THE SEED OF THE CARROT.In order to save the seed of carrots, the plan is, to select annually the most perfect and best-shaped roots in the taking-up season, and either preserve them in sand in a cellar till spring, or plant them immediately in an open airy part of the garden, protecting them with litter during severe frost, or earthing them over, and uncovering them in March following.

It may have been near an hour after this, that the bo'sun pointed out to me that they in the ship had commenced to heave upon the great rope, and so I perceived, and stood watching it; for I knew that the bo'sun had some anxiety as to whether it would take-up sufficiently clear of the weed to allow those in the ship to be hauled along it, free from molestation by the great devil-fish.

The envelopment is completed before the needle has attained its highest point, and the consequent loose thread is immediately pulled up by a lever, called a positive take-up, before the needle begins to descend for a fresh stitch.

These are the dispensing with the old fashioned check brush and the use of a positive take-up.

But this particular arrangement bears so much upon the introduction of the positive take-up itself that further reference to it must be reserved until that device has been described.

Singer improved upon this by furnishing his machine with a spring take-up lever, partially controlled by the needle bar.

Now, an ideal take-up should not commence to act until the needle has ascended above the fabric, and one of the most important steps toward perfection in sewing machines was undoubtedly attained when such a device was actually invented.

This controls the movements of a lever called the take-up, pivoted to the machine (Fig. 4).

The introduction of the positive take-up, the first forms of which appeared in 1872, not only simplifies the movements of the shuttle or hook, but for the first time renders the making of the lock stitch possible, while the needle has a direct up and down motion.

The diagram shows a positive take-up in three positionsat the commencement of the needle's descent, during the detention of the loop by the beak, and during the casting off of the loop.

The intermittent movements of the take-up have thus led to the abandonment of variable motions in both needle and shuttle, and particularly so in oscillating shuttle machines.

The picture on the screen gives a general view of the No. 10 D machine, in which these motions are embodied, and showing the position of the positive take-up affected by those motions, a position which is preferred for very high speeds in this machine, especially for threads possessing little elasticity.

SINGER CO. For works claimed by Singer Co. SEE Singer Manufacturing Co. SINGER MANUFACTURING CO. Instruction for using and adjusting Singer sewing machines 400W1 to 400W5 high speed, lock stitch, double rotary thread take-up.

Singer Co. (PWH); 14Jan69; R454059. Instructions for using and adjusting Singer sewing machines 400W101, 400W102, 400W103 and 400W105, high speed, lock stitch, double rotary thread take-up.

SINGER CO. For works claimed by Singer Co. SEE Singer Manufacturing Co. SINGER MANUFACTURING CO. Instruction for using and adjusting Singer sewing machines 400W1 to 400W5 high speed, lock stitch, double rotary thread take-up.

Singer Co. (PWH); 14Jan69; R454059. Instructions for using and adjusting Singer sewing machines 400W101, 400W102, 400W103 and 400W105, high speed, lock stitch, double rotary thread take-up.

"You mean you don't like the 'taking-up' system.