wheeler’s HORSE-POWER AND THRASHER, 
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WHEELER’S IIORSE-POWER AND THRASHER. 
Two-Horse Power.—Fig. 52. 
The machine, as delineated in Fig. 51, is adapted 
to the use of one horse, which, with the aid of two 
men and a boy, can thrash at the rate of 50- to 75 
bushels of wheat, or 75 to 100 bushels of oats, in 
a day. If only a single horse be used, a change of 
horses should be made every two or three hours, as 
it is very tiresome to their legs to work it. The 
machine can readily be fitted for working two horses 
abreast, by increasing the width of the rotary plat¬ 
form as in Fig. 52, on which they stand, and in¬ 
creasing the length of the main shaft. The simple 
contrivance called the “ shaker,” or “ separator,” 
which is attached to the thrasher, saves much labor 
in winnowing the grain, besides leaving it without 
waste, entirely free from straw. 
This horse-power is easily applied to various 
labor-saving machines, and is the kind mostly used 
at the New England railroad stations for sawing 
wood. The cost of- the whole apparatus, ready for 
thrashing, is $110; or for the different parts as fol¬ 
lows :—$75 for the horse-power, $28 for the 
thrasher, and $7 for the separator. 
MODE OF KEEPINgPMILK TO PREVENT 
SOURING. 
In passing a store a short time since in rather an 
obscure part of the city, and seeing a large number 
of milk-cans standing about the premises, I walked 
in and learned the following particulars from a fine 
healthy woman, of middle age, who, with her 
daughter, a buxom girl of about sixteen, was 
standing behind the counter waiting upon cus¬ 
tomers :—They sell the milk of 300 cows, princi¬ 
pally consigned to them from Orange county by 
different farmers, which brings 3 cents a quart at 
wholesale, and 4 cents retail. Each can is marked 
with the initials of the farmer from whom the milk 
is received, in order to avoid confusion when they 
are exchanged for return. 
In answer to some inquiries about sour milk, I 
was informed that there is a great difference in that 
brought by different individuals. Some of that 
which is brought the greatest distance keeps the 
