The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1857-07-08
ISrrnlon DEPARTMENT.


The Agrieuhsral Cslelraon al Vienna Machinery The
Patent Office has received from Vienna interesting
port of the machinery exhibited the recent agricultural
exhibition at that place In the report is stated that
the United States has little TO learn from the continent
in regard to the making Of ploughs If there any
thing in the exhibition worthy of introduction and adop
ton in this respect it only TO be found in the Eng
sh department American ploughs, or duplicates made
by English Manufacturers had found considerable sale in
England since the great exhibition Of 1851 and the gov
eminent establishment at Grgnon, in France had adopt
ed the American form Of plough being better adapted
TO the requirements of the country.
Steam poughing had been brought very nearly if not
quite, to state of practical utility in England while
France claimed to have the best form of implement and
to have Appropriated nearly to perfect result
The French machine consists Of series of picks opera
ted and attached to selfpropcllng engine. Most of
the attempts made in England had been confined to the
traction of series of poughs either by engine pro.
polling itself and drawing the ploughs after it, by pa
cling the engine in the middle of the field and drawing
the ploughs from side to side end Of the field by
of wrerope passing round large pullcys attached
to movable anchors at each Of the two of the
field, when the plouging is commenced Reversing the
motion of the engine the motion of the pougs
These consist of two series six eight in all mounted
facing each other at opposite ends Of long framing sup
at work the other is three four feet above the
ground This mode of ploughing requires large amount
of apparatus and acsling involving outlay of about
twelve hundred dollars, besides the engine Boyelrs
engine, with its endless railway attached the periphery
Of the travelling Wheels it is thought by many practical
men, viii be the most successful and will supcscde all
other modes of employing steam for the cultivation of the
soil It's power of turning in its length and trav
esing and marshy ground has for it the apt
of the steam horse =
Several kinds of drills then described after which
it is stated that the demand for eapng and moving
Chimes especially for the extensive plains of Hun
gary where twelfth of the gross produce is given for
harvesting alone and where, at this exorbitant
rate Of payment loss is sustained from the
winds Smelling the over-rpened crop and at times the
impossibity Of securing crop ut ALL has called for
extensive and varied collection of these machines all of
which less Of American origin. Count
Otto Chotu of Bohemia exhibited ono of Mr.. McCor-
mick's reapers which he had just received from Chi
cago.
The report closes with description of horse rollers
which large number exhibited mostly modifca,
ons OF the English pattern, and of the American rcvo-
ing roller
lind Patents.-It is rule of the General Land Office
In the issuing Of patents upon duplicate certificates of To-
cation Of warrants upon duplicate receivers receipts
to transmit them the local officers where the land
located entered for delivery upon the surrender of the
duplicates but if the duplicates sent to the General
Land Office the patents will be transmitted directly to
the party surrendering such duplicates
Contract for Supplying Staioney1he Secretary of the
Treasury has given the contract for supplying the Treas
ury Department with stationery during the present fiscal
year to r. Farnham esq, of this city.
The forthcoming Land Office Report instructions have
already been issued by the Commissioner of the General
Land Office to the various land officers in the employment
the department to prepare and forward their respective
accounts order to make up the usual annual report for
Congress The early attention to this business render
ed necessary view Of the distant fields of operations
including the Territories of California and Oregon, Wash
ington and New Mexico