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AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY AND IMPLEMENTS 



1004 - "NiSCO" Manure Spreader. — The implement and Machinery Review, Vol. 42, No- 

 494, p. 197, I fig. London, June ist, 1916. 



In this machine, built by the New Idea Spreader Company Ltd., at 

 Guelph, Canada, the caracteristic part is the spreading mechanism, which 

 Hes behind the cart : it consists of a winged-rotating distributor (made of 

 steel), which, in revolving, spreads the manure over a width of about 6 



« Nisco » Manure Spreader. 



to 7 feet, and also crushes the lumps of manure which nn'ght have passed 

 intact between the 2 spiked pulverising cylinders which feed the spreader 

 regularly and uniformly. 



These 2 mechanisms are driven by 2 endless chains driven from the 

 rear wheels of the cart. 



The machine can be adjusted so as to .spread 3 to 18 cart-loads of 

 manure per acre. 



1005 - Fore-carriage for Harvesting Machines. — knobloch wilhelm, in Deutsche Laitd- 



wirtscha/tliche Presse, .13rd Year, No. 62, pp. 516-517, 2 fig. Berlin, August 2, 1916. 



The fore-carriages constructed in agricultural machine workshops 

 are generally complicated and consequently expensive. To pro\-ide even 

 the small farmer with the advantages of a good fore-carriage, the writer 

 has designed a simple, practical and inexpensive arrangement of this kind, 

 which can be built by any village smith. Figures i and 2 show the fore- 

 carriage in a plan view and longitudinal section respectively. 



The axle a is a simple square bar of iron (30 x 30 mm), carrying wheels 

 b, I metre apart ; the wheels of a scarifier may an.swer the purpo-se per- 

 fectly. In the middle of the axle a hole is bored in which a strong pivot pin 

 c (from 20 to 25 mm in diameter) engages, fitted in the middle with a washer 

 20 mm in height, and locked above by a flat key, and below by a nut. 



