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supplied, so that when let on, steam is not 
run down (as it would be by cold water,) 
but can be kept up all the time. By this a 
great saving is made in fuel and in time. 
The boiler can also be: tilled under any pres¬ 
sure! of steam on it, as the pressure is ap¬ 
plied to force the water into (heboiler ; for this 
reason it dispenses with a pump in running 
an engine. 
tions. The North has nothing to lose, 
whether the comparison be made now or 
before the war. We know this, and stand 
upon what we know. There are enough of 
us here, I mean in this locality, to enable us 
to declare our independence of our self-styled 
superiors; and the longer we live in Virginia 
the more are we convinced of the wisdom 
contained in Mr. Greeley’s advice given 
THE FARMER'S^FAVORITE. 
IlicLtoi'd & Huflinan’s Scud Drill, 
Alighting- from a train on the N. Y. 
Central, one day last spring, we walked a 
mile over the hills to the old town of Mace- 
don, where is ihe headquarters for the manu¬ 
facture of “ The Farmer’s Favorite,” other¬ 
wise called “'Monarch of the Seeding,” a 
very complete seed drill for putting in all 
manner of grains and also for distributing all 
manner of prepared fertilizers. This is the 
old establishment of Messrs. Bickford & 
Huffman, and one object of our visit was 
to examine into the anatomy of the machine 
w hich had carried off the honors of so many 
contested fields, among which was the N. 
Y. Slate Agricultural Society's first premium 
at Ihe great Utica trial, after a thorough test 
in the hands of a select, committee of most 
eminent and proper men. We went leisurely 
through all Ihe simps, from the foundry 
to Ihe finishing-room, and saw how each 
separate piece was made and how the pieces 
were fitted together, and then handled a 
finished drill, when we began to compre¬ 
hend the genius of its mechanism and the 
long study and perseverance by which its 
inventors and manufacturers had arrived at 
such wonderful results. Look at the ac¬ 
companying cut and compare it w ith any of 
the expensive and complicated double-bank 
English drills, and you will see that in its 
complete simplicity it embraces every desir¬ 
able bailure in a form at once so simple and 
effective that you wonder at the result. 
The parts m>l shown in this engraving are 
equally master pieces of mechanism with 
those which do appear. And to commence, 
the grain bottom of the seed box, is a series 
of inclined planes or bevels, forming perfect 
funnels over each feed tube. The seed falls 
into a distributer, which is a curious iron 
shell with a semi-circular cavity and regula¬ 
tor, so constructed and operated that the 
feed is certain and under complete control, 
giving out any desired quantity per acre, and 
adapted to any size of grain, from wheat to 
corn and peas. The ground tubes are of a 
new device, jointed, so that the top is always 
in the same relative position to llig drag-bar 
and conductor. The drag-bar is made of 
wrought iron, and the brace-bar attached to 
ihe lower ground tube is held by a wooden 
pin, to prevent breakage. It. has also a self¬ 
acting gutta pereha spring attachment to the 
brace-bar, when desired, which will allow 
the hoe to go safely over any obstacle. Tbe 
hoes are of steel, with double reversible 
points. One of the prime exeelienccsof this 
Drill is the Tube Blotter, by which the hoes 
Can be shifted from line to zig-zag, and vice 
versa, instantly, while the machine is at work. 
Usually a drill works best with the hoes in 
line; with this lube shifter, the operator can 
work with lines in line on any field, throw¬ 
ing them into zig-zag to pass stony or lumpy 
places, and return them into line when 
passed. This also enables ihe operator to 
jerk oil'rubbish or top-dressing. 
The hack roller is another new 
f and superior feature of tbcFavor- 
SiPriMP *'e. When the lever is turned 
■d p i down the tube-chains are wound 
around the roller, and the roller it- 
|^r self travels up by its cog-wheels at 
^ the ends, into the iron stirrups, 
thus securing a rapid elevation of 
the hoes. By another new device, 
when the hoes are raised the drill 
is instantly out of gear, leaving no 
seed uncovered, and when the hoes 
are down the drill is always in 
gear. This puts the working of 
the drill in perfect control of ihe 
operator with the use of a single 
lever. 
These drills are made of three 
sizes, viz.:—eight, nine and ten 
tube. All tbe materials are care¬ 
fully selected and the workman¬ 
ship is first-class. A fertilizer or 
guano attachment is also furnish¬ 
ed for such customers as desire to 
sow any of the prepared manures, 
either dry or damp. This is a 
1 AyL very effective thing, and cannot 
;... .3L fail to meet the requirements of 
a complete distributor of guano, 
j [ bone-dust, lime, or any like fertili- 
NNffift zer. It has also a grass seeder 
Dll Mi " r hich works with equal certainty. 
All drills are sold with a liberal 
I _ ; - = warranty to the purchaser. We 
feSSjgg might say much more in bebnlf 
■ ( ,f this Monarch of the Seeding, 
but must direel these interested 
to apply for further particulars to 
S. N. GAI.I.UP, General Agent, 
Mnccdon, Wayne Co., N. Y., or 
to IV. L. Buckingham, General 
Southern Agent, 505£ South 
act. Charles street, Baltimore, Md. 
The drill is also manufactured l»y 
Glenn & Hall Manufacturing Company, 
Rochester, N. Y.; Ferrell, Ludlow & 
Rogers, Springfield, Ohio; II. M. Smith 
& Co., Richmond, Va.; Charlottesville Agri¬ 
cultural Works, Va., and Jos. Hall, Osha- 
wa, Ontario, Canada. Cull on any of these 
manufacturers, or send for illustrated circu¬ 
lar, and find out all about it.—s. d. u. 
milk in the dairy, and in feeding coarse . 
fodder not otherwise available, it will make 
an increased quantity of llesh and milk, for 
the following reasons: — The feed being j 
warm, digests sooner, and if takes less feed 
to keep Ihe animal; less to make more milk or 
beef, and there is less loss from imperfect di- | 
gestion. Regarding an animal as a machine, i 
Ihe more feed one can properly digest, the i 
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taiib Department 
Two years ago last spring nonnnu «mi- 
, ,i, m began to come into Virginia at a rate 
'“ c , n . , neon raging to those who desire to see 
die Stnie settled up and its resottrccs devel¬ 
op The first, summer —18(59 — proved 
'disastrously dry. The winter previous had 
been a very warm one, and it was followed 
K one quite as warm. Predictions made of 
iniotlmi’ dry summer proved correct. Eigh- 
lce „ hundred and seventy gave us a summer 
(juito as ruinous to the farmer as that which 
preceded it. Summer crops yielded a poor 
yeturu and wheat was badly injured by the 
on lv wet spell we had had in eighteen 
niniUhs, which came just, as the blossom was 
Cully out. Many had moved here, anti being 
enamored of cheap lands, laid out all their 
,iioi - a' in large farms, expecting to make 
exc uses,uitd, too often, their second and 
lliinl payments out of their crops. These 
bcini destroyed by drouth they were left in 
straightened circumstances indeed. Many, 
loo, were merchants and tradesmen who 
M w in their mind’s eye everything, fresh 
ami plenty, that Ihe most productive lands 
give forth. It was but necessary to touch 
wiili their magic wand, and milk and honey 
would flow in abundance. They were not 
pt, pared for the solemn fact that these soils 
], ;u l had their richness converted into to¬ 
bacco, which had been shipped away to be 
chewed up by foreign 
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mouths and expecto¬ 
rated t" enrich the soii of other countries. 
y were they prepared for one drouth, 
Hindi less a succession of I hem. But they 
came, and before them a realization of the 
fact that loll, care and practical knowledge 
were necessary to farming. 
Willi this presentation of facts, it may 
readily be discovered Hull dissatisfaction and 
unrest prevails to an extent that one year of 
tolerably fair crops will not dispel. Last 
winter was a cold one, and gave hopes of a 
more bountiful summer, which is being 
realized to a great extent, though t he season 
lias been too cool for corn to prosper ; yet it 
gives great encouragement. Early potatoes 
were good and late ones give promise of a 
good yield. Outs are better than an average 
crop. Clover has done far belter than was 
generally expected, considering the drouths 
mid scarcity of pasture which made it ne¬ 
cessary, often, to pasture clover stubble. 
Gardens arc generally excellent. The latter 
do \s of May gave ns our first Early Rose 
pot uoes. Straw berries came on to the table 
curly in May and were immediately followed 
by cherries, blackberries, &c., &e., so tlml 
our tallies have not. been, since the first of 
May, without some of the finer fruits. Our 
first ripe peaches we picked July 9. Lhst. 
year we bad them fresh from our own orchard 
for eighty-six days. 
But of all of these things much has been 
said of Virginia long ago. We have en¬ 
couraging reports from various sections of 
t w North as to immigration this fall. They 
want to know “ what about Ihe people." A 
certain letter published in ihe Rural New- 
Yorker some weeks ago, from a gentleman 
in .Maryland under the head of “ Are North- 
mi Men Wanted in the South,” which lias 
excited some contradicting statements from 
oilier parlies, was, I aver to (lie best of my 
belief, strictly true. 1 speak this knowing 
it In he the eonvicLion of nearly two hundred 
families. But this is a healthful and beauti¬ 
ful country ami must not he again abandoned 
ton people who have not the peculiar genius, 
necessary to its development. 
Prior to 1800 Ihe people of the South did 
imi like the institutions of our country ; they 
(■mainly did not like those institutions, nor 
their executors, during the first half of the 
seventh decade, nor are they in love with 
them now—not as much as they would have 
been had ihe course of Congress been such 
ns to heap coals of fire on their heads. 
While, as an unflinching Republican, l ap¬ 
prove of the doings of Congress in the main, 
yet a less stringent course towards a thor¬ 
oughly whipped community would have re- 
suned in the drawing to our parly a strong 
clement from the old Whig ranks, who are 
,l!, t‘iru! enemies to the Democratic parly, 
latt are kept with them by the unwise acts 
of fi*e Republican majority. There is little 
doubt but the majority of the Southern peo¬ 
ple hold fast to the ancient, egotistical no¬ 
tion that a Southron is of purer blood than 
a ^ uiikce;” ami they often remind me of 
Pm snail which, having seen nobody else, 
nor any other house than his own insignifi- 
(mut shell, thought himself the mightiest 
bad ol creation, and his house the greatest 
P’dace ever built. 
1 here is no doubt but the majority dislike 
a Northerner, as such. We have, almost 
without exception, come to this conclusion ; 
and Concluded, also, that we will let them 
eil j‘ l .v their Own exalted ideas of themselves, 
on the principle that a superior should not 
T >e aill, oycd by the pretensions of his inferior. 
( a disinterested parly wishes to know who 
the superior, let him compare the two sec- 
BICKFORD & TIUFIHVIiVN’S S3SK33 DRILL, 
mire milk or beef can be obtained, and, con¬ 
sequently, the more profit. 
One great difficulty in the past has been 
the first cost of selling up a boiler to steam 
feed properly and economically; an advan¬ 
tage in steaming feed consists in steaming 
it under a pressure, as confined steam is 
hotter than when steam is allowed to escape 
as fast as made. 
As an advance in mechanical invention 
we here introduce to our readers cuts illus¬ 
trating the Elmwood Steamer, manufactured 
by IIarry Sedgwick of Cornwall Hollow, 
Conn. Though comparatively a new inven¬ 
tion, it has already taken rank as a first-class 
apparatus for steaming feed for farm stock, 
or for running small engines, Ac., on ac¬ 
count of its simplicity, safety and cheap¬ 
ness. The steamer is made of sections, 
cast, planed, grooved and srt/ogethiM. The 
smallest size contains three sections, and the 
number is increased to the largest size. The 
convenience of this arrangement is, if any 
one buys the smallest size steamer and finds 
it will not make steam enough for a large 
herd, he can send to the shop for more sec¬ 
tions, which any blacksmith can put, on for 
him with but little trouble. The steamer is 
made in as perfect, a manner as can he, and 
is tried before it leaves the shop by a hydro¬ 
static pressure of two hundred pounds to 
three years ago, that “Northern people 
should settle in communities, that they may 
rely upon one another." Settlers can come 
hero and find good lands, good water, good 
climate, good fruit, and a goodly number of 
“ Yankees” to hang to. 
Now, the man who contradicted the state¬ 
ments of Ihe author of “Are Northern men 
wanted in the South,” isonc of the truckling 
few who suppose lliul everything that shines 
is gold. Never having amounted to shucks 
at home, he is flattered by the mockeries 
made to him, and has not sense to leach him 
better than to get down on his belly and 
crawl in the dirt. Lest he, ihe hold Boaner¬ 
ges. should intimate that 1 dure not, I sub¬ 
scribe my full name, not liking, however, the 
conspicuousness. lain, G. L. Baldwin. 
Gaineys, Caroline Co., Va. 
It. is not necessary, as some think, to ..ave 
the steam box close to the boiler; steam un¬ 
der a pressure, if the pipe is properly packed, 
can he forced one hundred feet and over 
with but a small loss from condensation. 
This fact is somewhat important to farmers, 
as a steamer in their lmrns might increase 
or vitiate an insurance policy; but by 
placing it at a distance all the benefits can 
be had with no increased rales. Mr. Sedg¬ 
wick will warrant his steamers to cook feed 
at one hundred feet distant, if desired. 
The capacity of the Elmwood steamer to 
sleam feed for stock is from five hundred to 
four thousand pounds of grain or hay per 
day, or to cook for fifty to live hundred 
Itogs, or twenty-five to two hundred and 
fitly head of cattle, according to size of 
steamer, Ac. Every steamer is warranted 
to do what he says it will. 
Owing to the short crop of hay, Asc., in 
some places, it, will he necessary for farmers 
to use economy in feeding their slock. We 
advise all, therefore, who contemplate steam¬ 
ing, or who wish to save hay and fodder, to 
write to Mr. Sedgwick for circulars at his 
post-office address, Cornwall Hollow, Conn. 
nmtts 
THE ELMWOOD FEED STEAMER 
Steaming feed for farm stock is compara¬ 
tively a new thing to many farmers, though 
it has been practiced by the large cattle and 
swine feeders of the West for twenty years, 
who have found it very profitable. Experi- 
A SINGLE SECTION DETACHED 
TILE ELMWOOD STEAMER COMULET 
incuts made in regard to steaming feed for the squat 
hogs have demonstrated that the profit in safe. In 
favor of cooking is fully one-third over Ihe face of tl 
old practice of feeding corn or meal dry. sizes are 
With cows Ihe. profit is equally as large; with a sa 
while the quality of the milk is much ini- open at a 
proved. The advantages of cooking feed down to 
for cattle will he found in the improved con- One of 
dition of the stock, the increased (low of er is heat 
Cider Mills. —Mr W. O. IIickok of 
Ilarrishiirgh, Pa., advertises the Keystone, 
the pioneer of the Portable Cider Mills; and 
the Peekskill Plow Company of New York 
and Cleveland, advertise the Hutchinson 
Mill. Both are among the best of their kind. 
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