Apple-Paiing Machine .—“ Whose is the 
best patent tipple-paring machine and where 
can it be hud ?” So asks a correspondent. 
There is »carce a hardware store or agri¬ 
cultural implement dealer who does not 
j nal arrangement to the real wants and com¬ 
forts of the family. It was a gaudy shell—a 
whitened sepulcher, in which all good taste, 
all idea of comfort, all design and adapts 
tion for the common life and comfort was 
buried. 
FRUIT PROSPECTS IN UTAH-GRAPES 
HALLADAY’S STANDARD WINDMILL 
the largest windmill factories in the world, 
employing, in the busy season, one hundred 
and twenty-five men. 
The Halladay WINDMILL, represented in 
tin accompanying engraving, was invented 
in 1853, and was, we are assured, the first self- 
regiduting windmill patented. It has al 
ways been and is now manufactured under 
the immediate supervision of the inventor, 
who has added from time to time many val¬ 
uable improvement# over his original device, 
and the machine hu# become a general favor¬ 
ite, both for pumping water and running 
s snail farm machinery, as well as custom 
flouring grist mills with two or three run of 
Burr stones. The owners of many stock 
farms, cheese, factories, creameries, etc., find 
it to their advantage to use windmills. Stock 
does much better with pure, fresh water 
always at hand, and manufacturers of cheese, 
etc., can have a stream of water running 
through their coolers all the time by means 
of an elevated tank supplied by the wind¬ 
mill. Those having a fancy for ornamenting 
their grounds with Jetting fountains, irrigat¬ 
ing their lawns and vegetable gardens, sup¬ 
plying house, stable, etc., with running 
water, can also satisfy their desires by erect¬ 
ing a good windmill and an elevated tank to 
give force to the water. 
M my leading railroad companies have 
adopted I bis mill at their water stations, and 
where fad is scarce and water power cannot 
be had, the larger sizes are coming into use 
lor running custom flouring grist mills. Sev¬ 
enteen different sizes of this mill are made, 
varying in power from one man to forty-live 
horse power ; and when workmanship, ma¬ 
terial, strength, durability, beauty aud per¬ 
fect working arc considered, we believe the 
Ilalladay Windmill to be one of the most 
complete and effective labor-saving machines 
of the kind obtainable. w. H. K. 
or plow all winter. In the heat of summer 
it is nothing strange to see the mercury go 
up to 110“ Fahr. in the shade ; and yet Jack 
Frost will sometimes creep around our gar¬ 
dens ia April and kill our fruit, nipping in 
the bud the hopes of feasting upon those 
delicate dainties. 
These valleys are remarkably adapted to 
the growth of all the choicest of foreign 
grapes, our long, hot seasons ripening the 
fruit off to a sweetness nowhere excelled. 
We grow here iill those rare and delicious 
muscats in perfection, of which the best 
raisins are made — the famous “layers” of 
France and Spain. These varieties we have 
now in tolerable abundance, and we are 
planting small vineyards of raisin grapes. In 
September, when grown to perfection, we 
cut off the hunches and spread them in the 
sun, on boards, netting, wire cloth, or even 
on the ground ; turn over the clusters in 
three or four days, and in eight days more 
or less, they will be cured and ready for 
packing. 
The Sultana is a smaller, seedless grape, 
almost transparent, and very handsome. 
These, are cured in like manner and make 
what is known as Sultana raisins, more es¬ 
pecially valued for cooking uses. The Gigs 
Column is a large, black, beautiful grape, 
similar in flavor and quality to the Black 
Hamburg -flue for wine or table use. We 
raised berries last season an inch in diameter. 
The Muscat Hamburg is a large, eval, 
black grape of the very richest and highest 
flavor of any grape known. It is a great 
bearer, and the fruit is most delicious when 
dried. Out of an hundred and fifty varieties 
we have fruited none that gives such uni¬ 
versal satisfaction as this for a table grape. 
It also makes a delicious wine, but on account 
of its juiciness and dark color it has no value 
commercially as u rate'll grape. The Bene 
de Nice, for size, beauty aud its hardiness for 
transportation, 1ms no equal, but for flavor 
there are many varieties its superior. 
The American varieties do splendidly here, 
and ripen off iu flavor very far superior to 
those grown in regions of less heat. Thus far 
the Isabella has been our principal wine 
grape, and will be so until wo are able to 
propagate some of the be3t foreign wine 
grapes we have liave been for years diligent¬ 
ly testing. The Isabella makes a good-keep¬ 
ing wine, of high color and nice flavor. Our 
vines are now leaving out, trees are verdant 
and gardens painted with flowers, and yet 
we may ride to settlements in one day where 
the ground is covered with snow. To day 
we took radishes mid asparagus from the 
garden for dinner—and the musical laugh of 
our irrigation streams may be heard in every 
valley and glen. 
We have a large, red, seedling apple, origi¬ 
nated here, that keeps the year round, anjJ 
has flavor about equal to Spitzenburg. We 
have named it Higgins’ Red Winter. The 
weather is yet unsettled, with some clouds 
and wind Mercury to-day, in the shade, 
up to 70°. J. E. Johnson. 
St. George, L”tali, April 12, 1875. 
REAR-CUT MOWERS IN PENNSYLVANIA 
Eds. Rural : — Your correspondents in 
Ohio and Iowa tell bloody stories about the 
use of harvesters which have the cutter-bar 
“ away behind, ”us PAUL say#. I hope Paul 
will uot fare as badly in the use of lbs mower 
as some men have fared here in the State of 
Pennsylvania. Mr. G. W. Thompson of Al¬ 
legheny Co., while mowing in July of last 
year, was thrown from one of these rear-cut 
machines and lost both arms and was other¬ 
wise badly injured. Mr. John Hass of Do¬ 
ver, while reaping wheat, was thrown in 
front of the cutter-bar and lost an arm, and 
would have been cut- to pieces if the team 
had not been stopped by the lines winding 
up on one oi’ the wheels. John Holman of 
Montgomery Co., was thrown from his ma¬ 
chine while cutting oats and instantly killed, 
having his head cut nearly in two. And a 
Mr. McEniire, over in West Virginia, had 
his horses take fright while mowing with a 
real-cut, and was thrown in front of the 
knives aud had one of the guards run into 
his shoulder as much as three inches. The 
grass clogged the. knives or he might have 
been killed. Mr. McEntiuk don’t want any 
more rear-cut mowing machines for him to 
use, neither do I. They may have some 
31 ATiC./VUiVY’S STANDARD WINDMILL. 
Substance, not show, should bo the object 
in the building of a farm house and homo. 
We would not ignore chaste ornamentation, 
but it should be chaste and harmonious with 
the purpose and character of the building 
erected. Above all, the housewife should 
not be defrauded of a single cupboard, 
drawer or device of any sort that wi 1 lessen 
labor, the number of steps to be taken, or 
aid in the proper security and isolation of 
the different kinds of food that are prepared, 
in order that the exterior of the building 
may be made impressive by its ostentatious 
adornment. Let the surprise and dcdigltt of 
the guest wait until the internal arrange¬ 
ments and comforts of the home are realized, 
rather than cause t he impression made by 
tiie exterior (d a favorable one is secured) to 
be submerged in disappointment and disgust 
when the hollowness of the pretentious ex¬ 
terior is revealed. 
This is the lesson we would enforce: 
Don’t attempt to put on airs in rural arohi 
tecture. Do make the home the cosiest and 
most convenient, place internally that, can be 
devised. Adorn the exterior as you can, but 
depend largely upon Nature to help you. 
Cover it with vines and climbers, and sur¬ 
round it with eveig-reens and deciduous trees 
and shrubs. Don’t spend money on filigree 
and fancy paints, but in natural decorations ; 
but make the interior lovely. 
FILIGREE WORK ON FARM HOUSES, 
The fancies of some of the rural archi¬ 
tects (?) of this country are beyond com¬ 
prehension and a good way beyond tolera¬ 
tion by people of taste who have any regard 
for harmony or symmetry. Nor is it a ques¬ 
tion of bad taste ‘amply that causes us lo 
protest aguiust the species of ornamenta¬ 
tion, so-called, which shocks the senses 
wherever seen, whether in suburban towns 
or on pretentious homesteads. It is a ques¬ 
tion of economy as well. We have known a 
country carpenter to spend more time, and 
hence involve the owner in greater expense, 
iu the manufacture of what we characterize 
as filigree work than iu mukiug the house 
convenient arid filling it with labor-saving 
contrivances inside. It repels a sensible 
man or Nvcrnau to sec a profuse exterior 
decoration (intended us such), and then upon 
entering the home find it u bare shell, with 
no intelligent design and no ingenuity ex¬ 
pended in making it convenient for house¬ 
work and producing contrivances for the 
economy of time and labor. Ol'tpn liave we 
entered such dwellings to find them just 
about as inoonvenieut as possible. Appa¬ 
rently no thought or calculation had been 
expended in any attempt to adapt the inter* 
P0M0L0GICAL NOTES 
Fruit J.ixt for Texas .—I would be pleased 
if some of your Texas subscribers would be 
kind enough to give a list Of fruit that has 
been tested and found to succeed iu Central 
Texas, through your valuable paper—apples, 
peaches, pears, grapes, strawberries, with 
some description of the soil, location, &e. ? 
I would like particularly to know if any of 
the Rogers Hybrid Grapevines have been 
tested—No. 1, Goethe ; No. 4, Wilder ; No. 9, 
Lindley; No. 15, Agawam, &e. Auy other 
information on fruit will be thankfully re¬ 
ceived by your subscriber, and no doubt by 
many other new comers to Texas.— John F. 
Brill. 
Apples in Alabama .—“How can I keep 
apples here (Alabama) in warm weather ?” 
By preparing a dry room in which the tem- 
NOTES AND QUERIES 
Iron Hurdles.—Nr. Mechi writes to the 
London Farmer in praise of iron hurdles on 
wheels for sheep folding. Although expen¬ 
sive at first they are so durable, he says, as 
tA repay for the original outlay. The hur¬ 
dle Fc bought thirty years ago are littletke 
worse for wear at the present time. He had 
f . ght enough to value iron hurdles when 
iron was cheap. That which cost him £59 
nearly a generation , if sold by public 
auction would, no doubt, he says, uow bring 
ail i ie money back again. The great ease 
with which hurdles on wheels can be shifted 
about is greatly in their favor, and they are 
easily adapted lor many purposes, such as 
with Mr. Mechi, in sometimes “dividing a 
pasture where cows are fed,” Mr. Mechi 
once more condemns the wasteful amount 
of land under fences iu some districts. 
NOTES FOR BUILDERS 
What Can Be Done for a Home?—Ik 
Marvel thus tells:—If I have no coaches 
and horses, 1 can at least hang a tracery of 
vine leaves along my porch, so exquisite and 
delicate that no sculpture can match it; if I 
have no conservatory with its wonders, yet 
the sun and I together can build a tangled 
eopieo of sonic blooming things in my door- 
yard, of which every tiny leaflet shall be 
a miracle, Nay, i make my home, however 
small it may be, so complete in its simplicity, 
so fitted to its offices, so governed by neat¬ 
ness, so embowered by wealth of leaf and 
flowers, that no riches in the world can add 
to it without damaging its rural grace ; and 
my gardeners—sunshine, frost Mild showers, 
are their names—shall work for me with no 
crusty reluctance, but with an abandon and 
a zeal that ask only gratitude for pay. 
