New-York daily tribune., 1856-05-03
hat any farmer could carry on 20 az to save all the


waste matter OF the farm.
soLos RoBIs.oy -,oke Of The value of fish, and the
necessity Of bringing back fertility from the sea that
we are daily washing down from the hills. He said
Efforts have Been made to convert the vast quantities
Of king crabs that come the coast of New jersey
into manure.
The experiment has been eminently successful; aud
fsms veIy anxious 10 obtain this fish gusno,
considering il cheaper than ths. from Peru. Some.
thing has been done by gentleman of Providence, X.
L. IN concentrating the ftrizing material Of fish into
dry powder that can be kept transported easily
- eusno.
Prof Hare of Phladelpba gave bis opinion some
y, ego in favor Of fish guano His plan simply
to tvsporete the water aud grind the fish into powder.
TIE plan Of Mr. Bruce is first 10 reduce the fish to
fluid state and th add other substances and reduce
to dryn.ss.
II s fact that cannot be controverted that farmers
generally haul water than manure to their fields.
Lock at the loads of manure going out OF this city.
What il it Straw part horse dropping part,
Croton water three parts. Three tiths Of the weight
nothing but water not one whit better than the water
of tie farmers well, or brook running through the
farm Il is beyond dispute that are washing the
f,rtiy Of the earth into the Ii il an attendant
upop he march Of civilization. First we denude the
the land of trees then leaves and leaf mold AMI then
the soil; all that is productive IL washedaway.
We ale filing the sea aud fattiDg the fish, while the
earth grows barren. To the sea we must look tor
restorer of earih's fertility We must bring hack whit
we are sending away. Fish is the most feasible source
10 wbrh we een look, and all the sea-board d~eiers
unless the water s evsporaed and the remainder de-
odorised Ard this must be by some easy, cheap pro-
cess. We hope this has been discovered, as wen ss
reducing the ofa Of cities into some transpotabie
form. To the sea have sent the fertility OF the
eaitl-to the must look for its restora alton.
DR.. WATERBURY thought there were still all the e-
ements of fertility in the earth that were originally
created and the only difficulty was, that farmers neg
ected 10 apply them The natural salts of the earth
carried of in exported yrain compared to the whole
quantity in the earth, are napprecably small;
Mr. TUTTLE replied TO this argument, that however
true Il might be that the granite rocks Of mountains
contained the elements of fertility the sands Of New
jersey were lot benefited thereby.
NV MH-Mr. Thomas Blanchard of Boston, the
Inventor of the eccentric turning lathe aud aso thai
very extraOroDsry machine that bends ship timber out
of straight sticks without breaking the gram exhibited
a model of new grain mil, constructed upon an en-
trely different principle from any other grain ever
invented Although this model Is upon very sinai
scale il was working model aud excited the intense
acmI alton Of all the members present. The ncple
upon which it acts will attempt briefly to Describe.
In short, instead of grinding, It saws the gram, OF
wtatt yer substance IL put into the hopper.
For handml, steel disks, about two inches diam.
eter are struck out of sheet steel, with serrated
edges, to make notch or tooth every haitinch
or inch around the edge. These disks are put upon
an sbor with plates washers between each par, oi
the same thickness the saws till the arbors covered
about an inc in eugth Another set exactly like this
are placed upon another arbor, 50 arranged that tue
edges come between the on the other arDor-she
TWO beng gPafeQ tOge1ntr 80 us " mnhO ."0n ~
volve toward each otner. These acts of plates may
be continued to indefinite length-cach set being
finer than the preceding. ~
The hopper s made to discharge fast or siow Ny tne
sau motion of the driving crank, to suit the strength
of the operator. II is also made to slide 50 as 10 ohg
the opening over each set of disks Now, suppose you
want to grind jurt fine enough Tor hominy, .ne
homer is set over the coarsest set Of disks ana the
corn run through, falling upon shaking screen that
SITS ont all the finer portion. Now if you wish to
grind that still fner push the hopper forward and run
the meal through again and again II you IKE :,
As the teeth never can touch each other, 80 as 10
wear of dull by the grinding operaton Ike the cast
iron mills or burr stones they will continue sharp un
worn ont by the grain itself, which they have talled 10
do Fix months use. As before remarked, ine graln
is not gound it is cut up by these little circular SAWS
and whatever in contact with them Is reunced
TO Dust either or fine, accordingto the saws
in operation. mill be built upon large sale 10
90 by power, as TO grind grain of ha dozen ue-
grees Of fneness at the same time.
The inventor fully believes that this principle OF re-
ducing grain 10 fineness will take less power thah
any other before applied to that purpose ana we
believe that every present concured fully 10 this
opinion. II grinds every description of grain with
equal facility, and will not clog with wet oats or buck
wheat.
DR.. WATERBURY suggested that it would supersede
all other mills for grinding woody fiber used by drug
gists.
The inventor said it would grind bones with great
AGILITY. He thought it would answer to grlnd hsh
guano.
GEo. PUNPELLY Of Owego, thought the invention
one of incacuable advantage to farmers, Is it would
enable them reduce all their grain and perhaps hay,
to me al before feeding it.
SoLOs ROBINSON thonght the invention worthy OF oil
consideration developing entire new principle in
the mode of reducing grain to meal. He wished to
know the expense of a mill of suitable size for fam
ily-say one horse power. a.
Mr. BLAScHRD said the mill easy that one
man would do the work of one horse upon ordinary
mill. .o|
He thought such q mill could be built for s25oI
will be shortly made their manafdc-
ture on a large scale.
a,xaer's Gardens-The time of the Club having
been taken up with other interesting matter but litte
sad upon this subject, and it was continued til
the next meeting.
SoLok RoBIssoS said il great error OF farmers
to endeayor to raise vegetables in small enclosure,
when all the work must be done by the spade. He
advocated planting everythir in long rows. where
they could be cultivated with horse hoe.
CuAMRER OE COMMERCE.