Wetherell’s Horse Hoe. 
This is a new machine for hoeing corn, potatoes, Ac., 
and deserves emphatically the name of Horse-hoe. It 
is not a modification of the cultivator, but is entirely 
new in its principle. We have no doubt, from a limit¬ 
ed trial with it, that it will prove an implement of 
great value, and if judiciously and promptly used, 
nearly or entirely supersede hand-hoeing. It is es¬ 
pecially adapted to drill culture. 
It is like a small plow with a double mouldboard, 
with a large wheel running before it. A cog-wheel 
gives a rapid revolving motion to two set of fingers or 
shovels, situated just behind the mouldboard, and which 
scatter the newly plowed earth outwards at right an¬ 
gles to the line of draught, pulverizing it finely, throw¬ 
ing it among the plants, and covering up all small 
weeds. The quantity of earth thus scattered may be 
accurately regulated. If, for example, the young weeds 
have just come up, an inch of pulverized earth may be 
thrown over them; if they are several inches high, a 
large quantity of earth will be required to smother 
them. The work is done more neatly and evenly than 
by any hand-hoe, leaving the surface as smooth as an 
onion-bed. The broad flat surface is much better than 
the narrow hilling usually made with the plow and hoe. 
The fingers or shovels revolve about two and a half 
times faster than the motion of the horse, so that when 
the horse travels three miles an hour (ordinary walk¬ 
ing) these fingers strike the earth at a velocity of about 
ten feet per second,—sufiicient to affect a fine pulveri¬ 
zation of clods. If there are many small stones, the 
motion must be as slow as practicable ; and if there be 
large stones, the hinder part of the machine must be 
lifted over them, which is easily done, as the weight is 
nearly balanced on the large or forward wheel. 
It may be used in all cases for covering weeds among 
crops, when these woeds are smaller or slenderer than 
the crop itself,—the quantity of scattered earth being 
so regulated as to cover the weeds, while the crop will 
resist it; but it is obvious that the work should be al¬ 
ways done when the weeds are smallest, and repeating 
the operation as frequently as they re-appear. 
We think this machine destined to increase the corn 
and potato crop by the more cheap and efficient hoeing 
which it will effect; and greatly to lessen the labor, if 
nothing unforeseen should be found to diminish its 
value. 
Our experiments, owing to the lateness of the season 
when this implement was received, have been mostly 
among young fruit trees in the nursery. Another sea¬ 
son, we hope to give our readers a fuller and more ac¬ 
curate report of its doings among corn and potatoes. 
The patentee is Lokin Wetherell, of Worcester, 
Mass , who will impart any desired information. 
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Cleaning Seed Wheat. 
John Johnston of Geneva, one of the most thor¬ 
ough and successful farmers in this country, as all our 
readers know, says that he quit raising chess twenty- 
eight years ago—by never sowing it. He has not 
raised a bushel of it in all that long period on his ex¬ 
tensive wheat farm. Thirty-seven years ago he ob¬ 
tained eight bushels of chess in every hundred of 
wheat. His mode of cleaning seed is the same in sub¬ 
stance that we have practiced thirty years ago, hut 
will hear repetition, and we therefore give it as recent¬ 
ly described by him: 
My plan is to take out the fanning-mill riddles, some 
call them screens; I call the lower one only a screen 
—it takes out mustard seed and cockle in part. After 
the riddles are out, take off the shaking rod, or at 
least the one nearest the wings or fans; then let one 
man turn the wiBgs or fans by the crank or handle, as 
usual; let another pour the wheat into the hoppeT from 
a basket or any other vessel—a tin-pail answers very 
well—let him pour the wheat in regularly and not very 
fast, if much chess. Let the man turning keep 
up a steady wind; he need not turn very fast. 
Have a boy, or a girl, or a man, or a woman, if you 
choose, to take back the clean wheat as it comes down 
from the mill, and I will guarantee that every chess 
seed will be blown out. The man pouring in the wheat 
ought to be the boss , to make sure that the man turn¬ 
ing does not slack up too much, or that he don’t stop 
turning until the wheat and ehess are all out of the 
hopper, else it may fall down amongst the clean wheat. 
If the wheat is 60 lbs. to the bushel or over, very lit¬ 
tle, if any, will be blown out with the chess. As con¬ 
siderable will lay on the cockle and mustard screen, 
when that is going to be put down it is safest to scrape 
back the upper part with the hand, because if there 
is chess anywhere amongst the wheat, it will be there. 
Now if this is done precisely as I direct, and if the 
wheat is not made entirely free of ehess, unless three 
chess seeds should be sticking together, which is some¬ 
times the case with the top seeds on the main stalk, in 
that case there may be such left in the wheat, still a 
little more wind will blow them out. If any man will 
try it and cannot do it, send for me, and if I cannot 
do it to perfection I won’t ask them to pay my travel¬ 
ing expenses. 
We have met with many farmers who asserted that 
they sowed perfectly clean seed, and yet had an abun¬ 
dance of ehess—hut on closely examining such seed, 
spreading it out thinly, we could always find plenty of 
the seeds of chess; sometimes enough to make ten 
thousand grains in a bushel, and yet pass entirely un¬ 
noticed by a casual observer. Travelling once with a 
friend who “ believed In chess,” we offered to prove 
to him that all seed claimed as clean, was foul, and 
proposed to examine the seed we should find at the 
residence of a good farmer we were about to call on. 
The wheat was accordingly called for and closely ex¬ 
amined—handful after handful, hut no chess could be 
found ! “ What,” said we at last in despair, do you 
never raise any chess here ? I do not find any.” 
“ No ! ” was the emphatic answer, “ no chess grows on 
this farm ! We never sow any—we have cleared the 
farm of such foul stuff long ago—and we find it never 
grows unless it is sown.” 
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Bloody Murrain. 
At night, to all appearance, well; and if a eow, the 
usual quantity of milk; the next morning, ears hang¬ 
ing down, eyes very unnatural, a little bloated, with 
a little groan or grunt at every breath ; the urine very 
bloody and putrid ; dead before noon 
Now for the examination : In skinning, the meat as 
free from blood as the best bled bullock for beef; but 
on opening, you find all the blood in the trunk of the 
body in a very putrid state. The one that can purify 
that blood, and throw it hack into circulation, ean cure 
that dreaded disease, the Bloody Murrain. Judson 
Wadsworth. West Winsted , Conn. 
