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STATE BOARD OF HORTICULTURE. 



am now using can work. The almost universal method of 

 crushing the berries is by a heavy stone, similar to a millstone, 

 which is rolled around on the edge in a deep circular groove, 

 or trough, and by its weight does the crushing. A beam passing 

 through the eye of the stone and working on a journal in the 

 center of the circle with a horse attached to the outer end of the 

 beam, is the simplest way to do the work, and the plan that I 

 have adopted. The circumference of the trough depends some- 



The Crusher. 



what on the size of the stone. The one I am using is four feet 

 high and six inches thick, and the diameter of the trough in 

 which it works is six feet ; the length of the beam is fifteen feet. 

 This crusher is amply sufficient for an orchard of one thousand 

 trees. It cost about fifty dollars. A stone five feet in diameter 

 and two feet thick would crush in eight hours a sufficient 

 quantity of berries to make one hundred gallons of oil, and by 

 working it night and day the crop of ten thousand trees. It 

 would be better, however, to have two stones half the thickness 



