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Stone Churn. A small article, well calculated for small fami- 

 lies. 



Tree Brushes. Pickering's improved wire brushes are found 

 to be the most effective implements for the purpose of clear- 

 ing trees and destroying caterpillars, of any thing that has 

 ever been used. This brush, which is made in a spiral or 

 taper form, and about eight inches long, is fixed on the end of 

 a pole, the small part of the brush is entered into the webs, and 

 a moderate twist of two or three turns takes the web and all 

 connected with it clear from the tree. It should be used very 

 early in the morning and late in the afternoon, when the in- 

 sects are in their nests. 



Cheese Presses. Quakers' improved selfrgoverning cheese- 

 press. The press is so constructed as to govern and^regulate 

 itself, in pressing a cheese of any size, without any weights. 



LeavetVs Improved Cheese Press, which is so constructed that 



