Ch. XVIII.] 



ON TURNIPS. 



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feeding land where no troughs are required. The teeth of the sheep are 

 thus preserved, and crones maybe fattened upon turnips so cut which they 

 could not otherwise eat. On dirty land, troughs are used with great 

 advantage for feeding fat sheep with cut turnips ; tlie practice, hideed, is 

 increasing every winter, and the slicing cart is adapted for that purpose, 

 as the turnips may be cut by hand directly from the cart into troughs, or 

 skeps, with a winch, or crank, on the slicing wheel, when the cart is not 

 moving forward 



Fig. I preseuts a side-view of a common three-quarter load Suffolk cart, with the 

 first large cog-wheel of the sheer attached to the back ^lart of the nave of the cart-wheel. 

 Tlie upright lever B, moving on a fulcrum (a holt in the cart cill), brhigs the small cog. 

 wheel into gear with the large cog-wheel on the nave : a small wedge at the top of the 

 lever, passing through the rail of the cart, keeps the cog-wheels either in gear, when 

 the sheer is worked, or out of gear when not required to be turned by the horse. The 

 axle of the smaller cog-wheel (passing through the end of the upright lever which is 

 its only wear at that end) goes under the cart and half-way across, where, at a right 

 angle, it meets, and, by a small pair of bevil wheels, is connected with the axle of the 

 slicing wheel, with its two knives, shown in the back view of the cart, Fig. 2. When 

 this slicing wheel is put in motion (by the horse moving forward and the cog-wheels, be- 

 fore described, put into gear), it turns with great velocity, and the turnips roll to the 

 knives from a sloping false bottom. \Vhen the cart is wanted for common agricultural 

 purposes, this false bottom and the slicing wheel are removed, and easily replaced when 

 required. 



The necessary slicing apparatus may be placed upon an old cart for 

 3l. 13.y. 6d.; but if an entire strong-made cart of this description be made 

 new to accompany a flock of sheep, it is desirable to have the rails, or 

 reaves, of the cart projecting over the horse's back and supported from the 



