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ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF AGRICULTURE. 

 1159 



SUPPLEMENT. 



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martyrs, but we are not aware that It was 

 ever before realised. A set of revolving 

 blades in this hoe work across the rows of 

 turnips, leaving the plants at regular dis- 

 tances. {Johnson's Agr. Imp. for 1843, p. 57.) 



8191 2690. Crosskill's broadcast manure 



sower (fie. 1156.), which is drawn by one 

 horse, will contain 8 bushels of manure in a 

 state of powder. It is 6 feet wide, and can 

 be regulated so as to deposit the manure at 

 any given rate per acre. By placing the 

 drill box in a vertical position the quantity 

 of manure sown is increased, and the con- 

 trary by placing it in a horizontal position. 

 Price 12/. 12s. 



8192. Cottam's improved serrated chain 

 harrow (fig. 1157.) consists of a number of 

 serrated iron discs interwoven and linked 



together with iron rods, the whole forming a surface of thirty superficial feet, interspersed with nearly 

 four hundred points or disc9. It is said that no clod can escape the influence of this harrow, and that it 

 will be found particularly serviceable in harrowing after seed has been sown. (See Johnson's Agr. 

 Imp. for 1843, p. 17.) 



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R193 2709. Crosskill's clod-crusher roller 0??. 1158.) is intended to effect the same objects as the 



spiky roller. It consists of a number of segments hxed on an iron axle six feet six inches long. Ploughed 

 land once rolled by this machine is said to be reduced to a finer state than by two or three rollings and 

 harrowings with the ordinary machines. It is drawn by three horses, and cleans itself, even when land 



Is in the very roughest state. A number of these machines have been manufactured by the inventor at 

 BeTZy.and S"ed bv the farmers of the.surrounding country The price ot a machine, including two 

 Iron road wheels to attach to it when not in use, is from 17/. to 19/. delivered in Hull. 



Mr. Crosskill 



