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satisfactorily, to thresh and clean all kinds of grain, to 
shell corn, and grind wheat, rye, corn, or any other thing 
to be ground cut, or mashed, such as apples, roots, veget- 
ables, &c. It is particularly adapted to churning, work- 
ing butter, washing, turning grindstones, sawing wood, 
catting straw, and stalks, or fodder. It will bore and mor- 
tise timber, drive small saw-mills, lath machines, turning- 
lathes, &>c., &c., and if you wush, it will ventilate your 
house exceedingly well. It will not plow, harrow, culti- 
vate, or mow, but any work which can be brought to it 
may be performed ; and it v/ill perform readily, without 
waiting to be caught, fed or harnessed. The only food 
these mills require is about one gallon of oil a year. They 
do not require as much nursing and attention as horses 
or oxen, one coat of paint will keep them clean and beau- 
tiful a year or more. The attachments used to connect 
them to different machines, so as to do different kinds of 
work, cost less than the harness and equipage of horses, 
and will last more than twice as long. The expense for 
repairs is much less than that for the shoeing and prepar- 
ing of teams for labor. The same amount of power costs 
less, and the wind-power will not die. Wind-mills will 
work by night as well as by day, and will run steadily 
without a driver. They are generally ready to work the 
greatest number of hours when their work is most needed, 
viz.: in the fall, winter, and spring. They do not regard 
the ten-hour system, but work early and late, summer and 
winter. 
Any particular information concerning these mills may 
be obtained of Fowler & Wells, 308 Broadway, New 
York, who are manufacturing ten different sizes, ranging 
from $35 to $350 each. See advertisement, 
>iiLK Fever in Cows. — Dear Sir — Having just met 
with very decided success in experimenting on milk 
fever, a disease very apt to attack cows in very good 
condition, coming in during the summer season, and as I 
have known of many valuable cows being lost by the 
same disease, I thought I would like to have others try 
the same remedy. Having been called by a neighbor to 
see a fine cow, to all appearances, in the last stage of the 
disease, I told him at once that 1 thought there was no 
hope for her, as I had lost one or two when I commenced 
with them before they were near as bad, and had the help 
of good farriers, but never saved one ; but as he was very 
anxious (it being his oiily cow) to try something, I told 
him 1 would bleed her, (the bleeding, 1 have very little 
faith in,) and as she was lying quite near the water, I re- 
marked to the owner of the cow that she would be a good 
subject to experiment on ; accordingly we commenced 
pouring on cold water, and rubbing her briskly, and in 
half an hour there was a change for the better. He fol- 
lowed up a very free use of cold water during the after- 
noon, rubbing her well in the intervals, and at night she 
would eat when food was put into her mouth, and in the 
morning when he went to look after her, he found her up 
nnd feeding, and she is now (the third day since) well 
and jtiving a fine pail of milk. So much for cold water, 
Luther Raw'so.n, in Northern Farmer. 
Oak Creek, Mihraukee Co., Wis., Sept., 1855. 
^‘ZASTEEN DIVISION” AND “EAST TENNESSEE” 
FAIES. 
A friend, who attended these Fairs, at Loudon and 
Knoxville, writes us as follow's : 
1 will commence by saying that we had a very nice 
time of it, considering the very disagreeable weather, and 
a -much better Fair than wms generally expected, even 
with good weather. It continued three days— the crowd 
enjoying themselves all the time— and wound up without 
a murmur of dissatisfaction. Everybody gratified that 
ihey had attended the Fair, and in favor of another one. 
Last week, the “East Tennessee Fair,” (not the “East- 
ern Division Fair”) provided for by our Legislature, came 
off at Knoxville— beginning on Tuesday and ending oa 
Friday evening. The exhibition was quite creditable, ia 
almost every department. In field crops there were 43 
bushels wheat per acre, and 104 bushels of corn on up- 
land. Quite a respectable show of Agricultural Imple- 
ments and Machinery, among which was a Reaping and 
Mowing machine and a Grain Drill in operation, &c. 
Two plowing matches. The Stock, Hogs and Cattle, were 
very fine ; and the show of Horses was unequalled by 
anything I have seen, both as to quality and numbers. 
Quite a number of fine Match, Harness, Saddle, Trotting 
and Pacing horses, the performances of which was an 
important feature in the exhibition. The horse stock, 
from 3 years old down, would have done credit, in my 
opinion, to any State in the Union. The number was 
large, and the animals of each age seemed to be a decided 
improvement on those one year older. 
Sincerely yours, L. S. A, 
LEVELING OR GRADING INSTRUMENT. 
Editors Southern Cultivator — I dislike to trouble 
you in regard to my description of my level ; but as I am 
glad, whenever I can correct an error, to do it without de- 
lay, I hasten to correct one in my article in your October 
number. At the same time I must thank your Novem- 
ber correspondent “B. P. B.” for calling my attention to 
the error. 
As it cannot mislead any persons but such as have my 
article, it will be better to refer them to Fig. 3 of that article 
and suggest the alteration, than to draw another figure, 
using the siTie instead of the tangent. The error consist- 
ed in transferring the divisions of the tangent to the arc, 
instead of taking the divisions of the sine. I think I may 
have made the mistake in my demonstration, from having 
drawn the figure with the double object of demonstrating 
from it, and also of using it to show how the scale was 
made ; for conceiving it to be more intelligible if the figure 
could be made to represent the two feet of the compass, one 
at 0, the other at C, and knowing that equal divisions on 
the tangent could be transferred to the arc in such a way 
as to produce the same divisions of the scale as would 
arise from transferring equal divisions of the sine of 90*^, 
I began the figure with this purpose in view ; but erred 
in drawing my lines from 2, 4, G, &c., to C, instead of 
drawing them through the arc parallel with C D. Aiul 
all the correction necessary in the original communicati&n, 
is that of droAcing the several lines from 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 
parallel xcilh C. D. With attention to this the instrument 
can be constructed. And as to the demonstration, which 
was intended rather for the scientific reader, it cannot mis- 
lead him ; for he will perceive the mistake, as did “B. P 
B.” Wm. Johnson. 
Greenwood, 'Pu.scaloosa Co., Ala. Nov., 1855. 
Crop of Sugar. — The New Orleans Price Current, of 
Dec. 1st, thus refers to the forthcoming crop of Sugar : 
With respect to the crop, it is quite certain that the 
grinding season, on the whole, has been a very unfavor- 
able one thus far, the weather having been showery, with 
an unseasonably low temperature, and these drawbacks, 
added to the disadvantages which the crop labored under 
in the early part of the season, and which have heretofore 
been referred to, have tended to reduce the estimates much 
below the product of last year, which product was less 
than that of the year previous in the large amount 
102,000 hhds. 
