VOLUME 1. 
ROCHESTER, N. Y.-THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 1850 
MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
every implement in order, from a rake tooth 
{published weekly. 
Office in Burns’ Block, corner of Buffalo and State 
streets, (entrance on State,) Rochester. 
iiie last of this month put your yard 
manure in piles; it assists to decompose— 
protects it from leaching in heavy rains_ 
and will pay the extra expense in the facil¬ 
ity and neatness of loading. 
Sow clover and timothy seed on any slight 
snow, the last of this month, or first of next; at 
I any rate before freezing nights are past, as the 
heaving and thawing of the surface covers 
the seed and causes it to germinate. And 
do not stint the cpiantity of seed. It is mis¬ 
erable policy to ruin a future meadow for a 
few pence. Double the quantity usually 
sown and you will be the gainer, both as a 
rotation and for grass. 
These preparations all being completed, 
you may defy the enemy, and sleep o’ nights. 
It is a better narcotic than opium or all the 
di'ugs of the east. Prompter. 
CONDUCTED BY D. D. T. MOORE. 
{^Late Publisher and Associate Editor Gen. Farmer.) 
L. B. LANG WORTHY, Associate Editor. 
Corresponding Editors: 
ELON COMSTOCK, (former Ed. Central N. Y. 
Farmer,) of Oneida County. 
T. C. PETERS, (Editor of the Wool Grower,) 
of Genesee County. 
Educational Department by L. WETIIERELL. 
[D= For Terms, <fec., see last page. 
smith’s corn siieller and separator. 
PROGRESS AND IMPROVEMENT. 
CORN SHELLERS. 
At the request of a .subscriber, who de¬ 
sires information on the subject, we notice 
several of the best Corn Shellers in gene¬ 
ral use—giving figure, price, and brief de¬ 
scription of each machine. 
Those who grow com extensively, and re¬ 
quire a machine driven by horse or steam 
power, will find “Smith’s Corn Sheller and 
Separator ” a very desirable article. A 
friend informs us that he lias known two of 
these machines (driven by steam power) to 
shell 3,000 bushels of ears per day, and per¬ 
form the work well. 
Smith’s Sheller is thus described in the 
Catalogue of Euggles, Nourse & Mason, 
of Boston:—“This machine consists of a 
horizontal toothed cylinder 0 feet long, .and 
one foot tivo inches in diameter. The ears 
of corn in the operation, are confined to a 
pai-t of tl-e upper and rising side of this ) 
cylinder, by means of a cast iron concave 
extending the whole length of tlie machine, 
and being shovelled or let into the machine 
at one end, they are driven through, and 
discharged at the opposite end, while the 
gram falls below, being admitted on either 
side of the cylinder. The operation is gov¬ 
erned by elevating or depressing the dis- 
Manufiictured and sold by E. J. Burrall, 
Geneva, N. Y. ‘Also for sale at the Agri¬ 
cultural Warehouse in this city 
] ^ the coming strife. Tokens are seen in the 
^ : heavens, and felt in the air, that a great bat- 
^ ' tie is to be fought; the onset is inevitable 
i I — it is the battle for existence — a contest 
> ( that will require all his energies, forethought 
) ( and skill, to meet the coming onslaught; for 
) ) the enemy is potent, watchful and unsleep- 
) ing. His assaults are from all quarters, and 
I ^ through all the elements — earth, air, fire 
: I and water. The insect, the bird, and the 
I \ beast, are in league with the assailant, and 
; ) wo to the slothful, and him that is found 
j > asleep at his post Be up and doing, put 
' I on the armor of labor, and begin to look 
> about you; it smells like .spring; prepare 
J your defences, and put up the barricades, 
) to prevent cattle from spoiling your meadow's 
j and orchards while wet and soft 
J Get out your rails, and plenty of stakes. 
I As long as you use Avorm fences, stake and 
j rider them. It makes six rails as high as 
^ seven without Raise up the corners, on 
^ stones or blocking, and make them last as 
^ long as possible for it Avill soon be a serious 
^ question, what is to become their substitute. 
I Get home your plaster if you use any; if 
> you don’t you are a hopeless case. Take 
^ care of the ashes; one bushel is Avorth two 
\ of plaster on most crops — say Avheat, corn, 
; and as a top dressing for old meadows. 
Keep young steers that you are breaking 
( in the yoke often. Teach them to step live- 
) ly — one quick Avalking yoke is w'orth tAvo 
) di-eamers; and Avithal, learn them to mind 
) with a Avhisper — it is perfect nonsense to 
be baAvling after them at every step. They 
• are not deaf, and if rightly habited, mind 
[ the slightest Avord, as quickly as the loudest 
; yelling and swearing. 
^ See that all the gutters are open, to send 
off the water freely from the wheat fields; 
j standing water is fatal, the moment the Avarm 
> sun strikes it. 
( C ut up and house your summer’s fire Avood : 
I and split every round stick once, or more, 
^ if you Avish sound and hard wood, free of ; 
I dry rot 
( Cut scions and mark them distinctly.— j 
J. They may be laid on the’cellar bottom, well ] 
) covered from the rats and the air, till w'ant- 
) ed. Cherries and plums should be set ear- j 
I ly, before the swelling of the bud, when they | 
more steady and pleasantly. This discov¬ 
ery of mine Avill not apply to the production 
of steam, as blaze is all important to distri¬ 
bute the heat to long distances, and over 
large surfaces. 
It is said in opposition to this theory, that 
a considerable part of the heat is’ lost, in 
evaporating the sap and moisture of the 
Avood. Admitted—the steam heated to 600 
or 1000 degrees, is as good and a better ra¬ 
diator, than the blaze and smoke loaded 
AA'ith lampblack and volatilized carbon, Avhich 
I is a non-conductor. 
Heat rises fast enough, Aflthout sending a 
flame from the blazing dry Avood, into the 
pipe of the stove, Avhich is great part lost, 
by being beyond our rea^i ^ud being lost 
to the radiation from the siove. 
Some of your readers may think me green 
to advance such exploded doctrines. Per- 
adventure I am, and I think I shall remain 
so, while I have as good fires as I can make 
from good green Hickory. 
Brighton, February, 1850. 
Remarks. —There is some philosophy in 
our con-espondent's views; and there are 
probably reasons for both sides, depending 
on circumstances. If he had one of the 
modern cook stoves to experiment unon. Avith 
MANURE.-ITS PRODUCTION, SECURITY AND 
INCREASE. 
One of the great ereors, committed by 
those Avho pretend to make and save man- 
amount he OAved, replied “ no particular 
sum.” So it is Avith many persons, who .as¬ 
pire to be pretty considerable farmers; they 
have no particular place for a baim yard, 
nor of any particular size. The animals are 
suffered to range the fields, and perhaps the 
highAvay; or to travel long lanes for a half 
or three quarters of a mile for drink — the 
droppings are not Avorth collecting—they 
are never at the barn, except at foddering 
time — the refuse hay, straAV, and stalks, are 
not trodden, broken and charged Avith the 
urine and juices of the manure. A yard 
should be no larger than to alloAv sufficient 
room for fodderim 
ig’, and to alloAv the under¬ 
lings space to avoid the master cattle, and 
from the yaj-d they should never be allow'- 
ed to set foot, till they are turned to pasture 
in the spring. 
There is but one tree Avay, and that is to 
stall every head and horn on the farm, and 
to bed them freely Avith straAv, spoiled hay 
if any, and all coarse litter. They may be 
alloAved to run out in the yard, if it is a 
compact one, on mild days, and at all times 
Avhen they require Avater, and even of morn- 
ing's, be foddered out; but in all wet, stormy 
cover; they will keep m good heart, with 
three quarters the food they Avill to run out, 
and their manure is worth three times as 
much, even in an exposed pile, as that which 
is scattered thinly over a great surface, and 
leached of ever}' soluble particle it contains. 
What should we say of the housoAvife 
that, as often as she took up her ashes for 
the spring’s soap making, piled tliem about 
the yard, exposed to the rains and snoAvs 
during the whole Avinter ? The two cases 
ai'e analagous, and precisely similar. In 
stabling cattle, Avhen it is not convenient to 
cover the manure, it may be put into one 
or tAvo large piles — the manure of horned 
cattle is not liable to heat. Ten feet square 
Avill not catch snoAv or rain enough to injure 
it at all, in comparison Avith the same amount 
scattered over a great straggling barn yard 
of no particular size. 
If manure is Avorth any thing, it is Avorth 
taking care of, and preserving; and if hu¬ 
manity to dumb animals is not a farce, it is 
our duty to care for and protect them. 
YANKEE CORN SHELLER. 
The Yankee Sheller is a recent inven¬ 
tion, and by many considered an improve¬ 
ment upon other similar machines. It is 
similar, in form, to the Clinton. It has an 
iron hopper, simply and firmly secured with 
double springs, to suit all sized eai-s. The 
balance wheel is inside of the frame, and 
safe from injuiy. 
We Avere present at a trial of this ma¬ 
chine, a few days ago, when a bushel of 
small-sized ears Avere shelled in less than 
one minute and a half—and a half bushel 
of large ears (selected for seed corn.) in 
half a minute. This required three men, 
hoAvever—one to turn, and two to feed. 
Manufactured and sold by Ruggles, 
Nourse & Mason, Boston. Also for sale 
at the Rochester Agricultural Warehouse. 
The shellers above mentioned are the 
most prominent ones yet introduced. If 
any of our readere know of olhei's equally 
valuable, or better, Ave shall be glad to re¬ 
ceive and publish particulars. 
burrall’s corn sheller. 
Burrall’s Sheller is one of the best 
hand machines before tlie public. It is 
made entirely of cast iron, occupies but lit¬ 
tle room, and Avorks admirably. It sepa¬ 
rates the corn from the cob — beuig a bet¬ 
ter separator than any other hand machine 
—and, Avith little poAver, is capable of shel¬ 
ling from ten totAvelve bushels per hour.— 
This machine has recently been improved. 
There are tAvo sizes —price $10 and $13.— 
The poor man Avho patiently endures liis 
want, is rich enough. 
