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expect to keep but a few weeks or months at most. In other days 

 the yoiing man without endowment had to practice the strictest econ- 

 omy ill personal expenses and save his earnings for long years before 

 1)0 could think of buying his fifty or 100 acres of even wild land. 15ut 

 now the 160 acres awaits him without money or price, and the boy 

 who does not avail himself of it, offers small promise if he remains at 

 home. Thus we see on every hand demand for the trusty, educated 

 and active bo3's fiir beyond the supply, and if our sons can do better 

 to go than stay at home we should be glad rather than sorry. Tlie 

 equilibrium will come by and by, meantime we must do as we used 

 to do when we lacked sufficient teams — break more steers. 



Clock Power for Churxing, &c. 



Mr. M. V. B. Eowley, Worcester, N. Y., had on exhibition a small 

 model and also a large working specimen of a device for storing power 

 to be applied to domestic labors, such as churning, pumping, fanning 

 grain. A large weight of 200 pounds or more, is suspended like the 

 weight of a town clock, and by its weight turns wheels to which a 

 pendulum is attached. The ball of the pendulum slides up and 

 down, thus regulating the rate of motion. 



Dr. J. y. C. Smith. — I hope the merits of this ingenious contri- 

 rance v/ill be well examined. All need contrivances for diminishing 

 domestic labor, and especially such as are performed by the treadle. 

 Physicians are well aware that sewing machines impair the health of 

 thousands yearly by the cramped position, and the demand they 

 make for an unnatural action of the muscles of the lower extremi- 

 ties. If this can be made cheap enough, it may furnish po^ver for 

 driving sewing machines in families. 



Mr. S. E. Todd. — Whatever advantages it may have, it docs not 

 produce power. The power exerted in pumping or churning is no 

 less than the effort required to wind up the weight. Its advantage 

 is, that by vigorous exertion, for a few moments, by a man or a liorse, 

 power is stored up which will last several hours. 



Mr. J. 13. Lyman. — This contrivance, no doubt, has merit in a 

 degree. How far we ought to recommend it to farmers fur churn- 

 ing, t^c, we cannot judge from the models now at work before us. 

 We should see it at Work, as it generally must be at farm houses, 

 under some disadvantages, and without the presence of a skilled 

 mechanician. I suggest the appointment of a committee to look 

 carefully into its merits and to report on the uses to which it may be 

 applied on farms. 



