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whose system of economy in cooking is very bad at 
present, incurring a vast deal of labor and expense 
for fuel, to say nothing of the imperfect manner in 
which it is often done. In fulfilment of our pro¬ 
mise in the October number, we would now call 
attention to Granger’s iron-witch air-tight cooking- 
stove, denoted by the adjoining figure, the main object 
of which has been to get as perfect and convenient 
an implement as possible, and at the same time to 
have it simple and without complication of flues, 
dampers, &c. 
The front of the oven is lined with brick, which 
keeps up that steady even heat, which is so desira¬ 
ble in baking, and in which particular cast-iron 
ovens are found so defective. By means of the 
brick in this stove, the baking is more like the old 
fashioned brick-oven, which it is universally ac¬ 
knowledged bakes in the best manner. 
A summer-furnace on the hearth is also attached 
to the stove with two boiler holes on which any 
and all the boilers fit. The furnace will be found 
very desirable for summer use, when but little fire 
is wanted ; as a few chips or charcoal will do the 
cooking. The furnace can also be used at the same 
time with the stove, giving six boiler holes. A 
gridiron is also well fitted to the hearth for broil¬ 
ing, by raking the coals directly from the fire-cham¬ 
ber on to the grate. 
The grate in the fire-chamber is omitted, and the 
wood is burned directly on the bed of ashes, by 
which means the fire can be covered up and kept 
over night, which cannot be done on a grate; the 
expense of purchasing new grates is thus avoided. 
There being no interior blind flues, there will 
consequently never be any difficulty with choking 
of the draft, or trouble in cleaning out soot and 
ashes. 
The stove will bake with as little fuel as any 
other, as will be seen at a glance; the heat being 
brought directly in contact with the top and bottom 
of the oven at the same time ; and the stove being 
air-tight, the amount of fuel burned can be regulat¬ 
ed by the draft damper. 
REVIEW OF JUNE NUMBER OF THE AGRI¬ 
CULTURIST. 
Whether the pure, bracing air of this lovely 
isle of the Atlantic will invigorate this article in 
the same degree that it has my mental and bodily 
faculties, I cannot say; but the scene around me 
has called up so many reminiscences of New Eng¬ 
land life, that I hope to be able to give a candid re¬ 
view of one article in this No. written by one born 
upon that soil, from w r hose views I shall differ in 
some essential particulars. I shall pass by all the 
preceding articles, and commence at once with that 
most requiring notice, entitled 
Division of Agricultural Labor .—The most earnest 
and supplicating prayer that I could offer for the 
happiness of America, would be, that the rural 
population of this country might never see that day, 
when the “ divisions of rural labor” are carried to 
the “ nice extremes” of England. For then we 
should become as these, a nation of landlords and 
tenants—of wealthy farmers and pauper laborers. 
This is a state of things that I know the writer of 
this article does not wish to see in America ; for I 
know him well, and know that his whole being is 
filled with benevolence. But he is utterly mis¬ 
taken in his idea that the perfection of English agri¬ 
culture is owing to the division of labor, half as 
much as it is to cheap labor. 
I grant the position that those laborers, who are 
bred from youth to the single occupation of being 
“ plowmen, ditchers, reapers, stackers, herdsmen, 
shepherds, or teamsters,” may each excel in their 
single branch over the real “ Jack at all trades,” 
which abound, and will, must, and should abound 
throughout our Yankee race, while the laborer 
owns the acres that he tills; and however humble 
his log cabin may be, is able to say in proud exul¬ 
tation, while welcoming the poor emigrant from 
land-monopoly-ridden Europe, “ This is my Home 
—this soil is mine ! Here I can raise ull the ne¬ 
cessaries of life ! I can plow, ditch, reap, stack, 
herd my own cattle, and sheep, and swine ; butcher 
my own meat, and tan the skins; in winter 
make my own shoes and harness, while my wife 
will make her own soap and candles, cloth and 
clothing; and I can get all the other real necessa¬ 
ries of life by exchanging some of the products of 
my own labor with some of my neighbors.” “ But 
you are a Jack of all trades.” “ Yes, we are all so 
in this country; and if ‘ good at none’ we have an 
abundance of food and clothing, and ought to be 
eminently happy.” 
Compare not then this system in disparagement 
with that where labor is divided, but food is not. 
The accumulation of dollars is not, or should not 
be the leading object; but an increase of human 
happiness upon so broad a scale that all might par¬ 
take of it. 
Mr. Allen speaks of division of labor, “ dabbling 
at everything in a small way,” as unworthy the at¬ 
tention of the cultivator of thousands of acres. 
Now I am fully persuaded in my own mind, that 
the cultivation of land by thousands of acres in 
this country, at all events in the free States, can 
never prove eminently successful to the cultivators 
in general, or conducive to the happiness of the 
laborers, in an equal degree with cultivation in a 
small way, even if they do dabble at everything and 
accomplish nothing. 
But let us have an example or two of confining 
farming' operations to a single branch. Many far¬ 
mers, of the true Puritan stock, too, in the northern 
part of Ohio, previous to the summer of 1845, had 
so far forgotten how they were brought up—not edu¬ 
cated, that they confined their farm operations en¬ 
tirely to stock and dairy products. The draught 
came, and their farms, all laid down in grass, afford¬ 
ed no summer feed for the production of butter 
and cheese, and no hay for winter, and the owners 
were nearly ruined. Many others who still pursued 
the course of “ dabbling at everything in a small 
way,” were but slightly injured. 
A letter lies before me from a friend who left his 
New England home—his anccstrial forty-acre farm, 
for the great wheat-growing region of the Western 
Prairies. For here he was tired of raising every¬ 
thing, and he meant to find a place where he could 
get rich without so much work ; and he was satis¬ 
fied that he would do it raising wheat at the West 
Now he writes, “I am ruined. I have spent 
everything I had, and am in debt besides, in putting 
in 400 acres of wheat upon this rich, tempting, 
