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THE CULTIVATOR- 
Maiich. 
in pressing depended. They were set in a wood frame, 
so as to be at first about one-third of an inch apart, so 
that in passing the cane between them the joints only 
would be crushed, and but little juice pressed out. If 
set more closely at first, the stalks would be broken off 
at the joints, and they would thus be prevented from 
passing through. When the cane had been thus bro¬ 
ken and prepared, the rollers were wedged closely to¬ 
gether, so as to be in such close contact that water 
could not run between them. The elasticity of the 
wood in which their axles were set, would, however, 
allow them to separate the thickness of a knife blade 
when the stalks were passing through-—and after the 
passage the stalks would be as dry and flat as the sha¬ 
vings from a carpenter’s plane ; while on the other side 
the juice would break and spout, out so as to form a 
stream from the trough below larger than one’s finger. 
In the figure, a represents the trough in which the 
cane is laid for feeding the mill, being quite similar to 
the trough of a common straw cutter; b b are the two 
cast rollers, made to work together by cog-wheels on 
their ends. At first the cog-wheels were omitted, with 
the belief that one roller and the stalks would draw on 
the other roller; but this failed in practice, and hence 
the cog-wheels were added. The trough c, for receiv¬ 
ing the juice has a width equal to the length of the 
rollers, and contracts a little towards its lower part, a 
tub the size of a wash-tub being placed beneath to re¬ 
ceive the cascade of juice. The lower roller is turned 
by the horse-power of a common threshing-machine, 
by the long rod, and the universal or “ knuckle ” joint, 
cl. In order to obtain slow motion, a bar of wood ten 
feet long, was lashed or spliced on the common bar to 
which the horses are attached,—thus giving the horse 
a wide circle to travel in—at the same time that all the 
cog-wheels were removed or taken out, except the first 
or main horizontal one, and the pinion working into it, 
on the long rod connected with the lower roller. In 
this way the horse in travelling three feet moved the 
rollers only five or six inches, and thus gave them great 
power. 
Crushing the stalks and expressing the juice were but 
a very small part of the labor of manufacture—a half 
day was sufficient to pass through two tons of stalks. 
Lime was used to clarify and sweeten. 
The following is a statement of the expense :— 
Plowing a quarter of an acre,.$ 75 
Seed. 50 
Planting,. 50 
Cultivating,. 2.00 
Cutting up stalks, &c.,. 2.00 
Labor of grinding and evaporating,.5.00 
Interest on land,.2.00 
Fuel,. 1.50 
$14.00 
Deduct value of 2 loads of leaves,_ 5.00 
Cost of 55 gallons of molasses,. $9.25 
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Remedy for Garget in Cows. 
I had, a few days since, a new milch cow whose bag 
was very badly caked—so much so, that the usual re¬ 
medies of cold water, soap-suds, spts. camphor, &c., 
had no effect upon it. I asked our family physician 
for a prescription, who gave me this: 
1 part aqua ammonia, 
2 parts sweet oil, 
well rubbed in twice daily. In two days a cure W£S 
effected. W. J- Pettee. Salisbury , Ct. 
Remedy for the Curcnlio. 
Eds. Cult, and Co. Gent. —I read in the Cultivator 
that if the ground under plum trees was paved, it 
would stop the work of the eurculio, and that suggest¬ 
ed the plan of covering the ground under the trees 
with boards. I took some old boards when the tree 
was in blossom, and after spading up the ground, laid 
down the boards, covering the ground as far as the 
limbs extended, and laid some narrow strips on th8 
cracks, so as to completely cover the ground. The re¬ 
sult was a full crop of fine'plums. The tree was so 
full that I picked off some of them when very small. 
Variety Imperial Gage. 
A neighbor of mine took some sediment of a grind¬ 
stone trough, and spread it on the ground, and spread 
some gravel on the top of that, and the iron that was 
in the sediment cemented the whole together, and 
formed a hard crust, and he had a fine crop of plums. 
I think there are objections to the cement, for the tree 
cannot be manured or cultivated ; but the boards can 
be moved when the plums are out of the way of the 
eurculio. 
Will some of your readers try the boards, and com¬ 
municate the result 1 Joseph E. Phelps. Worces¬ 
ter, Mass. 
A. Beaman, of Ithaca, N. Y., informs us that his 
remedy against the eurculio, is the well known method 
of allowing poultry to run among the trees, 'to which 
he adds the practice of dusting the trees frequently 
with air-slacked lime until the fruit is out of the way 
of the insect. His plum orchard is 66 by 200 feet, and 
contains some apricots and nectarines—he has 40 va¬ 
rieties of the plum, and he is compelled to thin out 
one-third or one-half the fruit when partly grown to 
prevent the trees from breaking down. The remedy 
has also answered well for apricots, but the nectarines 
are destroyed, and he intends to cut the trees down. 
Pumpkin Seeds Injurious to Uncles & Geese. 
L. Tucker & Son —I notice in your Country Gen¬ 
tleman of the 14th inst., an inquiry, “ whether pump¬ 
kin seeds will kill ducks and geese.” As to their kill¬ 
ing ducks, I have no doubt; with respect to their kill¬ 
ing geese, I cannot speak from experience, but have 
very little doubt they would produce the same effect 
when eaten raw or unground. 
In the fall of 1856, I sent from Yacht Cove, N. J., 
a dozen ducks of unusual large size, which had been 
raised^along the shore of “York Bay.” On my re¬ 
turn home a short time after, I found eight of them 
had died, and the four others had their legs so para- 
lized that they could not walk, although they managed 
to swim ; and upon inquiry I found the eight had been 
similarly affected previous to their dsath. I opened 
some of the dead ones, and found nothing in their in¬ 
testines, Ac., but a quantity of raw pumpkin seeds, 
the other food having been digested and passed off. I 
then took the four live ones, and stuffed and fed them 
for three or four days with boiled corn meal, boiled po¬ 
tatoes, bread, Ac., keeping their stomachs filled with 
digestible food, and they all four recovered, and are 
now alive and well. I presume they either digested 
the pumpkin seeds in the course of the three or four 
days, or passed them away with the other food. I now 
never allow my ducks or geese to eat pumpkin seeds 
unless they are ground or boiled, and would advise 
others to go and do likewise. Chas. E. Morton. Mill 
Farm, Mortonville, N. Y. y Jan. 16. 
