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THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



as from hops. This plant is to be found in al- 

 most any of our old fields, has rather a pleasant 

 smell — is from two to three feet high, with a 

 spreading top and white flowers on all the 

 branches. It may be gathered now, in the 

 midst of winter, but is better when gathered in 

 the fall, and as hops usually are, tied op in bags. 

 I will remark, that the bread is sweeter cold or 

 hot, much lighter, more digestible, will not so 

 easily become hard, as bread prepared with hop 

 yeast, and will keep until it becomes perfectly 

 "ripe." I would recommend it to all lovers of 

 good bread, but especially to Mrs. Dumpling ^ to 

 fqhrij who she thinks " a great scribe" and to 



all the little Dumplings. 



Yours, respectfully, W. 

 Bedford, Feb. 5, 1844. 



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We have heard of this same yeast from one 

 or two other "good judges," and should be 

 much obliged to our correspondent, if he could 

 afford us an opportunity of trying it. It may 

 be, that this indigenous plant, (which, in length 

 of name at least, has greatly the advantage,) 

 is destined to rival, perhaps supersede, the hop; 

 the culture of which, is understood to be very 

 extensive and extremely profitable, 



STUMP MACHINE 



We know no labor the farmer is called on to 

 perform more tedious or more laborious than the 

 removal of those unsightly impediments, the 

 stumps in his new grounds. We have already 

 furnished several descriptions of implements in- 

 tended to abridge the labor of this operation, 

 and we now give a drawing and description 

 (taken from an old number of the Cultivator,) 

 of a machine for this purpose, which is cheap 

 and simple in construction, and which we hope 

 some of our readers will put to the test : 



"It is simply the wheel and axle, on a large 

 scale. The uprights should be 11 feet high, 10 

 by 12 inches square, of hard wood. The sills 



7 by 9 inches square, 14 feet long, and turned 

 up at the ends, sled runner fashion, to enable it 

 to slide easily on the ground. Let the posts be 

 firmly morticed into the sills, and well braced. 

 The axle or shaft should be white oak, ash or 

 maple ; 18 inches in diameter, with the gudgeons 



8 inches. It should be 20 feet long, and 2 pins 

 should be driven into it, outside the posts, to 



keep them together. The wheel should be 

 about 18 feet in diameter, with 8 spokes, 4 of 

 which should go through the axle, and the other 

 4 set as deep as possible into the shaft, without 

 cutting away too much wood, for fear of weak- 

 ening it. The spokes are to be white oak plank, 

 8 by 3 inches square. Let the felloes be sawed 

 out of 4 inch plank, and planked by two courses 

 of inch boards on the two sides, in such a man- 

 ner as to 'break joints' (as the phrase is) with 

 the first set ; thus, and at the same time, to form 

 a groove to keep the rope from slipping off. 

 Then get two strong chains made of 1^ inch 

 iron, and 12 feet long each. Fasten one end of 

 each by a strong staple to the axle, and on the 

 other end of one have a hook, on the other a 

 large link or ring. Then fasten one end of a 

 1 ^ inch rope on the wheel, give it two or three 

 turns around it, and your machine is complete, 

 Now bring your two j 7 oke of cattle and one as? 

 sistant; hiich them to the staples (which should 

 be in each end of each sill,) and drive where 

 you like. Dig a hole under the main root of 

 the stump (on one side, if possible,) and pass 



