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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
[October, 
CBOSSMAN BROTHERS Sc CO>£:E*i^MY 9 
MantLfactrirers of Fire Brick, Glazed Drain Pipe, Land Tile, &c. 
DEALERS BN FERE CLAY, FIRE SAND AMD KAOLE&, 
On Raritan Kiver, 2 1-2 Uliles above Perth Amboy, Woodbridge, 3S. J. 
"Wc invite public attention to an enterprise having for its 
object a combination of practical, successful, business oper- 
ations, and valuable inventions-, the working of wfcicli will 
have a tendency to revolutionize present systems of drain- 
ace; greatly diminish its cost, and increase its efficiency by 
being done in a SUPERIOR MANSER ; add to the 
prosperity, profits, and certainty of a_s:ricultnral operations, 
and by thus increasing the National "Wealth in Agricultural 
Products, the prosperity of all other interests and business 
of thecountry will be promoted and insured; the volume 
and cash value of our National Exports will be increased, 
and tend to avert those monetary crises that succeed poor 
crops, and consequent diminished cash value of our exports 
and over trading on credit principles. 
In our Brick-making business we found and secured aworn- 
out farm containing inexhaustible quantities of common 
brick. Drain Tile, Pipe and Fire Brick Clay, that make 
goods of such Si-PETUor. quality as the clays of YS"oodbridg°, 
N.J are celebrated for. These different kinds of valuable 
YS'oodbridge Clays overlie and successively*. <Zew*QP each 
other. They lie accessible and exposed above the level of 
our Railroad, and reach almost to the surface of the ground. 
They are connected with Factory, Ship Channel, and ex- 
cellent shipping facilities, by a Railroad otabout S.290 feet, 
with a slight downgrade to the river. It is a combination of 
natural and artificial advantages for manufacturing superior 
goods of vital importance to the country, and for exhibiting 
our valuable machinery for sale in practical, profitable 
working operation, that is not known to exist in any other 
locality. 
The machinery that is of such importance to the agricul- 
tural and other interests of tlic country consists in part of 
the inventions of Mr. Geo. S. Tiffany. They are the only 
machines known that take unprepared clay from the bank, 
grind it to plasticity, and drive it out at any desired rate of 
tyeed-not as simple mud— but in continuous streams of very 
dense, strong, and polished round tile, that are only equaled 
In smoothness by the Glass Tile of Holland. They are pre- 
cisely the goods that every intelligent and scientific Drainer 
in the country will have whenever obtainable. They are 
manufactured stiff enough to wheel direct from the machine, 
the only hand labor required being to shovel clay, handle 
and wheel away the ready made tile, to be dried and burned, 
&c, &c. "We counted -IS ready made polished tile issuing 
per minute, in a continuous stream from the machine of 
Sword Bros., in Michigan. The different strata in our clay 
hills that can. thus be rapidly made into valuable and supe- 
rior goods by our combination of water and rail transport- 
ation and valuable machinery, were formerly thrown, away 
to get the more valuable clays beneath. 
Another invention of great importance to this Company 
and to the country is the Patent of Mr. Henry C. Ingraham. 
It is probably the first efficient, practical, economical, light 
draft Ditching Machine ever invented and practically used. 
"With such little work as it has already done, under great 
disadvantages, and with limited means to develop it, we 
already ha.vv practical proof that it will, with a single team 
of horses, dig from % of a mile to M mile, 2 to 3 feet deep, 
of Ditch per day, with the bottom of the Ditch hardened, 
graded, and shaped to precisely Jit romid tile, in a manner 
far superior to hand labor. It is self-adjustable and self- 
grading. By driving it a few times across the roughest 
plowed ground, the bottom of the Ditch becomes smooth 
and graded, with no loose dirt lett in the Ditch. The dirt is 
deposited on each side in the smallest possible quantities, 
because the Ditch is cut precisely of uniform width, 'witn- 
out waste by irregularities in digging. The operator rides 
i\b in a Mowing Machine, and it is believed to be of greater 
value to the country to increase Agricultural Products than 
Mowing Machines, or any other implement, areto secure the 
crops after being produced. It is difficult to estimate the 
value of a machine by which farmers can now drive teams 
and thoroughly perform the hitherto disagreeable, expen- 
sive, and slow, work of Ditching. 
This Company is as yet composed exclusively of the work- 
ing men and inventors that have developed this combination 
of business and advantages. The business will be managed 
by them, and their production will be still improved and de- 
veloped to a higher standard of perfection, and kept in ad- 
vance of the times, if the Inventors now comprising the 
Company should live. These Inventors are young men of 
integrity, and have not yet attained their proper positions 
In life. 
The Company is not absolutely organized, but it is under 
consideration to name it the CROSSMAN CLAY AND 
MANUFACTURING COMPANY, and to be formed of the 
following Olficers: 
JACOB R. CROSSMAN, President. 
GEORGE S. TIFFANY, Treasurer. 
TRUSTEES. 
JACOB R CROSSMAN. 
ALONZO G. CROSSMAN. 
HENRY C. INGRAHAM. 
The Company now possess and are working yards that can 
produce from two million to five million brick per year. 
ITt en«lM« ettlnaatis of what !a now being dana by Sword** 
Brick Machine. It made 52 Brick per minute while we stood 
by and timed it by watch. 
EXHIBIT OF OXE WEEK'S WORK. 
Though we can, with ease, with the same number of men, 
make 180.030 in Six Days of ten hours, we here state the 
average "Week's Work at 150,000. 
COST. 
2 men at the clay bank $27.00 
2 mt-n on the platform feeding the Machine 27.00 
1 man taking off brick from the Machine 13.50 
2 men, tor three boys.) wheeling 27.00 
1 man helping unload barrows in yard 13,50 
1 engineer ". 21.00 
4 settees C0.00 
5 burners 4S.00 
150 bushels nut coal, for engine, 7.50 
2 horses, keeping 10.00 
1.S50 bushels Coke and Coal, to burn a kiln of 150,000 
brick 121.50 
Oil for machinery 3.50 
Delivering kiln of brick 225.00 
Manager of yard, and contingent expenses 50.00 
PROF3T. 
150,000 brick at SIS per 1,C00 $j68KO0 
Deduct cost of making $C57.00 
SC57.00 
Net profit of yard Sor one week $1,143.00 
Admitting what everyone knows cannot possibly occur, 
that brick fall to half present prices, and wages remain as 
higli as at present, still, a Machine iu a brick market, is a 
fortune. 
The above estimates of cost are much higher than will bo 
found true, of manv localities. They are above the actual 
working expenses of our own yard, but we wish to be entire- 
ly on the safe side! 
The clay that is now made into common brick, can. by the 
Tiffany Tile Machine, he rapidly made into superior Tile, for 
a great demand exists at the following prices: 
m inch, without bands, JJ7 1J^ inch, with bands, $23. 
3 " 
4 
20.. 
85., 
50., 
28. 
4 5. 
5G. 
To show the comparative cost of Brick and Tile made 
from the same clays, we extract from the work by Geo. E. 
"Waring, entitled "Draining for Profit and Health," page 
1SS, as follows : 
"The Cost of Tiles.— It wonld be impossible, at ally 
time, to say what should be the precise cost of tiles in a giv- 
en locality, without knowing the prices of labor and fuel; 
and in the present unsettled condition ot the currency, any 
estimate would necessarily be of little value. Mr. Parker 
estimated the cost of inch pipes in England at fv*., (about 
$1.50) per thousand, when made on the estate where they 
were to be used, by a process similar to that described here- 
in. Probably they could at no time have been made for less 
than twice that cost in the United Slates,— and they would 
now cost much more; though if the clay is dugout in the 
fall, when the regularly employed farm hands are short of 
work, and if the same men can cut and haul the wood during 
the winter, the hands hired especially for the tile making, 
during the summer season, (twomeu and two or three boys,; 
cannot, even at present rates of wages, bring the cost of the 
tiles to nearly the market prices. If there he only temporary 
use for the machmeiy, it may be sold, when no longer need- 
ed, for a good percentage of its original cost, as. from the 
slow movement to which it is subjected, it is not much worn 
by Its work. 
"There is ro reason why tiles should cost more to make than 
bricks. A common brick contains clay enough to make four 
or five 13^-inch tiles, and it will require about the same 
amount of fuel to burn this clay in one form as in the other. 
This advantage in favor of tiles is in a measure offset by the 
greater cost of handling them, and the greater liability to 
breakage." 
It will readily be seen there is room for immense profits 
in Tile manufactures by our combination and application 
of machinery, even at a large reduction in the price of tile. 
Orders for Ditching and Tile Making Machines are solic- 
ited, and their satisfactory working will be guaranteed by 
our Company. 
It is proposed to raise $50,000 Cash Working Capital to de- 
velop and extend our enterprise. To do so, the property 
and business of the Company will be represented by shares 
of $50 each. One Thousand such shares are now offered to 
capitalists and consumers, with the Arm belief as practical 
men that no enterprise in this country holds out equal in- 
ducements for investment. Inventories, full explanations, 
and satisfactory references, will be furnished applicants by 
addressing or calling oh 
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