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only during the day. For common farm Gates the frame 
can be low and set parallel with the tracks, as shown by 
the Gate in the distance, allowing high and bulky loads 
to pass without obstruction. 
These Gates are so constructed as to be applicable to 
railways, when the cars are drawn by horses. 
A model and drawings can be seen at No. 308 Broad- 
way. 
Terms. — On remittance to Fowler & Wells, United 
States Patent Agents, 308 Broadway, N. Y., of Seven 
Dollars for a Plain Gate, or Ten Dollars for an Ornamen- 
tal Gate, the fixtures and right of use, with printed direc- 
tions sufficiently plain to enable any ordinary mechanic 
to construct them, will be forwarded. 
An order for .5 Gates w'ill be filled for Si less on each 
gate. An order for 10 gates will be filled .$2 less on -each 
gate. 
The Eliabethtcncn Gazetteer thus speaks of it; — Mr. 
Enos Woodruff, of this city, has recently received a patent 
for an invention of his, which, to say the least of it, is an 
ingenious one. It is a Selfacting Gate, simple in its con- 
struction, and can be made at a trifling e.xpense. The 
Gate is so constructed that the carriage wheels, in passing 
over levers, open the gate, and on passing other levers on 
the inside close and latch it again, without the delay or 
trouble of stopping. These gates are proof against the 
ingenuity of the most unruly cattle, and cannot possibly 
be opened by them. A simple apparatus is attached to 
the gate for the accopamodation of persons on horseback, 
or on foot, obviating the necessity of a small gate. The 
simplicity of these gates, the ease and certainty of action, 
together with their comparatively trifling expense^ cannot 
fail to recommend them to all who would avoid the great 
annoyance, and often danger, of alighting to open and 
close their entrance gates. The invention is highly com- 
mended by the Managers of the Arrrerican Institute, and 
other practical men who have examined it. 
Fowlers & Wells, 308 Broadway, N. Y.j are agents for 
the sale of this gate, to whom all communications should 
be addressed. 
Elizabeth CiTTrN. J., Jufie, 185.5. 
Mr. Kno^ Woodrvff—Dear Sir — It is with great pica- , 
sure that I communicate to you the contfort, Convenience, 
and trouble saving your Patent Seff-acfihg Gate has af 
forded me. While I candidly acknowledge my prior 
strong doubts as to tl'.eir performing in every respect as 
you confidently asserted, I chnnot biTt admit my prejudice!? 
are entirely removed, and that the Gate works so well 
that all who have driven through*(and they are pnany) 
could not but expres's their unbbiinded admiration. In- : 
deed, I doubt v.^hether a common gate. wHl be used, when i 
this one is generally arid fully before the public. i 
Abel S. HgTPiELa | 
CEOPS IN WHITFIELD CO., GA.— A GOOD FAEMEE- 
Editors Souther.n Cultivator — I think I shall b# 
benefited many hundreds of dollars by information I, and 
those in my employ get and have gotten from agricultur- 
al papers; and, to us, yours is of more importance than 
all the others put together. 
I keep up eight or ten shoats on my place, and feed 
them on what would be thrown away and injurious, and 
kill as we want, and when they get too large for table use^ 
in the summer, turn them over for bacon. 
I keep a boiler (and on one place two) on each place, 
put up on a proper furnace, holding from one to two hun- 
dred gallons. I have all the water from the kitchen, 
dairy, pantry, &c., saved and thrown into the boiler daily; 
also the refuse vegetables, &c,, and it would do you go^ 
to see my saucy pigs. 
I made, last year, manure enough In my pig pen lo 
manure two acres of land, as well as land ought to be ma- 
nured. 
I now have three acres of corn planted, (the 3d and I3ih 
of July) according to the instructions given in your July 
number, for forage. You ought to see it. The first plant- 
ed is two and a half feet high, and the last planted is tern 
inches. 
I have five acres of Ruta Baga Turnips up, and I am 
planting, to-day, five more. I will plant twenty on my 
places up here ; and will, if I have seasons, make fat 
cattle, sheep and hogs, and make manure enough to pay 
for the work in making them fat, besides. 
I have, in front of my house, an old field, called poor 
when I bought the place. I plowed fifteen acres of it, two 
years ago, with a large two house plow, and subsoiled it 
with a subsoil plow with two horses, and planted tha 
ground in Turnips; I made a fine crop. Last year tha 
field (75 acres) was put in Oats. There were no weeds 
on account of drouth. In October tlie land was turned up 
with a two horse plow, and all the manure from the lot 
(oa this place) hauled out on the field in the winter and 
spring on the poorest places. I told my manager if he 
would manure and manage the field so as to make it pro- 
duce 40 bushels of corn per acre, I would give him S30. 
To-d?iy he caljed and told me I might select any teh acres 
in the, field atone place, and -if it did not average 30 
bushels per acre he wpuld .givB me .S30,,ifI would give 
him $20 if it did. I have, no dopbt tlie management and 
manpre, on that oae field, will make from COO to 800 
bu.shols of (;orn th^‘ y€ar more than it would have dono 
in the u^al waypf planting an5 cultivating. I mupt.stop, 
or my half sheet will be over full. 
I think you ought to double your subscription list next 
year. Believe me, ruy dear sirs, your friend truly, 
p. L. w. : 
Wki/Ju.ld Co., Go.., July, 1855, 
We have already mentioned thaixiur fellow-eilizenj Mr, I 
Enos Woodruff, has secured a patent fora self-actiiig gate, j 
and we are happy to learn that it combines all tho-£fdvan- j 
tages that its inventor claims for it. The apparatus is j 
very simple, not liable to get out of order, and tnCvgate can j 
be constructed for a very small cost, if desired. One ofj 
these gates has recently been construeteJ at Mr. A. S. j 
Hetfield's “Paradise,” and is worth an examination by all I 
who have occasion for carriage-ways upon their premises. 
— A', y. Journal. 
half a mil^, or 680 yards each way, is ICO acres; a r^uar- 
ter of a mile, or 440 yards each way, is a park or farm of 
.forty acres ; and a furlong, or 2*20 yard.s each way, is 
about 10 acres. 
DOTS OE NO DOTS— AGAIN. 
Editor.s Southern* Cultivator — Not long since, I hjet 
a "mule, in whom, when opened, only one hot and one 
worm aDout 8 inches in length, could be found, and yet 
the whole of the stomach was gone except a small part, 
say twice the size of a man’s hand, next to the throat and 
that was a mere gauze-work, full of holes, I gave her 
several different kinds of medicine; but I have been in- 
formed by two physicians that the medicines I gave her 
could not have produced that effect. Sometimes she 
would act as though slie had bots and again as though she 
had cholic; occasionally turning her upper lip up. My 
neighbors have lost mulesand horses in the same manner. 
Question — What is the disease ? and whatis theremedy 
for it! T.C.C, 
I MiUdaU, Miss., 1855. 
