A Cheap Clod Crusher. 
Messrs. Tucker —I have often thought of writing 
to you respecting an implement called a clod crusher. 
I find it a very excellent tool for using up the lumps 
and putting land in'order for corn, carrots, turnips, 
or other small seeds ; for the advantageous us© of seed 
planters, and for levelling a piece of Sand for meadow, 
it has no equal. I will give you a description of one 
Materials. —One scantling 3 by 4, and 12 feet long, 
to be sawed into three pieces—7 planks 5 feet long and 
7 inches wide, two inches thick on one edge, and the 
other edge half an inch thick ; (sawyers can saw them 
by raising one edge of the log,) and one plank 1J inches 
thick and 12 inches wide. 
How to make it. —Lay down the pieces of scantling 
2| feet apart; lay on one plank, thick edge to the end, 
take an inch auger and bore through the plank and 
scantling : countersink the holes through the plank with 
a chisel, so that the pins will not draw through ; then 
take the next plank and lap it one inch over the 
thin edge of the other, and put the pins through so that 
they will catch both planks ; when the last plank is on 
slope off the scantling like a sledge runner ; then put on 
the wide plank, turn over, wedge pins, bore a slanting 
hole in each end piece about a foot from the front, to 
pull by. Put a chain of suitable length on the pins ; 
hook your swingle trees to the middle ; driver to stand 
on the hind end. If not heavy enough, put on stone, 
It does not answer well on stony land, because the 
stones don’t break. If the land is wanted very fine 
and once over is not enough, harrow up the clods and 
go over again. Farmers living on clay loams will find 
this tool of great advantage. We use it after the har¬ 
row, and it saves one harrowing. It has several ad¬ 
vantages over the roller—costs less, turns easier, pul¬ 
verises better, and levels. D. McCullock. Areola, 
Loudon Co., Va. 
Early and Late Peaches. 
Messrs. Editors —Will you please to inform me 
through The Cultivator, which of the very early 
peaches you regard as the most profitable for market, 
and which is the best for home use 7 Also, which of 
those ripening early in October is the best to cultivate 
for market 7 Late Crawford has not proved very pro¬ 
ductive in this vicinity. What do you think of Ward’s 
Late Freestone, so highly praised in Elliott’s Fruit 
Book 7 And have you ever tried the Merriam peach 
of Cole’s book 7 We need hardy varieties here. 
In budding, is it best to let the bud lift the bark as 
it is pressed in, or to raise the bark before inserting 
the bud 7 New Subscriber. Leominster, Mass. 
Serrate Early York is the best very early peach for 
the north, both for market and for home use. 
We do not know how Ward’s Late Free would suc¬ 
ceed in Massachusetts—it is a fine peach for the south 
—would recommend David Hill, which has proved very 
valuable in western New-York. The Merriam we have 
not tried. 
Cooledge’s Favorite is a week or ten days later than 
Serrate Early York—is perhaps the hardiest variety 
known—exceedingly productive, handsome and excel¬ 
lent. 
In budding the peach, the bud should always lift the 
bark—if it will not separate freely enough for this 
purpose, the bud will not probably adhere, and the 
work may as well b© relinquished. 
Gapes in Chickens. 
Messrs. Tucker & Son —As insignificant as the sub¬ 
ject may appear, and unworthy perhaps of an illustra¬ 
tion , I nevertheless suggest the promulgation of the 
only mod© by which a “poor, gaping chicken” may 
be as effectually cured of his malady as he is likely to 
die without the use of the means I propose. I do not 
mean to palm off this mode as a novelty in the “ barn¬ 
door practice but though farmers may not be igno¬ 
rant of the means, I find the manner of using them 
is necessary to be taught, to remove the difficulty in 
question, as well as special knowledge is necessary in 
the amputation of a limb. 
Farmers neglect to acquaint themselves with this 
manner of cure, either from suspicions that it is im¬ 
practicable, or that they are incapable of effecting a 
cure themselves. If my prescriptions are strictly fol¬ 
lowed, chickens cannot die with the gapes under the 
treatment, let them try never so hard. I regard all 
medicines for the gapes as really fool nostrums. 
In making the trial with the horse hair, some diffi¬ 
culty at first is experienced in holding the head of the 
chicken still while performing the operation, as the 
windpipe is very sensitive ; hence I have sketched the 
position of the fingers in which the head may be firm¬ 
ly held without harm to the chicken. While in this 
position its windpipe may be seen, and the sole cause 
of its distress. If the rays of the sun are permitted 
to fall upon its throat, the worms are more distinctly 
seen. 
The horse hair is tied in the manner shown in the 
drawing, and is most expedient, as other knots cause 
the loop C to deviate from a line straight with A and 
B, making it difficult to introduce into the windpipe. 
The loop is about half an inch long, and must be roll¬ 
ed between the thumb and finger to make it angular, 
as at C. The introduction of the hair must first be by 
a quick push, and kept in its place until it can be 
forced down, lest the coughing of the chicken should 
expel it. It should be put down about an inch and a 
half, and twisted in its course upward. Each opera¬ 
tion should be performed in six or eight seconds of 
time. It is not absolutely necessary to remove every 
worm from the windpipe. Coarse hairs are better than 
fine ones for the purpose, n. d. e. 
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fTgF' Hon. Andrew B. Dickinson, has been en¬ 
gaged to deliver the Address before the Ontario coun¬ 
ty Agricultural Society at its next Annual Fair. 
