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THE FARMER'S MAGAZINE, 



serves the grass ia falling over the cutters from being de- 

 posited amongbt the standing crop. This arm is firmly 

 attached to the frame of the machine, and a spring ex- 

 tends from the near side of the frame to a smaller tra- 

 velling wheel, which ))reserves the position of the whole 

 machine, and keeps tiie cutting arm close to the 

 ground, while allowing all irregularities of surface to be 

 allowed for without the attention of the man who drives. 

 The scheme is ingenious ; but one would expect either 

 the horse power employed to be less or the breadth of 

 swathe greater. The price is ^^30. The well-known 

 reaper belonging to this firm was also here, with screw- 

 platform for side-delivery in swathe, and conical divid- 

 ing roller. Then we have Child's patent grain separator, 

 a machine which introduces a new principle, " weighs 

 every kernel of grain separately," and manages to 

 despatch 50 quarters per day, roughing, dressing, and 

 blowing at one operation in a very perfect manner. The 

 novelty introduced in the machine consists in the fact 

 that the fans revolve in an enclosed drum creating a 

 vacuum in a chamber behind. The air rushing to sup- 

 ply this vacuum, enters only at one point, and meeting 

 there with the dressed grain in its final descent from the 

 riddles, carries it up in a very surprising manner, and 

 holds it suspended in a chamber the same width as the 

 back of the machine. If good and true the grain under- 

 goes the test and falls to the heap to be raked away to 

 the bushel ; but if light and chaffy, it is drawn upwards 

 into a larger space where the current is less severe, and 

 drops into the place allotted to it. The air then parses 

 out behind, catching the grain as it falls from the hopper, 

 carrying with it almost every vestige of chaff' with which 

 it is there mixed. The price of this machine is £2<d. 

 We hear it is much used by maltsters and millers ; and 

 we think a simple macliine without so much riddle 

 surface might now be constructed at less expense to 

 finish the grain as it comes in its nearly prepared con- 

 dition from our combined thrashing and dnssing ma- 

 chines. Certainly this is the most novel piece of ma- 

 chinery in the whole show, embodying as it does a 

 totally new principle. There was a cheap, and what 

 seemed to be a likely potato plough, also an American 

 implement, as well as the celebrated American churn. 



Skirving, Liverpool, — a very fine collection ; one 

 mangold 46 lbs. weight ; the long reds splendid, and the 

 swedes of admirable quality. 



Parkes,— steel forks, two, three, four and five-tine, 

 all additionally recommendable for the amount of work 

 they get out of the men. The reiga of iron is fast 

 coming to a close in the matter of forks as well as 

 elsewhere. 



Barrett and Exall,— a neat two-horse -engine for 

 chaff-cutting and pulping, &c., at i,105 ; chaff-machines, 

 corn-crushers, and endless-band-saw. 



Samuelson. — On this stand, in addition to his corn- 

 mills, chaff-cutters, root-pulpers, single and double- 

 action turnip-slicer (with the new plates to be added for 

 mincing small for lambs), Mr. Samuelson exhibits the new 

 American reaping-machine. The novelty consists in the 

 automaton raker-off ; not like that complicated piece of 

 ingenious mechanism familiar to" us a few years ago, but 

 a remarkably light and simple contrivance, which effects 

 the delivery of the cut corn in sheaf-bunches out of the 

 track of the horses. The " cut" is five-feet wide. There 

 is a reel, recently improved so as to have six fans in- 

 stead of four. The price is £'32 10s. The question is, 

 whether the raker will perform as well on heavy crops 

 as we hear it does on light unes ? 



Ckosskill's reaping-machine is so well known that 

 we need only mention it as an improvement upon Bell's 

 original, the hor.-»e.s walking behind, and the corn being 

 delivered on either side at pleasure, by means of belts 

 traversing across the slanting platform. The world- 



wide known carts, and the simple Archimcdian root- 

 washer of this firm, were also exhibited. 



On IIounsby's stand we observed a newly-patented 

 plough, in which the usual cast-iron body is discarded, 

 and the sole, etc., attached to wrought-iron " legs" 

 welded to the beam. Lightness and simplicity are the 

 result J and the plough is certainly one of considerable 

 promise. 



Dray and Co. exhibit the " Champion" reaper, a 

 well-known improvement upon Hussey's machine, with 

 tipping platform for facilitating delivery in sheaf. 



BuRNEY AND BELLAMY, Millwall,— a Sample of 

 their superior iron cisterns. 



Greening and Co., Manchester, — specimens of 

 galvanized iron-wire netting. 



David Hart, London, — an expansive wtighing- 

 maehine, with a very good reputation. 



Wheeler, Oxford, — turnip-graters on Moody's 

 principle. 



Cambridge, — winnowing - machines ; combined 

 ribbed and clod-cnisher rollers, which look very likely 

 to clog; and chain-harrows, that are creating no small 

 astonishment by the efficiency of their working, par- 

 ticularly in the gathering of couch-grass and freeing 

 it from clods, &c., in their capacity to follow the drill, 

 and to harrow short dressing on grass land. 



Bextall — his deservedly favourite root-pulpers, 

 for steam and hand- power, chafi'-machines, harrows, 

 wooden-beam plough, cultivator, and a cheap cake- 

 breaker. 



Wedlake and Dendy, — a fixed engine. 



Bedford and Impey, — root-pulpers and turnip- 

 cutters. 



The Dublin Agricultural Society, — a col- 

 lection that exhibits, in a wonderful degree, the great 

 fertility of the virgin soil that is waiting to repay 

 English capital and Irish industry. 



Eaton, Thrapston, — economical combined wood 

 and iron safety jack. 



Wood, Stowmarket, — a large show of corn-crushers, 

 chaff-cutters, and Phillips' turnip cutter. 



.Sawney, Beverley, — winnowing machines. 



Rans«omes and Sims, — rotary turnip-cutters ; in 

 which the root is carried to the cutter, instead of the 

 cutter to the turnip, which is the generally recognized 

 principle. A large display of chaff-cutters, and corn- 

 crushers, and cake-breakers, and mills of various de- 

 scriptions ; besides ploughs, &c. 



Barnard and Bishop, — root-pulpers and turnip- 

 cutters, &c. 



Martin, Barmer, — a Gardner's turnip-cutter, re- 

 versed, by which the roots are cut inside the barrell, 

 instead of outside, and the last piece is professedly 

 dealt with. 



Smith, Kettering, — a simple, effective-steerage, 

 three-row turnip horse-hoe. 



Hunt, Essex, — winnowing atid seed-shelling ma- 

 chine. 



Fowler, — all sorts of pumps, &c. 



Warner, — double and single action pumps, fire- 

 engines, liquid-manure distributors, &c. 



Lyne, Malmsbury, — a patent field stile, of singu- 

 larly ingenious construction, for footpaths in pleasure- 

 grounds, church-roads, and foot-crossings on railways. 

 Price £2. 



Smith and Ashby, — haymaker, chaff-cutters, and 

 a natty two-horse engine. The chaff-cutters manufac- 

 tured by this firm are to be recommended. 



Haywood, Derby, — a capital two-horse engine 

 for ,£70. 



Professor Varnell, — stable fittings. 



Smyth and Sons, Suffolk,— several corn-drills of 

 a serviceable character. 



