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Report on the Trials of Implements at Bedford. 



Fig. 13. — Messrs. J. L. Baker and Co.'s Improved Horse-lwe Sieeraqe^ 



No. 649. 



A. Horizontal Shaft. 



B. Bearings. 



C. Vertical Lever. 



D. Connecting Lever for Steerage-wheels. 



E. Connecting-rod for Hoe-frame. 



F. End of Hoe-frame. , 

 6. Lever Handle. 



Class XIV. Horse-Hoes combined tvith Drill for Small Seeds. — 

 This is another combination of two implements in one, both 

 of which would perform their work better separately, and at 

 little extra cost. 



As the seed-box is placed in front of the hoes, it is evident 

 that some of the seed must fall into the crevices which are 

 formed in the land during dry weather, and as clover-seed will 

 rarely germinate if deposited at a greater depth than from 1;^ to 

 1| inch, seed thus falling would be lost. Neither can it be 

 expected that the hoes will at the same time cut all the weeds 

 and cover in the seed regularly. The cost of sowing by hand- 

 barrow is so trifling, that little, if any, expense is saved by com- 

 bining a hand-barrow with a horse-hoe, and the only extra item 

 is the light harrowing. 



There were five entires on the list, and three of these were 

 tried in the oat-field. 



No. 1382. Corhett and Feele, of Shrewsbury. — The seed-box, which has 

 already been described in Class X., is geared with the driving-wheels of the 

 fore-carviage hoe steerage. 



The hoe is rigid, guided by two upper handles, and lifted round the 

 headland by two lower handles. The hoes are arranged laterally in two rows, 

 being fixed to the frame by clips with set screws. The shape of the hoes 

 was a chisel-pointed duckfoot. 



The hoe frame is hooked to the projecting frame which carries the seed- 

 box ; and when the seed-box is not used, it maj^ be hooked on below the 

 fore-carriage as in an ordinary horse-hoe. When travelling to the field, the 



