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SPRING-TOOTH HORSE-RAKK. 
MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY JOURNAL. 
THE HORSE RAKE. 
WORKING DEVON OX. 
Accompanying the portrait of a Devon Cow in | It is accounted one of the characters of good 
No. 74 of the present volume of the Rural, we i cattle, that the line of the neck from the horns to 
Wr. should earlier have called the attention of j 
farmers who are still unsupplied with horse-rakes, 
to the importance of procuring them; but as the 
season of haying is not jet past, perhaps a few 
words on the subject may still benefit some of our 
readers. 
Every man who lias from ten to twenty acres of 
meadow should own a horse-rake. The invest¬ 
ment will pay a large interest. It saves the labor 
of ten men, while the scatterings are not one per 
cent against the savings. Those who have tried 
them will tell you to do likewise, and that they 
would almost as soon do without a plow, and dig 
mother earth by hand. With a good rake fiom ! 
twenty to twenty-five acres can be raked by one 
horse in a day. 
We give below figures of the two best patterns 
of the horse-rake. “ The revolver is best for hay; 
the spring-toothed for gleaning. The latter will 
also work best on rough or stony ground, and 
remarked at some length on the qualities and pe- j the withers should scarcely deviate from that of j "' t,leraie bne for gleaning meadows, and will save 
culiarities of the Devon Cattle. We give in this j the bank. In the Devon ox, however, there is a mU f‘ ha,ld ; Iabor after the pilch fork. The spring 
number additional engravings of members of the peculiar rising of the forehead, lominding us of the t00lb rabe * s a K‘ eat labor-saver in prilling and 
” gathering peas.” 
same family, taken as before, from Stevens’ edi- blood-horse, and essentially connected with the 
tion of Youatt & Martin, on Cattle, lately pub- free and quick action by which this breed has ever 
lished by C. M. Saxton, New York. been distinguished. Tt has little or no dewlap de- 
The Devon oxen are most valuable for farm pending from its throat. The horns are longer 
purposes, from their docility of temper, stoutness than those of the bull, smaller and fine even to the 
and honesty of work, and the rapidity with which base, and of a lighter color, and tipped wi ll yellow, 
they move, either on the road, or in the furrow.— The animal is light in the withers; the shoulders a 
During harvest time and in catching weather, they little oblique; the breast deep, and the bosom open 
are sometimes trotted along with light loads, at the and wide, particularly as Contiasted with the fine- 
rate of six miles an hour—a degree of speed which ness of the withers. The forelegs are wide apart, 
no other ox lias been able to stand. looking like pillars that have to support a great 
We copy a portion of the description of these weight. The point of the shoulder is rarely or 
animals from the book above referred to. It says: j never seen. There is no projection of bone, but 
The head of the ox is small, very singularly so, \ there is a kind oflevel line running on to the neck, 
relatively to his bulk; yet it has a striking breadth These are characteristic and important points, 
of forehead. It is clean and free from flesh about Angular bony projections are never found in a 
the jaws. The eye is very prominent, and the beast that carries much flesh and fat. The fine- 
the jaws. The eye is very prominent, and the beast that carries much flesh and fat. The fine- revolving horse-rake. mur 0 f the leaves—o' our imagination hear at rel, covered in the season of its bloom°with large 
animal has a pleasing vivacity of countenance, ness of the withers, the slanting direction of the The cheapest, or lowest priced, horse-rake in use midnight, the far-oft' swaying of old branches pure white blossoms, that perfume the whole woods 
distinguishing it from the heavy aspect of many shoulder, and the brond and open breast, imply is the one represented above. It is constructed of groaning in the tempest.” about it with their delicious odor; certainly it ire 
other breeds. Its neck is long and thin, admira-j strength, speed, and aptitude to fatten. Anarrow wood, and when well made is durable, and works A great error has been committed—irreparable to sents a spectacle o r unrivalled sylvan beauty — 
bly adapting it for the collar, or the more common | chested animal can never be useful either for work- to a charm. For heavy grass this rake is preferred the country—that there has not been spared from Much to lie deplored is it, that north of New York 
CHINESE WHITE MAGNOLIA. 
The present season of the year, with its glaring ! over three thousand blossoms open upon it at once; 
sun and sultry air, brings afresh to our heart, I and for the last ten years it has never failed in a 
bright memories of the forest grove, where the single season, to produce a fine display o r blossoms, 
summer • noon-times’ of our school-boy days were The most beautiful evergreen tree in America, 
passed so ploasantly. “Light, shade, shelter, cool- says the Horticulturist; and, perhaps,—when foli- 
ness, music” says old Christopher North,— age, flowers and perfume are considered,—in the 
“ all the colors of the rainbow, dew and dreams world, is the Magnolia grandiflora of our South- 
dropping through their umbrageous twilight at eve am States. There, where it grows in the deep 
and morn,” these make the glory of the forest alluvial soil of some river valley, to the height of 
trees, and these, we shall love, “ while our dim 70 or 80 feet, clothed with its largo, thick,^deep 
eyes can catch the glimmer, our dull ears the mur- green, glossy leaves, like those of a gigantic Lau- 
and ruder yoke. 
mg or grazing. 
EURRALL’S GRAIN REAPER. 
4r - •«= * j The Spring Tooth Rake is also in high repute 
DEVON OX —commencing TO FEED. * n tb ‘ s re £‘ on —especially among grain growers 
_ who have UBed it in gleaning. As usually made 
it ha6 a head about 9 feet long, and from 20 to 24 
BURRALL’S GRAIN REAPER. elastic wire teeth. It does not revolve, “but is 
As tho season of harvest approaches there is We give a figure of Burrall’s Reaper in the raised over the winnow with ease and facility, 
more or less inquiry for grain reapers,—thomanu- belief (founded upon tho testimony of others, for without stopping the horse, as the whole rake 
facture and sale of the article annually increasing, we have not seen it in operation,) that it is a val- weighs only about 60 pounds.” For gleaning 
and becoming a more important item in wheat uable improvement. And as it is u Western New- wheat stubble this rake is considered decidedly 
growing districts. Of the several different rna- York invention, it commends itself the more to superior to any other. The price is from $8 to $10, 
chines in use, each has its advocates, and wo pre- the attention and examination of our farmers.— according to quality. These rakes can be had at 
sumo either of those introduced in this section— Mr. B. received the first premium on reapers at the Agricultural Warehouses in this city, and, "we 
Burrai.l’s, Hussey’s and McCormick’s —would the State Fair in Syracuse, in 1849, but has since presume, throughout the countrj\ We believe 
bo a good investment for any one requiring bar- perfected this machine, for which he claims they are extensively manufactured by B. F. Gage 
vesting machinery. Yet it is wise to select the “ greater utility, strength and durability, than any & Co., of Canandaigua, and the Messrs. Yeomans, 
best and most improved tools and machines— ever before offered to the public.” For information of Walworth, Wayne county. 
those that are well made and understandable —and relative to tho construction and performance of -t——--— 
this is a matter of some consequence in a reaper, this Reaper, we refer to the advertisement of Mr. COTSWOLD AND NEW LEICESTER SHEEP. 
Wo are not prepared to say which of tho reapers Burrall, in this paper. The machine can be , T . 
COTSWOLD AND NEW LEICESTER SHEEP. 
mentioned is the best, and if we were we should j examined at the store of Briggs & Bro., No. 68 
prefer to have purchasers decide for themselves. State st., Rochester, whore it is on sale. 
Not having room for larger illustrations we give 
small figures of the Cotswold, and the New Lei¬ 
cester Sheep, with some remarks on their distin¬ 
guishing qualities. 
BURR’S NEW FINE STRAWBERRY. 
[Republished from an early No. of the Rural.) , enough to cover this ground; if not, it can easily 
by many farmers. Price from $4 to $5. For sale the axe and fire of the pioneer, some of the noble it will not bear the rigor of the winters, and that 
at the Implement Stores in this city, and in other trees, which might have been selected in every we are denied the pleasure of seeing it grow freely 
town8 - forest * t0 adorn and shelter our dwellings and in the open air. At Philadelphia, it is quite har'd}- 
streets, and render still more beautiful, tho rural a»d in the Bartram Garden, at Landreth’s, and in 
Yl l( homes of our people. We must work to repair various private grounds near that city, there aro 
\\ this,—and now at this sultry time do we particu- fine specimens 20 or 30 feet high, growing with- 
\\ * ar *Y seo bow necessary they are to comfort and out protection and blooming every year. 
l\ enjoyment. With our best indigenous trees, oc- Wherever the climate will peimit the culture of 
\\ casional specimens of hardy exotics or rarer na- this superb evergreen, the ornamental planter 
> Vk tives, add finisb and tasteful embellishment to the would be unpardonable, in our eyes, not to possess 
// landscape. it j n considerable abundance. There is a variety 
//\ #\ \\ The accompanying figure is an exact portrait of of it, originated from seed by the English, called 
// I |\ \\ a tree of the Chinese White Magnolia, 14 years the Exmouth Magnolia, (M. g. ezominsis,) which 
Ip -\\ °ld, and 20 feet high, standing on the grounds of is rather hardier, and a much more abundant 
W. . ^^ Do ' v ™ G , at Newburgh, N. Y. There were bloomer than the original species. 
COTSWOLD SHEEP. 
DESTRUCTION OF QUACK GRASS, &c. 
In his article on the “ destruction of bushes, 
&c.,” “ H.” makes thorough work of it, and if 
any one who reads the Rural, hereafter permits 
his fields to be over run with Canada thistles, 
white daisy, elders, &c., it will not be because he 
may not know the best way to destroy them. 
I would suggest however, that with many plants 
the great difficulty is to separate entirely the stem 
from the roots. Quack grass and the Canada 
thistle, for instance, have each a system of under¬ 
ground stems which seem to possess the power of 
supplying vitality to the root, for a long time, un¬ 
less placed nearly or quite beyond the reach or in¬ 
fluence of the atmosphere. Quack grass, I be¬ 
lieve, may be thoroughly destroyed by burying 
from four to six inches deep, in a moderately com¬ 
pact soil. This opinion is founded on tho fact, i 
that when a boy, I eradicated effectually a fine bed 
of it in my father’s garden, by turning it under to 
that depth with a spade. 
Permit me, as connected with tho subject, to re¬ 
late another item of my early experience. Hoeing 
The Cotswold (see above cut) wore a long wool- 
ed breed, which have now become amalgamated 
and merged into the Leiccsters by crossing 
corn once, in a field infested with this grass, with 
a younger brother, I used every argument to in¬ 
duce him to follow iny example, and root it out as 
complete!}' as possible—but all to no purpose. He 
would cover it up and “ hoe two rows to my one” 
—making a tremendous hill, choking the j-oung 
corn, and thoroughly disgusting me by his slovenly 
sj’stein ef culture. You can imagine my mortifi¬ 
cation and astonishment at the next hoeing, to find 
in favor ot the buried quack a decided difference, 
which continued throughout the whole season. 
To destroy some weeds a combined effort of all 
the fanners in a neighborhood is necessary. For 
instance, a neighbor of mine has a lot more or less 
infested with white daisy,—so all along the border 
I have to wage continual war aguinst them. And, 
sometimes when they are in seed, his cattle break 
into my lot, (for bj' the way, men in this region 
who let white daisies go to seed, don’t keep very 
good fences,) and from their droppings springs up 
a young colony which if not destroyed would soon 
spread and become almost the sole occupant of the 
farm. < , 
NEW LEICESTER SHEEP. 
Of the New Leicesters, figured above, Youatt 
“on tho management of sheep ” remaks:—“No 
other Bort of sheep possess so great a propensity 
to fatten—no o'.her sort of sheep is fitforthe butch¬ 
er at so early an age—and although they are not 
calculated for the poorest soils, where the herbage 
is so scanty that the sheep must walk over a great 
deal of ground for the purpose of procuring its 
food, no other sort of sheep, in soils of a moderate 
or superior quality, is so profitable to the breeder. 
_ . . = ><■ nan oasnv 
Uf all the choice varieties of the Strawberry cul- be so amended. We want to see H. G. Dickf.n- 
tivated in this region. Burr’s Nno Pine ranks son, of Lyons, and Capt. Dakin and Mr. Messer 
among the very best. It was originated from seed, o p Geneva, and H. P. Norton of Brockport with 
several years ago, by Mr. John Burr, ofColum- ‘ their unrivalled Strawberries— not to mention’ mul- 
bus, Ohio, and has already been introduced to a j tifudes of others at each returning June exhibition 
considerable extent in many sections of the country, of the Society. And particularly do we wish to 
The plant is very hard}', a free grower with large see some of the fine collection of roses and other 
foliage, and very prolific. J. J. Thomas, in his flowers, from the choice collections of Dr. Thomp- 
“ American Fruit Culturist” gives this descrip- son and Messrs. Morgan of Aurora, Mrs. E. T. 
tion:—“Flowers pistillate. Fruit large, an inch Martin of Willow Brook, and others in Auburn, 
and a fourth in diameter; roundish, conical, smooth, Canandaigua and Brockport, and other places west 
even and regular: seeds scarcely sunk; color pale of Rochester. 
red; flesh whitish pink, very'tender, flavor fine.” ! Now I would inquire why we may not have a 
Those who have cultivated the New Pine in this grand gathering in the new Court House at Rocli- 
vicinity, pronounce it decidedly superior in flavor ester, at the next June Exhibition, from every di- 
to any other variety. M. G. Warner, Esq., of reclion around your citj, which shall be in ull re- 
this city, who introduced it in this section about spects worthy and attractive to all Western New 
five years ago, and has grown it extensively since, York? Mr. Hodge and others of Buffalo, would 
states that the New Pine is the earliest of any va- do a good thing to contribute largely to such an 
riety cultivated here, with the exception of the Exhibition. Let it be a grand Floral Holiday, 
Early Scarlet—and that it is more prolific than any such 88 our country has not seou. 
other, the Rival Hudson only excepted. Mr. W. From more than one season’s experiuce I can 
| aud other cultivators unite in pronouncing it the attest, that none can exceed the Rochester florists 
best table berry grown in Western New York. and cultivators in the liberality and attention with 
The fact that this berry, after being tested for which they greet amateurs and co-laborers from 
several years, fully sustains its superiority, aud surrounding villages, at these Exhibitions, and 1 
proves it eminently worthy of cultivation. feel quite sure they will cordially respond to my 
----- suggestions. Then we will have on each return- 
GOOD SUGGE STIONS. ing June, an Exhibition worthy of the best half of 
It appears to me every way durable to enlarge I Empi "; "‘‘/T' “T*'' 0 “ loVW " “ f 
the operations of the Horticultural Sociotv of the j ePp* T'i ’I" 3 !, TI T*' 11311 ovetl thal ° ! 
n „ „ , the State Agricultural Society. 
Genesee Valiev, so as to embrace to as great an ! t 2 .i , , 
. . , „ ... s I throw out those suggestions for the cou«idera- 
extent as possible, all Western New York Iff .- r .1 • 1 «• . « . 1 
. * .. ’ . orK ‘ 11 1 tion of the friends of the Society audits officers 
mistake not, the Constitution is already liberal ! Palmyra, June 20, test. ’ R. t; p 
