Volume 08 (1864) (474 pages)

A. Mining J ournal--Devoted to News, Art, Science and Progress. VOLUME VII. SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, JANUARY 9, 1864. NUMBER 2. HUNTERS GRAIN SEPARATOR. Hunter's grain Separator is a new invention, and the only practieal working machine for farmers use, po:sessing all the different eombinations for separating the various kinds of grain, sueh as barley, oats, chess, mustard, turnip, eoekle and all brokeu and imperfect grains from wheat—thus rendering the wheat elean and perfeet for seed or shipping purposes. ‘Nhe advantages derived from reeleaning wheat are manifold:—TFirst, at least ten per ceut is saved in the purchase of saeks, for sacks hold ten per eent nore wheat after it is eleaned and tho refuse’ thrown asido; Second, the waste taken out, such as barley, oats and broken wheat, is worth as much as any other grain for feed purposes; Third, thn advantages of sowing clean seed are inestimable for the farming interest generully, as the soil * is thereby kept in a clean condition aud prevented, oftentimes, from going to waste. Tho shipper is willing and able to pay a higher price for re-eleaned grain, than for that which has not been subjeeted to such a provess; moreover the eredit of the State will thereby be redeeined in foreign markets; for it should be borne in mind that California has a suffered very much abroad from the imperfect mauner’ ‘ in whieh her wheat has generally been shipped. The eapaeity of this machine is equal to the eleaning of from 400 to 500 saeks per day, turned by ‘one man. The simplicity of the machine renders it next to impossible for it to get out of repair, and is sueh that any ordinary farm hand can take charge of tlic cleaning. The machine can be readily attached to a thresher, elevating the grain from one machine to the other, or set along side and turned by hand. Extra platesand sereens ean be used for oats and barley, rendering the barley fit for brewer's use, by taking out the imperfect and broken grains. All kinds of grain or seeds from the smallest to the largest ean be eleaned by using plates to suit the size. of the graiu. _ ’ The maehine has been fully tested to the satisfaction of numerous practical men who have unhesitat-' ingly aceorded to it, all the advantages, claimed for it by its inventor. The maehine as it appcars in our/ illustration, has been receutly improved, so that by it the separation of barley and oatsis made as perfeet'. as itean be done by machinery. ‘The construetion of the machine is plain and simple. The hopper A! is for reeeiving tho grain; it has a slide in the bottom by whieh the quuntity of feed is regulated, with a spreader underneath for spreading the grain evenly on the plates. The shutes B are eneh two feet wide and eight feet long, having six perforated zine plates, in each shute—the wheat passing throngh the plates, the barley and oats passing over and being deposited in box D; the wheat pusses throngh the openings in the bottoms of the shutes B aud returning over the ehess sehireeus of, sliutes C, of same width aud length with the upper shutes B, separating all seed, HUNTER’S PATENT GRAIN SEPARATOR. smaller than wheat, depositing the sereenings in each end of box BE, and dropping the wheat in the eentre. 'Yhe maehiuery employed is gear and pinion fly-wheel, main driving shaft G, with reversed eranks, and driving rods I’ giving a vertieal and reversed motion to the sliutes. . Any sized machine ean be mauufaetured, suiting the smallest or largest farmer ; or for warehonses or exporters for eleaning any amount of wheat per day. Letrer From Sonora.—A_ eorrespondent, writing from Sonora, under dute of Dee. 31, 1863, speaks in highly favorable terms of the benefits to the eopper interests, in that and adjoining counties, whieh have accrued from tbe letters of our “ ‘l'raveling Corres/poudent.” We tender our thauks for the good opinjon of “Coprrr,” who also sends us his real name, bnt our natural modesty will hardly allow us to give his letter to the public, We merely subjoin the following extract: “Ihave so mueh faith in the copfer nines of ‘this county, based upon the intelligent reasoning of your correspondent, that I can predict . for your paper a large eirculation. We can but regard your enterprise as a direct and positive benefit to the whole eountry.” ak “A LITTLE LEARNING” NOT “A DANGEROUS THING,” In speaking of setenee, we arc quite too apt to associate with the term a kind of exclusiveness—asort of an undefiued something whieh is not to be found in the workshop, ou the farm, at the mine, or in any of the eommou walks or oceupations of life. By a specics of arbitrary eustom, seience has been chiefly eonfined to the laboratory, to the library of the professional student or to the higher elasses in our eollegiate institutions. All this is bot a remnant of the exelusiveness of the earlyand middle ages, when learning was eonfined to the few and exeluded from the many. It has been the great work of the last eentury to throw off this inenbus and to make education universal, The result of this effort has been to . effeet a eomplete revolution in the soeial eonditiou of all ehristendom ; a revolution whieh has made itself apparent in the prodigious stride which the present and preceeding generation has taken in material propress, There is atill remaining, however, quite too much of what may be termed “old fogyism” with regard to scienee. Bnt the eontiuuance of this eondition of things, is owiug chiefly to the people themselves, who refuse to aecept the preeious boon of learuing when it is brought to their very doors. A greater fallacy was uever uttered than that eontained in the oft quoted couplet, beginning with “a little learning is a dangerous thing.” A little learning is nota. dangerous thing at all. It should be the aim of every one to sccure all the learning that his or her time and means ean eommand. The term “ science ” is too apt to be made a bugbear, conjured up by people, by whieh they are deterred from attempting to inform themselves beyond the mere, rudiments of edueation. Seienee, they think, must be left, as already hinted, to the laboratory or study—a thing not to be meddled with by the meehanie or miner. Thisisallwrong. There is science in everything. ‘There is science iu meehanism, there is seience in the simplest proeesses of mining, there is seience in every workshop and in every field—nay in almost every aet which we perform, There is geicuee in purehasing a horse, in making a shoe or in sinking a shaft. ‘Ehere is seienee in almost every transaction between neighbor and neighbor. When, by long observation and experiment any one has eollected aud arranged a mass of faets he has been addffie to science. Seicnee is a mass of facts, methodieally arranged—nothing more. We are dealing in seience every day. Whenever a man obtains a new idea or an additional faet with regard to his business he has aequired so much praetieal science, every item of which will be of value to him. He may drink as deep as he pleases of the piegrian spring, but let him never despise or fear even a dittle learning. Tur Larrp Ironciaps, constructed orignally for the Rebels, have been appraised to the British Goyernment, the one at $550,000, and the other ata little over $400,000. ,

A. Mining J ournal--Devoted to News, Art, Science and Progress. VOLUME VII. SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, JANUARY 9, 1864. NUMBER 2. HUNTERS GRAIN SEPARATOR. Hunter's grain Separator is a new invention, and the only practieal working machine for farmers use, po:sessing all the different eombinations for separating the various kinds of grain, sueh as barley, oats, chess, mustard, turnip, eoekle and all brokeu and imperfect grains from wheat—thus rendering the wheat elean and perfeet for seed or shipping purposes. ‘Nhe advantages derived from reeleaning wheat are manifold:—TFirst, at least ten per ceut is saved in the purchase of saeks, for sacks hold ten per eent nore wheat after it is eleaned and tho refuse’ thrown asido; Second, the waste taken out, such as barley, oats and broken wheat, is worth as much as any other grain for feed purposes; Third, thn advantages of sowing clean seed are inestimable for the farming interest generully, as the soil * is thereby kept in a clean condition aud prevented, oftentimes, from going to waste. Tho shipper is willing and able to pay a higher price for re-eleaned grain, than for that which has not been subjeeted to such a provess; moreover the eredit of the State will thereby be redeeined in foreign markets; for it should be borne in mind that California has a suffered very much abroad from the imperfect mauner’ ‘ in whieh her wheat has generally been shipped. The eapaeity of this machine is equal to the eleaning of from 400 to 500 saeks per day, turned by ‘one man. The simplicity of the machine renders it next to impossible for it to get out of repair, and is sueh that any ordinary farm hand can take charge of tlic cleaning. The machine can be readily attached to a thresher, elevating the grain from one machine to the other, or set along side and turned by hand. Extra platesand sereens ean be used for oats and barley, rendering the barley fit for brewer's use, by taking out the imperfect and broken grains. All kinds of grain or seeds from the smallest to the largest ean be eleaned by using plates to suit the size. of the graiu. _ ’ The maehine has been fully tested to the satisfaction of numerous practical men who have unhesitat-' ingly aceorded to it, all the advantages, claimed for it by its inventor. The maehine as it appcars in our/ illustration, has been receutly improved, so that by it the separation of barley and oatsis made as perfeet'. as itean be done by machinery. ‘The construetion of the machine is plain and simple. The hopper A! is for reeeiving tho grain; it has a slide in the bottom by whieh the quuntity of feed is regulated, with a spreader underneath for spreading the grain evenly on the plates. The shutes B are eneh two feet wide and eight feet long, having six perforated zine plates, in each shute—the wheat passing throngh the plates, the barley and oats passing over and being deposited in box D; the wheat pusses throngh the openings in the bottoms of the shutes B aud returning over the ehess sehireeus of, sliutes C, of same width aud length with the upper shutes B, separating all seed, HUNTER’S PATENT GRAIN SEPARATOR. smaller than wheat, depositing the sereenings in each

end of box BE, and dropping the wheat in the eentre. 'Yhe maehiuery employed is gear and pinion fly-wheel, main driving shaft G, with reversed eranks, and driving rods I’ giving a vertieal and reversed motion to the sliutes. . Any sized machine ean be mauufaetured, suiting the smallest or largest farmer ; or for warehonses or exporters for eleaning any amount of wheat per day. Letrer From Sonora.—A_ eorrespondent, writing from Sonora, under dute of Dee. 31, 1863, speaks in highly favorable terms of the benefits to the eopper interests, in that and adjoining counties, whieh have accrued from tbe letters of our “ ‘l'raveling Corres/poudent.” We tender our thauks for the good opinjon of “Coprrr,” who also sends us his real name, bnt our natural modesty will hardly allow us to give his letter to the public, We merely subjoin the following extract: “Ihave so mueh faith in the copfer nines of ‘this county, based upon the intelligent reasoning of your correspondent, that I can predict . for your paper a large eirculation. We can but regard your enterprise as a direct and positive benefit to the whole eountry.” ak “A LITTLE LEARNING” NOT “A DANGEROUS THING,” In speaking of setenee, we arc quite too apt to associate with the term a kind of exclusiveness—asort of an undefiued something whieh is not to be found in the workshop, ou the farm, at the mine, or in any of the eommou walks or oceupations of life. By a specics of arbitrary eustom, seience has been chiefly eonfined to the laboratory, to the library of the professional student or to the higher elasses in our eollegiate institutions. All this is bot a remnant of the exelusiveness of the earlyand middle ages, when learning was eonfined to the few and exeluded from the many. It has been the great work of the last eentury to throw off this inenbus and to make education universal, The result of this effort has been to . effeet a eomplete revolution in the soeial eonditiou of all ehristendom ; a revolution whieh has made itself apparent in the prodigious stride which the present and preceeding generation has taken in material propress, There is atill remaining, however, quite too much of what may be termed “old fogyism” with regard to scienee. Bnt the eontiuuance of this eondition of things, is owiug chiefly to the people themselves, who refuse to aecept the preeious boon of learuing when it is brought to their very doors. A greater fallacy was uever uttered than that eontained in the oft quoted couplet, beginning with “a little learning is a dangerous thing.” A little learning is nota. dangerous thing at all. It should be the aim of every one to sccure all the learning that his or her time and means ean eommand. The term “ science ” is too apt to be made a bugbear, conjured up by people, by whieh they are deterred from attempting to inform themselves beyond the mere, rudiments of edueation. Seienee, they think, must be left, as already hinted, to the laboratory or study—a thing not to be meddled with by the meehanie or miner. Thisisallwrong. There is science in everything. ‘There is science iu meehanism, there is seience in the simplest proeesses of mining, there is seience in every workshop and in every field—nay in almost every aet which we perform, There is geicuee in purehasing a horse, in making a shoe or in sinking a shaft. ‘Ehere is seienee in almost every transaction between neighbor and neighbor. When, by long observation and experiment any one has eollected aud arranged a mass of faets he has been addffie to science. Seicnee is a mass of facts, methodieally arranged—nothing more. We are dealing in seience every day. Whenever a man obtains a new idea or an additional faet with regard to his business he has aequired so much praetieal science, every item of which will be of value to him. He may drink as deep as he pleases of the piegrian spring, but let him never despise or fear even a dittle learning. Tur Larrp Ironciaps, constructed orignally for the Rebels, have been appraised to the British Goyernment, the one at $550,000, and the other ata little over $400,000. ,