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AMERICAN AG-RICTJLTURIST. 
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CK-OSSMAN BKOTHERS &. COMEj^NY, 
Manufacturers of Firo Brick, Glazed Drain Pipe, Land Tile, &o. 
Three Months for nothing. 
THE METHODIST, 
dealers m FJRE CLAY, FIRE SAND AND KAOLIN, 
On Raritan River, 2 1-2 Miles above Fertli Amboy, Woodtoridge, N. J. 
We invite public attention to an enterprise havin'; for its 
object a co.nbination of practical, successful, business oper¬ 
ations, and valuabie inventions; the workins of which will 
liave a tendency to revolutionize present systems ol drain¬ 
age greatlu diminish its cost, and mevot^se its efliciency by 
Mng done 'in a SUPEIlIOIt MAN.^EK ; add to the 
prosperity, profits, and certainty of a-rioultural operations 
and by thus increasina: the National Wealth in Agriculriiral 
Products, the prosperity of ali other interests and business 
of the country will be promoted and insured; tiie volume 
and casli value of our National Exports will be increased, 
and tend to avert those monetary crises that succeed poor 
crops, and consequent diminlslied cash value ot our exports 
jina over triading on credit principles. 
In oar Brick-making business wc found and secured a worn- 
out farm containing inexhaustible quantities ot common 
brick, Duain" Tilk, Pipe and Fire Brick Clay, that make 
goods of such SupKEion quality as the clays of Woodbndge, 
N. ,J. are celebrated for. These ditferent kinds of valu:ible 
AVoodbridge Clays overlie and successively develop each 
other. They lie accessible and exposed above the level ot 
our Kailroad, and reach almost to the surface of tlie ground. 
They are connected with Factory, Eliip Channel, and ex¬ 
cellent sliipping lacilities, by a Itailroad of about 3,690 feet, 
witli a slight down grade to tiie river. It is a combination of 
natural and artitlcial adv.antages for manufacturing .sr«pen‘or 
goods of vital importance to the country, and for exhibiting 
our valuable machinery for sale in practic.al, profitable 
working operation, tliat 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. Tiiey are the only 
machines known tliat take unprepared clay from the bafik, 
grind it to plasticUy, and drive it out at any desired rate of 
speed—not as simple mud—but in continuous streams of very 
dense, strong, and polished round tile, that are only equaled 
in smootliuess by the Glass Tile of Holland. They are pre¬ 
cisely the goods that every intelligent and scientific Drainer 
in the country will liave wlionever obtainable. They arc 
ma iufactnred stiff enougli to wheel direct from the machine, 
the only hand luhor required being to sliovel clay, handle 
and wlieel awaytlie ready made tile, to be dried and burned, 
&c , &c We counted 43 readymade polished tile issuing 
per minntc, in a continuous stream from tlio macliine of 
Sword Bros., in Micliigan. Tlie different strata in onr clay 
bills that can thus be rapidly made into valuable and, supe¬ 
rior goods by our combination of water and rail transport¬ 
ation and valuable macliinery, w^ero formerly tlirown away 
to get tlie 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 Ditcliing Machine ever invented and practlcaliy used. 
Witli sucli little work as it has already done, under great 
disadvantages, and witli limited means to develop it, wo 
already hixye practical proof tliat it will, with a single team 
of horses, dig from of a mile to mile, 2 to 3 feet deepj 
of Ditcli per day, with the bottom of the Ditch hardened, 
graded, and shaped to precisely fit round tile, in a manner 
far superior to liand labor. It is self-adjustable and seif- 
grading. By driving it a few times across tlio roughest 
plowed ground, tlie bottom of tlio Ditcli becomes smootli 
and graded, with no loose dirt left in the Ditch. The dirt is 
deposited on each side in the smallest possible quantities, 
because the Ditch is out precisely of xiniform xvidth, 
out waste by irregularities in digging. The operator rides 
as in a Mowing Macliine, and it is believed to be of greater 
value to the country to increase Agricultural Products tlian 
Mowing Macliines, or any other implement, areto secure tlie 
crops after being produced. It is difficult to estimate the 
value of a macliine by which farmers can now drive teams 
and thoroughly perform the liitherto disagreeable, expen¬ 
sive, and slow, work of Ditching. 
Tills Company is as yet composed exclusively of tlie work¬ 
ing men and inventors that havedeveloped tliis combination 
of business and advantages. The business will be managed 
by them, and their production will lie still improved and de¬ 
veloped to a higlier standard of perfection, and kept in ad¬ 
vance oi tliG times, if the Inventors now comprising the 
Company sliould live. Tliese Inventors are young nien 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 tlie CUOSSMAN CLAY AND 
MANUFACTUIHNG COMPANY, and to be formed of the 
following Officers; 
JACOB R. CROSSMAN, President. 
GEORGE S. TIFFANY, Treasurer. 
TRUSTEES. 
JACOB R. CROSSMAN. 
ALONZO G. CROSSMAN. 
HENRY C. INGRAHAM. 
The Company now possess and arc working yards that can 
produce from two million to five million brick per year 
We enclose estimates of what is bow being done by Sword’s 
Brick Macliine. It made 52 Brick per minute while we stood 
by and timed it by watch. 
EXHIBIT OF OXE WEEK'S WORK. 
Tliough wo can, with ease, with the same number of men, 
make 130,000 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 men on tlie platform feeding the Macliine.27.00 
1 man taking off brick from tlie Machine. 13.50 
2 men, (or three boys,) wlieeling. 27.00 
1 man lielpiiig unload barrows in yard. 13.50 
1 engineer. 24.00 
4 setters. 00.00 
3 burners. 4S.00 
150 bushels nut coal, for engine,..'. 7.50 
2 horses, keeping. 10.00 
1,350 busliels 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 
. $657.00 
PROFIT. 
150,000 brick at $12 per 1,000.$1,800.00 
Deduct cost of making. $657.00 
Net profit of yard for one week.$1,143.00 
Admitting wliat every one knows cannot possibly occur, 
that brick fall to half present prices, and wages remain as 
high as at present, still, a Macliine in a brick market, is a 
fortune. 
Tlie above estimates of cost are much higher than will be 
found true of many localities. Tliey are above the actual 
working expenses of our own yard, but we wish to be entire¬ 
ly on tlie safe side! 
Tlie clay that is now made into common brick, can, by the 
Tiffany Tile Macliine, be rapidly made into superior Tile, for 
a great demand exists at tlie following prices: 
i'A inch, without bauds, $17. 1)4 inch, with bands, $23. 
2 " “ “ 20.2 “ “ “ 28. 
3 “ “ “ 35.......3 “ “ “ 45. 
4 “ “ “ 50.4 “ “ “ 56. 
To Eliow the comparative cost of Brick and Tile made 
from tlie same claj’S, we extract from tlie work by Geo. E. 
Waring, entitled " Draining for Profit and Health,” page 
188, as follows : 
“ Tlic Cost of Tiles.—It would be impossible, at any 
time, to say wliat should be the precise cost of tiles in a giv¬ 
en locality, without knowing tlie prices of labor and fuel; 
and in tke present unsettled condition ot the currency, any 
estimate would necessarily be of little value. Mr. Parker 
estimated tlie cost of inch pipes in England at 6s., (about 
$1.50) per thousand, when made on the estate where tliey 
were to be used, by a process similar to that described here, 
in. Probably they could at no time have been made for less 
tlian twice that cost in tlie United States,—and they would 
now cost much more; tliough if tlie clay is dug out in the 
fall, wlien the regularly employed farm liands are short of 
work, and if tlie same men can cut and haul tlie wood during 
tlie winter, the hands hired especially for the tile making, 
during the summer season, (two men and two or three boys,) 
cannot, even at present rates of wages, bring tlie cost of tlie 
tilths to nearly tlie market prices. If there lie only temporary 
use for tlie macliinery, 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. 
•‘Tiicre is no reason why tiles should cost more to make tlian 
bricks. A common brick contains clay enough to make four 
or five IJi-incli tiles, and it will require about the same 
amount of fuel to burn this clay in one form as in tlie otlier. 
Tills advanttige in favor of tiles is in a measure oflset by tiie 
greater cost of handling them, and the greater li.ability to 
breakage.” 
It will readily be seen there is room for immense profits 
in Tile manutactures by our comiiination and application 
of machinery, even at a large reduction in tlie 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 $30,000 Cash Working Capital to de¬ 
velop and extend our enterprise. To do so, tlie property 
and business ot the Company will be represented by shares 
of $50 eacli. One Thousand sucli sliarcs are now offered to 
capitalists and consumers, with the firm belief as practical 
men tiiat no enterprise in tliis country Iiokis out equ.al in¬ 
ducements for investment. Inventories, full explanations, 
and satisfactory references, will be fiirnisbed applicants by 
addressing or calling on 
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