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GEx\ESEE FARMER. 



Oct. 



air thus introdnced into the tube P, ascends 

 to the top of the same, and is forced into the 

 chamber I, at the next stroke of the machine ; 

 said valve V is represented open in fig. 7, and 

 may be closed or regulated by screwing the 

 thumb-screw V. 



The principal advantages this machine pos- 

 sesses over other machines are : 



1st. In case of forcing up pure water by the 

 propelling power of a running stream of water 

 less pure, there is no possibility of the impure 

 water mixing with the pure, there being at that 

 time a column of condensed air betM'een the two 

 waters. 



2d. The water being forced into the upper 

 chamber I, by the condensation of air in the low- 

 er chamber, the valve J opens more slowly than 

 when water alone is made the propelling medi- 

 um, and also shuts more slowly, thereby pre- 

 venting the water from escaping back through 

 the valve J, after it is forced up ; the valve J be- 

 ing nearly closed when the water ceases to flow 

 •upward into the chamber I. This advantage, 

 upon trial, is found to be of considemble impor- 

 tance, enabling the machine thus operated, to 

 force with a given quantity of water, several 



Taking. Honey from Hives. 



Mr. Editor : — The season of the year ha& 

 arrived for people to take the honey from their 

 bees, which is taken from the various improved 

 boxes in different ways and sometimes in such 

 quantities as not to leave enough to winter the 

 swarms. The course T have pursued this last 

 few years, has been to take the honey from the 

 two or three year old swarms, and the weakest 

 swarms, and saving the earliest, largest, and hea- 

 viest to raise bees from. Last year I wintered 

 six swarms. I have had fourteen swarms out this- 

 season ; twelve I saved ; two the heat drove off. 



Should any read these i'ew lines who have bees 

 to take up, I hope they will not do as a man who 

 I once knew did, that came in possession of a 

 number of swarms of bees by the death of a re- 

 lation. As soon as the honey of harvest was 

 past, he would kill the bees of the heaviest swarms; 

 in a few years his bees run out. 



One of my humane neighbors, took 300 lbs. of 

 honey from his bees last fall. He told me on a 

 cool evening he would take two swarms into a 

 dark room ; the one he wanted to take the hon- 

 ey from he would turn bottom uppermost, pla- 



barrels more of water per day than it would oth- cing the other on top, and then wrap a cloth round 



erwise do. where the boxes join and in the morning the bees 



3d. There being no valve between the con-j^ould all be in the top box, aad thus he saved 



densed air in the lower- chamber and the driving 'the lives of his bees. Care should be taken not 



water, or at the opening O, said air is permitted 

 to act a longer time in forcing back said driving 

 water, and therely making a more complete 

 vacuum than in other machines, and rendering 

 useless the spring for opening the outlet valve 

 B, as used in several machines. 



It is not necessary that the spring wafer cham- 

 ber N, and the air chamber L, should be en- 

 closed by the same envelope, but they may form 

 separate chambers, and they may be arranged in 

 any convenient way or manner most acceptable 

 to the constructor, provided that the capacity of the 

 air chamber does not exceed a due ratio between 

 the propelling power and the water to be raised. 



to wrap the cloth round too close to suffocate the- 

 bees. Joseph Carpentek. 



Prairieville, W. T., 1847. 



Mr. Editor : — Two years ago my cow (I 

 kept but one) was taken suddenly with a stop- 

 page in one of her teats ; so bad that most of the- 

 time it was impossible to get a stream from it^ 

 and I was obliged to fix a tube to get the milk 

 out At first, the milk was good for ought that 

 I could see, but soon became bad. My neigh- 

 bors said it was the " garget in the bag." I 

 gave her garget root, thi-ough the summer and 

 fall, but without material benetit to the milk, or 

 in milking. The next spring I commenced 

 feeding garget root before she came in, and had 

 no further trouble from it, except that that part 

 Mr. Moore : — Enclosed I send you $1, for 'of the bag was smaller, and gave less milk. — 

 which I wish you to credit me for the present This spring the milk in that part of the bag did 

 and next volume of the Farmer. [ not get good as soon as the others, but milks as 



Will you, or some of your correspondents who I easy, and the milk appears to be good, except 

 have had experience in the business, give us the that it is thinner. I have set it ; and the cream, 

 best method of clearing land ? Shall we chop j and milk after the cream is taken off; appear 

 in the winter, and clear off the next summer— 1. just like other cream and milk, 

 or let it lay over, or girdle and let the timber What caused the stoppage without injuring, 

 stand until it is dead ? Shall we gather our ash- the milk I — why that part of the bag grew small- 



Clearing Land. 



es and sell them, or spread them evenly over the 

 land ? Yours, H. Bristol. 



Mason, Mich., 1847. 



We have over a thousand subscribers in Mich- 

 igan, many of whom are able, from experience, 

 to answer the above properly. Who will do so? 



er 1 — and why the milk is thinner without ap- 

 pearing bad 1 — are questions which, if some of 

 your numerous readers will answer, they will 

 greatly oblige a subscriber and 



Portage, June, 1847. Mechanic. 



Will some correspondent answer the above ? 



