tom or ash-pan is made -water-tight, and all 
coals dropping from the grate are immedi¬ 
ately put out. It will be seen that every pre¬ 
caution has been taken to assure absolute 
safety in the use of the Monitor, no matter 
how careless the engineer in charge may be. 
Thus it will be seen that, by years of ex¬ 
perience ard study, every serious objection 
which has been raised by those not favorable 
to the use of steam as a motive power for 
threshing, has been met and overcome in the 
Monitor Agricultural Engine.” 
tioD the laying lasts all the year and pro¬ 
duces from 150 to ISO eggs, a very remark¬ 
able number, especially as a considerable 
portion of it is in the depth of w nler. The 
eggs are of medium but unequal size in 
different birds; the yolk, the best part of 
the egg, is very large, to which is attributed 
the size of the chicken. Tneir quality is 
neither inferior nor superior to the eggs of 
other breeds, but it depends upon the food 
the hens have. 
Inoubation. —This is the excellence of the 
variety ; it sets at all seasons and hatches 
and brings up early and late chickens. The 
desire for sittting which is peculiar to the 
Cochin-China, is improved by crossing with 
other varieties. This quality is so often 
wanting in the most valuable varieties, that 
a certain number of pure Cochins are indis¬ 
pensable in a large establishment, so as to 
have sitters always ready to take to the 
nests. 
THE POULTRY-KEEPER.-NO. 20 
COCHIN-CHINA OR SHANGHAI—BUFF HEN GENERAL 
CHARACTERISTICS. 
This hen (fin. 84) iB even more massive and 
compact than the cock, the head and the 
neck being less, and the comb and lower 
fleshy parts almost absent. The foot is very 
short, the tail very small, and the body 
seems formed of large, prominent, and 
angular masses, markedly separated from 
each other. Seen from behind she seems 
more broad than high, and not having the 
FROM SOUTH CAROLINA 
MONITOR AGRICULTURAL ENGINE 
The Phelps Steam Engine Co., of Phelps, 
N. Y., is largely engaged in manufacturing 
Agricultural Engines, and its machines have 
met with great approval, 
The President of zontal style. 1 lie range tor nign anu low 
the Company, Mr. C. M. Miller, is the in- water in the Monitor is from twelve to flt- 
veator of the engine, and of course has gen- teen inches, and in ca^e of extreme careless- 
oral supervision of its manufacture. In con- 11088 of t '^ ,e engineer, it can lower twelve in- 
nectlou with the accompanying engraving olios more without danger; thus it will bs 
of it we give, from the Company’s pamphlet, soon that it does not require that enro and 
the following in regand to the advantages cost of constant watching that the old stylo 
of the Patent Monitor Agricultural Engine : horizontal must have. 
"It is but recently thut steam has been 8 - Xbe flut * 8 bein B vertical all sediment 
used in this country for threshing purposes, f “ ll8 > and tbe F ,,ever neer| * wabbin g °r clean- 
but when introduced grew so rapidly in fa in S- wljic; h requires much time, and is so ob- 
vor among farmers that horse power for jectionable in the horizontal style, 
threshing is now a thing of the past. Thede 7. The engine is vertical, therefore all wear 
raand became so great that the sources of of the piston rings upon the cylinder is obvi- 
supply were inadequate, and many inferior ated. In the horizontal engine the drugging 
engines thus placed in use. Many saw that back and forth of the piston wears the evlin- 
the cumbersome engine then built must be der egg-shape, causing leakage and const- 
improved to save weight, thus facilitating its quent greA loss of power. The pistou, valve- 
bemg moved about the country, to pave fuel stem and pump-rod requires le>s than half 
and water, and to make It absolutely safe, the packing, as the oil and condensed steam 
The inventor of the Monitor \vfts the first to settles around them Upon the outside and 
see the defects of the old style engines, and keepB them well lubricated, 
to perceive the oeal needs of the tliresher. 8. The Monitor eaves both fuel and water. 
While engaged in the manufacture of as It is so ingeniously arranged as to burn either 
good an agricultural engine as utiy then in wood or coal evenly upon grates, and does not 
use, he was experimenting at great con*, up- beat the parts t-xoo6ed Unevenly,whieb.in the 
on what he afterward brought to perfection horizontal style, has always been objection- 
—the Monitor, They are no experiment as able, as parts burn out, and patching and 
now offered, large numbers of them having mending has to bo often resorted to in orner 
been used throughout the country for the that these portions may last as long as those 
past four years; and we can candJJy say not so exposed. The sieara in the Monitor 
;hat, to our knowledge, there is not one of is superhiited, and when it reaches the 
i?em that does not give entire satisfaction, cylinder is from ten to tweuty-flve percent. 
4nd further, we can say, from actual know- dryer than in an ordinary engine, thereby 
edge, that our improved Monitors, compared saving water in the same proportion, aside 
villi the same number of horizomd engiues, f r0 m its economy in the use of steam, Thri, 
lo not require over one-third the amount of combined with the rapid generation of steam 
■©pairs in the same length of time. by our style of boiler, results in a saving un- 
We will compare the ten horse power paraded in agricultural engines, 
ffonitor, in detail, with any engine manu- 9. The monitor cau be used inside a barn 
Figure 84. 
ordinary look of a fowl. On a large nest she 
spreads out in a perfect half globe, owing to 
the abundanoe of her feathers. The plumage 
is entirely buff. The fljsh is finer and of 
better flavor than that of the cock, and these 
qualities are retained in the adult state, but 
not so in the cook. 
Weight .—6 lbs. 10 nz*. at full tig*. 'When 
more than a year old some hens have i cach¬ 
ed 7 % to over SJtf lb>-. This or usual weight 
is general y occasioned by natural fattening, 
and the hen is then excellent for culinary 
purposes. 
Statui e.—Hight from the head under the 
feet, 17 7-10 nclies to 19 7-10 inches ; from the 
back to uuder the feet, 9 to 11 inches. Size 
of shoulders, inches. From the develop¬ 
ment of the feathers which forms the whole 
of the thighs and hindquarters, 9 7-10 inches. 
Body .—Cubic viewed horizontally ; reck 
small; shou'ders and breast projecting; 
thighs very large; breast corrparatively 
more fleshy than the cock’s; bones less 
heavy. 
Head.— Snail and well formed. 
Comb.— Single, straight, and very short, 
