Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Historic Newspapers Collection NO. IfOTJR. CEITTS. TWO DOXJ3L.-A.RS A. "PRO&EKSS -AJSX) IMPEOVEMENT." TOI. HE. NO. 34.} ROCHESTER, N. Y. -FOB THE WEEK ENDING SATUKDAY, AUGUST 23, 1862. {WHOLE NO. 658. beans are easily ruined by a little mismanagement be done for the plow? A subscription from a small MOORE'S RURAL NEW-YORKER, at harvesting. If allowed to remain wet or to lie in portion of those interested would defray expenses, THE LEADING AMERICAN WEEKLY compact heaps, they became stained and almost and an engineer and farmer, who knew their busi- RURAL, LITERARY AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. worthless. Some means must be devised for drying ness, might hit on an improvement that might be quickly without chance for heating or molding. made known to all. CONDUCTED BY D. D. T. MOOBE, This is a subject worthy of special attention; and if England was slow^ in following the American plan With an Able Corps of Assistants and Contributors. any of our readers know of an easy and excellent of ship building, and I suspect the new Holyhead way of accomplishing this work, we will most cheer- boats owe their speed as much to shape as power. CHAS. D. BRAGDON, Western Corresponding Editor. lully give the information to our readers. A gen- Now, if the sharp bow, the more gradual wedge of tleman gives the following as the very best plan for the boat, displaces the water with greater ease, TUB RURAL NEW-YORKER is designed to be unsurpasBed in drying, and for which he acknowledges himself should not the same principle hold good in dis- Value, Purity, Usefulness and Variety of Contents, and unique much indebted to the RURAL, in which it was given placing the earth with the plow. The new English and beautiful in Appearance. Its Conductor devotes his per- by a correspondent several years since:—Cut good, plows are sixty-three inches long from point of shear sonal attention to the supervision of its various departments, to end of mould-board, the Scotch only forty-five; and earnestly labors to render the RURAL aa eminently Reliable stiff poles, about eight feet long, so as to have one or Guide on all the important Practical, Scientific and other more limbs two feet and a half from the lower end. then what should they be made of? The beam and Subjects intimately connected with the business of those whose Cut the limbs off to six inches—in lieu of the limbs handles ol Lord Tweeddale's are of wood; the interests it zealously advocates. As a FAMILY JOURNAL it is American mould-boards of steel—sheet steel pressed eminently Instructive and Entertaining—being so conducted one and a half inch pins might be used—these will that it can be safely taken to the Hearts and Homes of people keep the beans off the ground. Set the poles firmly to the desired shape; while it is said there are im- of intelligence, taste and discrimination. It embraces more in the earth, and they are ready for use. Place a provements in American steel plows exhibited in Agricultural, Horticultural, Scientific, Educational, Literary handful of beans across the snag, and one across New York, made of cast steel, cast in iron moulds, and News Matter, interspersed with appropriate and beautiful thicker where most liable to wear, and thinner Engravings, than any other journal,—rendering it the most that on each side of the pole: wind the tops around complete AGRICULTURAL, LITERARY AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER so that they will .not fall apart, and build right up where they do not wear, and that they are cheaper, in America. •_ with the tops out, and so that the stack shall not be lighter, and better than other plows. * * * In a word, I think|the prize system, at as present con- or Terms and other particulars, see last page. over two feet and a half through. At the top of the stack the roots should be turned up and tied to the ducted, fails in giving farmers the information they pole, to hold them in place and turn off the rain, or require, and that a report something like that of the a little straw can be used for a covering. If well Times' Commission on the subject of plows would put up after this plan, the rain will never soak into be worth paying for. them, wMle the air can circulate under and through NOTES EST THE COUNTBY. the stack. Yield of Grain In England. » • • • <> THE Mark Lane Express gives a table compris- WHITTBMOEE'S NAJJCIONAJ^ PEED CUTTER. THOSE who are so fortunate as to live among the EUBOPEAN AGBICTJIiTUBE. ing the average yield per acre, of wheat, barley, green fields, and whose business is with the growing oats, beans, and peas, for thirty-eight counties) in OUR engraving represents the National Feed rolls to feed it, or a change of gear to vary the crops, cannot well appreciate the pleasure we de- New Land Hay vs. Old. England, prepared from returns received from cor- Cutter, for hay, straw, and stalks, and for fine and length of the feed. It has all the advantages of the rive from even a brief sojourn in the country. "With THIS subject has been treated of in the RURAL respondents of that paper. The average of the coarse cut. It is a recent invention, having been 'feed roll,' or fine cut machine, and will supersede our best efforts to add rural pleasures to a city or to a slight extent, and exhibited here, as it has in cereal grains mentioned are as follows: patented as late as April 29, 1862, by Mr. D. H.it, as it costs one-third less money, and works easier, suburban residence, and to surround our homes Europe, a diversity of opinion. A correspondent Wheat, 29 bushels. WHITTEMORE, of Worcester, Mass. This cutter was, because it has greater lever power and less ma- with fruits and flowers, and vegetables, and grateful Barley, 37M » chinery to move. It dispenses with all hide rolls, of the London Agricultural Gazette argues in favor Oats,..! 46^ " we are informed, thoroughly tested last winter, and shade, yet it is only a make-shift—pretty, tasteful, of the crop produced upon old land, and against became quite popular in sections where introduced. copper, or soft metal to cut against, and uses HARD- The lowest average of wheat in any county re- and even beautiful, yet lacking that broad expanse that known as seed hay. We quote: We have not seen it in operation, yet are inclined to ENED CAST STEEL instead, and is superior to any of hill and vale and stream, of sunshine and shade, turned, is 22f bushels per acre, in DevonsMre, and I know I am treading on debatable ground when believe it a very valuable machine—being well con- other Cutter in style and finish. The 'shear' cut is which can be enjoyed only in the open country. the highest 34£ bushels in Lancashire. The lowest structed, and furnished at a reasonable price. The produced by the edge of the knife passing the steel- We have just returned from a short journey among I state that new land hay is of less value for feeding average of barley is 29 bushels per acre, in Shrop- horses than old land; almost every farmer I have "National" is evidently worthy the attention of faced flange of the smaller cylinder above, while the farms and farmers of the south part of this shire, and the highest 44 bushels, in Northampton. parties interested, especially as it is "warranted both are in motion. It cuts from one-quarter to two county and portions of Ontario, and perhaps a few spoken to on the subject, has expressed his opinion The lowest average of oats is 34| bushels, in West- in favor of new land hay, and up to the year 18541 satisfactory and every way as recommended." The inches in length, as desired, simply by varying the notes may not be uninteresting to our readers. moreland, and the highest, 59J, in Cambridgeshire. position of the lower cylinder. When this shear cut- agreed with them. That year we bought about 150 inventor thus describes its construction, operation, ' As a general thing,Jfarmers are well satisfied with The beans mentioned are a kind not much culti- and advantages: ting cylinder is directly under the other it cuts long, tuns of new land hay, and, as an experiment, vated in this country. The average yield is 32£ the crops of the present year. Wheat has been c( This cutter is upon an entirely new principle of but by simply loosening the thumb screws (seen at stacked it separately from the old land. Our aver- bushels per acre. The average yield of peas is 30 remarkably good in all respects, and in anticipation cutting and feeding, and also of varying the length of the side) and throwing it out in front, (as in the en- age for three months with the latter was nine bushels per acre. of a like result another year, every foot of land that the feed cut. It is shear-cutting and self-feeding, graving,) it cuts shorter, and the further it is thrown can be got readyjis being prepared for wheat this st6nes per week for each horse. We then consumed out the shorter it cuts." See advertisement. the new land, and continued it for three months, but without the expense and complication of feed autumn. So great is the anxiety to put in a large WBSTEEK EDITOBIAL NOTES.