Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1857-08-13

REAPGNG ny MAcHINERY VS.. HANn.-O,
the farm of Messrs. Garlic a Thomas, in IT..
bana, Illinois, Mr.. Dunlap found whoa,
field, consisting Of 1000 acres and in tbis
field Il rcoping machines at work This was
a sight worth seeing. truly, and one that has
been made possible only within u few years
BY the employment of twelve reapers tb;s
immense field can be put in shock in from
four TO five days Undcr the old system oe
cutting by hand il would require an army a.
one hundred "craders" the same length of
time. Or it would take ten "cradlors" from
forty to fifty days to complete the Job The
reader will see at once that il is only by tho
use Of machinery that farming can be con-
Quoted upon so extensive a scale. Suppose
this field should average twenty bushels In
the acre. and that il should net in the market
one dollar a bushel Hero will be the SNUG
little sum Of $4,000 realized from this farm
from wheat alone, less the cost of seed and
I labor and interest on cost Of land. This Is
somewhat larger in its results than famin.
operations as conducted before the invention
of roapers, throshers, otc-Chicago Fre,
I Press.
PHILADELPHIA. July %. David Wilmot
Union candidate for Governor Of this State
has addressed letter TO the American State
Council, in answer TO certain intcrogatories
propounded to him by Committee appoint
ed for that purpose lie takes ground sub
stantially upon the American Platform. ox.
pressing himself in favor of the election of
natives to office of the protection of native
mechanics of protecting the ballot box from
dcsecration Of free schools with the Bible in
them, and of the separation of Church and
State and is practically earnest in a rcmon-
STRANGE against the shipment Of foreign pau
: pors and criminals to these shores
Cur orr. On the 10th July. man nam
ed John Brown. while engaged in moving
with one Of Mannys Machines, in a field at
North Hoosick, thoughtlessly stepped before
it, when he was caught between the knives
one of bis legs being cut off just above the
ankle and the other badly injured We UNI
dorstand that the unfortunate man is doing
well. The safest place near these machines.
VIC should judge, is TO walk just bchind and
not in front Of them.-Bnaer.
IUTThe American Mining CArosicle says
that English manufacturers are forging the
brands and trade marks of our best iron upon
their worthless trade and sending il over
f here by the ship load English iron, as such.
no longer finds a market in competition with
that of American manufacture. -henco this
disroputablc trick
b The pceuliarities Of Scottish law viii GER
tainly continue to attract attention At Gron-
p ock police court, on Wednesday. boy thirteen
years of age, named Charles Ducan, was COM
s ycted Of stealing hat from the shop of O.
b halter in Cathcart street on the previous day
: and was sent down stairs to be whipped by
his mother.
The Bangor Me- Jouraol, established a..
straight Wing paper, has been united
. with the Bangor Damouai, an Admiuisira.
, ton paper.
: SoMETHINo RIcH. Tho next number Of
] Putnam will have Poem by SAKE, entitled
s d" The Countryman in Gotham, with illust'a-
4 tions by Hoppn.