THE FARMER'S MAGAZINE. 



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J. Lloyd and Son, of Old-street Road : Flour mills, &c. 



E. R. and F. Turner, of Ipswich : Their well known roller 

 mills, oat, malt, and linseed crushers, &c. 



E. Page and Co,, of Bedford : Three "Eclipse" ploughs, 

 diagonal harrows; chaff-cutters for band and.steam power; and 

 their simple, cheap, and valuable machine for making either 

 tiles or bricks, by which vast labour is economized and the 

 rate of production multiplied. 



St. Panckas Iron Works Co.: Stable fittings and fur- 

 niture of all sorts. 



Smyth and Son, of Peaienhall, Suffolk: Their noted corn 

 and turnip drills. 



J. Major, of Park-lane, Piccadilly : Veterinary medicine 

 chests, drugs, lotions, and other horse and cattle remedies. 



Page and TowGOOD, of Southampton : Roots, seeds, &c., 

 including carrots of His Royal Highness's growth. Fluke 

 potatoes are shown here, grown this year by Jos. Bluudell, 

 Esq., Secretary of the Botley Farmers' Club, Hampshire ; the 

 crop alleged to have been sold for £20 per acre, while 28 tons 

 of turnips per acre were simultaneously produced between the 

 potato rows. This is a case of agricultural maxima worth in- 

 quiring into. 



Wm. Skirving, of Liverpool : Some good roots ; the 

 swedes very large, though from ordinary field culture, and, 

 with not special manuring, having giveu (it is said) 45 tons 

 per acre this year. 



Rd. Hornsby and Sons, of Grantham : Drills, winnow- 

 ing machines, and their new ploughs, with lever neck for ad. 

 justing the share, having a spherical joint to allow of altera- 

 tions in position in any direction. Instead of having a frame- 

 work for the body of the plough, attached by bolts through the 

 beam, there are two legs welded to the beam, and to these are 

 fixed the slipe or slade, and the mouldboard. One objection 

 to this mode of construction, without separate additional 

 pieces for the soil, land-side, &c., is that the wearing away of 

 the slade throws the whole form of the implement out of truth ; 

 but as the metal is very hard, the wear is very slight, and a 

 new slade costs only three or four shillings, and can be at- 

 tached by any ploughman, A large plough is here shown, 

 made for turning a furrow either 18 inches wide by 12 deep, 

 or 20 inches wide by 18 inches deep, intended for the West 

 Indies. 



D. KiTTMEE, of Fulstow, Lincolnshire: Winnowing 

 machine. 



A. and E. Crosskili,, of Beverley : One-horse cart con- 

 structed by machinery, models of waggons, and the patent 

 clod-crusher. 



CoRMELL, of Cheltenham : Portable steam boiler. 



James, of Cheltenham : Washing machine, clothes wring- 

 ing machine, and liquid-manure cart. 



BoBY, of Bury St. Edmunds : Screens, some with a blower 

 attached, very perfect in their action. 



Burnley and Bellamy : Iron cisterns and troughs. 



Coleman and Sons, of Chelmsford: Their cultivator, and 

 the rotary potato-digger, row with an improvement in the 

 shape of the share and in the position of the revolving forks, 

 by which the tubers are tossed outj^and not buried again with 

 loose earth so much as heretofore. 



Ransomes and Sims, of Ipswich '■ A very extensive show, 

 including their iron ploughs, a new YX plough, made with a 

 short beam so as to be used as a swing plough at pleasure, the 

 handles braced diagonally by oval iron braces ; specimen frag- 

 ments of chilled cast-iron shares, showing how the upper sur- 

 face being softer than the under, wears away first, thus pre- 

 serving the cutting power of the edge; also their clever rotary 

 corn-screen, with the recent addition of a conical screen at the 

 upper end, for separating stones and dirt, and ejecting them 

 from the machine; their roller mills, oat-crusher, bean-cutter, 

 &c., and the horizontal root-sticer, which leaves no last piece. 



J. and F. Howard, of Bedford : Their new lever-action 

 horse-rakes, jointed two-beam harrows, large iron zigzag har- 

 rows, and iron ploughs. The plough mouldboard is made 

 with a gentle rise, and is so formed as to pack the furrow 

 slices well together, and leave at the same time a beautiful 

 sharp edge, as well as cutting a perfectly level bottom. A 

 beautiful drawing of their new Britannia Iron Works is shown ; 

 also a plan of Mr. Smith's Woolstou steam cultivator at 

 work. 



Plenty and Pain, of Newbury: A water-cart, and gal- 

 vanized iron troughs. 



Baker, of Wisbech, Cambridgeshire : A winnowing and 

 blowing machine. 



Smith Brothers, of Thrapston, Northamptonshire : chaff- 

 cutter, mills, and a novelty m the shape of a new haymaking 

 machine. Instead of a number of broad rakes, each with 

 many teeth, a set of two-tined forks are arranged upon a couple 

 of light barrels to come successively into action, thus picking 

 up small portions instead of great lumps of bay altogether. It 

 has a very simple reversing motion, ingenious provision for 

 lubrication — a point not sutiiciently attended to— and the re- 

 volving parts are so shut in and protected that no grass can 

 gather round them. This, one of the few really novel imple- 

 ments in the exhibition, is deserving of some attention. 



Eaton, of Thrapstou ; Dressing-machine, circular sheep 

 crib, screw-jacks, and lifting-jacks. 



P. Lawson and Son, ot Edinburgh : Large and beautiful 

 display of dried specimens of grasses, corn, &c., splendid 

 quality of roots, including 84 sorts of turnips only, most of 

 them grown at an altitude of 1200 feet above the sea; nursed 

 and artificially-grown roots do not show, but quality and purity 

 of stock are represented, because more valuable to the farmer; 

 whereas forced roots are much on a par with the forced cattle 

 which used to be exhibited below-stairs a few years ago. 

 Major Quenton's giant wheat, the new grey-stone turnip, and 

 the holcus saccharatus form part of the attractions of this 

 stand. 



Joseph Gardner, Banbury : His well-known tnrmp 

 cutter, and the improved chaff machine, cutting two lengths. 



Edgington, Tooley-street, London : A collection of rick 

 cloths, cart and waggon covers, ropes, and sacks. 



John Unite, 130, Edgeware Road, London : Rick cloths, 

 sacks and ropes, &c. 



J. Braggins, Banbury : A patent combined and strap 

 hinge, for hanging and regulating park and field gates. Oak 

 gates, with hinge complete, £1 5s. 



R. & J. Reeves, of Bratton, Wiltshire : Their liquid 

 manure drills and common drills, of excellent workmanship, 



H. Clayton, Atlas Works, Dorset-square, London : A 

 model of the steam brick and tile machine, by which some 

 25,000 bricks are turned out per day with an eight-horse 

 engine. Also diagrams of a system for drying large haikes 

 of bricks quickly by artificial means ; and when they are 

 turned out so rapidly, of course such a provision is requisite 

 on account of the vast space they would occupy on the old 



plan- 



Hill and Smith, Dudley : A small assortment of their 

 specimens of wire work and park fencing, now coming into 

 general use. 



J. Seaman, Worcester : His " Excelsior" harrows, the 

 bulls being tubular and in separate lengths, penetrated by a 

 bolt screwed and braced together at the ends. The nuts are 

 therefore just reduced from 20 to 5 in each harrow. The 

 plough with trussed beam showed good workmanship, and one 

 or two improvements. 



Marshall and Sons : Saw benches, &c. 



J. Bradford, Manchester : Steam washing apparatus and 

 chaff cutter. 



Bonds and Robinson, Halesworth, Suffolk: A very 

 useful hoe for cleaning mangel wurzel, deserving of extensive 

 trial. Price £2. 



J. Spight, Brigg, Lincolnshire : The celebrated horse hoe, 

 fully described in our report of the Hull Meeting. Its me- 

 chanical principle is so good, and adapts it to work on all 

 classes of soil, amongst turnips, wheat, and all spring crops, 

 and its workmanship is so excellent, that we cannot but highly 

 recommend it to all who may peruse thi? report. Its con- 

 struction is very simple, and yet it seems adapted to all con- 

 ceivable motions required in hilly or flat districts, of a horse 

 hoe. For seven-rows, with wheat, bean, and turnip hoes com- 

 plete, £15. 



G. W. Robinson, Barton-upon-Humber : A good clod 

 crusher, with self-cleaning rings of different diameters ; width 

 5 feet 3 inches ; weight 15 cwt. Price £14. 



Maggs and Hindley, Bourton, Dorset : Their original 

 and excellent straw-thatch-weaving machine. To those who 

 know what it is to suffer from summer rains upon uncovered 

 stacks, we need not recommend an apparatus, by means of 

 which they can thatch down without delay, at a cost of about 

 lOd. per square of 100 feet, inclusive of all expenses save the 

 value of the straw : it speaks for itself. The thatch is woven 



