. The Plough, the loom, and the anvil. us knowledge^one who possessed a thousand times more of aspirit to be useful to the country and his fellowmen, many who derided his enthusiasm,without emulating the generous impulses inwhich it was founded and the purposesto which it would have prompted him. 520 INFLUENCE OF PASTURE ON SHEEP. This potato washer is one of the most laborsaving contrivances we have seen in , it seems to be a small affair, bnt everything that saves a minute is important in a coun-try like ours, where, above all others, labor ishigh and time is mone
. The Plough, the loom, and the anvil. us knowledge^one who possessed a thousand times more of aspirit to be useful to the country and his fellowmen, many who derided his enthusiasm,without emulating the generous impulses inwhich it was founded and the purposesto which it would have prompted him. 520 INFLUENCE OF PASTURE ON SHEEP. This potato washer is one of the most laborsaving contrivances we have seen in , it seems to be a small affair, bnt everything that saves a minute is important in a coun-try like ours, where, above all others, labor ishigh and time is monet/. The aimexed sketch of a machine for wash- ing potatoes, which is used in Nottinghamshire,may be acceptable to some of your readers. Itis easily made by any village workman. andwill be found very effectual. It is simply achurn-like cylinder, with open bars placed atsuch a distance as to prevent any of the pota-toes from falling through, except very smallon«s, the lower part of which as it revolves,passes through a trough of It may be made to be easily unshipped, likea churn, or fixed more permanently, as in thesketch. AVhere many potatoes are used, orwhere it is requisite to wash them for starch-making, it will be found a very valuable acqui-sition.—M. J. B. [We have long used a wash-er similar to that here figured—differing from it,indeed, but in one particular: that one, howev-er, of considerable importance. The arms hererepresented as containing the sockets in whichthe axle of the cylindiical frame revolves, arein our machine not vertical and straight, butarched, and terminating in extremities over- banging the ground, considerably beyond thecistern to which they are attached ; the cylin-der, too, revolves not in sockets pierced in thesearms, but in Ys at the side of them ; and aftei-—by its revolution—the potatoes in it have beencleaned, chains from the extremities of the anusare hooked into eyes on its axle, and as the ro-tation proceeds, these, winding
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