1853. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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read with interest. Is it not delightful to find 

 such sentiments pervading the hearts of the young ? 



Daniel Elston, Esq. , — Dear Sir : — I read in the 

 Cincinnati papers an account of the little Norwe- 

 gian boy, Knud Iverson, "lo/io would rather die 

 than to steal.'" That little boy set an example tor 

 both old and young. Let that noble deed be told 

 to all little boys and girls — let it live generation 

 after generation. I heard that many boys were, 

 going to send money to have a monument erected" 

 to him. I am only nine years old. If I was older 

 I could write better and send more money. I can 

 only send one dollar. I did not know who to send 

 my letter to, but I thought you was the person 

 because I saw your name in the papers, so I send 

 it to you, Mr. Elston. Please ^give it to the per- 

 son who has charge of it, and I will thank you very 

 much. I could have asked my father for more 

 money, but would rather send my own earnings, 

 and one doUai" is all I have now. 



Theodore A. Blinn. 



Cincinnati, Sept. 25lh, 1853. 



Ames is the President of the Company we have 

 referred to. The machines are being made in con- 

 siderable numbers by the Ames Co., and are sold 

 at $100 each. — Springfield Republican. 



The Great Horse Convention. — Yesterday was 

 a proud day for Springfield, and for the horses, 

 and for the riders and the owners — and for the 

 landlords especially. All the taverns were overrun 

 last night, and stro»ngers had to retire into the su- 

 burban towns to sleep. The horses could sleep 

 standing. There were five or six hundred of the 

 finest animals in the country, abroad during the 

 day, and the way they trotted and cantered and 

 pranced and showed off their good points was 

 beautiful to behold. The stately stallion, the gen 

 tie palfrey, the roadster, the pacer, the racker, 

 the draft horse, the race horse, breeding mares 

 colts and ponies, all seemed conscious that it was 

 their day, and that the eyes of the world were up 

 on them. The show has been well managed by the 

 enterprising citizens of this thriving inland city. 

 It pays abundantly. Gentlemen connected with 

 the press have honored their invitations to a very 

 extensive extent. The weather is also propitious, 

 and the exhibition will undoubtedly be carried 

 through the week triumphantly. — Post, 20th. 



Fall Care and Feeding of Sheep. — Sheep should 

 never be permitted to grow poor in the fall. Give 

 them the best feed you can, and if consistent with 

 your concerns, put them in the yard at night, if 

 at all cold or stormy, and in the morning give 

 them a little of the best hay you have, or a few 

 oats, and after they have eaten turn them out 

 again. Just remember at this season they need 

 care and attention, and your own good judgment 

 will probably suggest the way in which it can be 

 most properly bestowed. — Germantown Telegraph. 



A WONDERFUL PRINTING PRESS. 



The N. Y. Tribune describes a printing press of 

 wonderful capacities, just perfected by Victor 

 Beaumont, a citizen of New York. It says : — 



"The press, at a moderate rate of speed, will 

 deliver thirty thousand sheets printed on both sides 

 in a single hour ! Its movement combines the orig- 

 inal principles of Napier, which are applied by Hoe 

 in his great press, with some new and beautifully 

 simple arrangements and devices of the inventor. 

 It has a large central cylinder like the Hoe press, 

 on which are fastened the forms for both sides of 

 the sheet to be printed. The type are held fast by 

 Hoe's patent column-rules. The paper used is a 

 continuous strip or band dispensing with men to 

 feed the separate sheets as in other power presses. 

 This strip or band Mr. Beaumont arranges very in- 

 geniously ; he avoids the inconveniences inseparable 

 from having it in the form of a roll, by laying it in 

 a pile, folded backward and forward like a piece of 

 broadcloth ; one end of this pile is put into the 

 press, which then draws its own supply without 

 tearing or straining the paper till the whole sheet 

 has passed through. As there are no feeders, room 

 is obtained for additional printing cylinders ; a 

 moderate sized press will have twelve of these, and 

 will require three bands to run it, two of them, being 

 employed in carrying and looking after the paper. 

 Each twelve cylinder press will work four of these 

 continuous sheets at a time, or one to each three 

 of its cylinders. Each sheet will pass twice through; 

 at its firat^assage, one of its sides will be entirely 

 printed, the forms of the newspaper being impressed 

 on it alternately. As it comes *out, the machine 

 lays it back again in the same sort of a pile, so 

 that when it is done, the attendant supplies its 

 place with a fresh pile, and then carries it to the 

 proper spot for it to be taken up and passed 

 through the second time, which prints the side left 

 blank before. Then the mechanism passes it along 

 to the knives which cut the sheets apart, while 

 another contrivance puts them in neat piles ready 

 for the carriers. These knives are very ingenious. 

 A serious difficulty has been experienced in other 

 machines designed to print a continuous sheet, 

 from the fact that an ordinary knife cannot be re- 

 lied on to cut paper which is wet enough for print- 

 ing. This inconvenience Mr. Beaumont obviates 

 by making his serrated, or saw-shaped knives with 

 long and acute teeth. The points of the teeth ea- 

 sily pierce the paper, and once having obtained an 

 entrance, the cutting is completed in an instant." 



Sewing Machines. — A joint stock company in 

 New York has bought up and combined the three 

 best sewing-machines in the country, and by this 

 means produced an apparatus which approaches 

 so nearly to perfection that it will probably de- 

 prive one class of the ill-paid seamstresses of the 

 country of the scanty pittance they have hitherto 

 been able to earn with their needles. The present 

 is truly an age of improvement. The Ames Man- 

 ufacturing Company of Chicopee is largely inter- 

 ested in this new enterprise, and Mr. James T. 



Outrage at Boston Corner. — It is stated that 

 the country for several miles around Boston Cor- 

 ner, where the late brutal prize fight took place, 

 was the scene of rapine and robbery . Farm-houses 

 were entered, and the inmates, men, women and 

 children, knocked down indiscriminately and rob- 

 bed. Passengers were knocked down in the streets 

 and plundered, and the entire neighborhood alarm- 

 ed for their lives. On reaching a railroad track, 

 they placed logs and rails on the track to stop the 

 train if the engine refused. 



