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sure, and reduced to such a pulp as is desirable, as it now is, 

 steamed in the wooden box. When iron work shall be reduced 

 to the price charged before the war, an apparatus with iron boiler 

 and iron steam box, wiU be within the easy expenditure of every 

 considerable cattle feeder, costing not over one hundred and fifty 

 dollars. This amount would be more than made up by. its use 

 for a single year. 



CHEAP STEAMER. 



"We will next give a description of a very simple apparatus, 

 which is within the reach of every farmer. It is described, with 

 out the improvement which should be made to it, in the transac- 

 tions of the American Institute for 1863. 'Get a sheet of No. 

 18 iron, (No. 16 would be better,) thirty-two to thirty-six inches 

 wide, and seven or eight feet long, (or two sheets may be riveted 

 together, and thus make one fourteen feet long, if much work is 

 to be done.) Take 2-inch pine plank, (maple would be better,) 

 about two feet wide ; let the sides extend three inches past the 

 end plank ; make a box a little flaring at the top, and wide and 

 long enough, so that the bottom sheet will cover and project 

 half an inch on each side and end. Let the ends into the sides, 

 Ji to %-inch, in making the box, and put it together with white 

 lead and oil, and put two K-inch iron rods through the sides at 

 each end, outside of the end plank; then nail on the bottom 

 sheet with two rows of five-penny naUs, the nails about one inch 

 apart in the rows, and breaking joints, and bend up the sheet 

 where it projects.' This will hold some thirty bushels. 'Now 

 take flat stones or bricks, and make a fireplace the length of 

 your box, and eight inches narrower on the inside, than yonr 

 box is wide on the outside.' Fire bed should be sixteen or 

 eighteen inches deep. 'Put across at each end, a flat bar of 

 iron, yi by 1>^ inches, so as to lay a row of bricks on these for 

 the ends of the box to rest on, and at the back end, let the arch 

 run out so as to build a small chimney, and put on some joints 

 of stove pipe, and you liave a cooking apparatus.' This is a 



