Mechanics' magazine and register of inventions and improvements . f the machine, and I think the advantagesgreat. I am advised by Mr. Van Kleek, ofyour State, who has witnessed its operations,to exhibit it at Albany, before Mr. Van Rens-selaer, and other patrons of agriculture inthat vicinity. This I shall do as soon as Iconveniently can. It is my determination to dispose of onlya half or fourth of a right to a state, until itshall recommend itself to the public. Al-though the invention has been patented byme nearly a year, yet I have not heretoforebrought it into any notice, having been de-te
Mechanics' magazine and register of inventions and improvements . f the machine, and I think the advantagesgreat. I am advised by Mr. Van Kleek, ofyour State, who has witnessed its operations,to exhibit it at Albany, before Mr. Van Rens-selaer, and other patrons of agriculture inthat vicinity. This I shall do as soon as Iconveniently can. It is my determination to dispose of onlya half or fourth of a right to a state, until itshall recommend itself to the public. Al-though the invention has been patented byme nearly a year, yet I have not heretoforebrought it into any notice, having been de-termined to perfect it as far as possible be-fore exhibiting it. Your very obedient servant, James D. Woodsidit:.Washington City, D. C, May 9,1833. Remarks.—We think very favorably ofthe above, and hope farmers will show aprompt disposition to favor the inventor, who,we understand, devised the plan and super-intended the work of placing the colossalstatue of Washington on the summit of theMonument in Baltimore.—[Ed.] Description of an Improved Stercorary. 273. Description of an Improved Stercorary—com-municated ill a Letter to Dr. James Mease,of the Agricultural Society of Philadel-phia, by David Hosack, M. D. [For theMechanics Magazine.] New-York. May Sir,—When you did me the fa-vor of a \-isit at Hyde Park, during thelast summer, you expressed a wish to re-ceive from me a sketch and description otthe shed or stercorary I have erected in mybarn-yard for the purpose of preser\ing andimproving the qualities of manure. Ha\ingmany years since, when Professor of Bo-tany in Columbia College, taught the princi-ples of vegetation and agriculture as con-nected with that department of science, anddiscoursed up»n the food of plants, the na-ture and qualities of soils and manures, youwill readily believe that upon removing intothe countr\ and engaging in the practicalduties of farmi:ig, my attention would beprimarily directed to accumulate, preserve,and improve the cont
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