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ried under and discharged on the other side, in such a manner that 

 'he cob and the grain are completely separated. 



This simple machine may be had of the Inventor for from 6 to 

 10 dollars. It has been thoroughly tried. Two boys have shelled 

 eighteen bushels per hour by it. This however is probably work- 

 ing faster than they would wish to, all day. It is certainly worth 

 the consideration of the farmer. A machine that costs but little 

 and saves so much labor, should be extensively used. One might 

 serve for a whole neighborhood ; in this case the expense to indi- 

 viduals, would be very small and the advantages the same. 



While wc are upon this subject, perhaps it will not be amiss to 

 make some remarks upon employing machinery in agricultural 

 work. — We will acknowledge that there have been too many com- 

 plicated and expensive machines palmed upon the public, and 

 cried up as being of immense advantage to the farmer, on account 

 of the time and the labor they would save, when in reality, they 

 were time-wasting and labor-making inventions, rather than other- 

 wise. Yet these failures ought not to prejudice the mind too deep- 

 ly against inventions. The same failures have repeatedly happen- 

 ed, and are still occurring in manufactures, and yet they are indi- 

 rectly useful, for they lead on to improvement, and point the way 

 to more simple and successful schemes, by which the desired ob- 

 ject is finally accomplished ; and what is the reason that the same 

 mode of procedure will not hold good in Agriculture ? None. The 

 same or similar reasoning which the manufacturer urges in regard to 

 machinery, may with the same propriety be urged by the Farmer ; 

 \\z : " Every invention that lessens the expense of farm-labor, 

 enables the farmer to employ additional hands in carrying on other 

 works, and, in all improved farms, these works are so numerous, 

 that employment can never be wanting for laborers, as long as the 

 means of paying them remain with the employers." 



JONES, ON JAPANNING AND VARNISHING....N0. 5, 



White, or light colored Spirit Varnishes. 

 We have formerly remarked, that although the varnishes made 

 from lac, are, in some respects, preferable to any of those made 

 from the more colorless resins, yet, they cannot be applied, where 

 a tinge of brown would be inadmissible. Pictures, maps, the 

 lighter colored woods, inlayed work, japanned chairs, and other 

 furniture, with ornamental painting and gilding, if finished with 

 varnish, require such as is nearly colorless. 



