THE CULTIVATOR. 
advanced from 170,601 persons in 1846, to 1,098,- 
863 in 1850; and in 1851, the number admitted 
was 2,524,754. Observer. 
Crosskill’s Clod Crusher. 
We have long been convinced, that an immense 
loss is sustained by not sufficiently pulverising ad¬ 
hesive soils. Manure cannot be intermixed with 
a stratum of clods; moisture is badly retained, 
seeds vegetate imperfectly, sowing and planting 
are difficult, and clean cultivation impossible. 
Crosskill’s Clou Crusher has been thoroughly 
tried in England, and so great are its advantages, 
that thousands are now in use. We cannot better 
describe its efficacy, than in the words of the late 
report of the trial of implements, by the Royal Ag¬ 
ricultural Society of Ireland: u This implement 
fully maintains its character, and perhaps few con¬ 
trasts are greater than to see an array of men du¬ 
ring a dry spring, breaking the stiff clods, one by 
one, with mallets, in preparation for a green crop— 
and this powerful crusher reducing a breadth of 
six feet, with three horses, after the grubber (an 
instrument like our hook-toothed cultivator,) has 
raised them to the surface.” 
For the information of those who may not be 
familliar with its construction, we may simply 
Crossbill's Clod Crusher. 
state, that it consists of about two dozen circular 
cast-iron disks or circles, placed loosely upon an 
axle, so as to revolve independently of each other. 
Their outer circumference is serrated or formed 
into teeth, which in revolving, while rolling over 
the ground, press upon and crush the clods. Eve¬ 
ry alternate disk has a larger hole for the axle, 
which causes it to rise and fall while turning over, 
and to prevent the two contiguous ones from clog¬ 
ging. This machine is said to assist materially in 
destroying the grub and wire-worm, and to be 
greatly superior to the roller for young crops of 
wheat. 
It can be used only when the ground is dry. 
The Norwegian Harrow is somewhat similar in its 
mode of action, and may be used both on moist 
and dry soils. It pulverizes in a very perfect 
manner, turning up the fine earth, instead of con- 
Norwegian Harrow. 
solidating it. The rows of star-shaped tines play 
into each other and produce a complete self-clea- 
ning action. 'It requires about the same amount 
of draught as the common two-horse plow. 
We believe the introduction and cheapening of 
both these machines, would prove of the highest 
benefit to most of our lands. American farmers 
have long been deficient in tools and machines for 
working their soils, and the loss has consequently 
been much greater, at least on large farms, than 
the cost of pulverizers. This is likewise true of 
subsoilers, cultivators, &c. 
A Home in the Country. 
Hundreds of good hearted men, are toiling se¬ 
verely in our large cities, wearing out their bodies 
and brains, in the hopeless endeavor to acquire 
what is called 11 a fortune,” upon the interest of 
which they may support their families and them¬ 
selves, in the decline of life. Their families are al¬ 
ready expensive, and amidst the vicissitudes of 
trade and business, how rarely is this wished for 
object accomplished. It costs from $800 to $1200 
per year, to support a family of five or six chil¬ 
dren, in genteel position, in a city, and it would 
require at least $20,000 of positive cash, to do this 
without the aid of a business income. To support 
the family, then, and lay by enough to form a 
moderate fortune, within the number of years that 
a man may reasonably count upon being success¬ 
ful in business, is evidently a herculean task, as 
times go. I know many men, in a good business 
position, with $10,000 worth of stock on hand in 
their stores, and a good credit , and verj T free bank 
accommodations, who cannot support their fami¬ 
lies in the manner described, for three years in 
succession, and find themselves $500 better off at 
the end of that period. They have first, a good 
year, and make $1500 or $2,000, and then a bad 
year, and lose two-thirds of former accumulations. 
And so it goes. They are so absorbed in business 
they find no time for study or relaxation, and the 
mind becomes fallow, and the body loses its vital 
spirit, and disease and misanthropy follow. 
Now to such persons, I wish to suggest a means 
of becoming independent in a very few years— 
