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iassog-<jt./.o.vi/o««,i,-u trriters, tvhkh skctp Ihe | tion of pilforing:. When the expanse of the 4 

 ?''i^ meritof Mri'orE'i TlircshiiigMachine. | iiorsos, the labor, (for one man only coinos with 



;^ IRESHING aiACllINK IN SCOTLAND. U'le in;ichiiic,) and the dressing were added ; the 



inve examined, (says Jlr HimonJ) witli attcn- ' work cost nie as much as if dono by hand." — Thus 

 the proci'ss of the Tlircshin;^ JIaehine. The j far thi^ Extract from Mr Younir. 

 t (grain and straw) passes between two large i In Jlr V'oung'd catalogue of Farming Implo- 



den fiuted cylinders, by wlrich the husk is I wcnts, at the e;id of his Farmer's Calendar, we 



sed and the grain forced out ; it is then ro- { h^ivc the following prices given, on the plan of 



od by a third cylinder, with iron Iceth liko a i securing soliJiti/ and durahilily. 



, which takes hold of the straw and throws it j Ashley's Threshing Macliino, fixed £10j. — do. 



ard, while the grain falls into the winnowing ■ moveable £170, — An improved Scotch machine 



line, when.-e it conies out perfectly clean — ' '^^i' 1 or horses ,CoUO. — Perkins's improved 



straw is broken by the process, an I rendered { threshing macliinc, [apparent. y a hand machine] 



.for thatching ; but is equally good for forage I £^1'. 



Iter. — Two horses are snflicient to work the I The immense .superiority o! iilr Pope's thresh- ; .l i i r i = < 



bine; but four are necos.-=ary for expedition. ! iug machine over the above named, as to cheap-l, Daclj a little, and a perfect edge will be ob 



cost is about £80 (sterling)"; the interest of | "«^ in the original price ; and its greater excel- Jamcso,, s Ed. Phi. Journal. 



;h, and repairs, render the process full as ex- i 'onec i i the mode of operating, certainly speak 



ive, as the old mode ; bnt, being very oxpe- j mncli in its favour. — Tlie addition of the patent 



ns, farinerj are enabled to preserve tholf /"'oA'i which all just men must admit to be reas- 



.it in tlie sheaf, without risk of missing a fa- 1 enable, since many patents fail in their intent, and 



able market. | the right to others is contested, independent of 



p Journal of a rour and Residence in GrftaJ I "le charges .incurred by bringing a machine to | 



lin, in '810 and 181J ; by Mr Sraoiirf; Vol 1. I perfection, the addition of this profit, we say, 



!/ ; New York Edition. i leaves Jlr Pope's machine as most remarkably 



lus it appears, that this Scotch machine pro-i<^heap, particularly when its excellence is con- 



d tlie sepnriition of the grain from the husk ! ''''^ered. 



leans of the tv:n first cylinders; whereas in i ~ , ,,„ ' 



'opc-s machine, this is done bv the </uV</cylia- 1 ^„ .^'^^^'t CANADIAN CANAL 



the Grand Canadian Canal is not the Rideau 



er, will of course depend on liow much dye may 

 be wanted ; and their relative proportions, on the 

 depth of colour required. A common tea cup wiil 

 contain sufliciciit in quantity for a single pair of 

 gloves. 



Paste fur Sharpening Razors — Take a quanti- 

 ty of Slate, wash it well, pound it in a mortar, and 

 pass it. through a very fine hair sieve ; mix some 

 of this powder, first with well water and after- 



"'ards with olive oil, to the consistence of fat 



Put some of this paste upon a common razor strap 

 after it has been properly cleaned, so as to re- 

 move all foreign bodies from it. Pass the razor 

 from right to loft, as usual, ending with raisinn- 



NEW j:r\ GLAND FARMER. 



BOSTON, FRIDAY, JUNE 15, 1827. 



wliereas m 

 is dono bv the </uV</ cylia- 

 ac'.ing upon the jrain when lield, by the two - , , „t ,, . 



ucung cylinders; and that it is hence, that '^^'"^^ °°^ the Welland canal.- Phese are only 



mere sections of it, which are to be met with on 



'ope's machine produies that livdij stroke, 

 ihich its friends value it. ; 



o.'ji AuTiiiiii Youxg's Fari:u:-'s Calindar ; 



\mh Edition. 

 T Ariluir Young of England ! as the folIov.'iRo- 

 ases about Threshing Machines. 

 The farmer may lose iinmenseiy, if his straw 

 ot threshed clean ; and as it is a work gen- 

 y performed by measure, the men are too apt 

 irn it over too quickly, and to thrash out only 

 ccrn which comes the easiest from the ear. 

 aspect to pilfiri'ifr, the work gives thc'm groat- 

 oportunitics for it than any other !" 

 The expense of a Jixcd mill is from fiO to 100 

 eas, for one that requires or 3 horses. It 

 thresh out .nboiit 1") quarters of wherit [about 

 bushels] in 8 or 9 hours ; and from 1.5 to i!0 of 

 3y, oats, peas or beans. — Barley is the grain 

 thrashes worse with them, than any other ; 

 I have seen several that thrasli it as other 

 n ; such as Mr Ashley's. His price for afi.v- 

 ne is 75 guineas ; and for a moveable one 1'30. 

 granary should .ilways be over the^iTfa' mill; 

 the corn may he drawn up at once, and lodg- 

 afc under the f;'riner's key. 

 Piicii mills .IS are here described, Iiave been 

 tly multiplied ; but at present (18)4,) it is ad- 

 ed by all the best judgf.^, by those who have 

 the greatest fxprrievce that these small a><d 

 /> jr; .rAi"M are deficient in strength and du- 

 : I\ one should be worked bv fewer than 4 



horses or oxen.— The regularity of tho ^^ «'"'" I-e^th"- Gloves to resemble the York 

 ement of oxen has been f.-und^much superior ^'"'' •^""''"<"* dve, ifc—The different pleasing 

 iat of horses ; and the strength of the ma- i '""'^ °^ yellow, brown or tan colour, are readily 

 e in all its parts [shoul:! be) proportioned to I ''"P'*''*'''' *" 'ei'her gloves by th? following sim- 

 of the team. Up.on this plan, the cxper=n JP'" P'""'"'^'''""'^'^*'!' saffron in boiling hot soft 

 lot 'ue less than £K;0; and it is much better to P^^'^'' '"°'" "''""* twelve hours; then, havinjr 

 ct £200.-1 have thrashed two crops bv ' '^''"*'''y sewed up the tops of the gloves, to pre- 

 eahlc viachines, p-iyinL' Is. 2d. per quarter for ^'^"^ '^° '^y'^ ^''"'^ staining the insides, wet them 

 at, for the mere ^liresliing ; biit it ansn-erod ''^^'" ^^'^'^ ^ sponge or soft brush dipped into the 

 ely in cleanness i»fwork and in the nreven- 



the grand lino between Quebec and the noble 

 summit level of- Lake Superior. This famous ca- 

 nal v.'ill be finished iu a fov/ years as far as the 

 summit level. Steam boats may go up smack from 

 Quebec to lake Superior ere ."•! years of lime be 

 run ; from thence with lit'lc trouble, they will 

 pass through the notch of the Ru.:';y mountains and 

 bo lucked down the Columbia to liie Paciiic ocean. 

 The route however will be better to be kept off 

 the American frontier, which is Columbia, and to 

 go down Cooko's river, or the large Salmon river 

 at A'oolka Sound. The town of JVoolka ni.ny like 

 ly yet be as largo as London, and ought to bo laid 

 out on an extcfllsive plan, as the trade between it 

 and the oriental world will become wonderful, in 

 a short time. Then when the Steam Packet line 

 is established between Quebec and London, as it 

 soon will be, we may come and go between China 

 and Britain in about two moiiths. The names of 

 the Stages will be London, Cove or Cork, the 

 A/ores, Newfoundland, Quebec, Montreal, Kings- 

 ton, Port Dalbousie, Port Maitland, Erie, Huron, 

 Superior. Rocky Pvlonntains, Athabaska, Nootka 

 and Canton. Can this be called a foolish prophe- 

 cy or an idle dream ?■ — by no means. It is per- 

 fectly practicable. [Novasrotian.] 



In the month of March last, " the price of FIny, 

 in the county of Worcester (Eng.) was from cia-ht 

 guineas and a half, to nine guineas a ton !" 



FEED SWINE WITH SWAMP BRAKES. 



One of our correspondents in an artich- publish- 

 ed in the first volume of the New England Farm- 

 er, says, " I go to a swamp once in tliree or four 

 days, and gather a quantity of brake ■, and deposit 

 them in my cellar in order to kcjp them in a 

 green state. Once in a day I give as many cf 

 them to my hogs as I think they wall devour. 



" My method of gathering them is to pull them 

 up, being careful to get the heart or pith, which 

 grows in the centie at the bottom. This kind of 

 brakes frequently grows in meadows, and seme- 

 times on hard land among grass, and if pulled in 

 June (taking care to get the heart or pith) they 

 rarely if ever grow again," 



PICKING err roTATou blossoms &c. 

 The Farmer's Magazine, a British publication 

 contains the Allowing : " Having long entertain-' 

 d an idea that the foimation of apples upon po- 

 tatoes was detrimental to the crop, by drawing 

 away ;• large and valuable part of the nourish"- 

 ment from the roots, I this year made an experi- 

 ment which I think goes a great way to solve the 

 question. Having planted some of different kinds, 

 I had the flowers carefully picked from several 

 of the drills as soon as they appeared, leaving, 

 between every drill so picked, a drill v.-ith the 

 flowers untouched. In some cases I allowed the 

 flowers to expand and even to make some pro- 

 gress towards sotting, in others, I suflfered the 

 apples to form, and pulled them ofi' when they 

 were half grown. In the drills were the flowers 

 were gathered as soon as they appeared, the crop 

 was doubled to what it was where the apples were 

 allowed to come to maturity ; where the flowers 

 were allowed to waste themselves the crop was 

 less abiinilant, and where the apples liad made 

 some progress it was still less though greatly 

 better than where they had been left untouched 

 In short, from the time of the flowers appearing, 

 and as long as the leaves continued green and the 

 stems growing, there appeared an advantage 

 from gathering both the flowers and apples grad'u- 

 ally, diminishing however as they approach the 

 ultimate period of their growth. I remarked also 

 that the stems of the potatoes in the drills, where 

 the flowers had been picked ofl^, continued greea 

 and vigorous much longer than where they were 

 suffered to grow, and also where the apples were 

 athered at an early period. I, at the same time. 



i; "J Tti *•* c jy 11 c ■ j^.....^.^... .iv till ,rwiiy ufiiuu. 1, ii L tuu suiue lime. 



liquid. The quantity of saflcon as well as of iwa- L,„j„ . • i . xu a- ^ =a uc wujc, 



^ * -^ a 1 made trials as to the effects of cutting the haulm. 



