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into the ash-pan. j is a wooden trough to contain the straw which is to be fed 

 into the furnace, and which can be removed when the engine is travelling. 



" The whole apparatus swings on a hinge 7j, and can be taken off in a few 

 minutes, and the ordinary fire-door substituted when coal or wood is burned." 



Much attention was also attracted to the steam threshing- 

 machine for hot countries, constructed at the Orwell Works. The 

 object of this machine is to deliver the straw in the same softened 

 and broken condition as when it has been threshed by horses or 

 cattle. This is done by a straw chopper, into which the straw 

 passes from the machine. The apparatus is figured and fully 

 described in Mr. Roberts's Report upon the Implement Trials at 

 Cardiff, vol. viii. part 2, 1872. Since that time, a greater amount 

 of simplicity has been introduced by means of the " knife-drum.'" 

 Projecting knives from the periphery of the drum pass between the 

 slotted edge of the feed board, and this not only threshes the grain^ 

 but at once bruises and softens the straw and renders any subse- 

 quent operation unnecessary. Messrs. Ransome, Sims, and Head 

 exhibited a large assortment of ploughs, many of which were of 

 forms familiar to English farmers. The Hungarian plough 

 already figured and noticed was here present as the H. B., H. C, 

 and H. R. plough " adapted for light and medium soils," 



A patent wrought-iron (G. F. R. W.) plough, adapted for 

 bullock labour in Moldavia, Wallachia, and the great wheat 

 district between the Carpathians and the Danube, was furnished 

 with a small out-rigged wheel, upon which the plough is thrown 

 when turning at the headlands. The driver can then give all his 

 attention to the bullocks, and the plough runs round without 

 requiring holding. The double-furrow ploughs exhibited were 

 furnished with levers for lifting the shares out of the ground, 

 and thus facilitating turning by allowing the implement to run 

 round on two wheels. 



Another contrivance with the same object was seen in the 

 shape of a bowl or hemispherical land-wheel, upon which 

 tlie plough may be turned easily in either direction. 



A three-furrow plough, supported on two high wheels at the 

 opposite ends of a cranked axle, and a third wheel in front, is 

 also worthy of notice. By means of these and a lever, the 

 plough may be raised at the end of each furrow 10 inches clear 

 of the ground, and will then run easily round on its wheels, 

 or be taken from place to place. 



Messrs. John Fowler and Co., Leeds, exhibited a G-furrow bal- 

 ance plough with high, deep and abrupt mould-boards, upon the 

 same principle as the Wanzeleben plough, taken to England from 

 jVIagdeburg by Mr. Eyth. Also a 24-horse-power engine, all steel 

 and wrought iron, with a large fire-box and wide fire-bars, for 

 turf and wood burning, broader wheels than usual, and weighing 



