Report un the ''1 rials of Implements at Bedford. 075 



Section III. — Manure Distkibutoes. 



Class XVIII. Distributors for Liquid Manure. — There were 

 nine entries on the list, six of which were tried. Some of 

 these were simply water-barrels with a distributing board 

 attached ; while in the others the liquid manure was raised 

 from a tank by cups attached to cylinders, similar to the me- 

 chanism in water drills. 



The Judges considered that these distributors ought to deliver 

 any kind of liquid manure, and even any small solid particles 

 which might be in it ; they therefore mixed ashes with water in 

 a trough, from which the water was pumped up into the barrels ; 

 while, in the case of the latter kind of distributor, the tank was 

 filled with water up to the central axle of the distributing 

 cylinder, one bushel of ashes being then thrown in and mixed 

 with it. 



The barrels could not, of course, pump up all the ashes, in 

 fact few or none of them, because they were not designed for 

 this purpose ; although had runnings of a farm-yard been used 

 instead of water and ashes, they would doubtless have done their 

 work well. 



The cup-delivery distributors cleaned out their tanks very 

 well, and delivered all their contents, both liquid and solid. 



R. and J. Reeves and Son maintained the reputation that they 

 gained at the Plymouth trials for this class of machine. James 

 Coultas of Grantham was highly commended for a distributor 

 similar in principle to Reeves's ; they are both constructed on 

 Chandler's patent. One great advantage which Reeves's imple- 

 ment possesses over Coultas's is that the cylinder is provided 

 with better stirrers. 



No. 1591. Ft. and J. Beeves and Son, of Bratton Works, Westbury. This 

 machine is constructed on the same principle as the water drill already 

 described in Class Vill. The liquid manure is deli%'ered by means of cups, 

 which are cast on the cylinder, and placed on each side, so that they will 

 deliver into double hoppers. The cups empty themselves into cast-iron 

 hoppers, the liquid manure being thus conveyed into a trough fixed on the 

 outside of the tank. This trough has divisions inside, in order that the liquid 

 manure may be evenly spread over the surface of the land. 



The cylinder is driven by a cog-and-pinion gearing from one of the driving- 

 wheels only ; which is a disadvantage, inasmuch as the draught on one wheel 

 is greater than that on the other. The capacity of the tank is 100 gallons, 

 and the width of delivery 6 feet; the width between the travelling- wheels 

 being also 6 feet, the machine, when at work returns on its own wheel-track. 

 The ashes were thoroughly cleared out of the tank when it had emptied 

 itself, this having been in great part effected by the stirrers which are fixed 

 to the outer circumference of the cylinders. The price is 2JZ. 



No. 2805. James Coidtas, of Grantham. — This machine is also constructed 

 on Chandler's patent ; differing from the one last described in having the cups 



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