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the latter the CoUins. {^Rm-al New-Yorker, 485.') A home- 

 made sorter is shown in Figs 24 and 25 (page 261). It com- 

 prises one screen cyhnder inside another. The inner cyHnder 

 is coarse enough to allow the dirt and small potatoes to pass 

 through, while the outer one is finer, and allows only the dirt 

 to pass. The large tubers, therefore, follow the inner cylin- 

 der, and the small ones are caught between the two. — W. D., 

 in Rural Neiv- Yorker, 6oy. 



Celery Hiller. — A machine has been invented by Maurice 

 M. Ranney, of Michigan, for hilling celery. The hilling is 

 done by means of mold-boards. '' The mold-boards are ad- 

 justable to suit 

 the height of 

 the plants, and 

 laterally to cor- 

 respond with 

 the width of 

 the rows, the 

 machine being 

 designed to 

 crowd the 

 earth from the 

 bottom of the 

 furrows under 

 the leaves, sim- 

 ultane ously 

 upon both 

 sides of the 

 rows. The 

 side beams of 



the frame are adjustable laterally upon the cross beams, and 

 from the under side of each side beam projects a pedestal 

 with an attached spud axle, upon which the drive wheels re- 

 volve. A post extends downwardly from a bracket on the 

 under side of each side beam, through a staple and eye formed 

 on a plate attached to the forward end of the mold-board, 

 each post being stayed by a brace bar, and the eyes and 

 staples, being large enough to move freely upon the post. 

 For the vertical adjustment of the mold-boards, a link con- 

 nects the staples on the forward end of the mold-board, each 

 post being stayed by a brace bar, and the eyes and staples 



Fig. 21. 



