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red color, like the best Baltimore brick, are in this part of the country,, 

 found the best. The_y should have considerable iron blended with the 

 sand to give toughness. The color of the clay near Milwaukie is 

 entirely different from that commonly used, and is illustrated by the 

 handsome cream color seen in the buildings of that city. The best 

 rule is to get hold of a tile that you know to be first class, break it, 

 and observe its texture ; then buy those onlj^ which resemble it. A 

 little observation will make any farmer a good judge. 



Malleable Ikon. 



Mr. D. B. Bruen showed several parts of farm implements made of 

 malleable iron, and he took occasion to allude to the inventor, Mr. 

 Setli Boyden, of Newark, 'N. J. Malleable iron takes the place of 

 ■wrought iron ; it is bent when cold. Probably not one reaping 

 machine would be used where there is now thirty were it not for this 

 invention. Malleable iron enters into the construction of a thousand 

 more things than any one has an idea of. I know scarcely an article 

 of household use into which it does not enter. In Newark, millions 

 of dollars are added to the annual trade in consequence of this inven- 

 tion ; and yet the inventor has realized little or nothing from his 

 discovery. 



The Gaedei^ Cultivator. 



Mr. J. B. Lyman. — Mr. Chairman, Messrs. Blymyer, Day & Co., 

 Mansfield, Ohio, have sent us this implement. In some of my travels 

 I saw one, and after using it awhile, in a corn-field, thought it might 

 be a great improvement. Some months since, you may recollect that 

 Mr. Horace Greeley spoke of the importance of devising means for 

 making garden culture less laborious and costly. If this is really an 

 advance in that direction we ought to hail it as such. It consists, as 

 you see, of two wheels running one behind the other in a beam three 

 or four inches square, to which handles are attached. Midway 

 between the wheels these tools are fastened ; here is a plow, here a 

 bull-tongue cultivator ; this is a rake for collecting the weeds in piles, 

 and here we have a scui51e-hoe, running an inch under the surflice and 

 cutting weeds and grass, and here is a bayonet-plow for breaking up 

 tough, baked surfaces ; and this circular disk, with sharp edge, is 

 used for cutting off the runners of strawberries. 



Mr. Solon Eobinson. — The question is, whether tlie lal)or of 

 pushing that tool is not as great as using the common hoe and rake. 

 Do you think a real gain is brought by such devices ? 



