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Horse Drum alone, $65. Stationary Machines 

 put up on corresponding terms. 



CERTIFICATES. 



"Jlylett's, King William, Va., 1843. 

 "I have made many Threshing Machines 

 within fifteen years past, and now thresh 2,000 

 bushels and upwards of grain per annum, for 

 myself and neighbors ; and I take pleasure in 

 saying that I have never used, or seen, so good 

 a Threshing Machine in all its parts, as one of 

 Exall's, which I recently examined at their Ma- 

 chine Manufactory in Richmond. It possesses 

 more good qualities than any Machine I have 

 ever seen ; while I cannot point out a single de- 

 fect. The work is all good, and the Machine 

 is cheap. John Sizer." 



11 Liitk Dover, Goochland, April 5, 1843. 



" My father, Dr. Joseph Trent, bought one of 

 Exall's Threshing Machines more than twenty 

 years ago, which was stationed in his barn at 

 this place, and also one of his Portable Machines 

 about ten years ago, and I take pleasure in saying 

 that they have both proved all they were repre- 

 sented to be, and threshed out the crops of last 

 year clean and well. Jos. G. Trent." 



Mr. William Miller, who was sent by the 

 Henrico Agricultural Society to Albany, to at- 

 tend the great State Agricultural Fair held there 

 last fall, and examine such implements, &c, 

 testifies that no Machine was there exhibited 

 equal to the above, though many were presented ; 

 he having threshed his crop with one of ours, 

 previous to his departure. 



Many certificates might be added if space 

 would allow. We solicit a share of patronage 

 from the farming public, as we intend to devote 

 the whole of this year to the manufacture of 

 Threshing Machines. Those who favor us with 

 their orders are requested to send them in early, 

 so as to allow sufficient time to finish them be- 

 fore the threshing season commences. 



Exall & Brother. 



Q^Wewill also furnish a good Machine, 

 with Drum and Band complete, 4 Horse Power, 

 for $150 ; and do. 2 Horse Power for $125; 4 

 Horse Power alone, $100; 2 Horse Power, 

 $75. The last is on a different plan, very sim- 

 ple and warranted to work well, fast and easy. 



Shop on 12th Street, between D and E. 



E. & B. 



Richmond, April, 1843. 



The subscriber will receive and execute orders 

 for the above. C. T. Botts. 



AGRICULTURAL CLUBS. 

 It is impossible to estimate the benefits that 

 these neighborhood associations are privately 

 and imperceptibly conferring upon the cause of 



agriculture. We have lately received several 

 orders for new implements, &c, from such asso- 

 ciations, who have purchased them for the pur- 

 pose of testing their merits. This alone is an 

 invaluable feature in their organization, which 

 we esteem far beyond any society, whose object 

 is public exhibition, no matter how extensive or 

 how magnificent. One club in Albemarle has 

 ordered one of Barnaby & Moer's ploughs ; 

 from another, in Mecklenburg, we have received 

 an order for Poudrette. How much better op- 

 portunity will these gentlemen enjoy, at home, 

 of testing an implement fully and fairly, and 

 how much more satisfactory to the community 

 will be their report, than any that could ema- 

 nate from a committee, who are directed to de- 

 cide in half an hour, frequently, upon the most 

 complex piece of machinery. 



This advantage alone, we repeat, by which 

 the expense of purchasing and testing a new 

 thing may be divided amongst a neighborhood, 

 is calculated to have a wonderful effect upon 

 the progress of agriculture, and ought to secure 

 the establishment of such clubs in every squad 

 of farmers. It is by means of this union and 

 co-operation that information has been engen- 

 dered and diffused in other occupations, and it 

 is the growing popularity of this system, that 

 encourages the hope that agriculture will not 

 long be behind the other arts. 



PRESERVATIVE COMPOSITION. 



For a composition for coloring and preserving 

 gates, roofs, and timber generally, from the wea- 

 ther, melt twelve ounces of rosin in an iron pot 

 or kettle, add three gallons of train oil, and three 

 or four rolls of brimstone ; when they are melted 

 and become thin, add as much Spanish brown, 

 (or red or yellow ochre, or any other color you 

 like, ground as usual with oil,) as will give the 

 whole the shade wanted. Then lay it on with a 

 brush as hot and as thin as you can. Some days 

 after the first coat is dried, lay on a second. It 

 is well attested that this will preserve plank for 

 years, and prevent the weather from driving 

 through brick work. — Exchange paper. 



For the Southern Planter. 

 OLD FIELD PINES. 



Messrs. Editors, — In the March number of 

 the Planter there was a communication, from a 

 gentleman of Amherst, on the subject of Old 

 Field Pines, with which I was very much de- 

 lighted. He states, that if the bark is stripped 

 off while the trees are standing and suffered to 



