The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-08-13
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT..
AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS.

IMPLEMENTS
All who love good cider (and who does not p viii
examine attentively /" Hckoks Patent Improved
Cider Mill" The great beverage of the agricultural
life is the juice Of the apple; aud farmer should
be considered fully capable Of representing the hos
pitaliy of his fraternity unless he is able 10 invite
his guest to join him in mug of hard cider during
the long winter evening. In the mode of making
cider, little improvement has been made, and the
heir has often ground his apples in the same good
old press that hi, father and grandfather used years
and years ago. In III former times it supposed
that large quantity OF cider could only be made by
| using ponderous machine, that slowly crushed the
apples, without grinding them fine. They were
then made into massive cheese, in straw, and
severe and long pressure necessary to extract
portion OF the cider, considerable quantity being
absorbed by the straw and the OF ponace. This
required great deal OF time and called into requi-
sition all the physical strength of the farm-the
horses, laborers, and all the girls and boys. This
new machine purports, with only two men, to make
from six TO twelve barrels of cider a day;
and will grind alone by horse power, from one hun
dred to three hundred bushels of apples This mill
is valued at $40 and promises to make cider cleaner
and sweeter than by tue oid-ashioned method In
the arrangement OF this mill the labor is divided by
arranging cutting cylinder to break the apples
and then deliver them to the lower cylinders to be
reduced to pomace. The press is arranged with a
much larger screw than formerly, and by very in.
genious device the use Of the bag is dispensed with
and the tub made to open at will to deliver the.
pomace The cylinders are Gsssssd with heavy
sheet zinc, both on their periphssa9 and ends; the
wood IN them is arranged so as not to swell, and
the whole work on the mill and press made in the
best manner, and arranged with especial view to
their durability and service. The machine is made
to run by horse, steam, or hand power, and when
the apples are ground small boy of IA years of age
can press the pomace with all ease One great adj
vantage OF this machine Is that it will not choke nm
and hard and soft apples be ground and vet the
cylinder remain clear and in grinding order Upon
examination, farmers can easily tell whether it will,
operate as 1t promises. All such new inventions as
this are worth inauiripg into.
cURIosITIEs.
In The American department. near the contrbu-
tons OF the Coast Survey is small glass case con-
tanning few interesting articles In it is displayed
the original log book of the Savannah, the first
steamship that ever crossed the Atlantic ocean; also
the silver tea or coffee urn presented TO Captain
rogers, OF the Savannah, by Lord Lyndhurst, who
was passenger in her from Stockholm to St Peters
burg The autograph letter Of Lyndhurst, accom-
panyiDg the present, IL also exhibited besides there
Is to be seen miniature likeness of Captain Rogers,
set in diamonds, presented to him by Alexander,
Emperor of Russia.
In the machine arcade is shown the cylinder of
the Savannah, contributed from the Allaire Iron
Works. The Savannah sailed in the year 1919 from
New York to Charleston, thence TO Liverpool; from
Liverpool to st. Petersburg touching at Copenhagen
md Stockholm. Though splendid offers were made
to Captain Rogers by the Emperor OF Russia TO re.
main in Europe, yet he preferred to return to Ame-
RIGA, where he safely arrived proving by the trip he
had made the feasibility of crossing the Atlantic by
steam power This cruise establishes the fact that
he Americans were the first to cross the Atlantic
by steam, though rival, Great Britain, has often
claimed that the Sirius was the first steamer who
performed this feat
NORTH CAROLINA COMMISSIONERS.
The following persons have been appointed by
Governor Reid, Of North Carolina, Commissioners to
he Worlds Fair in New York-John G. Bynum,
w ID Cook and Walter r.. Staee roa;danfu IF Nor@b