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much as one can attend to. We kno-w of a man who has a peach 

 orchard of one hundred and seventy acres, and though he is an 

 experienced fruit-grower and a good business man, he has been 

 obliged to let it out in ten-acre lots. Of course, peaches require 

 much more care than apples; still, there is a limit to human efforts. 

 In every branch of culture, a man is never certain of constant and 

 profitable help outside his own family. Still, if one has money, 

 }et him go ahead with his fifty or one hundred acre orchard. Provi- 

 dence will prosper fruit-growing on a large scale before anything 

 else. The very first culture we hear of was in apples. Man fell 

 from his high estate in an orchard, and the place to seek for a 

 thing is where it was lost. 



But this subject did not open by considering men who have made 

 money by speculation or trade, or who have received it as a mark 

 of affection. We referred to the vast majority of men who, so far 

 from having money to plant on a grand scale, will do well if they 

 can get land at all; and we do not like to see them deluded with 

 the idea that if they spend all their time and spare change in some 

 special pursuit, such as fruit-growing, they will get rich. What we 

 recommended was, that such should have a good orchard started 

 as soon as possible; then, that they should raise general crops, 

 wheat, corn, oats, potatoes; have a well-kept garden, and, above 

 all. cows that will give milk. 



BITROVEIMENT ON COG-WHEELS ON CLOTHES WRINGERS. 



Dr. Warren Rowell exhibited an improvement he had made in 

 the cogs attached to clothes wringers, whereby the operator is able 

 to pass one of the largest blankets through the machine without 

 throwing the cog-w^heels out of gear. When no cog-wheels are 

 employed the lower roller is required to perform much more than 

 its share of the work. This extraordinary amount of pressure and 

 strain on the lower roller soon wears out the rubber and spoils the 

 wringer. But by having such a pair of cog-wheels as are attached 

 to the Universal Wringer, so constructed that the motion of the 

 rollers is regulated by the cog-wheels, the undue pressure is 

 removed from the lower roller, and both rollers wear alike. 



Mr. Solon Robinson stated a fact in connection wnth the manu- 

 facture of R. C. Browning's Universal Clothes Wringer, from which 

 farmers, as well as mechanics, may learn a valuable lesson. He 

 said that one of the proprietors told him that when their foreman 

 had finished the pattern of the crank, the proprietors thought it 



