1864. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



181 



THE UNIVEKSAL CLOTHES WBINGEB. 



Several years ago, a gentleman 

 brought into our office a machine 

 for wringing clothes. We had 

 never seen one before, and hardly 

 supposed a simple arrangement of 

 rubber rollers would squeeze the 

 water out of cloth as well as is 

 done by hand. We mounted the 

 machine on our office water-pail, 

 and commenced a series of exper- 

 iments with towels, iSrc, resulting 

 in an opinion that the machine was 

 a good one for the family, and that 

 we would have it tried at home on 

 a larger scale. From that time 

 we have never been without a 

 wringer, and we would not be 

 without one if the present prices 

 were doubled. 



Our first machine was a small 



affair, promising to hold itself on 



the tub, but really requiring one 



hand or more for that purpose, 



and so adding much to the labor 



of using it. The upper roller was 



moved by contact with the lower. 



We have replaced it with one like the above, ly keeps her house ia order and her children's. 



which gives much better satisfiiction. The pecu- clothes neat and whole. We know other families, 



liar features of the Universal Wringer, are, the j where a servant is employed, at good wages, 



manner of attaching it to the tub, and the cog- though the work is light, because the mistress of 



wheels turning the rollers. By the manner of at- the house lacks a little only of the time and 



taching it, the wringer is held firmly upon a tub strength she needs to do her own work. In both 



of any size. By means of the cog-wheels the these cases, introduce a sewing machine, a clothss 



rollers are relieved from a great amount of fric- wringer, and other like labor-saving inventions, 



tion. We have never understood the advantages and the work becomes easy, the servant is dis- 



of these cog-wheels until recently, when we have missed, money is saved, health preserved, and toil 



tried a series of careful experiments with a wring- turned into enjoyment. Every labor-saving in- 



er without them and one with them. We can vention benefits directly the laboring class, and it 



use a wringer without cogs, and have done so for is to persons of small means that these machines 



years, but there was a necessity for constant care are particularly valuable. 



in preventing the clothes from drawing in too rap- | I ,. .. 77" , , r- 



In D I j p„r the Jyeio Ensinnd Farmer. 



idly, preventing the upper roller from revolving SHEEP— NOTES FROM MAINE, 



and bringing a strain upon the fabric which would With an abundance of hay and feed for sheep 



tear any light material. In a wringer with cog- through the winter and spring, and a desire to 



wheels, when the crank moves both rollers must have them do well, it is seldom that sheep look 



move, and move equallv, and no strain can come a"^. '^^ so P"orly as they have the past winter and 



,,,,'.. , ,, sprmg. ii^arly ni the winter thev began to show 



upon the cloth, because it is acted upon equally ^.^ptoms of scours and starting off of the wool, 



from both sides, and experiences only a direct with moping, weakness and a desire for seclusion, 



pressure. We should, therefore, not use any and every now and then one would fall out. 



wringer not having cog-wheels, if we could obtain Floc>s of fifteen to twenty-five have had their pro- 



„ „ „;fU „,,„u „..„„i * portional number ot dead to be supplied, as well 



one with such an attachment. i*^, c ^ n ^ iii 



[ as those or seventy-nve to one or two hundred. 



In conclusion let us say a few words about the | Ask the farmer'how his fodder held out, and he . 

 economy of such machines. We hear people say will reply with a cheery response, "Shall have hay' 

 frequently they cannot afford such household con- 1° ""Pf^'^' '^^ vo" want to buy ?" Ask him how 

 -.XT .. if 1 . u -.1. ^ 1 nis sheep were wintering and the cheery expres- 



veniences. We cannot atlord to be without them. • -n i i i u .. i .. .i i * 



sion will suddenly change to a downcast, thought- 



We know many a family where the mother works ful one, and after a little reflection you will elicit 

 torn early dawn till late into the iiight, and bare- [ the fact that his sheep are pulling their wool, los- 



