Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1845-08-14
From the American Farmer.
AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS.

Slbly might be OF advantage to some lew OIL
your readers, and it certainly would be gra-I
tifying to me if it proves so, that in the first
number of your useful paper, in its new
series, in more readable form, if few
words were offered concerning Agricultural
implements, and the places where they can
be easily obtained-I Judge others by my
self-young planters would often employ
better tools if they only knew where they
could be had-as one Of the largest reposi-
tories in this country, perhaps in the world,
is t. extensive and admirably conducted
agr lltural warehouse of r. Sinclair, jr. &.
Co IN Light street, Baltimore. Now that
l. mentioned it, allow me to say word
in niration of it. Every Planter and Far
me f our State who visits your beautiful
cit renowned more for the beauty OF her
dau tiers and the bravery of her sons than
for er lofty spires and monuments, should
go to- the establishment of Sinclair s Co. and
see with their own eyes the countless con-
trivances and ingenious machines, that skill
and industry have supplied to aid the far
mer and make his ''yoke easy and the bur-
den of labour Light - from the many enqui-
ries | made, learned that they employed
constantly forty hands, besides a great deal
of job work done elsewhere, and the steam
engine of ten horse power, with a vast deal
more of manual labor saving machinery con-
stanlly employed in supplying the wants of
the husbandman. There are made at this
house, annually, not less than so Corn Mills
and Crushers, $50 Wheat Fans, 300 Grain
Cradles, $50 Corn Shelters, $50 Cultivators.
at least SO Horse Powers, with as many
Threshing Machines.
| mention these to give my readers some
notion of the extent of their large concern :;
and were do mention only half of the end
less variety of Tools made there, ii would
be engrossing too much space and time ;;
but will say that every implement from a
foot pick to a threshing machine, from a
turnip sicer to beautiful grist mill, can be
had at this establishment. They have the
best facility Of supplying plants, shrubs and
trees from the celebrated Cairmont Nurse
ry conducted by old Mr.. Sinclair and Mr..
Corse.
They keep on hand every sort and varie-
ty of garden and field seeds for sale, and
have some fifty varieties of cabbage, and
twenty-five sorts of radsh seeds, notwith-
standing my neighbor over the way insists
upon it that there never were but the white
and red radish, and three kinds of cabbage
his oacn, neghbor Green's kind, and aunt
Sally's reddish stem cabbage. Every variety
of plow is to be found here understand
they manufacture annually some 3OOO-of
all their plows, and superior, all things con-
sidered, to all other plows, is their improved
Dolphin Sell-sharpener in my humble
opinion, it is ne plus ultra have waited
for nearly three months before ! gave this
opinion-in the meantime have tried it in
sandy, in clay, in hills, in bottom, in rooty,
in stoney, in stumpy, half grubbed land, and
have found it always equal to my most
sanguine expectation My two horse one
will, in clean sward, plow two and half
acres per day. 1t will turn the furrow as
well as any pillow ever saw. 1t plows as
deep as you could wish, but lis ordinary
depth is or s inches, and width of cut IA.
There is no pillow known in this country to
equal "Prouty s. Mears' Centre-draught"
for beauty of work and pulverisng the soil,
where it is in the hands of careful white
man, but then, it is adapted to clean, smooth
fallow. ] have seen them in rough land
Itlu VII W ny VIII tlht pun
ed by fits and starts, and Prouty & Mears
would have laughed at the work, and said
20 the master, 6 buy one of our plows,"
if they did not know that their pillow had
done it. But | have seen this plow of
Sinclair s Co.'s in the toughest ground
turning over tussocks, grub roots, mats of
grass, beds of brlar roots, and doing good
work in the hands of careless negro in
such land as described; and upon clean
turf it is as beautiful working pillow as i
wish to sect is equal to any in the world,
and call it the ''Maryland Plow." One
of its chief advantages is its being so strong
that our negroes cannot destroy it by their
negligence, carelessncss or natural rough
ness: the beam is not weakened by NOR
tice through it for the coulter, but is screw
ed on to the side of the beam, and sup
ported by iron lodges. The mould board
is beautifully curved, and the point is of
wrought steel, and capable OF being re-
yersed at least dozen times. The clevice,I
or draught tackle, is new and simple, and
peculiarly we'll constructed to prevent the
possibility of breaking the beam, and may
be shifted in the field to give the pillow
greater or less depth, and more or less land :;
this admirable tackle alone, if attached to
ordinary plows, would make them much
more valuable-it is strong, durable, useful
and cheap, and does beautiful work in the