1858. 
THE CULTIVATOR 
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Allen’s Potato-Digging Plow. 
Digging potatoes by hand is a most 
laborious task. We are glad to find 
the attention of inventors turned to 
some means of doing it by horse la¬ 
bor. We have recently made a trial Manufactured & sold 
of the potato-digging plow, manu- y v R. L. ALLEN, 191 
factured by R. L. Allen of New- Wnter-st., New-York 
York, and find it a great saver of la¬ 
bor. The figure nearly explains its 
construction. It weighs less than a 
hundred pounds, and is easily drawn 
by two horses. There should be a 
driver, as the plowman needs his at¬ 
tention to keep it in the center of the 
rows. It throws a double furrow, 
like a shovel-plow, and turns the po¬ 
tatoes out of the ground, throwing them on the surface with great rapidity. A very small portion remain 
covered, but they are easily raked out. Our trial was made on heavy and unfavorable soil, where we think it 
saved at least three-fourths of the labor of hand-digging. On lighter soil, we have no doubt that its operation 
would be still more advantageous and perfect. It works best, of course, in clean, well cultivated land, but the 
standard being high, it is not easily clogged with weeds or potato vines. Its depth may be accurately gauged, 
so as to run just beneath The potatoes. 
It is said to answer a good purpose when used as a cultivator of corn and potatoes, throwing the earth both 
ways—of which we have no doubt from a partial trial. The price is $10. 
Design for a School House. 
Ens. Co. Gent. —Enclosed I send you a sketch, and 
a hastily made plan, intended only to explain the 
drawing of the District School House now building at 
this place, and of which we feel quite proud. The 
material is a coarse sandstone—walls of rubble mason¬ 
ry. The roof finished to the collar beams, half way up 
the rafters, and ceiled—the rafters, collars and ceiling 
joists being dressed and champfered. The side walls 
are to be plastered to within three feet and three in¬ 
ches of floor. 
This little building, at a .cost of about $1,800, will 
give us accommodation for near 200. scholars, and at 
the same time is, we think, a respectable looking and 
durable sort of “school shanty.” T. L. H. Morley , 
St. Lawrence Co., N. Y. 
[We have reduced and finished the sketches sent, to 
a proper size for insertion, regarding it, as we do, an 
excellent design.] 
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The Galloways. —Will not some of your Canada 
readers give us, through the Co. Gent., an account of 
the Galloway breed of cattle, which I believe are bred 
there to a considerable extent 7 S. L. B. Maine. 
Barn Door. 
Messrs. Editors —I send you a drawing of a door 
for a carriage-house, barn or any building requiring a 
large door. A door of this kind hung to a post fram¬ 
ed into the building and let into the ground, I have 
been using for ten years. It is ten feet square—all 
made of inch poplar plank seasoned—each plank six 
inches wide. In that time, with pretty rough usage 
Inside view of door 10 ft. 
square, with repreentation 
of braces, shoulders, nails, 
&c. The hinges go opposite 
the braces, and nails through 
8 trap and brace. 
Door 10 feet square of sea¬ 
soned poplar plank, one inch 
by six. Hinges wrought iron, 
3 feet six inches long. 3 inch¬ 
es wide at but, regularly ta- 
perered to the point. The 
pivots heavy and points in 
post from 8 to 10 inches long. The longitudinal dotted 
lines represent the plank. 
it has not swayed one-fourth of an inch, and how can 
it with strong hinges and posts permanently fixed in 
the ground, braced and supported as it is 1 Though I 
am more familiar with the scalpel and spatula than 
the adze and square, yet when required I can bring 
into use pretty considerable mechanical talent. The 
door is of my own getting up, and if it will be of any 
use to the readers of your journal, you are welcome to 
it. Wm. Kenney. Millersburg, Ky. 
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Treatment of a Sick Cow. 
Editors Co. Gent. —Having had a cow sick with 
symptoms similar to those described in the first no. of 
the Co. Gent., (p. 12,) I thought I would give you our 
treatment. When we found her at night, (she was 
well in the morning,) she looked very thin, and we 
thought she would not live till the next morning. We 
went to the pork barrel, took out a piece of fat pork, 
and cut off a half a dozen slices as large as your hand 
—rolled them one at a time in common house mustard, 
and crammed them down her throat. In an hour or 
two gave her a bran-mash, and the next day she 
was well. Pork and mustard will cure cattle that have 
been buckeyed. S. Granville , O. 
