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the Miller Rake in competition with other 
machines, and from our own knowledge of 
the Buckeye, as well as from the character 
of the names, we believe it worthy the pat¬ 
ronage of farmers. 
The success achieved this season will insure 
a large demand for the Buckeye Reaper for 
another year. Those who wish the agency 
for this machine will do well to forward ap¬ 
plications Boon, so that arrangements for 
pushing the sale and for supplying the de¬ 
mand may go forward together. As the suc¬ 
cess of the Buckeye was established in tangled 
grain, many of the agents had all their stock 
bought up and could have sold more if the 
machines could have been procured in time. 
The Buckeye will be on exhibition at most of 
our State and local Fairs this year and wher¬ 
ever practical farmers are judges this victor 
in the tangled harvest fields of 1875 will not be 
least among those which bear away medals 
and honorable mention. 
The testimonials to the value of these ma¬ 
chines range from Texas in the extreme 
South to the grain fields of Minnesota on the 
North and show the excellence of the Buck¬ 
eye in every conceivable condition of grain 
or field. Though bearing a local name signifi¬ 
cant of the place of its manufacture, the Buck¬ 
eye is a national institution and lias advo¬ 
cates and admirers in all parts of the Union. 
bought two years in advance and thoroughly 
seasoned, care being taken to throw out all 
imperfect specimens. While thus fastidiously 
particular about the quality of their goods, 
Messrs. Mitcheli., Lewis & Co. have added 
some notable labor-saving machinery, which 
enables them to make important reductions 
in cost and is rapidly extending the sale of 
their wagons in localities where freight and 
distance are against them. One of these in¬ 
ventions is a spoke-driving machine with the 
pet name of “ John Chinaman,” because of 
its labor-saving capacities. Another is an 
axle lathe, by which a perfect axle is made 
at one operation from a piece of hickory of 
the required size. 
The original Racine wagon, known all over 
the West as the best - proportioned, best- 
ironed, lightest-running and most thorough¬ 
ly-equipped wagon ever offered there, is 
made by this firm. We present a cut of it 
below i 
Everything used in and about these wag¬ 
ons, excepting bolts, is manufactured by this 
firm, which deservedly claims to have one 
of the best organizations for manufacturing, 
Belling and shipping wagons to be found in 
the world. Farm and plantation wagons of 
any size and stylo suitable to the wants of 
any part of the country are made, giving 
different styles of finish to suit the demand. 
No light or top buggies are manufactured ; 
but our readers, wishing any style of farm 
or market wagon, will do well to send to 
Messrs. MITCHELL, Lewib & Co. for their 
circular of prices. 
Each wagon sold by the firm or by an 
agent contains the following explicit war¬ 
rantee of quality: 
We warrant wagon No..... o t our manufacture to 
be u! yooil gt iuuiud timber and well made. 
Willi fair intake, for ttnv brniknuo wliliin one year 
reuniting from Oefeet either In material or work¬ 
manship. wo agree to iuuke uooil without cost to too 
purohOBiT. MITCHELL, LEWIS it CO. 
Dated at.. 1«7. 
Any pormin buying one of our wagon* covered by 
tills wui i tinted In entitled to bare Its provision* ful¬ 
filled upon snowing t his warrantee to any Agent for 
tiie Mitcbell Wagons, wherever located. A wagon 
purcliused in one State will be made whole in any 
other by any duly authorized Agent of MITCHELL, 
Lewis & <:o. 
la consequence of the large and increasing 
demand for these wagons from the East, 
Messrs, Mitchell, Lewis & Co. have es¬ 
tablished an agency in New York State at 
Syracuse. It will be in charge of Wat, H. 
Smith, and Eastern orders may be addressed 
to him. 
the crest is in bands of color ; in the Silver 
variety surrounded with white, then marked 
with black, then white in the middle (fig. 
130). After the second and third moulting 
a part of the crest feathers becomes white, 
POULTRY IN SMALL INCLOSURES 
We frequently hear persons say that they 
would keep fowls if they had range enough 
for them. Now, It does seem strange that 
with so much evidence in regard to keeping 
fowls profitably in small inclosures, there 
are yet those who cannot be persuaded that 
it will pay to erect yards of their own. I 
once knew a lady who kept two hens in a 
store box of small dimensions, allowing 
them a run in the yard of a few minutes 
only of each evening, and she got two eggs 
almost every day for quite a while. They 
were, however, kept by one who knew that 
it depended more on care, such as a thor¬ 
ough education in the business teaches, than 
upon range. 
If you have 250 square feet you may keep 
a score of fowls that will, with good treat¬ 
ment, be worth as much to your family ns 
an ordinary good cow. These dimensions 
will give you a yard 24x8 ft., with room fora 
fowl house, which should be plastered and 
banked to the eaves with earth on the north 
and west, first placing a layer of stones 
against the building, which will save the 
boards from decaj ing. Have a window on 
the east and one or two on the souLii, also a 
ventilator, which should be 8 inches wide 
and the entire length of the house on this 
side and ft. above the roosts. Tills vent! 
lator you will find essential to the good 
health of your fowls, uud at this distance it 
is far enough from the roosts to prevent 
currents of the cold atmosphere from stri¬ 
king the fowls, though they be ever so tall. 
You should use a slat door in summer : this 
you can do without removing the door used 
in winter, if you have both opening in oppo¬ 
site directions. Thu windows on the south, 
which should reach from the floor to the 
roof, should also be removed in summer and 
the vacancies slatted with lath instead. For 
style of poultry yard see Rural No. 23, 
present volume. 
With regard to breed much might be said, 
but more about feed. Like the old man who 
had the good fortune of supplying his neigh¬ 
borhood with a better breed of hogs, and who 
on one occasion put the pig in one end of the 
sack and the corn in the other, and then 
kindly said, “Take both, my neighbor; but 
remember t he hog is iu one end, the breed in 
the other,” so we would say, though we do 
not believe in the theory altogether, be sure 
that you feed so as to sustain and improve 
whatever breed you have. In a word, feed 
your fowls enough of any kind of food 
which will make a good substitute for the 
grain, vegetables and insects that they 
would get if in your fields and garden. 
Fig. 180. Fig. 181. 
which always increases as they get older. 
The feathers of the hackle (fig. 131), are like 
those of the crest, but less pointed. 
POULTRY NOTES, 
FARMERS’ FAVORITE CIDER AND WINE 
MILL. 
Cheap Poultry Yard .—On page 363, last 
volume, you copy from the Poultry World 
an article with the above heading. M^pb- 
servations of fences constructed with a wire 
“warp” have never impressed mo in their 
favor. This one with a lath “filling” woven 
in 1 should suy was decidedly objectionable. 
There is no practicable way of compensating 
the effects of heat and cold. In cold weather 
—the first that occurs after the completion 
of the fence—the wire will contract and be¬ 
come very tight. The first hot weather that 
follows will expand the wire so that the fill¬ 
ing would become raisplueed. This is the 
principal objection to all wire fence, and it 
is thus far practically fatal.— Wacautah. 
The Wine and Cider Mill manufactured 
by the iiiggamim Manufacturing Co. of Hjg- 
ganum, Conn., deserves the title it claims as 
the Farmers’ Favorite. The grinding appa¬ 
ratus does not merely slice the fruit but com 
plotely pulverizes it, thus enabling all the 
juice to be expressed. Hence, more cider U 
made than by any other mill from the same 
quantity of fruit. It can be easily cleaned, 
is strongly made, so os not liable to be 
got out. of order, and at the same time is 
more easily worked than any other machine 
of its kind. It is made in two sizes at 824 to 
835 each, the smaller size being the one gen¬ 
erally preferred as a family mill. Address 
the Higganum Manufacturing Co. us above 
for additional particulars. 
EXCELLENT FARM AND MARKET 
WAGONS. 
THE BUCKEYE MOWER AND REAPER 
IMPROVING COMMON SHEEP 
THE GREAT WA00N MANUFACTORY OF THE HORTH-WEST. 
-GOOD WORK AHD UNRIVALED SALES. 
That the great West is destined to become 
a manufacturing as well as agricultural cen¬ 
ter must be evident to any one who will give 
the subject a little thought. The saving in 
freight aione on some of the more bulky and 
heavy articles of manufact ure gives a mar¬ 
gin for profit which is certainly attractive, 
and much as Eastern enterprise lias accom¬ 
plished, it will hardly be claimed that it is 
superior to that of wide-awake and ener¬ 
getic men of the West. These remarks are 
suggested by the operations of the great 
wagon manufacturing establishment of Mit¬ 
chell, LEWts & Co. of Raciue, Wisconsin, 
the makers of the original Racine wagon and 
numerous other styles of market and farm 
wagons suited to the needs of the West and 
South-west. Mr. Mitchell, the senior in 
t he firm, has been in the business upward of 
forty years, and twenty years ago, when 
Racine was a small village, laid the founda¬ 
tion of the business which by his enterprise 
and ability, aided by his partners, lias grown 
to its present large proportions. Hundreds 
of inen are constantly employed, and the 
past two or three years from six to seven 
thousand wagons per year have been made, 
all of which find a ready sale in every part 
of the country, particularly in the West and 
South and on the Pacific coast. It is esti¬ 
A C00D REPORT FOR 1875 SUCCESS OF THE MILLER 
TABLE RAKE. 
Eds. Rural New Yorker ‘.—Noticing an 
answer in your issue of July 10 to some in¬ 
quiries as to the practicability of improving 
common sheep recalls to mind an incident 
connected with the Fair of the N. E. AgM 
Society at Portland, Me., September, 1869. 
A flock of sheep was exhibited by Mr. C. 
B. Gilman as “Improved Native Sheep,” 
and whieh the owner stated hud been 
brought to their present state of perfection 
by a most thorough and continued course of 
selection and breeding, not only by himself, 
but by his father and others at an earlier pe 
riod. These sheep were of large size, sym¬ 
metrical, and apparently very robust and 
healthy, comparing favorubly with any one 
of the many ilocks on the ground. The wool 
was Very white, fine and even, extending 
well down the legs, around the face and 
head and covering the belly, and resembling 
in their features the best typo of merino. It 
stated that originally selections were made 
of the best sheep from different flocks with 
reference not only to quality of wool, but 
also size, shape, &c„ aud subsequent breed¬ 
ing was followed by careful selection of such 
sheep ah exhibited the most marked ini- 
provement with least defects, excluding all 
others. _ 
The first point aimed at was perfecting M 
far as possible the staple, working out uny 
appearance of hairy coats or course spots of 
wool, covering the whole body with wool or 
good quality, a labor of years, during which 
time the symmetry of form, size and consti¬ 
tution were not neglected. There was, os a 
matter of course, a necessity for more than 
the usual iu-and-m breeding, requiring care 
and good breeding, guarding against Ui ef¬ 
fects by division of the flock, selection or 
The harvest of 1875, now nearly closed, has 
been one of the most remarkable ever known. 
Favorable weather in the early season se¬ 
cured for all spring grains an unexampled 
growth, and then just before harvest lmavy 
rains beat Mae luxuriant grain into the earth, 
turniug and twisting it so as vastly to in¬ 
crease the labor of the harvester and test to 
the utmost the various machines intended to 
aid him. It is as a test for the various styles 
of Reapers that our recent harvest will be 
best remembered, for no machine which did 
good work this year need ever be doubted 
hereafter. 
The Buckeye Mower, manufactured by 
Aultman, Miller & Co. of Akron, Ohio, 
and C. Aultman & Co. of Canton, Ohio, 
has long been a favorite with farmers East 
and West for strength, simplicity and ease 
of draft, and it iB sufficient proiso for it that 
it has held its own against, all competitors. 
But the Buckeye Reaper, with the newly 
introduced Miller Table Rake, has surprised 
even its warmest friends by the excellence of 
its work iu even the most unfavorable cir¬ 
cumstances. it picked up lodged and tangled 
grain and left it in fair condition for binding 
where other harvesters were compelled to 
quit the field. The Miller is not a reel rake, 
THE POULTRY-KEEPER.—NO. 27 
THE PADUA BREED—DUTCH CRESTED VARIETY. 
In the most of these varieties the hen has 
much richer and more characteristic plum¬ 
age than the cock, and as the principal inter¬ 
est attached to them is the pleasure they 
give by their appearance, I shall begin by 
describing the female first, as it is with her 
we find the most striking points. Though 
these varieties are almost entirely selected as 
being ornamental, they are not less good for 
the table. Their flesh is very fine, and they 
are generally excellent layers. The chickens 
are very precocious, but their teudernsss 
renders them very difficult to rear. But 
after several generations in the same country 
they become more hardy. 
PADUAS OR P3LANDS. 
This variety is one of (he strongest among 
the fancy varieties. The flesh is delicate, 
their laying very good, uud they are non-sit¬ 
ters. It is remarkably well crested, which 
forms its principal ornament. Its plumage 
is one of the most rich as well as variegated, 
and wonderful iu regularity. Three essen¬ 
tial characteristics arc - the crest, the plum¬ 
age aud the complete absence of comb, the 
ear-lobes aud cheeks being what amateurs 
call “ wiLhout flesh.” The cheeks only ap¬ 
pear a little with the cock. The crest, very 
largely developed in both sexes, is not always 
alike. With the cock it is composed of 
lance-shaped feathers like a parasol, and 
altogether much larger than the hen’s, 
which is perfectly rounded and separates in 
two parts by ft sort of cleft, whieh goes 
down the beak aud disappears at the back of 
the head. The crest is very large, grown on 
a fleshy mass called “ the mushroom,” which 
covers the skull and is a little thrown back 
behind, so as to be off the eyes. This 
‘mushroom ” should be very much devel¬ 
oped in well-bred birds. Each feather of 
have heretofore been noted, anu a wool evt j 
way adapted to the wants of the funnel o 
household, as well as the American trianu- 
faeturer’s. Their uniform size made them 
nearly, ff not quite, as valuable for mutton 
as the Leicester or Cotswold, their 
falling little if any short of these 
breeds. They were especially noted and com¬ 
mended at the time as good examples ol 
what may be accomplished in the improve¬ 
ment of common sneep. being a fiocK oi 
which any shepherd might well be prouu. 
Erie Co., N. Y., July, 1875. H. C. Wbitb. 
and hence works satisfactorily in windy 
weather where ordinary reel rakes are 
tangled by the wind. The Buckeye Reaper 
cuts close to the grouud wherever necessary, 
and thus saves much grain which, when 
beaten down by storms, would otherwise be 
wasted. We have before us a long list of 
testimonials by practical farmers vouching 
for the success of the Buckeye Reaper with 
mated that nearly one hundred thousand 
of their wagons are in use. Two thousand 
a year are sent to California and Oregon, 
while for use on the dry plains the well- 
seasoned timber which this firm uses gives 
their wares a decided preference. The pro¬ 
prietors are particularly careful to give only 
the best material and workmanship in their 
manufacture. The timber to be used is 
