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THE FARMER'S MAGAZINE. 



the off-side of the implement, leaving a furrow for the 

 four horses to walk in. This implement may be used sepa- 

 rately for paring, ploughing, or scarifying, and may be 

 employed as a traction machine for steam power. 

 Spiked bands arc made, by a simple process, to 

 embrace the hind wheels, to ensure the constant speed 

 of the revolving forks, which are thrown in or out of 

 gear as desired. For breaking-up old turf and prepar- 

 ing the ground for roots, this seems, so far as we can 

 judge, from the simple view of it in a quiescent state, 

 one of the most economical implements that have come 

 beneath our notice. Fitted for paring and breaking the 

 price is £25, delivered in London. The entire weight 

 13 cwt. 



The patent hay and corn lift, exhibited by Mr. White, 

 of Missendcn, Bucks, deserves attention. It consists 

 of a tripod formed of three poles, each 45 feet long, 

 with 75 feet of 3 inch rope, and the necessary pulleys 

 and slinks. The body of the cart is lifted from the 

 axle, and suspended at any height the builder of the 

 stack requires, in two minutes from the time of the load 

 drawing up. The manor men unload in the usual way, 

 and al! over-bead pitching is got rid of. It saves much la- 

 bour. The tripodisfittedwith stretchers androllers, so that 

 it may be conveyed from place to place without being 

 lowered ; the price is ^"'25. 



Messrs. Dinsmore and Co., of Hyde-street, Oxford- 

 street, exhibited an air-pressure churn, wherein the 

 globules which contain the butter are not broken by 

 means of dashers, but in process of falling from end to 

 end against a large body of compressed air pumped in 

 from above. A longitudinal revolution is given to the 

 churn, the axis passing through the voudge. It is said 

 butter is produced in ten or fifteen minutes : but we 

 had no opportunity of judging. Tbe price, with air- 

 pump complete, of the lO-gallonsize (with real capacity 

 for 5 gallons), £2 5s. 



Fourdrinier's portable hot-air kiln deserves attention 

 of all those who are troubled with damp unsaleable corn. 

 The kiln is 12 feet by 6. Five quarters at a time may 

 repose upon the perforated bottom. Between the false 

 and the real bottom is a space of 9 inches, through which 

 is driven, by means of a fan turned by steam or manual 

 labour, a constant stream of hot air from a small stove 

 placed at one end. Thirty quarters can be dried in a 

 day ; and as the air does not come into contact with the 

 fuel, the corn is kept perfectly sweet. The weight of 

 the whole is about 35 cwt. The depth of the sides is 

 three feet, but to these may be attached side-boards, and 

 a tarpaulin covering. The price is £50. The use of 

 merely cold air driven in this way through musty or 

 damp grain will tend often to sweeten or dry it suffi- 

 ciently. Mr. Fourdrinier may be addressed Grove Ter- 

 race, Peckham ; and we mention this because there are 

 many not at the Show who this year may be glad to 

 correspond with him. 



Having noticed a few of the articles which struck us 

 as most novel,, we now proceed to an examination of the 

 several stands in their due order. 



William Cambridge, of Bristol: His noted powerful 

 roller, and improved chain-harrow, an implement which has 

 proved a very successfnl novelty, valuable on grass lands, in 

 light land fallowing, and tor other purposes. 



Henry Grafton. C. E., of 80, Chaucerj'-Iar.e : A beauti- 

 ful working model of his new patent locomotive cultivator, 

 which proposes to Bccomplish all the operations of Mr. Hal- 

 kett.'a guideway system, without the permaaeut rails. The 

 platform, eay 50 feet broad, rests at each end upon a series of 

 travelling wheels, which lay down their tramway for them- 

 selves, by means of a flexible India-mbber endless band, hav- 

 mg segments of sleepers attached. Into the mechanism and 

 merits of the invention we cannot enter now, as the descrip- 

 tion requires a considerable space in order to be intelligible ; 

 but certainly the dffference in outlay between the purchase of 

 this machine and the purchase of Mr. Halkett's machine and 



permanent rails at every 50 feet, all through a farm, is a great 

 consideration in favour of Mr. Grafton's notion. 



RowsELL, of Chard, Somerset: American turn-over horee- 

 rake. 



Tasker and Son, of Andover : An iron plough, with 

 an attachment of the wheels, by which the plough-hoy (for the 

 intention is to ease tbe turning at the ends, so that a mere lad, 

 instead of a man, may manage it,) on pulling a handle, seta 

 the wheel-frame loose on the beam, so that the plough may be 

 laid down on one side ; and the upright wheel-stems turn in 

 sockets, so as to lock by a parallel motion like a steeraee, and 

 thus the plough is pulled by the horses short round, with- 

 out lifting on the part of tbe boy. The only objection is tbe 

 additional complication introduced into what should be the very 

 simplest tool in its parts ; for when laid out of use for a month 

 or two, it is quite likely that rust, &c., would interfere with 

 the nic3 action of the contrivance. However, it is very inge- 

 nious, and may prove to be a valuable improvement. The 

 new mode of raising tbe skim-coulter by a simple screw 

 movement, the stem having a screw-worm cut upon it, is just 

 what was required for the continual alterations in depth found 

 in ploughing lands or stetches. 



E. Weir, of High Holborn : Mr. Halkett's guideway rails 

 and locomotive carriage wheels, shown in apscimena of the 

 actual size. The permanent rails are made all of wood pre- 

 served by a dressing, or of brick with angle-iron upon it. The 

 comparative merits of Mr. Halkett's and Mr. Grafton's sys- 

 tems require toD long a coasideratioa to be discussed in this 

 place. Mr. Weir offers to plough, hoe, reap, cart, &c., at one- 

 third the present cost by horse labour ; and though the wire- 

 rope steam culture has achieved great things in economy 

 of working, this offer deserves the earnest attention of the 

 farmer. 



Messrs. Thomas Gibbs and Co., of Half-Moon-street, 

 Piccadilly : Their usually maguificent collection of roots, 

 maugold, carrots, swedes, common and tankard turnips of all 

 sorts, including some mangold grown by His Royal Highness 

 the Prince Consort, some splendid roots from the Woolston 

 steam-ploughed farm, together with specimens of cereals, 

 grasses, thousand-headed cabbage in pots. Pampas grass, 

 beautiful samples of seeds of every possible variety required by 

 the husbandman ; and also framed and glazed specimen ears 

 of Hallett's extraordinary red nursery wheat, raised by re- 

 peated annual selection from a single grain. 



Busby's Agricultural Implement Company, of 

 Bedale, Yorkshire : A one horse cart, for which the firm ii 

 celebrated; a horse-hoe; plough; expanding ridge-plough; and 

 Cuthbert's reaper, which now holds a place in the first rank as 

 a cheap and unsurpassed harvester, in which manual raking-off 

 is employed. 



Priest and Woolnough, of Kingston-on-Thames : 

 Drills and lever steerage horse-hoe. 



Sutton and Sons, of Beading : A specially fine stall of 

 roots, seeds, and grasses, including a 231b. swede, which 

 gained the first prize at Birmingham, The large green kohl- 

 rabi, the "champion" swede, the green and red and mottled 

 globe and Pomeranian turnips, all suited to various soils, and 

 producing a prodigious amount of food, some particularly 

 fine. The mangel-wurzel, though not so large as on previous 

 years, were particularly good for the season ; most of those 

 which won prizes at Birmingham, some of which were at 

 Baker-street, having been grown by the customers. These 

 seedsmen's stalls form a most important branch of the show, 



Thomas Bigg, of Great Dover-street, Borough : Sheep 

 dripping apparatus, with vat, cradle, crane, aud draining rack, 

 elucidated by stuffed sheep. 



Garrett and Sons, of Leiston, Suffolk: Drills, patent 

 lever horse-hoe, neat and compact portable horse-works, 

 drawings of thrashing-machines, &c. 



Geo. Gibbs and Co., Down-street, Piccadilly : A stand 

 of seeds, roots, &c., including some magnificent drumhead 

 cabbages. 



Whitmee and Co.: Corn-crushers and flour mills, for 

 hand or power. 



Clayton, Shuttleworth, and Co., of Lincoln : Draw- 

 ings of their steam engines and thrashing machines. 

 B, Edgington, of Duke-street : Sacking, rick-cloths, &c. 

 R. P. Ker, of Liverpool : Roots, samples, &c. 

 Barnard, Bishop, and Barnard, of Norwich : Disc 

 turnip-cutters, disc root-pulpers, oat-bruisers, &c. 



