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MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
on which tho animals stand, and into this a 
quantity of muck is thrown every day, after 
the manure made the previous day has been 
cleaned out. This muck absorbs all tho 
urine, and is gathered with tho manure into 
one mass. In addition to this, tho animals 
are well littered with leaves. 
The muck and leaves aro collected in tho 
fall, and placed in situations where they can 
bo obtained as required. If tho muck 
freezes, it is not objectionablo, as tho frost 
tends to destroy tho acids it sometimes con¬ 
tains ; it can bo easily broken up with a 
pick, and the barn is made so warm that in 
the coldest weather tho temperature, while 
tho stock is in, is above the freezing point, 
and the frozen muck in absorbing tho liquid, 
becomes completely pulverized. The leaves 
are very good simply as a bedding, and make 
the very best manure by decomposition. 
Twenty Acres of Corn. 
M. C. Crapsey of Lockport, N. Y., gives 
in tho Journal of that place, tho mode of 
cultivation adopted and exact expenditure in¬ 
curred in raising twenty acres of corn.— 
Every farmer will road it with interest. Ho 
says : 
Tho land must be entirely clear from 
stumps, stones or anything that will obstruct 
the drag or cultivator. Sod ground, which 
was used in this caso, is decidedly preferred. 
The earliest warm weather in tho spring 
should bo improved for drawing on tho ma- 
nure. 
Plough eight inches deep, roll hard, then 
drag and cultivate tho ground till it is fine 
as an onion bod. When the ground is thus 
prepared, no danger need be apprehended 
from tho wire worm. Tho corn is up and 
beyond harm from this insect beforo it comes 
to tho surface. Mark tho ground each way 
in straight rows, just 3 feet apart. This 
gives 4.840 hills to tho aero, or a fraction 
more than 66 hills to tho bushel. 
Dolay planting until tho ground is so 
warm that the corn will come up within 
eight days. Put in from 5 to 8 kernels in 
a Dill and roll the ground after planting. 
Cultivate each way as often as tho weeds 
start. About tho timo of wheat harvest 
pull up all tho largo weeds that can be 
found. 
Cut up wlion the s?nall as woll as the largo 
ears are sufficiently glazed. When husked, 
I put the ears in an out-door covered crib 
which admits the free passage of the air. 
ITEMS OF EXPENDITURE TO EACH ACRE. 
1. Drawing 16 loads manure,.$2,00 
2. Ploughing. 2,00 
3. Polling, dragging, and cultivating before 
planting,. 1,38 
4. Marking out before planting. 31 
5. Seed corn, 19 cts ; planting, 75 cts,_ 1,06 
6. Rolling after planting and thinning out, 72 
7. Cultivating each way 3 times,. 1,12 
8. Pulling weeds. 1,13 
9. Cutting up, Ac.,. 1,13 
10. Husking, cribbing, setting up stalks,... 4,80 
11. Shelling, $1,54, drawing <o market 77 cts. 2,31 
12. Interest of money on laud,. 7,00 
Total.$23,97 
77 bushels corn at 56 cents per bushel,.43,31 
Stalks,. 7,00 
Clear profit,.19,34 
Clearing from 20 acres,.573,80 
Tho mode of culturo described above 
saves labor, and adds largely to tho profits 
compared with any that I had previously 
practised. I have recently traveled through 
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Michigan, and 
although I have seen localities whoro a lar¬ 
ger amount can bo raised with the same la¬ 
bor, I liavo seen no place in the west whoro 
tho samo number of day’s work, or tho same 
expenditure will bring larger returns to tho 
producer than in this county. 
Minnesota Farming. 
A legal gentleman tells the following 
story of farming in that new country : 
I have just roturnod from attending a 
term of tho District Court, hold in Bouton 
county, a region that two years since was a 
wilderness. It is some 90 or 100 miles north 
of this. Tho county seat is Sauk Rapids, 
near which, you remombor, I have com¬ 
menced farming by proxy. I am now ablo 
to give you an account of my first year’s 
operations : 
I reckon the one hundred and sixty 
acres, with ono hundred acres ploughod and 
fenced, and a comfortable log house on tho 
promises, to have cost mo, in all, about $700. 
This includos chargos for labor and carry¬ 
ing on the farm. I have now on hand 2,000 
bushels of oats, worth at least sixty-five 
cents per bushol—$1,300; 100 bushels of 
potatoes, worth $50; and a sprinkling of 
corn. So that I have at least $1,350, 
amount realized the first year, to oiler 
against tho $700 cost, expenses, and all. 
And this, too, under unfavorable circum¬ 
stances. A man tilling his own land would 
do far better. So much for Minnesota 
farming. 
Hints in Season. 
The following Farm Hints for February, 
aro from the Mass. Ploughman : 
Tho flat turnips and tho pumpkins are 
now used up, and tho vegetables should tako 
their turn. The yellow turnip will remain 
good till May. The carrot should not bo 
kept so long. Cows yield more milk, when 
they have roots, and young cattle grow fat¬ 
ter with a variety of food than on hay alono. 
Water is plenty this winter, and it is a 
pity that cattle should not have a good su] - 
ply. Wo somotimos see them lapping snow 
— this is probably for want of drink rather 
than food. 
Calves need more attention than stock 
which has passed through a winter. Tlioy 
must have good hay, and they need some¬ 
thing besides. They will eat poor hay bettor 
in April than in February, because they will 
be older and more used to dry food. ' Ap¬ 
ples and roots aro suitable for calvos. 
6rt|;iri) aifo datkit. 
THE CRESCENT SEEDLING STRAWBERRY. 
So many readers of tho Horticulturist 
have expressed a wish to be more particu¬ 
larly informed respecting the Crescent 
Seedling Strawberry, that 1 have written to 
Mr. Lawrence, of New Orleans, and learu 
from him that his manner of cultivating it 
it very simple. He says : 
“ I give it all it requires to perfect its fruit, 
and check the luxuriance of the vines by 
reducing our rich, alluvial soil two-thirds— 
that is, I add two-thirds river sand to it.— 
This mode likewise enables tho plant to 
withstand the excessive hot months of June, 
July and August. In fact, the soil best 
adapted to my seedling is a sandy loam; and 
I also know, by experience, that the less ma¬ 
nure of any kind used, tho better it is for 
tho plant. In planting, I never muleh; I 
place tho plants 10 inches apart in the rows, 
and tho rows 18 to 24 inches apart. In dry 
weather I water copiously two or three times 
in as many consecutive days, and then lot 
them tako care of themselves for awhile.— 
When the ground is moist from previous 
rains during the planting season, I never 
water. I transplant every year into new 
beds, as new soil is preferable to old, and be¬ 
sides, as I have noticed in a former letter, 
old stools die out completely by over-pro¬ 
duction of fruit and incessant bearing. I 
gathered tho last fruit of the season on tho 
25th of July, which is seven months, to a 
day, since they commenced bearing—Dec. 
25, 1851. 
“This experiment of mino, accidental as 
it is, I consider as ono among tho wondrous 
productions of nature. A similar accident 
may not occur again for many years, and I 
have been always impressed with tho beliof 
that I have been aided and assisted by our 
climate in producing this truly extraordina¬ 
ry strawberry ; and although I give myself 
but littlo credit, yet I am happy that it 
should bo so widely known and favorably 
noticed throughout the Union, and, altho’ I 
disliked it, I could not prevent iny name go¬ 
ing forth in this connection. My only aim 
is pleasuro and amusement in this delight¬ 
ful climate of ours.” 
A few weeks ago Mr. Lawrenco answered 
my minute inquiries on tho subject as fol¬ 
lows : 
“ 1st. Tho runnors bear tho same season 
thoy strike. 
“ 2d. It is the samo identical plant which 
bears fruit so fine and large in January, and 
which continues to bear a constant crop un¬ 
til the July following. Weak plants are shy 
bearers at all times. I plant none but the 
strongest plants (runners;) the weaker ones 
I neither use nor disposo of until such time 
as they are fit to sot out. I am disposing 
of my seedlings so rapidly that it is doubt¬ 
ful whether I can supply tho demand.” 
Mr. L., in a previous letter, informed mo 
ho had sold 20,000 plants. I consider Mr. 
L.’s suggestions, in regard to tho cultivation 
of tho strawberry, valuable for our soils and 
climate. I am no more disposed to enrich 
our soils for the strawberry, with ordinary 
manures, than Mr. L. It should be remem¬ 
bered that our seasons are of different length 
than tho seasons at New Orleans. My Cres¬ 
cent Seedlings are very strong and vigorous, 
and I liavo already forwarded to B. M. 
Watson, Plymouth, Mass., more than 250 
plants, from tho avails of eight feeble run¬ 
ners that wore scarcely alive when set out 
in my garden on the 28th of May last. This 
fact indicates a vigorous plant, and I shall 
look with interest for its habit of bearing, 
next July and August.— R. G. Pardee, in 
Horticulturist. 
THE ENGLISH WALNUT TREE. 
While much is said and done in regard 
to the cultivation of the various and best 
kinds of fruits, such as apples, pears, peach¬ 
es, &c., by agriculturists, all valuable for 
tho purposes for which they aro designed, 
yet there aro other species of fruit troes 
which probably might bo propagated with 
advantage to fruit-growers, and to tho com¬ 
munity, of which we hear but littlo said.— 
Tho English Walnut is a tree, which though 
not always propagated with entire success 
in some locations, yet it is behoved that in 
favorable situations its success may not be 
so doubtful. 
This tree, a nativo of some part of Eu¬ 
rope, has probably been cultivated in tho 
Island of Great Britain for centuries, a cli¬ 
mate as severe or our own. More than fifty 
years ago, I assisted in planting tho nuts of 
this kind, and found no difficulty in raising 
tho trees to full maturity. Our object was 
to raise the fruit to use in its green state for 
culinary purposes, and to sell in market for 
that purpose. 
Most of tho trees boro each a considerable 
amount of fruit, part of which was used in 
tho family for pickles, and the remainder of 
those gathered in that stato, were readily 
sold in Salem market at ono dollar per hun¬ 
dred. A bushel contained a thousand nuts; 
thus thoy brought $10 per bushel, no small 
profit, as tho trees bore, most of them, from 
threo to five bushels each. This was not 
all; they were in groat demand among tho 
most epicurean housekeepers, and they usu¬ 
ally voluntarily added their thanks to us for 
giving them a call, and wo were generally 
desired to bring some the next season, as 
they always wanted a portion of them to 
mix with their other pickles, for thoy im- j 
parted to them a peculiar spicy flavor, more 
pleasant than that derived from any other 
source. About two hundred to five hundred 
were wanted to a family. 
Tho propor timo to gather and uso tho 
English walnut for pickles, is tho fore part 
of tho month of July, and to tost their fit¬ 
ness for the purposo, is to find when a knit¬ 
ting noedlo will easily perforate both tho 
inner and outor shell. Thoy aro far bettor 
pickles than the butternut, (sometimes call¬ 
ed oilnut,) as they require much less rub¬ 
bing to take off tho dark surface that will 
appear on them in the process of pickling; 
also tho former has far tho richest flavor.— 
They aro a thrifty growing tree, and requiro 
nothing more than a tolerably rich soil. 
But tho greatest difficulty, it is appre¬ 
hended, will be found in procuring a proper 
location. I have, however, no doubt that 
located on the southern side of houses, a 
thicket of trees, or of a hill, and with a 
southern aspect, this tree might flourish, 
and hear many years, although perhaps 
not so long lived as many of the species of 
the Nut Tree. And if so, no tree propa¬ 
gated in New England would be found to 
bo more profitable, if used in tho manner 
ahovo mentioned, or they may bo left to 
ripen, as thoy will, to perfection.— Mass. 
Ploughman. 
ONIONS—HOT WATER vs. WORMS. 
Summer before last I had a beautiful bed 
of onions which were thi'oatcncd total des¬ 
truction by tho maggot. It was the first 
time the littlo rascals made their appearance 
on our premises, and wo didn't know at all 
what to think of them. Conversing of the 
matter with the man who that year repre¬ 
sented our town in tho legislature, he told 
me that a profuse application of boiling 
water to tho tops of tho onions would give 
the maggots their quietus without injuring 
the onions tliemsolves. I first tested the 
experiment by applying the boiling water to 
two rows, lotting it tricklo down tho tops 
and soak into the ground at tho roots. The 
next day those two rows had becomo a shado 
lighter in color but otherwise appeared live¬ 
ly and thrifty. I then served the whole bed 
in tho samo way—pouring hot water pro¬ 
fusely ovor them, and repeated the opera¬ 
tion at occasional intervals for several 
weeks. Tho experiment was entirely suc¬ 
cessful, as the onions grew well and bottom¬ 
ed finely. This year none of our seed came 
up, and of course I had no chance to mako 
tho trial again. I don’t' know of any body 
olso that tried tho experiment, but in my 
view two facts are established. First—that 
Hon. Representatives aro good for some¬ 
thing after all. Second—that onions may 
bo saved from tho maggots by a timely ap¬ 
plication of boiling water.— Granite Farmer. 
RAISING GARDEN SEEDS. 
A good lesson is contained in tho follow¬ 
ing paragraph: 
Some years since, in pulling my English 
turneps (raised from imported seed) though 
a great yield, they run too much to tops 
with dishing crowns. Finding one only ,with 
a small top and small root, shaped liko two 
saucers put together, I preserved it for 
seed, and the next year sowed what I got 
from it, among my potatoes, then begin¬ 
ning to ho affected with disease. They 
mostly died; hut I got 75 bushels of tur¬ 
nips “ true to the seed.” I saved and set out 
8 bushels of the most beautiful I ever saw. 
This was in Springfield. All who saw them 
admired thorn, and spoke for somo of the 
seed, which I circulated freely at $1 the 
pound. Tops barely enough to pull up 
tho single root, not much bigger than a 
pipe-stem. They were good as handsome. 
All this goes to encourage mo in selecting 
the best roots and employing the best means 
possiblo, for obtaining the very host seed, 
from which to secure the reward for tho 
best care and culturo of the orchard, field 
and garden.— JY. E Farmer. 
aim m. 
Wheat and Indian Bread. — A corres¬ 
pondent of the N. Y. Farmer, who is now 
ohligod to uso wheat as a substitute for rye, 
gives tho following receipt for making wheat 
and Indian bread: “To two quarts of fine 
Indian meal add boiling water enough to 
wet the same ; when sufficiently cooled, add 
ono teaspoonful of salt, one half pint of 
yeast, ono teaspoonful of saleratus, ono half 
teacup full of molasses and flour enough to 
form it into a loaf, (it should not bo kneaded 
hard;) when light, bake two hours in a 
woll hoatod oven, (it should bo baked until 
brown.) This is nearly as good as tho rye 
and Indian made in Yankee land. 
Cure for Erysipelas. —The editor of 
tho Salem Observer, gives a public euro for 
this distressing disorder, from which ho has 
been a great sufferer. He says, “ a simple 
poultice made of cranberries, pounded fine, 
and applied in a raw stato, has provod in 
my case, and a number also in this vicinity, 
a certain remedy.” In this caso the poul- 
tieo was applied on going to bed, and the 
next morning, to his surprise, he found tho 
inflammation nearly gone; and in two days 
ho was as well as over. 
Rich Crullers. —Boat to croam a quar¬ 
ter of a pound of fresh butter, and mix with 
it tho samo quantity of pounded and sifted 
loaf sugar, and 4 woll beaton eggs; add 
flour till thick enough to roll out; cut tho 
paste into oblong pieces about 4 or 5 strips; 
wet the edges, and plait ono bar over the 
other, so as to meet in tho centre; throw 
them into boiling lard, or suet; when fried 
of a light brown, drain them before tho fire, 
and servo them in a napkin, with or with¬ 
out gratod loaf sugar strowed over them. 
A Light Pie Crust. —A light pie-crust 
may he made by rubbing into 1 lb. of flour 
2 oz. of butter worked into a cream, and one 
teaspoonful of carbonate of soda, dissolve 
with water half a teaspoonful of tartaric 
acid, and pour it ovor the ingredients, quick¬ 
ly adding a sufficiency of water to make it 
tho proper stiffness for pie-crust. This is 
still hotter whon a well-beaten ogg is added 
to tho flour, &e., before tho water is put. 
LIST OF PATENT CLAIMS 
ISSUED FROM THE UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 
For the week ending January 25, 1853. 
John Bell, of Harlem, N. Y., for improvements 
in method of joining corners of boxes, tfcc. 
Jas. Black and Orson Beecher, of Philadelphia, 
Pa., for improvements in working the condenser 
attached to steam diaphragm pumps. 
Charles Bourgard, of New York, N. Y., for im¬ 
provement in manufacturing wigs. 
Henry Biyitney, of Springfield, O., for improve¬ 
ment in tanning hides and skins. 
Freeman Palmer, of Coimeaut, O., for improved 
feed-m.ffion in sewing machines. 
Samuel M. Perkins, of Springfield, Pa., for im¬ 
provement in manufacture of seamless felt wear¬ 
ing apparel, &c. 
Wm. H. Lazelle, of New York, N. Y., assignor 
to Henry F. Wilson, of New York, N. Y., and S. 
E. Fenwick, of Washington, D. C., for improve¬ 
ment in machines for paring apples. 
Jos. Piffaut, of New Orleans, La., for improve¬ 
ment in the frames of piano fortes. 
Jos. W. Archibald, of Porto Rico, West Indies, 
assignor to Horace Southmayd, of New York, N. 
Y., for improvement in sugar-draining machines. 
Abiather F. Potter, of Boston, Mass., for im¬ 
proved gold-washer and amalgamator. 
Thos. Prosser, of New York, N. Y.,for improve¬ 
ment in expanding drills. 
Peter Taltavull, of Washington, D. C., for im¬ 
provement in omnibus registers. 
Augustus B. Childs, of Rochester, N. Y., for 
improvement in winnowers of grain. Dated Jan. 
25, 1853. Patented in England. May 22, 1852. 
DESIGNS. 
Sherman S. Jewett and Francis H. Root, of Buf¬ 
falo, N. Y., for design for a cooking stove. 
Sherman S. Jewett and Francis H. Root, of 
Buff lo, N. Y., for design for a wood stove. 
Sherman S. Jewett and Francis H. Root, of Buf¬ 
falo, N. Y., for design for a cooking stove. 
Jos. G. Lamb, of Cincinnati, Ohio, assignor to 
Alexander Bradley, of Pittsburgh, Pa., for design 
for a cooking stove. 
Jos. Pratt, of Boston, Mass., assignor to Bow¬ 
ers, Pratt & Co., of same place, for design for a 
cooking stove. 
WASHING BY STEAM. 
A New York correspondent of the Bos¬ 
ton Transcript, in describing tho now St. 
Nicholas Hotel in that city, thus refers to 
the steam washing machine in the basement 
of the building; 
“This is something new under tho sun.— 
Four hundred pieces aro thrown into a cyl¬ 
inder, half filled with water and soap-suds. 
This is thrown into rapid revolution by a 
small steam engine. Steam is then let in¬ 
to tho cylinder under the water and clothes, 
whfch raises tho clothes out of tho water, 
passing through tho pores of tho fabric, and 
out tho top of the cylinder. The clothes 
are then thrown down again by the pros- 
sui’e of steam, into the suds, and so on.— 
Tho changes thus produced by tho rapid 
revolution, and by tho passage of steam 
through tho clothing, washes them perfectly 
clean in tho space of ten minutes. The 
clothes aro then thrown in a body into an¬ 
other cylinder and wrung by the revolution 
of the cylinder; and then by letting in hot air, 
which passes through tho clothing, they are 
perfectly dried, ready for ironing in seven 
minutes. Tho whole time occupied in 
washing, wringing, drying, is hut seven min¬ 
utes. Tho advantages of this apparatus 
are : first an immense saving of timo and ex¬ 
pense in washing; second, the finest cam- 
bricks can be washed without wearing them 
out or injuring the texture, as is necessarily 
done by rubbing. I havo seen a hand ma¬ 
chine in operation, of tho samo description, 
(costing from $50 to $100) where ono wo¬ 
man would do the work of twenty. 
A NEW GUN. 
Col. P. W. Porter, of Tennessee, has in¬ 
vented a Repeating Rifle, whereof the cylin¬ 
der revolves vertically (instead of horizon¬ 
tally, like Colt’s) and carries nine charges. 
This gun primes and cocks itself, and may 
be fired once a second, or as often as tho 
trigger can bo pulled. With tho magazine 
of sixty charges which is furnished with it, 
it may be fired nearly sixty times in a min¬ 
ute. It seems to he quite simple in con¬ 
struction, is littlo heavier than the ordinary 
rifle, shoots with great force and is said to 
be easily kept in order. To a marksman of 
our sort, who might chance to tree a squir¬ 
rel or other game, we should think such a 
gun would not come amiss. In a fight with 
a grizzly bear, a Californian would find it 
useful, provided tho bear would keep a 
proper distance, which somo badly educa¬ 
ted cubs do not seem to understand. For 
desperate duelists, it must have great at¬ 
tractions. Wo believo its cost (without 
magazine) is $60.— JY. Y. Tribune. 
Old Nails. —Horse shoo nails, kicked 
about the world by horses innumerable, are 
not tho useless fragmont wo might naturally 
deem them. Military men may discuss the 
relative merits of Minie rifles and needle 
guns, but wo all agree that tho material of 
which tho barrels aro made should bo sound 
and tough; gun-makers tells us no iron is 
so well fitted for this purpose as that which 
is derived from horse shoe nails and similar¬ 
ly worn fragments. The nails are in the 
first instance made of good sound iron, and 
tho violent concussions which they recoive 
when a horse is walking over a stony road, 
givo a peculiar annealing and toughening to 
the metal highly beneficial to its subsequent 
uso for gun-barrels. 
SEWING MACHINES. 
The Scientific American states that since 
its first notico of the sowing machine of E. 
B. Howe, of Mass., that paper has described 
seven different sewing machines. Among 
them is the machine of A. B. Wilson, which 
he has since brought to great perfection and 
has two American patents, arid has made 
arrangements to get it patented in tho prin¬ 
cipal kingdoms of Europo. The Scientific 
American says, “ Wilson's Machine is, in our 
opinion, a great triumph of American ge¬ 
nius. It is no larger than a neat, small 
work-box, very portable and convenient, and 
we have seen fine shirt-bosoms and collars 
stitched by it in a more perfect mannor than 
wo have ever seen done by hand-work.— 
There are now, wo believe, about 500 ma¬ 
chines in operation, and orders exceed the 
supply. 
Tho sewing machine is but on tho throsh- 
hold ot its career; it is but partially known 
and applied in this country. Private fami¬ 
lies know nothing about its use, and shoe¬ 
makers and saddlers have not yet tested its 
benefits. Mr. Wilson informs us that ho is 
about to mako ono that will sow boots and 
shoos with a rapidity that will astonish tho 
sons of St. Crispin. Any invention that 
shall abridge these tedious labors, will ulti¬ 
mately prove of great benefit to all parties 
concerned—for whatever lessons the aggre¬ 
gate labor performed by a whole communi¬ 
ty, soon results in the advantage of every 
member of that community. One of Wil¬ 
son’s machines will enable a woman to make 
a fate shirt with all its seams, in one hour. 
ARTIFICIAL ICE. 
In consequence of the open state of tho 
rivers and creeks, and tho rather dull pros¬ 
pect for ico just now, tho dealers in that ar¬ 
ticle are fearing that unless somo means aro 
provided, their occupation next summer 
will be gone. 
One of our citizens, Mr. Geo. P. Mitchell, 
has been directing his attention to this mat¬ 
ter, and has made somo experiments which 
upon a small scale have succeeded admira¬ 
bly, and ho has prepared a building in which 
to develope his plans more fully. He as¬ 
certained some timo since, that by leading 
a small stream of water down a piece of 
twine in ordinary cold weather, ice would 
mako very rapidly, and he has arranged a 
part of his large ice houso in such a manner 
as to mako a large quantity of ice. There 
aro largo openings at either end and in the 
roof, to admit of a free circulation of cold 
air. Along the rafters are leaden water 
pipes piorced in small holes so as to throw 
out a considerable quantity of water in min¬ 
ute streams or spray. At the level of tho 
perpendicular portion of the building aro 
rods, from which an innumerable number 
ot small strings drop to the ground somo 
twenty feet below. The small streams plav 
upon these strings, and if there is any ordi¬ 
nary freezing weather, the ice will form 
very rapidly. Tho greater tho freezing sur¬ 
face is, tho more rapidly will the ice mako, 
and it may reasonably be expected that this 
building will be fillod with columns of ico in 
a very short timc.—Berlington'JY J. Gaz. 
NEW FIXTURE FOR DRAWING WATER. 
D. Stiles, Jr., of Middleton, Mass., has 
communicated to tho Ploughman, a descrip¬ 
tion of a novel fixturo which ho uses for 
drawing water, lie says : 
“ It consists of two grooved or cleated 
joists, running parallel with each other to 
tho bottom of tho well,, at a distance of 
about fourteen inches, between which the 
bucket runs, set in a frame, with sides of 
wood, ends of iron, about 14 by IS inches 
square, the bucket hung about the centre of 
the frame, and centre of bucket, by a spin¬ 
dle. Tho bucket is provided with a space 
of about four inches square in the bottom, 
which receives tho water, then the clapper 
shuts like a pump box, and is drawn up by 
a common windlass to tho spout, whore it 
encounters a book of irregular form, which 
turns the bucket and discharges tho contents 
instantly.” 
COUPLING SHAFTS AND AXLES. 
A very ingenious contrivance for the 
above purpose has been invented by Safford 
E. Sturtevant, of Hartford, Vt., who has ta¬ 
ken moasures to secure a patent. It con¬ 
sists in securing the shafts of vehicles to tho 
axle or the axlo to the shafts, by means of 
an eye or collar with taper or conical ends, 
which fit in sockets attached to the shafts. 
A screw-bolt is inserted longitudinally thro’ 
the eye or collar and the sockets to keep 
the ends firmly secured. To obviate any 
inconvenience from tho wearing of tho eye 
or collar, so that tho ends would not fit 
tight, the shanks in which the sockets aro 
sunk, can be brought nearer togothor by 
moans of a nut on the bolt. The appara¬ 
tus, although simple, will be found very ef¬ 
ficient for the intendod purposes, and it is a 
useful improvement on tho ordinary method, 
of uniting togethor the axle and shaft. 
Ilow to make a Cistern. —For a cistern 
to hold 25 barrels of water, procure one 
bbl. of watir lime, (hydraulic cement,) and 
three barrels of clean coarso sand. If your 
soil is clay or any kind of compact earth, 
dig a hole as near the shape of an egg > ei d 
down, as tar as you can; mix your cement, 
a little at a timo, and plaster it directly up¬ 
on the earth. You have no need of brick 
work. If there is any considerable cavity 
in tho sides ot the pit, fill with clay mortar 
and thus save your cement. When tho 
first coat is dry, put on the second, and per¬ 
haps a third, though much thinner than the 
first. Cover the top with a large flat stone, 
if procurable, having a man-hole and place 
for a pump broken through tho centre. A 
cistern eight feet in diameter and nine feet 
deep will hold a hundred barrels_.V. 
Plow i 
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