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THE CULTIVATOR. 
Feb, 
WHEELER’S HORSE-POWER AND THRESHER. 
The advantages of this machine consist in its cheap¬ 
ness, portableness, and effectiveness. The cost of the 
whole apparatus, ready for threshing, as above delinea¬ 
ted, is $110—or for the different parts as follows: $75 
for the horse-power, $28 for the thresher, and $7 for the 
“ shaker.” It is so light that two men can readily put 
it on and off a wagon; but at the same time it is very 
strong and substantial. As above shown, is is adapted 
to the use of one horse, and the performance of the ma- | 
ehine with this power, is equal to threshing one hun¬ 
dred bushels of wheat, or two hundred bushels of oats 
in a day; but to do this a change of horses should be 
made every three hours. It requires but little manual 
labor to use it; for grain in bundles, two men and a boy 
are sufficient. The simple contrivance called a u sha¬ 
ker,” which in the figure is ' shown attached to the 
thresher, saves fully the work of one hand, and besides 
leaves the grain entirely free from straw, and so dis¬ 
poses of the straw that no grain is wasted. 
We have lately witnessed the operation of this ma¬ 
chine, and are of the opinion that it is capable of 
performing more work in proportion to the force em¬ 
ployed, than any other with which we are acquainted. 
The horse-power is much liked by those who are ac¬ 
quainted with it. It is easily applied to various pur¬ 
poses, and is the kind which is mostly used for sawing 
wood at the different railroad stations between this city 
and Boston. It runs very easily; but by means of a 
brake, which is attached to it in a very convenient man¬ 
ner,' its motion is at all times perfectly under the con¬ 
trol of the person in charge of the machine; and what¬ 
ever may be the speed, it can be checked as desired. 
The horse-power can be readily fitted for working 
two horses abreast—the only alteration necessary, be¬ 
ing to increase the width of the rotary platform on 
which the horse stands, and lengthen the main or dri¬ 
ving shaft. [For particulars see advertisement.] 
CULTURE AND USES OF THE CARROT. 
We would thus seasonably call the attention of far¬ 
mers to the advantages of the carrot crop. Whether 
the potato will continue to be affected with the malady 
which has attacked it for a few years past, is more than 
any one can tell. But it is best, in the language of 
the homely proverb, “ to provide for the worst, though 
we hope for the best;” and on soils wffiich are suffi¬ 
ciently friable, we should decidedly prefer the carrot, to 
grow as a substitute for the potato in feeding animals, 
to any other vegetable. It is true' the carrot has not 
been altogether exempt from the blight and tendency to 
premature decay with which several species of plants 
have been lately attacked; but so far as our observa¬ 
tion has gone, the white or Belgian carrot is the only 
variety which has suffered to such an extent as to occa¬ 
sion much loss. This kind has been supposed to yield 
more than the orange, and other kinds, with less labor 
in cultivation, and we think this is the fact, where the 
crop remains perfectly healthy; but the white is acknow¬ 
ledged to be less nutritive than the others; so that with 
the liability to disease, and the inferior quality of the 
white, we should unhesitatingly recommend the orange 
variety. 
Carrots are known to be excellent food for milch 
cows, and also for horses. We have formerly been in 
the habit of using them for the former purpose, and de¬ 
cidedly prefer them for making rich milk and high color¬ 
ed and well flavored butter, to any other food we ever 
used in the winter season. For horses, we know th© 
opinion of those who have used them is highly favora¬ 
ble. Mr. Risley, of Chautauque county, raises annu¬ 
ally great quantities of carrots, and has been the most 
successful competitor for premiums on this crop, of any 
man in the state. He has, in several instances, pro¬ 
duced more than 1,000 bushels to the acre. We are 
informed that he feeds them largely to his horses. We 
have been lately told by a man wbo has been sometime 
in his employ, that the horses fed on carrots are more 
healthy and active than when fed with anything else. 
In his own language, the carrots will “make an 
old horse appear like a colt.” He stated that they 
usually gave from a peck to a half a bushel of carrots to 
each horse daily, with about half the quantity of grain 
which is given where no carrots are allowed. Horses 
which have been kept on grain in the ordinary way, 
when put on their allowance of carrots, it is said, very 
quickly improve in spirit, and in the appearance of 
their coats; and if the labor they are required to per¬ 
form is not very hard, it is preferred'to give them only 
the allowance of carrots, with but little grain. 
Income of the State of New-York. —It ap¬ 
pears by the census of 1845, that the total agricultu¬ 
ral products of the state of New-York, together with 
the income of all mechanics and manufacturers, andthe- 
amount earned by the public conveyance of merchan¬ 
dize and travellers, amounts to $280 millions of dollars. 
To Know Good Flour. —Good flour, when squeezed- 
by the hand, bears the minute marks of the fingers and 
skin much longer than when bad or adulterated. 
