MAY SS 1 
THE RURAL NEW-YO 
RK2S. 
cholera, yet where is the man that, has ever 
taken the time and trouble to investigate the na¬ 
ture of the disease? We hear of men cutting 
hogs open and pretending to say thus and so, 
but who has ever made a post-mortem or a thor¬ 
ough analysis of the blood and secretions of 
bogs that have died with the so-called hog chol¬ 
era? Some say it is a disease of the blood; oth¬ 
ers that it is oaused by corn; others that lioe are ' 
the sole cause. And so it goes, and of course 
there are as many remedies, almost, aa hogs. 
One man has found a panacea in poke-root, an¬ 
other in soft soap, Ac,, &c., almost ad infinitum. 
It is all guess-work, and our country will con¬ 
tinue to lose millions of dollars annually unless 
Congress or our State Legislatures take the mat¬ 
ter in hand and apoint a committee of scientific 
men—men able and willing to make an investi¬ 
gation that would disclose the cause of the dis¬ 
ease ; aud when this iB accomplished it will then 
and only then be easy to find a remedy” 
Jnhstrial Implements, 
HAYING APPARATUS. 
Or all the operations involved in haying none 
is quite so laborious as the final disposition of 
the crop. At least this was the case until the 
introduction of labor-saving maoLinery. All 
appliances directed to lessening the labor have 
been very generally used, and in no branch of 
mechanics applied to agriculture has the inven¬ 
tive faculty been exercised to greater advantage. 
Quite reoently we have seen some haying 
machinery that happily combined strength, dur¬ 
ability, convenience, novolty and cheapness. We 
refer to the Anti-friction Hay Carrier, and 
Noyes’ Field Pitching Apparatus, made by the 
U. S. Wind Engine aud Pump Co., Batavia, Ill. 
We give in this issue two illustrations of the Car¬ 
rier, showing it: (1) just after the pulley to whioh 
the fork is attached has run up into the crooked 
arm on which it rides. The carrier is now de¬ 
tached from the lug on the track and has com¬ 
menced to move off. (2) Shows it in position 
over the load. 
The main and peculiar feature of this carrier 
is the way in which it is moved along the track. 
Ten chilled-iron rollers revolve around an ob¬ 
long bearing in the head. This arrangement 
gives a large bearing surface and comparatively 
slow revolutions, which decreases friction to a 
minimum, aud makes it possible for the driver 
to take hold of the rope with his hands and 
move along the track with ease after the load is 
grappled, thuB allowing the horses to turn 
around and return to their place as soon as the 
forkful has reached the carrier. Another great 
advantage is, that the carrier runs bo easy that 
if the track has a slight incline, no weighted 
rope is needed to draw it. It will of its own 
weight back down the track to its proper posi¬ 
tion, aud the fork will return to the operator on 
the load. We would call particular attention to 
the perfect, never-failiug grappling apparatus 
whioh differs from many others iu never clutch¬ 
ing and destroying the rope. There is no trouble 
about getting over high beams, or to the top of 
high stacks. ?his carrier may be used for filling 
barns from within or without; it can be put on 
or taken off the track, or shifted to run in an 
opposite direction in two minutes. It never 
needs oiling, and it is not encumbered with deli¬ 
cate or troublesome rigging, as the rope passes 
through no loops or rings. The Noyes’ Field 
Pitching Frame is a very ingenious adaptation 
of means to an eud. The entire Lame requires 
but 458 feet of lumber and is braced in a way to 
combine strength and lightness. It can bo 
quiokly shifted to any desired position and when 
at work in conjunction with the Anti-friction 
Carrier (for which it waB designed,) it accom¬ 
plishes satisfactory results quickly. It is said 
that there is praotically no limit to the size of 
stack ; that the hay is dropped in the middle at 
any chosen place along its length, therefore the 
Bides do not become littered, and in settling, 
the center always beiug higher than the sides, 
the. stack will not lean, and is sure to shed water. 
Five tons have been stacked and the frame 
moved, within the space of forty-five minutes. 
Fie. 2. 
We would recommend our readers to send for 
circular “3” issued by this company, as this 
ciroular contains a fund of practical informa¬ 
tion on the subject. Especially a full working 
diagram of the picture with estimates of the 
material. With these specifications any one 
with ordinary intelligence may construct the 
apparatus. This circular also contains designs 
for tracking barns. 
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THE PHCENIX TILE MILL. 
Every practical tile-maker has discovered by 
experience what a severe test there is upon the 
strength of the machinery used in the manufac¬ 
ture of drain tile, and how muoh importance 
there is in having all the parts sufficiently strong 
to withstand the very great pressure upon them; 
but this point may not be so thoroughly im¬ 
pressed on those who propose using a tile mill, 
but have not had their experience tempered by 
practice. We present an illustration of a tile 
mill, made by Chandler & Taylor, Indianapolis, 
Ind., which is very popular. 
This machine consists of a tempering hopper, 
an upright shaft, with crank at its lower end, two 
pressure chambers (one at each end of the ma¬ 
chine), aud a doable plunger, wbiah forces the 
clay out of the pressure boxes through the dies. 
The temperiug hopper is made of boiler iron, 
and a band of wrought iron around the top end, 
to give it stiffness. At the bottom of the hop¬ 
per are two openings leading into the pressure 
boxes. Through these openings the clay is 
forced at each revolution, by means of a feed 
wing fastened to the upright Bhaft. 
The pressure box is also a very important part 
of the mill, as it has to withstand the compres¬ 
sion of the mud, and it is also subjected to rapid 
wear, especially in saudy or gravelly clay. To 
guard against the first, the plates composing the 
chamber are made to look themselves together 
iu such a manner as to be a support to each 
other, rendering it almost impossible to burst 
them apart. To guard against wear, the plates 
composing the pressure chamber have recesses 
in them to receive false plates, or more prop¬ 
erly, wear-plates. All parts of the mill are acces¬ 
sible for oiling, and all parts have a provision 
for wear. 
The cut-off tables are formed with rollers set 
on iron pivots, which revolve underneath the 
tile, which comes from the machine in a con¬ 
tinuous pipe. At intervals of thirteen and 
a-half inches there are steel wires set in the top 
frame, which pass between the rollers, for the 
purpose of cutting off the tile into convenient 
lengths for drying. To enable the operator to 
cut the tUe so as to avoid defective places, the 
tables are mounted upon Bmall car wheels, which 
move easily on a track, and by this means he 
oan move the table bo as to bring the wires to 
any point before cutting the tile. This feature 
is peculiar to this maobine, and is of great ad¬ 
vantage. as all the perfect tile oan be saved and 
only the defective ones thrown back. 
The h5ill illustrated is intended to be run by 
horse power. It is also geared to be run by 
steam power. 
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THE PRINCE ORGAN. 
The Messrs. Prince of Bnffalo, New York, are 
among the foremost organ-builders in the coun¬ 
try, and are well known to our readers. Many 
of our agents’ homes are embellished with their 
organs which we offered as premiums for sev¬ 
eral years. We have ever received the wannest 
praiBe of the merits of these premiums. We 
take pleasure in again calling attention to this 
firm, and their recent new patterns whioh com¬ 
bine the excellencies of former styles with re¬ 
cent improvements that cannot fail to be appre¬ 
ciated. The prices are iu accordance with the 
times. Illustrated catalogues are sent on appli¬ 
cation, and they repay perusal by those wishing 
to have one of the pleasantest and moat refined 
accessories to the home—a parlor organ. 
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THE DIRECT DRAFT EUREKA. 
The Eureka Mower differs entirely in the 
principle of its construction from that of any 
other machine. ThiB difference was prominently 
brought before the agricultural public during 
the Centennial field trials. The report of the 
Judges of Group XXIII. is before us, and after 
giving a comparative table of the drafts of the 
various mower3, the ohairmau, Mr. Coleman, 
speaks as follows of the Eureka: 
*• It will be seen from the above that the draft 
per square foot of grass cut varied from .288, in 
the case of the Eureka machine (direct draft), 
to 564 iu one of Osborne’s machines, or nearly 
100 per cent. In reality the difference was not 
quite so great, inasmuch as the Eureka cut a 
quarter of an inch higher; but allowing for 
this, we still have the fact that this machiue 
was the lightest of all that were tried, and, as it 
is on a totally different principle from the 
original models, a short reference to its leading 
..features may not be out of place. 
“ The Eureka is a direct-draft mower,—that is 
to say, the knife works in front of and between 
the wheels, and the horses are attached to the 
center of the machine, equidistant between the 
wheels, and are so placed, by means of a long 
neck-yoke, that while oue walks on the uncut 
grass, clear of the knife, the other walks where 
the track-board has cleared the oat grass; thus 
the mowed grass is not interfered with, an im¬ 
portant point as regards catting. The wheels 
are muoh larger than in ordinary machines. 
The cutter-bar, whioh in the machine tested 
was six feet long, is placed in front of the 
wheels. The pitman works at right angles 
with the knife, the connection between the two 
being a bell-orauk lever. It might be thought 
that the horses treading down the grass would 
prevent even catting, bat this is not so ; did the 
machine follow the tracks instead of meettog 
them, we cannot say how it would be, but one 
great advantage of this form of machine is that 
it returns along the same line, and therefore 
meets the grass that has been trodden down. 
" Every crop oan be dealt with according to its 
particular form; thus, supposing the grass 
beaten down in any direction, the machine can 
be driven at right angles to the lay, and thus 
good cutting is secured. By a peculiar method 
of attaching the knife-bar to the frame flexibil¬ 
ity is acquired, and we could not see that any 
machine out the standing grass more evenly; at 
any rate, the cutting was sufficiently good. One 
great merit in this machine is that, owing to 
having a clearer track on both sides, the cut 
grass is laid up in a beautifully light, open 
swath, very favorable for ouriag. Indeed, in 
fair weather very little after-work is required. 
Two horses worked a six-foot cutter with ease. 
The gearing is simple, no bevel whe- Is are used, 
and we do not see why such a machine sLonld 
not wear well, and there can be no question that 
as a mower it is a highly valu ble implement.” 
The Eureka is made by the To wanda Eureka 
Mower Company, Towanda, Pennsylvania. 
It is nice to be an Arab during the summer, 
and go about the country al fresco, but we have 
reoently seen an improvement on this way of 
summering. It is the Hoffmire Portable House. 
It is constructed in seottons ; oan be readily put 
together; is water-proof, aud for camping-out 
summer houses, camp-meetings, boat houses, 
&o., it will more than repay its cost in a single 
seasoi i, in the additional comfort it secures. The 
houses contaiu two. three, or five rooms, and 
weigh from 750 to 1650 pounds complete. Jno. 
M. Hoffmire, 157 Broadway, New York, is the 
agent. 
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Messrs. Bradley & Co., Syracuse, N. Y. 
write us;—*• H wing purchased the patterns and 
materials of the Bradley .Manufacturing Co., we 
shall continue the manufacture, at their old 
place of business, of all the implements hereto¬ 
fore made by them. We shall eude tvor to main¬ 
tain the high standard of excellence that has 
characterized their work for bo many years.” 
Steam-Power applied to farm uses, is grow¬ 
ing in favor, and as many are thinking of apply¬ 
ing the same, it may not be unprofitable to 
attract the reader’s attention to the admirable 
steam engine made by Messrs. Wood, Taber & 
Morse, Eaton, N. Y. Mr. Wood is a veteran in 
the business, and their model has been generally 
approved by competent judges. 
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Brooklandville, Md„ April 26, ’TS. s. b. 
Received the “ Cricket " Clock all right; it 
runs very well, and keeps first-class time. 
Rhinebeck, N. Y., April 26 , 78. b. l. 8. 
The “ Cricket " came to hand all right. It is 
a beauty. It talks as well as it looks. Thanks. 
Emporium, Pa., April 30, 78. • j. d. 
I’ve received and am well pleased with the 
“ Cricket" dock you Bent me. Mas. T. J. B. 
Okolona, Miss., May 11, isis. 
The “ Cricket ” arrived all right, and we are 
very much pleased with it. It has given per¬ 
fect satisfaction so far. W. M. & Co. 
Byron, Ill., April 30tb, 1ST8. 
Accept my thanks for the “ Crioket” clock, 
which came in due time. It is real nice and 
keeps good time. Fannie J. A. 
Burlington, West Va., April 29, 78. 
The “ Crioket" goes well. I could have sold 
it many times, but I shall keep it; but I want 
my neighbors to take the paper. c. m. 
Coleaville, P. One., Canada, May 11, 78. 
We received the “ Cricket" all right. It is 
just what we wanted, and is the delight of the 
whole household. It is a beautiful little time¬ 
keeper. Please accept our thanks. A. a. 
Madison Co., N. Y., May 10, 78, 
Received “ Cricket ’’ in good order ; it fully 
came up to my expectations, and they were 
plaoed high. I would not part with it for five 
dollars. j. w. w. 
Warsaw, Mo., May 11,1ST3. 
The dock sent upon my order to A. M. B—p 
reached him safely aud gives satisfaction. It was 
exhibited at our Grange—No. 465—yesterday, 
and was pronounced “ a perfect beauty" by all 
who saw it. Nellie B. 
Oakland, Miss., May 7, 1878. 
I received the “ Crioket " clock by express* 
I have given it a good trial as a time-keeper, and 
am entirely pleased with it, aud so are all others 
who see it. The Rural is quite full of useful 
reading matter and is well worth all it costs, 
without the *• CricketI accept the little 
“ Cricket" as a gift. Mrs. C. E. T. 
Emporium, Pa., May 7,1878. 
Of all the weekly agricultural papers of which 
we are iu receipt, we must, in justice, in our 
judgment, award the premium to the Rural 
New-Yorker, 78 Duane street, New York city. 
We were induced to pay for it by the premium 
of a dock offered to yearly subscribers, for §3.50. 
j our expectations in its manufacture, reliabilily, 
and appearance. Besides the paper is well 
The time-piece we have received, aud it is beyond 
worth the suoscription, without the premium. 
We do not believe we oau give our numerous 
readers better advice that to subscribe for the 
Rural New-Yorker.— Dispatch.. 
