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RICE HULLERS AND POLISHERS. 
RICE HULLERS AND POLISHERS. 
These machines, which are constructed so as 
to be driven by hand, horse power, or by 
steam, will hull and polish from 50 to 250 
pounds of rice per hour. After the rice comes 
from between the stone and India rubber, it 
passes over a screen, and the meal, or fine pow¬ 
der, that wears off the kernel, runs through the 
screen into a box. The rice is then carried 
through a spout where it is exposed to a draft 
of air which blows off all the chaff, dust,&c. It 
then passes into a conical cylinder made of wire 
cloth, inside of which is a cone made of brushes 
that rub off the thin film of the rice, giving it a 
clean bright color. It then receives another 
draft of air which blows off the refuse dust 
Rice Huller and Polisher.—Fig. 56. 
through one spout, and the rice is delivered 
through another, perfectly free from meal, dirt, 
or chaff. 
These machines will also serve for hulling 
and polishing coffee, and gives it a clear, bright 
color, very much improving its appearance and 
rendering it cleaner than can be done by any 
other process. Dull or damaged coffee, in pass¬ 
ing through one of these machines, may be 
increased in value from 20 to 50 per cent. 
The advantages of these machines over all 
others are as follows:— 
1. They will not break nor crack the rice 
as is usually done by other machines. 
2. They give a superior polish. 
3. They make from three to five pounds 
more rice to a bushel than can be done in any 
other machine. 
4. The largest-sized machine is portable, 
weighing only about 600 pounds when set up. 
These machines are constructed of various 
sizes. Some may be driven by one man, while 
others require a four-horse power engine. The 
prices vary from $80 to $ 600 . 
HUMBUGS AND IMPOSITIONS OF THE DAY.—No. 1. 
As the tippler said by his glass of grog, this 
Yankee nation of ours is “ a great institution 1” 
No doubt of it, whatever. A Yankee myself, 1 
have a right to talk on the subject, and I feel 
just at this minute somewhat inclined to talk 
pretty freely. The world is full of empyricism 
it always was for that matter—but in past 
times, it has been chiefly confined to 
trade, science, arts, and theology. Yet 
of late, as the rising sun of investiga¬ 
tion has begun to stimulate agricultu¬ 
ral inquiry, the universal hosts of im¬ 
postors and quacks seem to have jumped 
into the centre of that subject also, and 
laid the farming world under the same 
system of contribution to their avarice 
and impositions, as their prototypes 
have done with the other professions. 
It may be an unsavory subject to 
some of your readers, nevertheless, 
our duty to the public demands an ex¬ 
posure of agricultural as well as other 
humbugs; and as I have one or two in 
my eye just now, I hope you will per¬ 
mit me a little free talk on one at least 
independent journal. 
In all professions there are, and ever 
have been men of high purpose, ex¬ 
alted views, and expanded, benevolent 
hearts, ready to forward improvement in every 
branch of their calling, and doing great and sig¬ 
nal deeds of benefit to their race. These deeds 
have been accomplished in fostering and aiding 
ingenious invention in the production of new 
and improved implements and machinery; the 
introduction of new, rare, and valuable seeds; 
the importation of improved domestic animals, 
and numerous other acquisitions in aid of labor, 
productive, or otherwise, to the substantial and 
lasting benefit of our agriculture. Nor have 
these benefactors been confined to the agricul¬ 
tural profession alone. Merchants—-perhaps the 
most liberal and humanising in their influences, 
of all our industrial pursuits—have liberally 
disbursed thousands of their wealth in these 
valuable objects, and men engaged in other pro- 
