of time and expense in going up and down 
stairs, and hoisting and lowering materials 
and machines. And all tins lies right along¬ 
side a railroad track, so that there is no 
carting in of materials or carting out of fin¬ 
ished work, which is a great economy of 
time and force. 
Now cast your eyes on this army of men, 
every one as busy as a bumble bee in a pump¬ 
kin blow; listen to the hissing of steam, the 
rattle of machinery, the clatter of hammers, 
the swish of saws and planes, the gurgle of 
ermntatt 
THE STAE LAWN MOWER, 
To Break a Horne from fulling: at the 
11 alt i-r. 
I send a drawing illustrating a better way 
of breaking a horse of this habit than any I 
have seen in the Rubai- New-Yorker. By 
this mode there is no danger of teaching the 
horse to jump hack when any one comes 
near the bead. I take a crupper, attach two 
strong lines to it; run the lines through the 
among shrubbery anti into uooks ana cor¬ 
ners ; besides, the cut of the field mower is 
not sufficiently eveu and close for a lawn. 
The scythe is a dangerous tiling to use 
in such a place, and, like the field mower, 
docs not make an even cut. The Dutch 
sickle is applicable only to very small and 
otherwise inaccessible patches of grass. 
To obviate all these difficulties is the office 
of the Lawn Mower, which, on its earlier 
introduction, was itself burdened with the 
almost fatal objection of high cost. But as 
there can hardly be a difficulty in mechanics 
or practice which American skill and inven¬ 
tion cannot overcome, the last objection to 
the popular use of the Lawn Mower lias 
been done away with in the production of a 
machine which combines nil the good quali¬ 
ties of clean, close cut, ease of handling, 
simplicity of construction, durability and 
cheapness. "Wc find all these good qualities 
in the Star Lawn Mower, of which the ac¬ 
companying cut is a fair external illustra¬ 
tion, and which may be described as follows: 
The two wheels (which are both driving 
wheels.) arc full twelve inches in diameter; 
cased Inside of each of these wheels is a 
spur-wheel and pinion—the pinions on each 
end of the shaft, to which the cutting appa¬ 
ratus is attached. There is a series of hall 
ratchets which throw the machine out of 
gear while being drawn hack. 
Tiie cuL is fourteen Inches in width, made 
by six spiral knives attached to the pinion 
shaft, so arranged that the cut is perfectly 
continuous, leaving no welt or comb on the 
stubble. The gearing is so nicely boxed in, 
that there is nothing to catch or clog in the 
grass. Tiie wheel casings are stayed by two 
iron rods running across, and by the station¬ 
ary shear-bar at the bottom, upon which the 
spiral knives operate. The handle is at¬ 
tached on the inner fixed casing of the 
wheels, and made adjustable as to bight, 
by slots, and held in place by set-screws. 
The following vital points are very rea¬ 
sonably claimed for the Star Lawn Mower: 
Simplicity of construction ; strength and 
durability ; not liable to got out of order or 
clog; and when sold will stay sold, and not 
be returned for repairs or faulty perform¬ 
ance. The retail price is $25, with discount 
to the trade. Manufactured by Landers, 
Fuary & Clark, 53 Chambers street. New 
York city. 
loop in the cireingle and through tiie rings 
on each side of the halter, and tie to a post 
or anything strong. When the horse pulls 
back, lie does not pull by his head, but by 
bis tail, and lie will drop his tail and step 
forward. lie will not try to pull many 
times before lie will give it up.—G. W. W., 
Dunkirk, N. Y. 
Remedy foe Scratches. 
Fernando Peck writes the Rurai. New- 
Yorker that lie washes the affected parts 
clean with a weak lye, and then uses water 
in which lie has soaked chewing tobacco in 
the proportion of one-eighth of a pound of 
tobacco to one quart of water. It effects a 
speedy cure, and he never knew it to fail. 
WOOD’S NEW JOINTED-BAR MOWER. 
dispensed with, making ns few pieces 
molten iron; Bee the whirling of shafts and 
the capering of belts overhead,—don’t all 
this look os if it meant business? aud busi¬ 
ness by the "wholesale? 
Of the machines themselves, wo hardly 
need to speak to those who know what the 
Wood Machine is, as a good many thousand 
people do know. But the manufacturers 
are continually seeking out new devices and 
improvements. Here wo rpc the finger bar 
of ilie Mower is made of cold-rolled iron, by 
whicll it is as light as steel and tough ns 
iron. Tiie axle-rests of the scraper are 
made so as to be adjusted to cut high or 
low, with the platform still on a level, which 
is a great Improvement for cutting short 
grain. 
Wood’s New Jointed-Bar Mower. 
Aside from the general excellence of all 
the Wood machines, we desire to call par¬ 
ticular attention to Wood’s New Jointed* 
Bar Mower, as the Grand Gold Medal Prize 
Mower of tiie Paris Exposition, and of many 
other well contested fields. It is herewith 
illustrated. 
Tlds machine runs upon two driving-wheels, 
ouch furnished with an internal gear, which 
meshes Into ratchet gear wheels, thus nmking of 
each an independent driving wheel. 1’he driv¬ 
ing wheels arc placed the right distance opart, 
to run In tho trucks miido for thorn by tins track 
clearer, and thus avoid running over tho cut 
crop. Th© entire frame, upon which is placed 
the gearing, i- Supported by, and lilts upon, the 
matn axle. The tongue is pivoted at. its ronrerid 
to the mala axle, by a cast-iron connection, 
which supports the driver upon a Dprlna peat; 
this scat, can bo removed at phtuanre, and Is so 
placet! tlint tho driver’s weight ha lances entirely 
the weight of tho tonguo, so that there Is no 
pressure upon the horses - necks. 
A hinge connection Is formed between the 
flngor-har with its cutting apparatus and the 
in tin frame, by n cast-iron sboe-pieoe furnished 
with n recess fm- the reception of the llngor-lmr 
at t lie proper place. Tho rear Ulnl of tho shoe 
hoiug pivoted to a casting upon the lower side 
of the mainframe near tiie axle, the ousting be¬ 
ing furnished with a vortlonl slot for the recep¬ 
tion of tho rear cud of tho main shoo. The front 
end of tho shoe is connected by a hinge to a 
steel spring, which Is bolted firmly to the front 
outer corner of the main frame, so that the shoe 
has the function of turning upon au axis iu the 
grass are dispensed with, malting as low pieces 
as possible, under the general mechanical law, 
that eimplLcit u In const ruction avoids friction 
and insures cturnhUitU. 
With this description of the Mower, in addi¬ 
tion to the accompanybig illustration, tiie fann¬ 
er can Judge of its mechanical construction. No 
farmer, who will keep tlm knives sharp, bearings 
oiled, and nuts screwed tight., will ever have any 
trim Ills in running a Wood Mower to u respect¬ 
able old ago. 
Besides tho old headquarters at Hoostck 
Fails, there are principal business offices at 
No. 44 Cortlandt St., New Ymlc city, anil at 
206 Lake St,, Chicago, III. Large numbers 
of these Mowers are sold iu the English, 
French and other European markets. Wc 
noticed that in tnuchincs for tho English 
markets, the fingers are made 1o dip so as to 
cut lower than ours, as ihe moist climate of 
that country will allow of shearing to the 
turf, whieh will not do in America. Our in¬ 
vestigations were made tinder the kind guid¬ 
ance of Mr. Wood himself, who is every Inch 
a mechanic as well os a gentleman. Ilis 
ample mansion is planted half-way up a 
beautifully sloping lawn, among, the roman¬ 
tic scenery of Hooslck, and at the foot of the 
lawn lie lias erected a neat church edifice for 
the good of the people—an example of well 
directed liberality. 
Splint on Horses. 
A Rural, Reader asks some one to in¬ 
form him how to take splint off horses. Wo 
never knew one taken off. 
Inquiries for Horsemen,- 1 see several plans III 
late numbers of the Rural New-Yoiikkh for 
lines three abreast ; will some of your readers 
please give me the beat plan for bitching three 
horses to a plow? W. W„ Qnnic.il drove , Kan. 
pitman 
HiVIliG BEES. 
I saw in the Rural Nf.w Yorkf.r of 
April 1st, a statement on hiving bees, by A. 
Wit, bon, be wishing those having a heller 
way to give it to the public. I will give 
you my mode, which I think is a great im¬ 
provement over the old ways. In tho first 
place I cut a pole six feet long and put an 
iron socket on one end, so as to lengthen it 
out in Case thev light high ; ihnn 1 quarter 
the oilier end ’down twenty inches, spread 
the tops apart,, fasten a hoop fourteen inches 
in diameter, il* upper edge beveled slim’p, 
in the top; then take flour sack paper and 
line ii inside and out. It being smooth Iho 
bees slip out with ease. 
I set my hive on a bottom board on tho 
ground with the hive raised a liiilc, and 
place another bottom board in front to pour 
the bees on. I then take my pole and lmg, 
put it up under thebe.es, give a light punch, 
then pour them down in front of tlm hive, 
amt they will readily enter. T claim that 
with my invention, or apparatus, you can 
hive a swarm of bees in less limy than by 
any other way I know ot, whleli is quite an 
ohject where yon have a number <>l swarms 
tiiill are liable to come out at the same time. 
—Henry Woodworth, Watertown, JV. Y. 
tint list 
WALTEB A WOOD HARVESTING- MA¬ 
CHINES. 
DAILY RURAL LITE, 
Whenever you want to see a first-class 
Mowing and Reaping Machine Factory, go 
up lo Hoosick Falls, as we did, an hour's 
ride above Troy, on the Troy and Boston 
Railroad, where, eighteen years ago, Wal¬ 
ter A. Wood organized bis pioueer forces 
and issued five hundred machines, on which 
modest beginning, (though it was large for 
that time,) he has increased from year to year, 
till in 1969 the issues of Lite Wood Harvest¬ 
ers reached the round number of twenty-three 
thousand,making an aggregate number then 
manufactured of one hundred and twenty-one 
thousand! 
In March, 1870, tho extensive works at 
Iloosick Falls were almost entirely destroyed 
by fire, so that Hie number of machines got 
out last year was reduced to fifteen thousand 
—a pretty fair job, to be done mainly before 
the month of April. Since Ihe fire, the 
works have been rebuilt on a larger scale, 
and equipped with superior machinery, so 
that a larger number of machines is turned 
out, with fewer hands and at a less expense 
for labor. The present working force of me¬ 
chanics Is eight hundred men, with an aver¬ 
age monthly pay-roll of over thirty-five thou¬ 
sand dollars. The number of machines to lie 
turned out this year is some twenty thousand. 
Up t.o tiie end of last season, there had 
been for several years a considerable num¬ 
ber of the Wood machines manufactured by 
the Remington Works, at llion, in Central 
New York, blit as this arrangement was not 
satisfactory to Mr. Wood ami hi* associates 
at headquarters, the manufacture at llion 
has been abandoned, and now the territory 
formerly supplied by the Remington Works, 
is under control of the master spirits at 
Hoosick Falls, which insures uniform and 
first-class work for all Ihe machines bearing 
the honored name of Walter A. Wood. 
Let us take a look itt Ihe new factory 
building: the walls are of brink, one story 
biglt, with open truss roof, four hundred 
and three feet long—Unit, is near I wenty-five 
rods—a pretty good rifle shot, by one hun¬ 
dred and fifty feet wide—that is near ten 
rods, inelosimr an area of nearly one acre 
and n-hnlf. Next to this w a foundry, three 
hundred and thirty leet long hv fifty feet 
wide, in which are east twenty-five tons of 
iron per day; and about half an acre of 
other shops for various purposes, and plenty 
of yarn-room all ahoiu. This having all 
the works on the ground floor saves a deal 
From the Diary of a Gentleman near New 
York Cltv. 
March 27.—Snowed last night and the 
ground ia well covered this morning. All 
the signs of spring have vanished; beetles, 
butterflies and birds are quiet, and a plain 
broad fact has taken the place of prophecy. 
Of course guessing what (he weather is going 
to be is all well enough if we only guess 
right, and there are a goodly number of 
BEE INQUIRIES. 
I am a farmer, love honey, and keep bees. 
But. all 1 know about them is a few years’ 
experience and what I read in the Rural 
New-Yorker Wintered 25 stands; lost 
one. 1 winter them out-door*, under little 
'beds, hoarded down io the gluUnd at each 
end and on the north side; on ilu* south 
side only part n ay down, leaving room to 
get under and examine them occasionally 
during the winter. There is not one cellar 
in a hundred dry enough to winter bees in. 
Will you, or some of your many cor¬ 
respondents who keep bees, please answer, 
through the Run \ l, ihe following questions? 
I want facts, no guess work: 
1. How close together will it do to set 
bees in summer on the bench ? 
2, Where do the bees go fo when they 
leave l lie hive and a full supply of honey hi 
it for the entire winter? 1 lost, one ill this 
way about the first of December last. 
8. How many queens leave the old hive 
with the young swarm ? Last year I had 
two small late swarms come out on the 27th 
of July. I was away from home; the women 
hived them in two separate hives. The next 
day I attempted to unite them. During the 
experiment 1 discovered, what was to me a. 
new thing "under the sun,” three queens 
with one swarm aud two with the other. I 
captured two of them, and left three with 
the double swarm, which did pretty well, 
and are still iu a prospering condition, la 
a plurality of queens a common occurrence ? 
If so, is not this one great cause of so much 
trouble sometimes with certain swarms, and 
a reason, why they leave for the woods or for 
parks unknown ? G. VV. Woolley. 
Tompkuis Co., N. Y„ 1871. 
UT JL£ (HGjijtf 
-W>T MOWER. 
persons who spend considerable time in this 
sort of childish play; but to pretend to know 
a thing or event that has no existence, al¬ 
ways did seem to me a species of absurd 
folly. We may believe and guess that there 
will he a to-morrow, but no one knows it as 
a fact. 
March 28.—Mercury in tiie thermometer 
stands at 27° this morning, and ground»frozen 
two inches deep. Too cold to think of 
working the soil, but a good time to haul 
line of its length, as well as a vertical motion by 
reason of the slot at its rear, amt the spring con¬ 
nection at its forward end. The shoe 1ms also 
attached to It a lending wheel, which onn be 
graduated. A smaller wheel is placed upon tiie 
dividing-shoe at ihe outer cud of the finger-bar, 
and by means of the two wheels fclio bight of the 
stubbie can be regulated, A nett- lever arrange¬ 
ment Is attached, to raise the tlugor-bnr io pass 
obstructions and hold it nf imv desired bight, 
both ends of the bur being raised at the same 
time. The perfect floating finger bar. with its 
long hinge and elastic spring, nmkc fins vital 
part- a strong feature in thi3 mower. The guard 
fingers are made of malleable iron, and are faced 
with steel plates securely riveted in, and at¬ 
tached to the bar by holts, so they cau be readily 
removed and replaced. 
