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NEW ENGLAND FARMER, 



Nov. 12, 1830. 



BRIGHTON C\TTLE SHOW \veie of opinion that strong liandles like those of a 



! i)loiigh, ])assing through the hind bar of the har- 

 The Committee on Useful Inventions report as fol- I ,.„^y^ \)ri<:eA in the same manner as plough handles, 



lows^ viz. — 



I answers all. the purposes of Mr Chandler's 



That Mr Hale of New York, by J. R. Newell, j han-ow, with the handles a person could raise up 

 entered for premium Hale's piatent pump. — Thi 

 pump is of oonlinuous rotary action, the power 



being applied to a crank. This very compact hy- 

 draulic machine combines the actions of the suck- 

 ing and forcing pumps; and is even capable of 

 tlirowiiig water effectively as a fire engine ; the ai- I 

 rangemeat and action of the valves is original, and 

 highly ingenious ; the Committee however, forbear 

 attempting a description of these, as they could 

 not be made intelligible without drawings. Perhaps 

 the cost of this pump compared with that of the 

 ordinary construction, will render its application 

 in some degree limited ; yet the Committee have 

 no hesitation in expressing an opinion, that it is 

 superior to any rotary pump heretofore construct- 

 ed. As this invention was not made within this 

 Commonwealth, and moreover the inventor has 

 omitted to furnish certificates of its actual use, the 

 Committee are restrained liy the regulations of 

 the Society from awarding a premium which in 

 their opinion it deserves. 



John & Horace M. Pool, of Easton, County of 

 Bristol, entered for premium several geometrical 

 protractors of a new construction, by which lines 

 may be drawn with great facility, and at any re- 

 quired angle tu the side of the tablet or drawing 

 board, which in this case forms a baseline; it is 

 therefore a most convenient instrument in forming 

 plans of surveys, an operation of primary impor- 

 tance to the farmer, considering the simplicity of 

 the instrument and the ease with which it may be 

 applied, the Committee award to the Messrs Pool, 

 a premium of — Fifteen dollars. 



The same gentlemen, the Messrs Pool, present- 

 ed for exhibition, two steel drafting scales and 

 a drafting square, the workmanship of which was 

 executed in the best manner and e([ual to import- 

 ed articles of the kind. 



Amasa Dunbar of Sharon, County of Norfolk, 

 entered for premium a machine for forming Boot 

 fronts ; good certificates of its having been tried 

 and found usefid were ]>roduced; the workni»n»ltip 

 was well executed, and it did not appear com))!!- 

 cated or likely to get out of order ; but in the opin- 

 ion of the Committee, w.as calcidated for large es- 

 tablishments, and too co-tly for general use — and 

 they do not award a premiuiti. 



Joseph Hutchiii^on of Dorchester, entered a 

 Dash Churn for |)remium, but it did not appear 

 to the Commite9'to be any improvement oti the 

 common churivin general use, and do not award 

 (I premium. 



Daniel Chandler of Lexington, County of Mid- 

 dlesex, entered for premium a double harrow, and 

 produced a certificate of its having been used and 

 approved for harrowing among trees, on rocky and 

 uneven ground, and ojjerating in sharp hollows or 

 valleys, when the two sides would rise, and per- 

 mit all the teeth to come in contact with the earth ; 

 the workmanship was good ; it was made in the 

 common Heater shape, in two parts divided loutd- 

 tudinally, and hung with two strong hinges in the 

 centre, for the purpose of turiung up one half and 

 placing it on the other, by which means it is made 

 fit to pass in narrow places, between tree.s, stumps, 

 ^and rocks, — Whfen turned up or doubled over, 

 one half the teeth are not in use. The Committee 



either side of the harrow — raise or depress either 

 end, and make the whole harrow bear on small 

 vmeven spots of earth, light it up if the teeth 

 came in contact with a root or fast stone, and gen- 

 erally give a smoother and better pulverized sur- 

 face to a field. In harrowing in seed the advantage 

 of handles must be obvious to every farmer that 

 makes use of them, or that sees them used ; the 

 double harrow has been in ui^e in England for 

 many years; hardly a book on Agricultural imple- 

 ments, but what contains plates of them, not i)re- 

 cisely of the shape of Mr Chandler's harrow, not 

 however varying materially. It can be used the 

 two harrows together, or separate ; and when sep- 

 arated, being lighter, make two teams — they are 

 readily put together and as readily detached. 

 Therefore the Committee do not award a premi- 



Tlie preceding entries were all made in season, 

 agreeably to the rules of the Society, and a list con- 

 taining those entries only, handed the Committee 

 by the Secretary, at the time of their meeting on 

 the 19th, to make the examination. The next 

 day the Committee found other articles had been 

 entered and placed in the Society's rooms on that 

 day, viz. — a Washing Machine, by Mr Shepherd 

 of Watertown ; three ploughs, by Mr Prouty, of 

 Hanover, county of Plymouth, who appears to be 

 only the manufactm-er of the iron work ; his cer- 

 tificate, which has many respectable signatures, 

 mentioning its having been used and approved, has 

 in the printed caption, Hitchcock's Patent Ploughs, 

 manufactured by D. Prouty ; no application by 

 the Inventor, so that no question as to premium 

 could have arisen, as regards this entry. A double 

 plough, with two moulds of iron and two shares, 

 two sharp lips behind, on bottom of moulds, said 

 to be made for ploughing between corn, but no 

 person appeared to explain to the Committee. 



Messrs Nourse &; Co. of Sherburne, introduced 

 four ploughs, but the Committee could not per- 

 ceive any new itiiprovements in their construction ; 

 their certificates stated they had been used and 

 highly approved. 



Dr Andrew Nichols, of Danvers, county of Es- 

 sex, ])resented two cast iron harrow teeth, of a 

 new form, differing from any harrow teefh in 

 connnon use. In a letter to the Trustees, of the 

 19th, he gives a particular description of these 

 teeth ; the superiority over any other in use, with 

 a certificate from a person that had used a harrow 

 with his cast iron teeth, and ni)proved of it highly. 

 The Committee will request tlie Tru.stees to ])ub- 

 lish Dr Nichols' letter to them, in the New Eng- 

 land Farmer, and to cause one of his harrow teeth 

 to be deposited iii the Agricultural Warehouse, 

 under the same roof of the New England Farmer 

 Olfice, for public inspection ; but perhaps it may 

 lie well for the Committee to observe that the en- 

 try made by Dr Nichols, for premimn, is for his 

 improved harrow teeth, o{ cast iron. The di>tnnce 

 of most farmers from iron Foimdrie^, the dilTi- 

 culty of renewing the teeth when broken, the loss 

 of time in replacing them, and the probable c.t- 

 pense that would attach, would have pre 

 vented the Committee from awarding a pre 

 mium, had the regulation prescribed for mak- 



ing the entry, been strictly complied with, Al 



which is submitted by 



GORHAM PARSONS, ) 



DANIEL TREADWELL, \ Committee. 

 DAVID MOODY. j 



Brighton, October 20, 1830. 



The fiillowing is Doct. Nichols' letter allu, 

 to above. 

 To the Trustees of the Mass. Agricultural Society. 



GfiNTLiiMEN — Believing that the Harrow mi^ . 

 be j^-eatly improved without any increase of ex 

 |)ense, I last spring formed a model, and had a 

 set of teeth cast at the Danvers Foundry which 

 were immediately set in a fratne and put in us* 

 on my farm in Middleton. They fully answeret 

 my expectations in everything but strength, beinj 

 cast of hard brittle iron and too slender in that par 

 where the greatest strength is required, to wit, tbi 

 part nearest the stock which is not supported b; 

 it. Several of them were broken among larg« 

 roots and fixed rocks. I then altered the mode 

 and had teeth cast of softer and stronger iron 

 (Scotch iron) such as are herewith exhibited, non 

 of these have been broken. The projection fron 

 behind the point of the tooth is designed to re 

 ceive a brace should the strength prove insufitcieu 

 without one. I have not however found it ne 

 cessary to brace the teeth of my harrow. Th 

 notch near the top is designed to secure the toot 

 in the frame by a pin which together with a wedg 

 driven in behind, filling the trough of the toot 

 readily secures it, and at the same time leaves 

 in a situation to be easily taken out and set in 

 smaller frame for harrowing among corn, & 

 \Vith the form exhibited I am well satisfied, h 

 lieving it combines a good degree of siren:. 

 with a saving of metal. But very possibly it n 

 still be im|)roved, and as no patent will be tai, 

 out for it, every farmer will be at liberty to ha' 

 it formed to suit himself. Each tooth at sevi 

 cents per pound costs about 30 cents — eai 

 tooth moves five inches of earth. Eleven tpi 

 forms my harrow, which moves and piilveriz 

 very completely a strij) of land .5-5 inches wii; 

 $3,30 the cost of the teeth, which is I tliii 

 much less than the cost of the common teetli I 

 a harrow of this size. 



I think it not extravagant to say that with ll 

 same ox or horse power most tillage land m; 

 be benefited twice as mucli as it can be by tl 

 use of the common harrow in the same time, ;r 

 that should even one tooth on an average 

 broken daily, it would .<til! be the most econoni 

 harrow in use. In such a result however, W| 

 is not to be apprehended, it would be chea; 

 make them of wrought iron. 



Yours respectfdllv. 



ANDxiEW NICKO 

 Danvers, Oct. ]<), 1830. 



r/if Committee on Workii}!! Cattle, consi.iiin 

 Messrs Luke Fiske, Aaron Copen, and S^ 

 Broolis, having attended to the duty asSi 

 them, ask leave to report — 

 Twenty yoke of Cuttle were regularly enji 



for the Society's |)remiums, and they did tnn" 



credit to the farmers who offered them. 



The Committee after trial of their power : 



training, and a comparison in reference to : 



strength, form, equality of match, and other ■. 



eral properties, were unanimous in their r,'"' ' 



as follows : — 



