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THE CULTIVATOR 
Sept. 
stewart’s patent stump-puller. 
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Stewart’s Patent Stump-puller. 
The above is a representation of a machine which has 
been successfully used in several parts of this state and 
in the New-England states, for extracting stumps. The 
cost varies according to the size and power of the differ¬ 
ent articles—they being designed to possess a “ pur¬ 
chase” of 250 to 1000 tons, and are sold at $50 to $200 
each—the size in most common use costing the former 
sum. The operation of the machine is very simple, and 
may be readily understood from the cut, by persons who 
have only a moderate share of mechanical knowledge. 
A single horse is generally used for working the ma¬ 
chine, and this force is sufficient for most stumps, but 
some of extraordinary size may require an additional 
horse, or instead of horses, a yoke of oxen. The average 
length of time required for pulling each stump, is said 
to be about five minutes. For further particulars, in¬ 
quire of Wm. W. Willis, the proprietor of the patent, 
Orange, Mass. 
Suggestions.—Information Wanted. 
Eds. Cultivator —The usefulness of your paper, 
which no farmer who has read it for one year can deny, 
consists in a great measure in the facilities which it af¬ 
fords for the interchange of knowledge on subjects per¬ 
taining to agriculture. It is a field in which conflicting 
opinions can meet and receive judgment, and each volume 
is stored with a rich fund of experience, which is really 
invaluable to the young and inquiring farmer. 
But it should not be forgotten that a large proportion 
of the supporters of the Cultivator, those with whom it 
is the most important to get the “worth of their money,” 
are working farmers,—not proprietors merely, but men 
who cultivate their own land, milk their own cows, chop 
their own wood—men, in short, who do not rely upon 
the labor of others for their support. This class value 
an agricultural paper less for its theoretical speculations, 
or its fancy designs for houses and grounds, than for the 
published experience of practical and laboring men like 
themselves—the minute detail of experiments and farm 
management; the description of farm implements, and 
in short, everything which can interest a man who per¬ 
forms his work with his own hands, and who is, there¬ 
fore, grateful for any suggestions which will lessen his 
toil, or increase its reward. 
The Cultivator is not deficient in such information, 
but considering the extent of its circulation, and the 
number of its correspondents, it might have much more. 
There are many points connected with agriculture, 
upon which I have never seen published essays, and the 
discussion of which, by competent persons, would be in¬ 
teresting and instructive to many of your readers. For 
instance, I have rarely seen anything in The Cultivator 
throwing light upon the subject of clearing and manag¬ 
ing new lands, though its circulation extends throughout 
the western states, where thousands are now toiling in 
the midst of all the difficulties and privations of a pio¬ 
neer life. There are many now in your state, known as 
“ early settlers,” who in their youth encountered and 
overcame all these obstacles, and who might now devote 
a little of that leisure which their successful labor has 
secured to them, in communicating knowledge,—much 
of which was gained, no doubt, by many a sad experi¬ 
ence—and thus render the same road less rugged to oth¬ 
ers. Such information, to be really useful and accepta¬ 
ble to the class for which it is written, should embrace 
the minutest details. 
The difficulties and privations which surround the pio¬ 
neer, especially when he is wanting in capital, and his po¬ 
sition is isolated, are far from trifling. The most accu¬ 
rate calculation, and the closest economy of his means, 
are necessary; and the back-woodsman will often display 
a degree of calculating management, and an intellectual 
energy, far superior, as I think, to the most cunning ef¬ 
forts of statesmanship, which the world is accustomed to 
admire so much, for his object is a nobler and more sti¬ 
mulating one; it involves the welfare of a family which 
depend upon his toil, physical and mental, for its exis¬ 
tence. 
Permit me to suggest one other subject, out of several 
that occur to me, an essay upon which would be very 
useful and interesting to the inexperienced farmer, but 
more especially to the green back-woods man. 
To the working farmer, who constructs and repairs his 
own implements, puts up his own buildings, and whose 
ingenuity in these little matters is often severely taxed, 
an essay, by a competent person, upon timber and its 
uses, would be of great assistance. It should particu¬ 
larize the uses for which each kind of timber is best adapt- 
