THE GENESEE FARMER. 



313 



engraving refer to the description of its parts and 

 construction, as given in the Peoples Journal, vol. 1, 

 page 141. The engraving on the opposite page is a 

 view of size No. 1, intended for driving a two-inch 

 pipe. The frame is five feet six inches high; diameter 

 of wings, ten feet. The machine is constructed so as 

 to be easily taken apart. Iron rods are employed to 

 connect its diiferent parts in the strongest manner. 

 Price, with iron pump, .^30 — boxed and shipped to 

 any part of the United Stales. For further particu- 

 lars, address Alfred E. Beach, No. 86 Nassau street, 



New York. 



—^^-^ 



Something about Schools. — "We know a man who 

 last summer hired four colts pastured on a farm some 

 five miles distant. At least once in two weeks he 

 got into a wagon, and drove over to see how his ju- 

 venile horses fared. He made minute inquiries of the 

 keeper as to their health, their daily watering, &c. 

 He himself examined the condition of the pasture ; 

 and when a dry season came on, he made special ar- 

 rangements to have a daily allowance of meal, and he 

 was careful to know that this was regularly supplied. 



This man had four children attending a district 

 school kept in a small building erected at the cross 

 roads. Around this building on three sides is a space 

 of land six feet wide; the fourth side is on a line 

 with the street. There is not an out-house or shade 

 tree in sight of the building. Of the interior of the 

 school-house we need not speak. The single room is 

 like too many others, with all its apparatus arranged 

 upon the most approved plan for producing curved 

 spines, compressed lungs, ill health, &c. 



We wish to state one fact only. The owner of 

 those colts, the father of those children, has never 

 been into that school-house to inquire after the com- 

 fort, health, or mental food daily dealt out to his off- 

 spring. The latter part of the summer we chanced 

 to ask, " who teaches your school ? " and the reply 

 was, "he did not know, he believed her name was 

 Parker, but he had no time to look after school 

 mutters." — American Agriculturist. 



THE EECIPROCITY TREATY. 



The treaty made by Mr. Secretary Marct and 

 Lord Elgix, was ratified by the Senate recently, by 

 a vote of 32 to 11. Its provisions are concisely as 

 follows: 



Article first provides that the fishermen of the 

 United States shall be allowed to take any kind of 

 fish, except shell-fish, along the coast of the British 

 North American possessions, including the bays, har- 

 bors and creeks, with no hmitation with respect to 

 distance, excluding fisheries of shad and salmon in the 

 rivers, or at their mouths It will be remembered 

 that the treaty of 1818 prevented our fishermen from 

 coming within three miles of the coast, and that this 

 restriction was construed as preventing us from en- 

 tering bays where the head lands were less than six 

 miles apart. That there shall be no disagreement 

 respecting the places reserved by this treaty, a com- 

 mission is to be appointed of one from each nation, 

 to visit the localities and to settle upon the restrictons. 

 The same right, subject to the same restrictions, is 



given to the British fishermen, on all our coasts north 

 of the 36th degree of north latitude, which is the 

 latitude of Albemarle Sound, in North Carolina. 



The third article specifies the articles, the growth 

 and produce of both the British Colonies and the 

 United States, which shall be reciprocally admitted, 

 duty free. They are as follows : 



Grain, 



Flour. 



Breadstuffs of all kinds, 



Animals of all kinds, 



Fresh meat, 



Smoked meat. 



Salted meat, 



Cotton, 



Wool, 



Seed, 



Vegetables, 



Stone or Marble in its crude 

 or unwrought state, 



Slate, 



Butter, 



Cheese, 



Tallow, 



Lard, 



Horns, 



Manures, 



Ores of metals of all kinds. 



Coal, 



Pitch, 



Tar, 



Turpentine, 



Ashes, 



Timber, 



Lumber of all kinds, round, 

 hewed and sawed, un- 

 manufactured in whole 

 or in part, 



The navigation of the River St. Lawi'ence, Laka 

 Michigan, and the Canadian Canals, is to be free to 

 both nations; and the United States agrees to use its 

 influence to induce the several States to open their 

 canals to Canadians. 



This treaty is to last ten years, subject to a right 

 reserved by Great Britain to suspend the navigation 

 of the canals and the St. Lawrence, upon due notice 

 being given ; and to the United States, in case such 

 notice should be given, the power of suspending the 

 third article, so far as Canada is concerned. 



The sixth article provides for the ratification of 

 the treaty within six months by the United States 

 Great Britain, and the Colonial Legislatures. 



Flax, Heftip & Tow, manu- 

 factured, 



Undried Fruits, 



Dried Fruits, 



Fish of all kinds, 

 Products of fish and all 

 other creatures living in 

 the water, 



Poultry, 



Eggs, 



Hides, 



Furs, 



Skins or TaUs undressed, 



Firewood, 



Plants, 



Shrubs, 



Trees, 



Pelts, 



Wool, 



Fish Oil, 



nice, 



Broom Corn, 



Bark, 



Gypsum, ground or un- 

 ground. 



Burr or Grindstones, hewn 

 or wrought or unwrou't, 



Dye Stufts, 



Bags. 



Unmanufactured Tobacco. 



Threshing Grain. — A correspondent of the South- 

 ern Planter says: " For the comfort of those who feed 

 threshing machines where there is much dust in the 

 wheat, I will say, it is the experience of my feeder 

 (who has suffered much from the dust in his throat) 

 that one swallow of oil (which should be the best 

 lamp oil), when he stops at night, will relieve one 

 from all the unpleasant eSects of the dust. This ia 

 his experience, after ten years' practice ; and as it 

 may give relief to many a fatigued and suffering poor 

 fellow, I communicate it to the Planter." 



One hundred and fifty-one million dollars are in- 

 vested in implements and machines for aiding and 

 abridging the work of the hands in cultivating the 

 earth and in preparing its produce for consumption. 



