NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



■n-lieel and survived about fifteen minutes. Ht 

 'Illy received hi* iloatli woinu) by a blow on Ihi 

 ' thuujh considerably injured in many parts of bi; 



York. — It is stated tons by g^entlemen wbo have 

 li. ;Kvrticular enquiries, that tiiere are now erectin* 

 th.' f'.ighlh AVard in this city, about 1000 houses ; and 

 i< "inputed that the whole number of houses built 

 I'lr^fnt season and now building in the whole city 

 II >;ceed three thousand. — Mer. jldv. 



Wrihy of Imiltttion — Gen. Robert Goodloe Harper, 

 ■ Dily made a present of one hundred volumi.iot 

 Untile books, to the Apprentices' Library Company 

 Ualiimore. 



367 



MASSACHUSETTS LEGISLATURVI. 

 In Senate — -Thursday, June 3. Mr. Bangs, Sec- 

 ary of State, delivered a Message from his F.xcelUn- 

 the Governor, covering a letter from the Hon. 

 aies Lloyd, and sundry documents, relating to the 

 ■vey under the authority of the United States, of 

 zzard's Bay, and Barnstable Bay, and of the laud 

 ng between them, to ascertain the practicability of 

 meeting said Bays by a Canal. Referred to a Com- 

 ttee. 



A Resolve passed both Houses for the pay of the 

 mbers of the Council and Legislature, as usual. 

 .Amherst histitufion, — The Joint Committee oo this 

 iject, reported leave for the bill, which was accept- 

 withont opposition. 



""riday, June 4. A Resolve from the Hon. House, 

 cting the mode of choosing Electors of President 

 I Vice President was read and committed. 

 Saturday, June 5. This day was occupied in atteu- 

 1 to private and local business. A remonstrance of 

 inhabitants of Roxbury against the grant of the 

 yer of the petition for a bridge to South Boston was 



Jumitted. 

 louday, June 7. A number of private bills passed 



tne engrossed. The Resolve from the House directing 



.1 jJe of choosing Electors of President, &c. by 



i! Ticket was, after debate, passed. Yeas 18, 



1 n sE. — A Committee was appointed on so much of 

 h Excellency's Speech as relates to imprisonment for 

 d t, to report at next session. 



! Valentine on the subject of the returns of mem- 

 1 . m:\iie a report, by which it appeared that the re- 

 :i ii Irom several towns were incorrect as respects 

 It 1. In some the notifications and summons from 

 c stables did not appear. In some the year of our 

 I d, and of the Independence of the United States 

 H! omitted, &c. The Committee, however, reported 

 tl t all the members returned, including those whose 

 llicates were somewhat informal, should retain 

 t ir ^cats. 



debate took place on the subject of choosing Elec- 



ti , hut no decision was obtained. 



n lay, June 4. The Resolves on the subject of the 



ol" Electors, by which the General Ticket sys- 



is adopted, after debate, was passed. Yeas 140, 



he Report of the Joint Committee on the petition of 

 tl Trustees of the Amherst Institution, giving leave 

 ft a bill was, after debate, assigned to Tuesday next. 

 uturjay, June 5. The Report on the Amherst In- 

 5l itim was ordered to be printed for the use of the 

 imhers. 

 The different sections of the Governor's Speech 



'ferred to Committees, 

 londay, June7. A Committee was appointed to 

 lire what amendments are necessary in the laws re- 

 ng to the restraining of vagabonds, idle and lewd 

 jon5, and to report, &c. 



. Resolve to authorize the purchase of a sufficient 

 iiber of the copies of the recently discovered con- 

 lation of Gov. Winthrop's Journal from 1638 to 

 9, the time of his decease, and to furnish each 

 n in the State with oBe copy was read and ac- 

 ted. 



Tuesday, June 8. A Committee was appointed to 

 lire into the expediency of altering or amending 

 act relative to empounding cattle. 

 'he question relating to incorporating the Amherst 

 itution was taken up and debated, but without any 

 decision. 



PREMIUM CLOVER SEED MACHINE. 



THE Subscriber has recently invented a new and 

 simple mode o[ Inilling and cleaning Ci.ovEit 

 Seed, by which the tedious, expensive and trouble- 

 some process now in use is entirely avoided. The 

 M.ACHINE for the purpose combines great lightness 

 and simplicity, with strength and durability. Us origi- 

 nality and the astonishing rapidity with which the seed 

 is cleaned, depend chiefly on the use made of the cur- 

 rents of air raised on the face of a revolving cylinder 

 armed with iron teeth. By a very simple arrangement 

 the chaff, containing Seed, in passing over the cylinder, 

 is winnowed, and all the light chaff, leaves, dust, &c. 

 are blown away. It then falls into fhe bed of the Ma- 

 chine, where the Seed is whipped out lightly, without 

 rubbing or grinding. When separated from the hull it 

 falls through a screen into a fan, while the rhaff is 

 carried over the cylinder and discharged. In this way 

 most of the uncomfortable dust of other machines is a- 

 voided, and the hull is merely broken, but not reduc- 

 ed to powder ; the Machine is kept free from clogging, 

 works with a light and even motion, and requires much 

 less power than any other now in use. No heat is 

 raised, and no seed is wasted or injured. 



A number of these Machines have been in successful 

 operation the past winter, and have fully shown their 

 decided superiority over every other mode, by their ad- 

 mirable style of performance. Bights for sale, and 

 Machines furnished on liberal terms. 



THOMAS D. BURRALL. 



Geneva, JV. F. March 30, 1824. 



RECOMMENDATIONS. 



The Committee of the Agricultural Society for a- 

 warding the Premium on the best Machine for Thrash- 

 ing and Cleaning Clover Seed, have awarded said 

 Premium to Thomas D. Burrall, Esq. of Geneva. 



The Committee are unanimously of opinion, that 

 Mr. Burrall's Clover Machine, with reference to the 

 moderate expense of building, durability, the power 

 required to work it, the quantity of Seed cleaned in a 

 given time, and the style of performance, istlecidedly 

 superior to all other Clover Machines with which they 

 are acquainted. 



H. B. GIBSON, 

 NATHANIEL 

 CHARLES 

 ANSON MUNSON, 

 Z. BARTON STOUT, 

 MARK H. SIBLEY 



Annual Fair, Canandaigua, Oct. 20, 1823. 



We hereby certify, that we have examined Mr. Bur- 

 rall's Machine for Hulling and Cleaning Clover Seed, 

 and have seen it in operation by horse power. Its mo- 

 tion is light and smooth, and it cleans with ease ris- 

 ing of one anrf a half bushels per hour. The work is 

 perfectly well done : no seed is injured or wasted. It 

 is simple and durable, and we think it decidedly supe- 

 rior to any other Machine for the purpose with which 

 we are acquainted. 



ANTHONY D. SCHUYLER, 

 JOHN B. RUMNEY, 

 ' GEORGE GOUNDRY, 

 ANDREW M'NAB. 



Geneva, Oct. 20, 1823. 



The Subscriber has pleasure in adding his testimony 

 to the merits of the Clover Thrashing Machine invent- 

 ed by Thomas D. Burrall, Esq. of Geneva. He has no 

 hesitation in saying that he considers it preferable to a- 

 ny Clover Machine now in use, and that it is calculated 

 to be an important aid in advancing the interests of the 

 agricultural community. NATHANIEL ALLEN. 



Richmond, Oct. 29, 1823. 



I hereby certify, that in December last, I purchas- 

 ed ofThomasD. Burrall the Right of usinghis newly in- 

 vented Machine for Cleaning Clover Seed, and put 

 one in operation in the town of Junius, about the 1st 

 of February last, in which I have cleaned rising Five 

 Hundred Bushels of Seed. No Seed is injured or wast- 

 ed, and a Ton of Seed may be cleaned in twenty four 

 hours with the power required to run a Carding Ma- 

 criiue. The Machine is «i'»n/)ie, and not liable to get 

 out of order, and I think it superior to any machine 

 for the purpose with which I am acquainted. 



Junius, March 20, 1824. JACOB KISTLER. 



I hereby certify, that I have been employed since 

 July last, in building Mr. Burrall's Clover Machines, 

 and have since that time put several in motion by wa- 



;ON, ) 



EL JACOBS, > 

 W. HENRY, S 



UT, i 

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Committee. 



ter and horse power, which have been in constant op- 

 eration through the past season. I am acquainted with 

 several other modes of CU aning Peed, now in u=e and 

 have no hesitation in saying that I consider Mr. 'Bur- 

 rall's as greatly superior to any other which I have ever 

 seen. It is less expensive, requires less power to drive 

 It, and less labor to tend it ; it is not liable to get out 

 of order, finishes its work at a single operation, cleans 

 more Seed in a given time, wastes nothing, and above 

 all, raises rerij httle dusi, as the Seed is whipped out 

 lightly, without grinding the chaff to a powder 



Genera, March 26, 1824. JEHlAL F. AXTELL. 



The Subscriber has tended one of Mr. Burrall's Clo- 

 ver Machines for about three months past, driven most 

 of the time by two horses, though occasionally by one. 

 It works perfectly well, is easily tended, and rai.'ies 

 but Utile dust, as the chaff, as fast as it is cltaned, falls 

 through a trunk or case to the outside of the building. 

 It cleans on an average from three pecks to a bushel of 

 Seed per hour, but with good chaff will do much more. 

 It has needed no repairs, and is in as good order as 

 when first put in operation. ODEL APPLLT5Y. 



Geneva, March 26 , 1824. 



JUST received and for sale at the Agricultural Esta- 

 blishment, No. 20, Merchants' Row, a large svf,p\^ 

 of Goodwin's highly approved Patent Steel Spring Hay 

 and Manure FORKS. Also, a few dozen very superi- 

 or Rakes, Cam's cast steel Scythes, Dudley's warrant- 

 ed steel back do., Bisbee's cast steel polished Shovels 

 — together with a great variety of other agricultural 

 implements. June 12. 



PRICES OF COUNTRY PRODUCE, &c. 



APPLES, good, to best, 

 ASHES, pot, 1st sort, . . . 



pearl do 



BEANS, white, 



BEEF, mess, 200 lbs. new, 



cargo. No 1, . . . . 



" No 2, . . . . 

 BUTTER, inspect. No. I. 

 CHINESE, new milk .... 



skimed milk, 



FLAX 



FLAX SEED 



FLOUR, Baltimore, Howard St. 



Genessee, 



Rye, best .... 

 GRAIN, Rye 



Corn 



Barley 



Oats 



HOGS' LARD, 1st sort , . 

 HOPS, No 1, Inspection of 1823 



LIME, 



OIL, Linseed, Phil, an-d Northern 

 PLAISTER PARIS .... 

 PORK, BoneMiddlings new, . 

 navy, mess, 



Cargo, No 1, . . .' 

 SEEDS, Herd's Grass, 1822, • 



Clover 



WOOL, Merino, full blood,washed 



do do unwashed 



do 3-4 washed 



do 1-2 do 



Native .... do 

 Pulled, Lamb's, 1st sort 



do Spinning, Ist sort 



PROVISION MARKET. 

 BEEl'', best pieces 

 PORK, fresh, best pieces, 

 " whole hog, . . 



VEAL . 



MUTTON, . . 



POULTRY, . . 



BUTTER, keg & tub, 

 lump, 



EGGS, 



MEAL, Rye, retail, . . 

 Indian, do. . . 

 POTATOES, . . 



CIDER, liquor, new . . 

 HAY, according to quality, 



D. C. 



2 25 



84 

 6 75 

 6 75 



54 

 50 

 70 

 34 

 11 

 40 



1 12 

 75 



3 50 

 1& 



12 50 



2 00 



70 



40 

 55 

 50 

 35 

 00 

 42 



^2 



10 



6 



7 



12 



20 



25 



16 



12 



65 



60 



37 



3 50 



18 00 



