PICTORIAL CULTIVATOR ALMANAC 
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CROSS-CUT SAW WORKED BY A HORSE. 
A cross-cut saw, for cutting up logs in the woods, and 
for other purposes, as represented in the above cut, is 
manufactured by Emery & Co. of Albany. The figure 
shows the mode of construction, without any explana¬ 
tion. The wheel which moves the saw, performs about 
fifty revolutions in a minute. The great amount of labor 
saved will be evident, when it is stated that those who 
have tried this machine, have been able, without any 
change of horses, to work up from ten to fourteen cords 
of hard wood, into lengths of eighteen inches, in a day. 
A solid hard-wood log, two feet through, has been cut 
off in two minutes. The great advantage which this 
apparatus possesses over the circular saw, which requires 
the logs to be previously cut and split into cord-wood, 
is apparent at a glance. 
The whole cost, including horse-power, of a .machine 
for one horse, varies from $90 to $105; and for two 
horses from $120 to $185. 
EARLY PEAS. 
If you want to have peas a w r eek or two earlier than 
all your neighbors, even those who plant the very day 
the snow is gone, and right under the south side of a tight 
fence, proceed according to the following plan, described 
in the Horticulturist. Make a trough of roughest hoards 
like that shown in the figure, driving the nails partly 
in, so that they may be easily drawn; then fill it with 
good rich soil, and plant the peas. This may be done a 
fortnight or more before spring opens. The troughs 
must then be placed under some kind of a frame and 
covered with sash, in the most sheltered and sunny spot 
in the garden. By the time they are a few inches high, 
a furrow may be made in the garden, the trough set 
snugly in, the nails withdrawn, and the boards carefully 
removed, pressing the earth down evenly. Peas thus 
treated, (says Old Digger,) “ don’t know that they 
have been moved at all,” but grow right on, and are 
ready to stick by the time that others obtain the first 
peep of day-light. -— 
AN INVADING ARMY. 
We once knew a man who was very jealous of “his 
rights.” He would rather lose ten dollars worth of 
time in attending a law-suit, than have his neighbor 
wrong him of one dollar. He would go seven miles and 
lose two hours to get one cent more on a few pounds 
of butter. He once drove two miles round, over a 
rough road, to save two cents plank-road toll, and broke 
his wagon which cost four dollars to mend. Yet this 
same man, whose indignation was always aroused at the 
thought of a foreign or domestic foe, tamely allowed an 
army of at least 20,000 mulleins, 8,000 horse-thistles, 
50,000 Canada thistles, 2,500 burdocks, and 900 elder 
bushes, to invade his fields, and the general opinion 
among his neighbors, was, that the same strength of 
soil and amount of land which these required for their 
growth, w r ould have grown 40 bushels of wheat, 90 
bushels of corn, and 120 bushels of potatoes. 
PLOW STRAIGHT. 
It is an old saying that “ more corn grows on crooked 
row r s than on straight ”—and why? Because every body 
plants crooked row's. Now, still more would^ grow on 
straight ones, if every body laid them straight. So 
likewise, every farmer who plow's straight furrows raises 
the largest crops. “ Why so,” asks the reader ? Be¬ 
cause the man w'ho takes pains to do things well is 
i ahvavs most successful. Whoever will turn over straight 
and even furrows, w ill do other things equally well; 
there is no slip-shod farming about him—no b: okeu 
fences, no giant weeds, no rickety tools, but all is neat 
and flourishing. Show me the style in which a man 
plows his fields, and I will tell you whether he is a good 
or bad farmer. 
