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The above hints on iron making have been volunteered and thrown 

 out in this report, in the hope that they may rec( ive the attention 

 due the importance of the subject discussed. So far as these sug- 

 gestions relate to the use of charcoal fuel for the fust converting 

 heat in making iron, it may be said that they are not merely theo- 

 retical. Blast furnaces for pig metal arc at this moment worked in 

 the city of Baltimore with charcoal made on the spot, and with 

 equal advantage with those worked in the mountains, the ore being 

 found convenient thereto. The combining processes, the saving of 

 unnecessary freight, and the avoidance of the too frequent charges 

 for commissions, are but the dictates of good management, and are 

 in themselves simple and direct ideas, which require no multiplica- 

 tion of words to be appreciated and understood. 



Adopt and pursue this concentration of processes, and the char- 

 coal mode of procedure by the bloom forge, and New-York with her 

 inexhaustible veins and beds of iron ore, and her equally inexhaus- 

 tible mountain and hill ranges of woodlands, becomes second to no 

 state in the Union for making iron. 



Locating a portion of her iron works within reach of extensive 

 veins of primitive and secondary iron ore, found in Du'cl.ess, Rock- 

 land and Orange counties, at sites, upon or near the Hudson river, 

 and within reach of cheap mineral coal for re-heats. 



Drying apparatus for gram, flour, meal, Sfc, 



A machine (so called,) for the above purpose, was exhibited by 

 James R. Stafford, Esq, of Cleveland Ohio; and for which a gold 

 medal was awarded. 



During the large shipment last year to Europe of Indian corn, and 

 corn meal, heavy losses were sustained on cargoes sent forward in 

 an unfit condition. Kilns for drying grain constructed of masonry, 

 have long been in use by millers; but such kilns have not bten avail- 

 able to the merchants in a case of emergency. 



The steam apparatus of Mr. Stafford, is so compact as to admit 

 of its being placed in the loft of a store-house, with as much con- 

 venience as a common stove. Several hundred bushels of (Train can 

 be passed through this apparatus per day — the heat being applied 

 in the form of steam, the gluten is not scorched so as to change the 

 flavor as is the case in other plans, and both the color of the grain, 

 and the flavor is preserved. 



