Beebe’s Patent Grain Brill and Corn Planter. 
We give above a cut of this machine, which has been 
tested the past season, and found to work satisfactorily. 
It combines the power of drilling the land, dropping or 
distributing the grain evenly in drills, covering the 
seed, and finally rolling the surface; or rather it does 
all these at once. The machine is very compact, sim¬ 
ple in its construction, and of easy draft. The two 
horse drill is six and a half feet in width, and has 
nine drills at equal distances. In planting corn, only 
three drills are used, being three feet apart. The dis¬ 
tributing roller is so arranged that by means of a screw 
the number of kernels of corn dropped may be regu¬ 
lated at pleasure, and also in drilling any other kind 
of grain, the quantity may be varied in the same way. 
The box on the platform of the machine is capable of 
holding three or four bushels of grain, and the platform 
in the rear may also be used advantageously for car¬ 
rying extra bags of grain. The gearing of the machine 
and the action of the distributing roller, do not differ 
essentially from the best seed drills now in use. The 
drills are, however, so arranged that they can easily be 
shifted to make the required depth of furrow; their an¬ 
gle of inclination may also be changed at .pleasure, and 
each drill is independent of the rest. 
In the rear of the axle is a harrow, the teeth of which, 
following at the distance of about two inches from the 
drill furrow, completely .cover the grain. The roller, 
which is divided into two sections, for convenience in 
turning, finishes the work. The harrow and roller may 
be detached, and the drill used alone. The one horse 
drill has only five drills, at the same distance apart as 
the large drill. They can be built of any required size 
to suit purchasers. The price of the two horse drill is 
8100. The one horse drill 880. 
Messrs. Beebe and Wormer of this city are prepared 
to receive orders, and will exhibit the machine at the 
State Eair, and at the Albany County Fair. 
Value of the Turnep Crop. —In England, where 
the humid climate is more favorable than ours to this 
crop, and where the mild winters save much labor in se¬ 
curing it from frost, its annual value is estimated to ex¬ 
ceed a hundred million dollars. 
Experiments with Charcoal. 
We have been favored with the following extract 
from the forthcoming Report of the Survey of Essex 
County, by W. C. Watson, Esq., which will be read 
with interest: 
Enormous masses of dust or debris of the charcoal, 
accumulate about the iron works of the county, and 
create incumbrances and deformities. It has been an¬ 
nually spread in vast quantities along the highways, 
constituting an admirable material for roads. An in¬ 
calculable amount has been cast into the streams. The 
attention of men of observation and sagacity has been, 
within a few years, drawn to the use of this ingredient 
as a fertilizer. Experience has established its exceed¬ 
ing utility. In the midst of the disastrous drouth of 
last summer, while crossing a field in Moriah, oocupied 
by Mr. Richmond, in pursuit of some Durham cattle 
I wished to examine, I observed a lot with its surface 
deeply and singularly blackened. Upon inspection I 
found it thickly strewn with pulveriezd charcoal. The 
field presented a rich verdure, strongly contrasting with 
the parched and blighted aspect of the adjacent coun¬ 
try. 
The following detail of this experiment, supplied at 
my request, attests the value of this material as a fer¬ 
tilizing principle. “ The soil is loamy. The charcoal 
was applied on four acres of dry land, and one acre of 
moist soil, by top-dressing. The amount used was 
about one thousand bushels to the acre, spread on so as 
to make the surface look black, but not to incumber or 
obstruct vegetation. It was applied in September and 
October, 1850, at an expense by contract, of forty dol¬ 
lars. It was procured at a furnace, from a mass of 
pulverised charcoal left as useless, and was drawn one 
mile and a half. The effect was immediate. The 
grass freshened, and continued green and luxuriant 
after the surrounding fields were blackened by the early 
frosts. Although the last season had been so unfavor¬ 
able for vegetation, Mr. Richmond realized one-third 
more than the ordinary yield of hay, and sufficient to 
repay the whole outlay. He thinks that he cut nearly 
double the quantity of grass upon this lot, that he did 
upon any similar meadow on his farm, and that the 
quantity of the hay is improved.” 
