HINTS ON THE MANAGEMENT OF HORSES.-NO. 6. 
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SCRAGG’S TILE MACHINE. 
The president of the Seneca-County Agricultu¬ 
ral Society, (John Delafield,) has presented a draw¬ 
ing and description of the improved tile machine 
recently imported by him, and it comes opportunely 
to accompany this volume. 
This tile machine combines every improvement 
which has been adopted and sanctioned by the ex¬ 
perience of the English and Scotch agriculturists. 
The process is simple, and rapid, for making the 
various forms of tiles; the clay needs no other 
preparation than to turn it out of the pit, exposing 
it to the air for about sixty days, when it is mois¬ 
tened ready for the machine. 
The clay is put into the machine upon screens 
so constructed as to remove all stones and gravel; 
it then passes between rollers, giving it a due con¬ 
sistence, and thence is passed' through dies of the 
required shape or form, passing the tile to a receiv¬ 
ing table; acutting formdescendsand cuts the tiles to 
a uniform length; they are then removed to drying 
shelves until ready 
for the kiln, it is said 
that, twelve thousand 
tiles may be made 
in a day, but haif 
that number per diem 
will furnish a large 
supply, and probably 
enough, until the 
system of draining 
farms shall be better 
understood. 
This improved tile 
machine produces 
drain tiles in the form 
of a horse shoe, ris¬ 
ing 2-i and 4 inches ; 
it makes pipes also 
for draining, from 
one inch bore up to 
HINTS ON THE MANAGEMENT OF HORSES.— 
No. 6 . 
The subject of riding is an important point con¬ 
nected with the management of the horse. We 
subjoin some excellent remarks on this subject from 
Lawson. 
The first time a man is put on horseback, it ought 
to be upon a very gentle horse. He never should 
be made to trot till he is quite easy in the walk; 
nor gallop till he is able to trot properly. The 
same must be observed in regard to horses ; they 
should never be made to trot till they are obedient, 
and their mouths are well formed on a walk ; nor 
be made to gallop, till the same be effected on a 
trot. When he is arrived at such a degree of firm¬ 
ness in his seat, the more he trots, and the more 
he rides rough horses, the better. This is not only 
the best method, but also the easiest and shortest; 
by it a man is soon made sufficiently a horseman 
for a soldier; but by the other detestable methods 
1 that are commonly used, a man, instead of improv- 
six inches 
each size 
about half 
diameter, 
varying 
an inch. 
Soles or flat tiles are made on which to lay the tiles 
when desired. Semi-cylinders are made of 8 and 11 
inches diameter. It also produces with equal readi¬ 
ness, pan tiles for roofing and ridge tiles. 
To the present year, draining tiles have cost from 
twenty^ to twenty-five dollars per thousand ; they 
will now be offered as low as ten dollars per 
thousand, and every endeavor will be made by 
those who work the machine, to afford them at a 
lower price, if possible, and consistent with a fair 
remuneration. 
The machine was shipped on the 9th of this 
month, May, from New York, and will reach 
its destination in Seneca county, so as to be in 
operation in June. The farmers of that county 
are entitled to the thanks of the state, for their 
energy in thus bringing so valuable a machine 
into operation.— N. Y. Stite Transactions , for 
1848. 
Tile Machine.—Fig. 81. 
ing, contracts all sorts of bad habits, and rides 
worse and worse every day; the horse, too, becomes 
daily more and more unfit for use. In proceeding 
according to the manner proposed, a man is rendered 
firm and easy upon the horse, both his own and the 
horse’s sensibility is preserved, and each in a 
situation fit to receive and practise all lessons 
effectually. 
Mounting .—Every horse should be accustomed 
to stand still when he is mounted. One would 
imagine this might readily be granted ; yet we see 
how much the contrary is practised. When a gen¬ 
tleman mounts at the stable, the groom takes the 
horse by the bit, which he bends tight round under 
his jaw; the horse striving to go on, is forced 
back; advancing again, he frets, as he is again 
stopped short, and hurt by the manner of holding 
him. The rider, in the meantime, mounting with¬ 
out the bridle, or at least holding it but slightly, is 
helped to it by the groom, who, being thoroughly 
employed by the horse’s fluttering, has at the same 
He who pulls off his coat cheerfully, strips up time both bridle and stirrup to give. This confu- 
his sleeves in earnest, and sings while he works, sion would be prevented, if every horse was taught 
is the man to have. to stand still when he is mounted. Forbid youi 
