1854. 



NEW. ENGLAND FARMER. 



449 



BROWN'S IMPHOVED PATENT GRIST 

 MILL. 



The manufacturers confidently recommend this 

 article to the notice of practical men who are en- 

 gaged in, or about to establish the flouring or meal- 

 ing business, or who wish to erect a mill at a com- 

 paratively email expense, for occasional use. 

 Among the numerous improvements that have ap- 

 peared, there are, perhaps, none, cither for simpli- 

 city, efficiency, durability, or economy, that sur- 

 pass it, and as for as their experience has gone, 

 they are led to believe it is the best portable mill, 

 for flouring meal and grinding grain, corn, salt, 

 plaster and spias extant. It is composed of the 

 best French burr stones ; and it is substantially 

 built, easily kept in order, and can be attached to 

 the requi.'ijite power with great facility. 



The proprietors supply this mill, of proper di- 

 mensions for water, steam, or horse power, to or- 

 der. As there are many in operation in the New 

 England, and other States, wliich can be referred 

 to, a farther description here is unnecessary. 



One of the mills may be seen at the warehouse 

 of Messrs. Ruggles, Nourse, Mason & Co., who 

 liave them for sale. 



addressed the literary societies at Western Re- 

 serve College; Henry W'ard Beech cr, at VVood- 

 ville ; Wendell Phillips, at Union ; J. P. Thomp- 

 son, at Andover ; and V7m. H. Seward, at Yale, 

 where Geo. W. Perkins also preached the concio 

 ad chrum. The alumni at Harvard, chose Charlee 

 Sumner for their Vice President ; Wabash College 

 conferred the honorary D. D., on Joshua Leavitt ; 

 and Yale College the LL. D. on W. H. Seward. 

 — A^. Y. Eve. Post. 



Signs among the Colleges. — Professor Good- 

 rich made a speech at Milwaukee during the grand 

 excursion, in which lie stated that Yale College 

 • was opposed to slavery, and the faculty all of one 

 mind on the subject, and wished the fact to be 

 known North and South. It is said that an un- 

 usual number of Southern students have offered 

 themselves this year. 



Among the commencement exercises tlie pres- 

 ent year at diil'neut colleges, Frederick Douglass 



SOWING GRASS SEED IN THE FALL. 



Eds. Rural : — As I believe much information 

 m;iy be gained by farmers, in frequently inter- 

 changing thoughts and experience in relation to 

 the various subjects, which pertain to their voca- 

 tion, I propose saying a few words in relation to 

 the inquiries of your correspondent J. B. P. in 

 the last No. of the Rural, regarding the seeding 

 down of laud. Your correspondent states that 

 he cannot get "clover or herds grass to 'catch,' 

 when sown with oats, according to the time-hon- 

 ored custom," which, I suppose, is sowing it with 

 tlic grain in the spring. Farmers are generally 

 quit" indisposed to adopt any new manner of per- 

 forming the routine of their labors, — but the re- 

 peated failures in my own case, and tliat of my 

 neighbors, to get land to catch well, wlien seeded 

 in the spring, induced me to question the correct- 

 ness of the idea of spring being the best to sow 

 grass seed. After losing a good many l)usliels of 

 seed during the past five or six years, by sowing 

 with oats in the spring, I concluded, last fall, 

 that I would try the experiment of seeding six 

 acres in tlie fall ; and though the trial of any new 

 mode of farming for one year only, is not sufficient 

 to establish its correctness or incorrectness, yet 

 the success which attended the experiment was 

 most satisfactory, for I cut this year my heaviest 

 grass from the tield thus seeded. I have not be- 



