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come forward and examine it, and to build and use from the same pattern free 

 of charge.* 



5th. T hrc shin g-MacJiines. — We have in St. George's Hundred four superior 

 Threshing-Maehines or Separators, which get out and clean the wheat ready for 

 market at the one operation, 400 bushels per day, if well attended. The first 

 two of these Separators were brought from Rochester, New- York, last June, by 

 B. F. French & Co. The other two were purchased, and are now owned, by 

 J. & Isaac Woods, of St. George's. They have all been used with much suc- 

 cess. 



6th. Hemp-Brake. — A Hemp-brake of simple construction has been invented 

 and patented by an ingenious fellow-citizen, Mr. Frank Holcomb. It has been 

 successfully tried in the presence of a portion of this Committee, who doubt not 

 that the implement will eventually be nearly as valuable to the hemp-grower of 

 the West as Whitney's cotton-gin was to the cotton-grower of the South. 



7th. There is one other huge machine, which has been in operation for nearly 

 one year, throughout the land, which has been highly spoken of by its invent- 

 ors, and by the Editor of the Gazette particularly, as the best implement for the 

 farmer ever yet invented or used in this country. The Committee not being in- 

 structed by the Society to examine or report on this thing, will take this occa- 

 sion to remark that it is customary among some inventors (tinkers, perhaps,) to 

 offer their invention one year on trial ; but if at the end of that time the article 

 did not answer the purpose for which it was intended, then the inventor gave up 

 the experiment, and replaced the old machine. It is hoped the inventor of this 

 thing will follow the example set by that good old custom, if at the end of the 

 year their invention should be deficient. This machine is called the " Tariff of 

 1846." It has had a fair trial. Will they do it? The Committee farther re- 

 mark that, if they or either of them should ever be placed by their fellow-citi- 

 zens in a situation that would require them to make a Report on such an article, 

 they will give the subject all that consideration that its importance would de- 

 mand, to the extent of their limited information. j. jones, 7 



H. CAZEIN, fcommittee. 

 J. CLAYTON, 3 



PATENT OFFICE REPORT. 



MR. FLEISCHMANN'S PAPER ON GERMAN SHEEP CULTURE. 



By the politeness of one of the Editors of the New- York Courier and En- 

 quirer, which we gratefully acknowledge, we have received copious extracts from 

 a paper on German Sheep Culture, (in the forthcoming Patent Office Report), by 

 Mr. Charles Fleischmann, " formerly a draughtsman of the Patent Office." The 

 information which he gives us in relation to the German management is interest- 

 ing, as might be expected from a candid and accomplished observer ; but so far 

 as our extracts go, seem to us not new in many important particulars. The same 

 has, for the most part, been published by European and American writers on 

 Sheep Husbandry. 



[* This is exactly the sort of service which ought to be expected from great National Institutes 

 and State Societies, instead of leaving the cost, risk and trouble to individuals. Those who col- 

 lect money in hundreds and thousands should be required to look after and import all such things; 

 and we have no hesitation in saying that the nation that would give a medal or a sword for 

 bloody execution done in the barbarous trade of war, in preference to bestowing higher distinc- 

 tion on such an act as Mr. Carr's, is only half impressed with the true spirit of civilization ; that 

 it has but an imperfect perception of its true interests, and deserves not the name of an enlight- 

 ened and free People. Ed. Farm . Lib.] 

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