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Mr. John S. Collins, of Moorestown, N. J., by the following ingenious, 

 yet simple, invention, is able to drive through his currant and raspberry 

 fields without injuring the plants. " An ordinary cart is changed by 

 putting in an axle fifteen inches longer than usual, the wheels thus making 

 a track six fec c and eight inches wide. The shafts and body of the cart 

 are put just as close to one wheel as possible, so that the horse and the 

 wheel will pass as near together, and as near in a line, as practicable. The 

 axle of the other wheel being long, and bowing up several inches higher 

 than ordinary in the middle, it passes over a row of bushes with little or 

 no damage. Thus, fertilizers can be carried to all parts of the field." 



Of course, it would not do to drive through bushes laden with fruit; 

 but after they were picked, such a vehicle could cause but little injury. 



In the garden and for home use there is the widest latitude. We 

 may content ourselves, as many do, with a few old Red Dutch bushes 





Weighing Currants. 



that, for a generation, have struggled with grass and burdocks. We may 

 do a little better, and set out plants in ordinary garden soil, but forget 

 for years to give a particle of food to the starving bushes, remarking 



