New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1843-02-15
improvements in she Agriculture, Arts
and Production of the United states.

odium.
Improvements in ;he Agriculture, Arts
and Production of the United states.
We have just received through the kindness OF
Hon. H. w. ELLSWORTH, Commissioner of Pat
en,s, his Report, for the year 1843, of the Inven
tions, Improvements in Machinery, in Arts, and in
Industrial and Economical Processes, with Stats
tics of the Population, Production, &c. &c. of the
several States for the year l842. The amount OF
information herein presented of profound and posi-
tive practical interest to the whole People of our
country has rarely if ever been excelled by the
contents of any public document. The nature and
scope of its topics viii be CLEANED from the fol.
lowing enumeration:
PATENT OFFICE, January 81, lS4S.
Dear Sir: Allow say that shall this day forward
TO the Speaker my Animal Report; and beg leave
mark that have, during the year past taken much pains
10 collect facts and statistics which hope will be interest
ing TO the community
In addition the ordinary details of the Office, which
show surplus Of over s5e0o have presented,
The OF the inhabitants in each State and Ter
rit ry up to January, 1885,
ID The amount of agricultural products an the surplus
with the causes offailures in some States
3d. The disposition Of this and the increasing surplus by
diversion OF labor ur expectation.
4e The present value OF American produce in foreign
markets. with price offreights, &c.
5h The tariffs of feregp nations agricultural pro-
9Th The ability Of this country to compete with CONT
mental Europe in the British market
7Ih- The colonial tariff of Canada.
ah. The admission Of American produce Into England
via Caada atcoonia duties especially the operation O! the
duty on wheat and Hour after July next
9Th The experiments eisugarmahing fros corns,ak in
the different States, with directions how 10 overcome
ioh. Manufacture Of oil and candles from lard; our abi.
tyta export Sio0, 900, 200 annually.
lh. The comparative value OF sperm oil and lard OIL as
tested by numerous experiments
18th. An improved mode of enclosing prairie lands, and
the better mode of cuilivating timber lands.
18th An economical mode OF building, especially on lhe
With many other suggestions for the improvement OF agf
culture.
Much Of the information is given in tabular form,
compansd with few plates, to DE impressed with wood
cnts (at very ,rihng expense) explanatory
To avoid opportunities have added instruction for the
manufacture Of cornak sugar and also oil candles
fro lard As the session short, will not the House
consent to receive the Report ard order be printed
matters suggested may require correction! Should
seem late to present the Report wsud observe that the
law allows the month Of January complete H. and
the desire embody the latest Information from Europe
and the Caaadas, will, rus,, appear satisfactory.
Respectfully yours, HENRY l. ELLSWORTH.
Hon. ROBERT MCCLELLAN, Chairman OF the CsmMee on
Patents House OF Representatives.
We cannot find room here for more than
glance ut some of the facts embodied in this Re
port. These are as follow:
Indian corn may be raised in the West at So
per acrcshe cost of ploughing, planting and till
ing, with the cultivator-and then turned into
pork BY allowing the hogs to gather 1.-THE corn
thus coating but little over cents per bushel,
tears). Hogs in this way may be brought with
cut feeding to weigh 800 lbs, al which size after
taking Oh the tive hams, they may be tried up by
tho new stcamlng process, and made TO Weld IN
average Of so per cent of lard. BY this process
hogs may be made to nct in the Yves, So to 50. SO
per hundred instead of $l,5e, which is the avs.
rags now realized for them. A new article Of
lard of the purest white, very hard. and unaasc,.
ed by the heat Of the climate, is produced by
recently discovered process, at extra cos. Of
osly half a cent per pound. Hogs may be easily
kept through the winter BY sowing fields Of rye,
and allowing them to run on them. Thus pork
may DO produced in unlimited quantity at cost
Of 81 per hundred.
Lard oil is now manufactured in vast quantities
at tbs West and the business is rapidly extending,