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tention and has received numerous awards during the past two years at 

 various agricultural shows in England, and has been very favorably 

 noticed and recommended by competent judges. It was shown at the 

 late Paris Exposition and was thoroughly tested before a select jury, 

 from which it received the highest praise and was awarded a gold 

 medal, I had occasion to study it thoroughly not only at Paris but at 

 the Royal Show at Windsor, ami am under obligations to the inventor 

 for courtesies and facilities afltbrded. 



In common with all the heavier and more expensive machines, it will 

 have to contend with the more popular and less expensive portable ma- 

 chines. It has many advantages in the control of the volume and char- 

 acter of what it disseminates ; and with some modifications and adapta- 

 tions for nether spraying, it would prove extremely serviceable in ex- 

 tensive fields of any crop that needs such spray and where the rows are 

 relatively straight and the plants low. The principle also is a good one, 

 and applicable, with modifications, to many other uses. 



The machine is called the " Strawsonizer," and is a i^neumatic or air- 

 blast distributor, and may be adapted to a variety of uses, such as 

 broadcast sowing of grains, distribution of fertilizers or of disinfect- 

 ants in cities, and of dry or liquid insecticides. 



The machine is light, simple in construction, and easily operated by 

 one man, the larger sizes being dravvn by one horse and the smaller by 

 hand power. It is constructed largely of wood, and is mounted on two 

 iron wheels. The distribnting power is obtained by a blast of air pro- 

 duced by a revolving fan worked by the traveling wheels of the ma- 

 chine. 



The essential part consists of a suitable receptacle or hopper, either 

 for liquid or dry substances, from which the material is fed automat- 

 ically and regularly to the blast generated by the revolving fan, the 

 whole oj)erated by suitable gearing. A receptacle for either dry or 

 liquid material can be employed in connection with suitable nozzles or 

 deflecting devices on all the machines, so that with practically one ap- 

 paratus all the kinds of work indicated above can be accomplished. 



For solids a metal spreader is used, while for liquids nozzles of the 

 direct discharge type, but variously arranged to suit different require- 

 ments, are employed. 



Very uniform and rapid work may be done with this machine in broad- 

 cast sowing of wheat, oats, and smaller seeds. These are distributed 

 with great regularity over a track 18 to 20 feet wide, giving a rate of 

 30 to 40 acres per day. It is especially serviceable as a distributor of 

 fertilizers (phosphates, nitrate of soda, lime, etc.), and all insecticide 

 powders, which latter may frequently be applied in connection with the 

 former substances. 



Liquid insecticides are distributed broadcast at a rate of from 1 gal- 

 lon upwards per acre, and by the action of the powerful blast of air are 

 broken up into a fine mist, which spreads uniformly to a width of 20 



