JOHNSTON'S CATTLE STALLS- 



Our respected correspondent, John Johnston, 

 Geneva, N. Y., has for many years used a very in- 

 genious stall for cattle. They are 9 ft. long and S 

 ft. wide. The animals are not fastened in any way. 

 The sides of the stall are hung on hinges, and are 



swung up against 



the mangers when 



the stable is empty. 



The cows are driven 



in and the side of 



the stall, or gate, (c 



i'i«- !■ in fig. 1,) is then 



closed; then another cow is shut in in the same 



way ; and so on till all are fast. 



Fig. 1 shows a side view of the stall, and an end 

 view of the manger, when fastened lap. Fig. 2 

 shows the position of the stalls after the cattle are 



turned out. The 



spaces (Z, tZ, in fig. 

 2, are left open to 

 within one foot of 

 the bottom ; the 

 other spaces are 

 boarded up about ^'■'^- "• 



three feet from the bottom. The animals are 

 turned into an open yard evei-y day, and the stalls 

 cleaned out as often as necessary. In this respect, 

 swinging stalls are very convenient. The only ob- 

 jection we can see is, that you can not turn out 

 one animal without turning out all the others that 

 are between it and the door. 



In the yard are boxes in which straw is placed 

 for the cattle to eat. Fig. 3 shows the form of objB 

 of these boxes. A thin plate of 

 iron is fastened on the frame of 

 the sides, as represented by dots 

 on the cut. The boxes are six 

 feet square, and the side frame six 

 feet high. Spaces are left open on 

 four sides, thus allowing four animals to eat out of 

 the same box at once. The other parts of the box, 

 except the top and bottom, are boarded up. The 

 frame consists of joists four inches square. 



