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Clover Huller and Cleaner. 
J. B, Van Buren , N. Y., inquires “ if 
there is a clover machine that will thrash 
the chaff from the stalk and clean the seed 
at one operation—what the expense, and 
how many bushels it will clean in a day, and 
where it can be procured ?” We give 
herewith a cut of a Clover Machine manu¬ 
factured by Emery Brothers of this city. It 
is preferable, if not absolutely necessary, to 
put the clover through an ordinary thresh¬ 
ing machine before it is submitted to any 
Huller, in order to separate the heads from 
the stalks, for the seed is so small, and re¬ 
quires so much rubbing to get it out of the 
chaff, that to put stalks and all into a ma¬ 
chine at once, would probably crack the 
seeds and render them valueless. In the 
Emery machine, graters are used like a 
coarse file, which open the cell in which the 
seed is contained, and squeeze it out—the 
fans and screens attached serving to clean 
it thoroughly. All the best seed will be separated by 
once putting it through, but by gathering up the chaff 
that falls nearest the machine for a second operation, 
a further quantity of seeds may be detached, more 
likely, however, to include those that are immature or 
blighted, and hence of not so good quality. The amount 
a machine will do in a day varies greatly with the 
character of the crop to be cleaned, some years the 
heads being well filled with plump seeds, while in oth¬ 
ers there are much fewer in proportion to the amount 
of chaff. With one horse power the above machine is 
said to grate and clean from 7 to 14 bushels per day, 
the heads having been previously threshed out from 
the stalks. Its price, packed in shipping order, and 
and warranted, is $100. 
A machine is also manufactured by Messrs. Wheel¬ 
er, Melick & Co. of this city, on a different plan, and 
with no provision attached for cleaning the seed. Its 
price is $32, and it is stated to be “ capable of hulling 
from 5 to 15 bushels a day ” with one horse. 
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Mr. Morrill’s Land Bill. 
This act was passed by the House of Representatives 
at Washington the 22d inst., and it is understood to 
have a fair prospect of passing in the Senate. Mr. 
Morrill supported it by a strong speech the 20th inst., in 
which he forcibly compared the aid given to Agricul¬ 
ture here with that it receives in other countries, and 
that which our own gives to commerce and manufac¬ 
tures. The bill in its present form, is in substance as 
follows:— 
Sec. 1—Provides for the appropriation to the several 
States of 5,920,000 acres of land, to be apportioned to each 
in the rate of 20,000 acres for each of its present Senators 
and Representatives in Congress. 
Sec. 2—Relates to locating the lands appropriated. 
Sec. 3—Enacts that no deduction shall be made from the 
proceeds ©f these lands, for any expenses incurred pre¬ 
vious to or during their sale—these to be met exclusively 
by the States to be benefitted thereby. 
Sec. 4—Provides for the investment of such proceeds in 
safe and not less than 5 per cent, stocks, and that these in¬ 
vestments shall constitute a perpetual fund, “the interest 
of which shall be inviolably appropriated, by each State 
which may take and claim the benefit of this act, to the 
endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one col¬ 
lege where the leading object shall be, without excluding 
other scientific or classical studies, to teach such branches 
of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic 
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arts, in such manner as the Legislatures of the States may 
respectively prescribe, in order to promote the liberal and 
practical education of the industrial classes in the several 
pursuits and professions in life.'” 
Sec. 5 and last—Makes these land grants conditional: 
1. Upon the replacement by any State accepting them, of 
any portion of the capital or interest that may at anytime 
be lost in any way, so that the whole fund may be forever 
inviolate and undimished, except “that a sum, not exceed¬ 
ing ten per centum upon the amount received by any State 
under the provisions of this act, may be expended for the 
purchase of lands for Bites or experimental farms, whenever 
authorised by the respective Legislatures of said States.” 
2. Upon the non-appropriation, “ under any pretense what¬ 
ever,” of any part of the grant, for “ the purchase, erec¬ 
tion, preservation, or repair, of any building or buildings.” 
3. Upon the repayment to the United States of any amount 
received for lands sold by the States accepting them, should 
they fail within Jive years to provide at least one such in¬ 
stitution as is described in the fourth section. 4. Upon a 
complete annual report from each institution organized 
under the act, and 5. Upon the reduction of the quantity 
of land granted one-half.\ when its minimum value lias been 
doubled by railroad grants. 
Top Dressing Meadow Lands. 
Messrs. L. Tucker & Son —A correspondent, (“H.”) 
in Co (lent, of 8th April, inquires the best time to ap¬ 
ply barn-yard manure to grass lands. I have been 
experimenting more or less for some years, in top-dres¬ 
sing meadows, with barn-yard manures, compost, &c., 
I always wish, when I ean, to draw the manure in the 
BUI to the place where wanted, and put in heaps of a 
half load or load in a place, and sow gypsum over the 
heaps freely. I then endeavor to spread the same 
over the land just before the fall rains—first scattering 
grass seed, (such as I wish) upon the land to be ma¬ 
nured, and again sowing plaster freely over the manure 
thus spread. If I cannot get out the manure wanted 
in time to spread before the Jail rains, I draw out in 
the fall or winter, and spread before the spring rains, 
as soon as frost is out of the ground—always sowing 
plaster upon the heaps, and then upon the scattered 
manure and grass seed as before. In drawing in the 
fall and scattering, we shall in a great degree prevent 
evaporation, and also shall get a start with the effects 
of the manure, and in a great measure avoid cutting 
up the lands in drawing. I have no doubt but that 
harrowing the turf would be an advantage. 
I have come to the conclusion that there is no need 
of plowing lands to seed them, if managed with a tho¬ 
rough course of top-dressing as above, unless it is to 
cleanse the lands from weeds, &c, and not often then. 
J. C. M. Binghamton. 
