618 Implement Show at Bury St Edmund'' s. 



in case it should get loose it would bo confined to the space opposite its own 

 stall. The whole arrangement is admirable, giving licalth, comfort, and safety 

 to the animal. The piggeries, cow-stalls, and dog-kennels are equally well 

 adapted to secure comfort and cleanliness. 



John Baker (56). An Elastic Reaping-Machine Eake (commended). This 

 rake is provided with elastic spring teeth, attached to independent parts or 

 sections, similar in principle to the Haymaking Machine, so that, when 

 meeting with extra resistance, the teeth will yield to the strain, and will 

 instantly resume their proper position again when the obstruction is passed; 

 hence all chance of breakage in the teeth of the rake and other parts connected 

 is greatly diminished. 



Hawkes and Spencer (508), a Chain Corn Drill ; rather a novel contrivance 

 for ensuring a regular deposit of corn. The advantages which it presents arc 

 that the deposit is regular, whether it works up hill or down ; that the speed 

 of the horses does not interfere with the quantity sown ; that only one wheel 

 has to be changed, whether the seed be five pecks or twenty-five pecks to the 

 acre ; the " feed " being regulated by means of a lever and " index. " attached to 

 the end of the corn-box. 



James and Frederick Howard (854), a Double-Action Haymaker. Its chief 

 advantage is, that the axle-boxes revolve, the barrel being on the main axle ; 

 the forks are always the same distance from the ground, and the machine will 

 cross ridge and furrow. The principal cause of breakages in old-fashioned 

 haymakers was that the barrels and travelling-wheels did not rise and fall 

 together. The side frames are outside the travelling wheels, so that the grass 

 does not lodge ; there is simplicity of gearing by the barrels sliding out ; the 

 whole is readily got at. 



"Richard Hornsby and Son's Paragon Reaper (1599) varies from most other 

 machines, by having a direct action to the knife, the cutter-bar being jointed 

 directly to the crank shaft. The draught also is taken from below the pole, 

 and from the front of the frame, a little to the cutting side, obviating the 

 objectionable side draught, and weight on the horse's neck. Here also was 

 exhibited a Reaper, termed " Governor Self-Reaper," on similar principles. It 

 is so called because the rakes are worked on a principle similar to the 

 governors of a steani-engine. These rakes are carried by a vertical axis, and 

 brought low enough on the cutting side by a cranked carrying-bar to gather 

 and deliver it into sheaf at the side, leaving a broader clearance than is usual. 

 The position of the rake being much forwarder than common, gives an 

 advantage in the gathering of crops, particularly when laid, 



Wilkinson and Son's Horse Hoe on improved principles (2724), Each hoe 

 works on a separate lever, and is kept at a uniform depth by means of a 

 regulating wheel in front of each hoe, so that however uneven the surface of 

 the ground the weeds are eftectually destroyed. The hoes can be given more 

 or less pitch, according to the state of the land ; the steerage affords a ready 

 means of keeping the hoes in their proper ]iosition between the rows of corn ; 

 the cutting blades are made of steel, and easily replaced when required. 



Burgess and Key's Mowing Machine (324) has been greatly improved in its 

 construction since tlie Plymouth Meeting. The credit of introducing the 

 short connecting-rod and direct thrust to the knife belongs to this firm, who 

 exhibited it at Plymouth. 



Ransomes and Sims (3632) "showed a New^ Iron Turn-Wrist Plough, M'ith 

 steel breasts, of their usual excellence in manufacture. The mechanism by 

 which first one, and then the other mould-board is brought into work, whilst 

 at the same time the wing of the share is reversed, is very simple and effective. 

 The coulter and wheels are also so arranged that their position may be 

 changed from side to side without the ploughman having to leave the handles. 

 The Automaton Law'n Mowers also exJiibited at this stand are very simple 



