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to an end. To pass over a farm beautifully situated, where the vegetation — of Nature's planting — 

 is most luxuriant, betokening a noble soil, and after having admired it most enthusiastically, to be 

 cooly told by the owner that wheat is his principal crop, and that he raises " ten bushels per acre," 

 makes one ftel indignant. Fifty years ago, the farmers of Western Pennsylvania got ten bushels 

 of wheat per acre, from the fields they had succeeded in wearing out, and to-day their descendants, 

 with reverent imitation get ten bushels also. But fifty years ago there were no steamboats, no 

 railroads, no magnetic telegraphs, no leviathan clippers scouring the seas at a speed that would 

 astonish even that wicked Dutch skipper who commands the "Phantom Ship," no daguerreotypes, 

 no friction matches ; in fact the world was a baby tlien, and is a giant now. And yet there are 

 farmers sticking to the ten bushels to the acre. 



Although we have pointed out a palpable evil, it does not necessarily follow that we should 

 suggest a remedy. We refer this branch of business to the members of our Agricultural Society. 

 They will no doubt be in a state of intense excitement, as the time approaches for holding the 

 State Fair at this place, and will be ready for decisive action in whatever way it may be needed. 

 Would it not be a good idea for them to send out a committee through our own county — and 

 perhaps the adjoining ones — to examine into the general system of farming, and find out particu- 

 larly, by what hocus poeus the ground is pervented from yielding more than ten bushels of wheat 

 per acre. They might then contrive a plan to inform every individual farmer that there is a 

 better way, and offer to insure him against loss, if he will make a few timid experiments in the 

 track followed by those bold fellows in other parts of the country, who are not afraid to take forty 

 bushels of wheat from an acre. 



It is probably proper to add, that this serious ten bushel charge is not brought against every 

 locality around us, nor against every farmer, in the districts where it applies most directly. With 

 this explanation, we are prepared to prove that we have di-awn no exagerated picture. — Pitts- 

 burg Journal. 



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Hickok's Improved Portable Cider IMill. — The accompanying figure represents a 

 complete and effective machine, being contained in one frame 2|- by 3 feet, and 4 feet 

 high, the whole weigh- 

 ing 300 lbs. This mill, 

 when attended by two 

 men, and properly work- 

 ed according to direc- 

 tions, will make 6 to 12 

 barrels of cider a day. 

 The peculiar arrange- 

 ment of the cylinders is 

 such that no description 

 of apple will clog it up, 

 but it will at all times 

 work free and fast — 

 qualities that are indis- 

 pei>sable. The press is 

 provided with a heavy 

 wrought-iron screw, cut 

 on an engine lathe; and 

 the pressing box or tub 

 is so arranged that as 

 soon the pressing is 

 accomplished, it can be 

 opened* in an instan-t, 

 the pomace taken out, and closed again as quickly, and another charge put under the 

 screw. No straw or bag is needed, and the cider comes out fast and clear. Any boy 

 14 years of«age can press as readily as a man. While it possesses all the advantages of 

 the old style mill, it has none of its objections. One quart or one barrel of cider can be 

 made any time it suits the owner to use it, and he can work up the apples off of each 

 tree to suit his convenience. The mill is worked either by hand or horse power, and 

 goes very easily. See advertisement in this number 



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