The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1847-11-19
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rr,n n. n. Y. Farmer and Mechanic.
improvements IN agriculture.


the improvements which have beer
made in agriculture within the las
City years, is from the pen Of Alex
ander Walsh, Esq.
TIE Ploagh.-In this Implement
The advance in thirty years has beer
truly astonishing. There is scarcely
less difference between the neat cast
iron plough of the present time and
the clumsy wooden article used foi
the purpose at that period, t,nn be-
tween that and the iron-Poin,ed
crotched slick used BY the sncisais'
In the case of working aud the effect
produced on the sail, every insn,
competent to iadge, will admit that
the difference effected by approve
men. in the thirty years Is cqna!io 20
per cent
71reshmg NachmcS.-LN!er.-
cnce shows that the farmer who gets
out and sells hisgrain in autumn, ad-
hitting that prices are the same, re-
nlizes at least l0per cent. more than
he who does not dispose Of his crop
til, the following spring. Bat 1t may
be safely asserted that in grain grow
ing districts tue whole force tot the
farm. il devoted 10 that object alone,
would net be able 20 bring his grain
into market in the fall il threshed by
hand. Hence the thresbing ma
chine has comet aid, and does the
work so much better and quicker
than It can be done by hand, that the
getting out ola thousand bushels OF
wheat is counted small affair.
Tie Horse-rGke.-With this in
strument, on land fitted as meadows
ALWAYS should be, one man and horse
will do the work of six men with
hand rake,. Tie value of this labor
saving machine will not be disputed
by those who have tested its power
when time presses or storms lower
over the hay field. is not less val
liable as cleaner in the wheat and
barley stubble, where no care can
prevent quantity Of grain being
left, surprising to one who has never
CLEANED with the horse-rake.
agricultural .AsSocidtions.-The
splendid agricultural Improvements
now here and there exhibited, are
the results OF agricultural journals
and agricultural associations, where
enterprising individuals meet period
ically, and, by interchanging their
IDEAS, increase the general stock, in
at least the compound ratio to their
numbers each one returnes home
with the knowledge possessed BY the
whole, and with commensurate
stock of new suggestions for future
experiments and reflection. The
spontaneous operations of the human
mind, in an unassistcd state, require
ages to arrive at results which the
united efforts Of numerous individu-
ais excited by emulation, would pro-
ducc in perhaps a few days. Most
other employments lead to associa-
tons, while the farmer remains in an
isolated state, scarcely regarding
the operations ofhis neighbors,
Agricultural associations of this
and other states have already effected
wonders, and these wonders are now
becoming the JOINT stock of the agri-
cultural society of this state, which
has been got up by the unremitting
and pcrsevering exertions of few
gentleman, who have thereby con-
.ferred lasting benefits upon their
conntrymcn,
flight Of CaAis.-The records Of
the Smithheld market in London,
prove that within one hundred years,
the average weight OF the cattle kill
cd for that market has nearly doub-
led, rising from between four and
five hundred, to between sew
en- and eight hundred, and the great
erpart Of this increase has been in
the lqstforty years. 1t is.calculated
that the cattle offered at the Bright
market, near Boston, average al
least fifty per cent. more at the pre-
sent time than they did twenty
years since. This improvement we
owe to the knowledge brought to beal
on the breeding of attic and agrica!-
ture generally.
Mprored Pigs.-llere i, an i'm.
proyement, which no one, however
slightly acquainted with the animal
can deny. The dullest eye can dis
tinguish between the round, fat
beautiful Berkshire, and the thin
iio.,ng-no'e and long-legged hound
like creature, which seems more fit
tea Tor the chase thant the sly. TIL,
difference in his corn crib, .and still
more in his pocket. The diffcrenc,
In the cost offecding and in the porl
made between the improved varie
ties and those generally fed 25 year
SINCE, Is not less than Az nor nan,