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whether used with a hand rake or an auto¬ 
matic rake, or with or without a reel; 
The combination of a reel with a quad- 
rant-shaped platform; 
Discharging the grain from a quadrant¬ 
shaped platform by means of au automatic 
rake which sweeps over the platform in a 
curve while acting on the graiu, and dis¬ 
charges it out of the way of the team in cut¬ 
ting the next swath; 
A reel supported on the stubble side, 
known only as the overhung reel. 
Thr Empire SStnte Mower, 
Although the New-Yorker is used as a 
•ds complete Mower as well as a Reaper, yet the 
manufacturers have got up a new machine, 
which they call the Empire State Mower, 
which is as neat, and complete a machine as 
you would desire to see. This is a two- 
ous times during the years since 1858, making 
it as near perfect as the genius of invention 
and the skill of mechanism often arrive at 
Thirty thousand of these Drills have been 
made and put in use during the past four¬ 
teen years, and so well were they made that 
some of the earlier make are still doing ser¬ 
vice in the field. In testimony of the high 
esteem in which the Buckeye is held by com¬ 
petent authorities, we may point to an array 
of hundreds of first, prizes which it. lias taken 
at State, District and County Fairs. During 
the season of 1870 alone, it. was awarded 
over one hundred first premiums, including 
(lie Ohio State Fair, the Northern Ohio Fair, 
Missouri, Kansas, etc., etc. 
In order to meet the different notions of 
farmers, the Buckeye is made with either 
the Rotary Feed or the Force Feed. The 
To make this improvement more effect¬ 
ive, the gum tubes, or conductors, are piv¬ 
oted under the bottom of the drill hopper, 
in such a manner as to allow them to adapt 
themselves to any position of the hoes, 
either in straight line or zigzag. 
The Gross Seed Sower 
is another valuable feature of the Buckeye, 
scattering the seed behind the hoes, where 
It will not be covered too deeply to come 
up. A Guano or Fertilizer attachment is 
also provided, and a Broad Cast Sower, for 
such as desire to use them; and also Spring 
Teetii, for use on rocky land. 
With all these improvements the Buckeye 
is a model of simplicity, neatness and effi¬ 
ciency as a Grain Drill and Grass Seed 
Sower. For further particulars, and for 
arm 
In going down to the bottom of the Reap¬ 
er and Mower business in this country, I was 
particularly interested in a recent visit to 
the town of Brockport, State of New York, 
where I saw the old shop in which Messrs. 
Seymour. Morgan & Co. commenced the 
manufacture of the McCormick Reaper, 
about the year 1846, before that afterwar 
famous old machine was brought out at Chi¬ 
cago. But the old McCormick, with its tre¬ 
mendous draft and side-draft, and its man¬ 
killing rake, did not satisfy such manufac¬ 
turers as Seymour, Morgan & Co., and the 
result was the invention and perfection of a 
machine which they named the New-Yorker 
—about the same time that Mr. Moore in¬ 
vented the Rural New-Yorker, ami if 
these gentlemen have infringed upon each 
other in Hie appropriation of a name, it is to 
be hoped that the infringers will be made to 
pay something handsome for their presump¬ 
tion. As i Self-Raker I believe that Mr. 
Moore’s invention lias the precedence— 
sowing, reaping and binding, in the fields of 
agricultural literature, with a success which 
has outstripped all competition. But this is 
nothing to the discredit of the Brockport 
enterprise, since Seymour, Morgan & Co., 
have kept pace with the advance of me¬ 
chanical progress, as Mr. Moore 1ms done 
in agricultural literature. 
The New-Yorker, as now constructed for 
the harvest field, is illustrated in the accom¬ 
panying cut, and will he seen to consist of 
a large driving wheel, with internal spur 
and pinion wheels, securing a strong and 
certain motion to the knife bar. The cutter- 
bar is made of a plate of steel about j^-inch 
in thickness, folded in the form of the letter 
U, with the guards inserted in the open side 
ami secured by one bolt to each, Tlie result 
is a hollow bar, of greater strength and stiff¬ 
ness than could be obtained in an}' other 
manner from the same weight of material, 
and further, the greatest possibleconveuience 
in replacing a guard accidentally broken. 
The length of cutler-bar is five feet. A 
Circular (quadrant-shaped) Platform and 
Automatic Rake are original features of the 
New-Yorker, which secure a perfect deliv¬ 
ery of the cut grain at the side of line of 
advance, and out of the way of the next 
through of the team. This Rake and Plat¬ 
form were the invention and property of 
Palmer & Williams, and now the prop¬ 
erty of Seymour, Morgan & Allen, and 
are considered indispensable to a successful 
self-raking reaper with side delivery, leaving 
the gavels in good shape and in just the 
right position for die binder. 
The next point in importance, is the Over¬ 
hung Reel, which is also the property of this 
firm. It is overhung upon two bearings, 
from the near side of the machine, requiring 
no support or connection at the off or grain 
NEW-YOBKER SKLF-RAKING REAPER AND 
many points of Latest Improved Buckeye has Rotary Feed- 
e most popular ere, revolving within the grain box, with 
lures of decided wings or agitators passing over the openings 
a double-jointed in the bottom of the seed box, which force 
n pinion, which the grain out through the openings. The 
irate in any po- seed box has a continuous iron bottom, in 
upward nearly which the gauge slide, for regulating Hie 
I, so it, will trim quantity of seed sown, is accurately fitted, 
l a ditch. The and is not disarranged by the shrinking or 
and danger of swelling of the timber. The quantity of 
* *" advance of seed sown is regulated by a set-screw, which 
nbnstrinl 
BROOK DALE FARM, 
How ii G’llv Clerk cun Succeed in Piii'iiiiuti. 
We often hear old mid experienced farm¬ 
ers laugh at the idea of city people farming; 
and no doubt they do often commit many 
blunders; yet it seems that some can and 
do succeed in learning How to do it, and lie- 
come practical and successful farmers. I 
found one such during a recent trip through 
New Jersey, in the person of M. Whit- 
itKAt), who, six years since, was a clerk in 
one of the large dry goods stores of New 
York city. lie became dissatisfied with the 
life that he was living, and believing that 
there was a hotter chance for him to succeed 
in securing a competency for himself and a 
family at, farming, although he had never 
lived on a farm nor had the least experience 
in that business—not even knowing how to 
“ Ditch ” a team of horses to a wagon—he 
determined to try it; and, after a consider¬ 
able effort on Ids part, and with some assist¬ 
ance from friends, lie purchased a farm of 
eighty-five acres of beautiful rolling land, 
well watered, about three miles west of New 
Brunswick, paying one hundred dollars per 
acre for it. The soil was good, the location 
fine, but, the fences and buildings were in 
poor condition. 
He decided to try fruit growing, thinking 
this branch of farming would be more profit¬ 
able than growing grass aud grain, which 
BUCKEYE AGRICULTURAL WORKS, 
Fifteen years ago John II. Thomas and 
P. P. Mast started a little manufacturing 
business in the town of Bpringfield, which is 
in the county of Clarke and State of Ohio, 
otherwise called the Buckeye State, on which 
account the name of “ Buckeye Agricultural 
Works” was very properly chosen. And 
since, like the Buckeye State, these Buckeye 
Works have grown to immense importance, 
we may be pardoned for indulging in a little 
State pride, while we send greetiug, the com¬ 
pliments of our Buckeye to the Empire State, 
and all others to whom these presents may 
come. 
Buckeye Grain Drill and Gi-uhh Sreit Sower. 
Chief among the manufactures of the 
PIG-PEN PAPERS. 
There Are Black Teeth Iti Pi**. 
I saw in the Rural New-Yorker of 
May 13th au article stating there are no 
such things as black teeth in pigs. I beg 
leave to differ with the gentleman. I am 
breeding the full-blooded Chester Whiles 
(if there are such,) and for the last six 
months I believe 1 would have lost every 
pig my sows bore if 1 had not pulled the 
black teeth out. I have a sow that has a 
litter of pigs that are not one week old yet. 
1 saw before they were one day old that 
they could nut suck right; examined them, 
and found lour below and four above in 
every pig. They were about the length of 
a small shoe peg and as sharp, almost, as a 
needle. They are white when the pig is 
young; as the pig grows old they turn 
black. — James Anderson, Jr., Venango 
Co., Pa. 
Clie»ter White Ho**. 
I wish to give my testimony to the excel¬ 
lence of the breed of hogs known as the 
“ Chester Whites.” 
1. They are the most peaceable hogs in 
existence. 
2. They fatten readily and profitably. 
3. They will fatten readily aud quickly at 
any age. 
I killed two a few days ago— one weighing 
535, the other 030 pounds.— A. L. Smitii. 
Hog Cholera—Remedy. 
A. C. Ballard of Sturgeon, Mo., informs 
the Columbia Herald that he lias lost a num¬ 
ber of hogs from cholera, and after an unsuc¬ 
cessful trial of a great many remedies, has 
found pine tar to never fail of cure. He 
gives the tar in slop—about a tablespoonful 
h ■ each hog. Its cure is rapid, complete, aud 
leaves no injurious effects behind. 
