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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



JXIKE 



A HEW FANNING MILL.— ADAMS' PATENT. 



Perhaps no one thing has so operated to increase 

 the hard labor of the farmer, and to perpetuate it, 

 as the universal prevalence and immense multi- 

 plication of weeds. That labor is like the toil to 

 •which Sisyphus was doomed by the gods for be- 

 traying some of their plans, — to roll a huge block 

 of marble up a hill, the moment it reached the 

 top it would roll back again, and thus he was tor- 

 mented by this incessant and never-ending toil. 

 So it is with the farmer and the weeds. He has 

 contrived to sow foul seeds with his grains, and is 

 then tormented with weeding the crop, while his 

 neighbor neglects to weed, and raises a luxuriant 

 growth, to send its seeds over all the adjoining 

 lands ! 



Now, however, through the genius of the me- 

 chanic, a way has been devised to prevent this 

 wide-spread mischief. Adams' Patent Fanning 



Mill will separate all the various seeds, if the 

 farmer will but press it into his service. We have 

 seen nearly all kinds of seeds, large and small, to- 

 gether with sand, dust, bits of straw and other 

 foul stuff mixed and thrown into the hopper, and 

 in a few minutes all separately returned. It 

 cleanses all impurities from wheat, rye, oats, bar- 

 ley, flax seed, millet, rice, coffee, timothy, clover, 

 hemp, canary, garden seeds, mustard, &c. A 

 merchant sent Mr. Adams 611 pounds of gum 

 Arabic, from which he took 27 pounds of sand, 

 probably from the desert, which must have been 

 blown through the sacks while undergoing trans- 

 portation. It was almost as fine as flour. Out of 

 16 tons of mustard seed, 868 lbs. of Canada this- 

 tle seed and black chaff were taken. From 29 

 sacks of rice were extracted 67 lbs. of broken rice, 

 128 lbs. of flour dust and 61 lbs. of lumps of 



