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to pass when required to bo reduced to powder 

 for mnnure. The jirico of tliis maohino is 

 £12 5*. (id. — Another, by the samo miikera, 

 and callt'il a Combined Mill niul Oil-cake 

 Breaker, consists of a benii-outter, nu oat-mill, 

 and an oil-calve breaker ; all conibined on a 

 neat iron stand. This is a cheap, durable, and 

 cilifient mill, for cuttinj* oats and beans, and 

 breakinfj; oil-cake for beasts and sheep. Its 

 price is £0 9s.; pulley for steam-power rxira. 



CARTS AND WAGGONS. 

 Carts and wajxgons of every de8cri|ition, and 

 for every conceivable purpose to facilitate 

 farming operations, have been invented and 

 improved. The Nevrcastlo prize or model 

 one-horse cart, invented by "\V. Crosskill, 

 has had awarded, by the Eoyal Agricultural 

 Society of England, the Silver Medal, at Lin- 

 coln, and the first prize of £5, at Newcastle. 

 It is plain and durable ; useful for general pur- 

 poses ; and, we are informed, that upwards of 

 6,500 have been sold. It has loose side and 

 end-boards ; a simple tipper for delivering 

 manure, &c., in heaps, and patent wheels. 

 Its price is £14 55. ; or, with harvest shelving 

 £15 15s. — A light spring cart, by the same 

 maker, has had awarded to it the prize of £2 

 for a cheap market cart, by the Eoyal Agri- 

 cultural Society of England, at Leeds; also, 

 the first prize by the Highland and Agricultural 

 Society of Scotland. It has patent wheels, 

 4 ft. 6 in. high, Ij in. convex tire, to carry 

 15 cwt., and is well adapted for a nag-horse to 

 convey luggage, &c. Price, £12 15s. — A 

 harvest cart, invented by J. Hannam, Esq., of 

 Burcott Park, is a very good one. It possesses 

 a light and low body (expressly adapted for 

 carrying hay, corn, &c.), and patent wheels, 

 4 ft. 6 in. high, with convex tire — which does 

 not injure grass land like the flat tire with 

 aharp edges — 4 in. wide. Its price is £14, or, 

 with front and hind ladder.s or raves, £15 10s. 

 Thi?, also, has had a prize awarded it. An 

 improved one-horse cart, with harvest frame, 

 is a capital implement for farm work ; and there 

 is a very good one, made by Woods and Cock- 

 sedge, Stowmarket, Suffolk. It has been 

 awarded a first prize by the Eoyal Agricultural 

 Society of England ; and is made of the beat 

 seasoned timber ; fitted with an improved self- 

 acting tipping apparatus, with side boards, 



florap-iron arms, fagoted, Bteeled, and turned 

 up, boxed and capped, with the improved 

 fall linch-pin, rendering accident imposBible ; 

 11-apoko patent boxccl iron nave wheels ; navo 

 of the best seasoned English timber; tire of 

 wheels, 4 in. wide, and § in. thick. Price, com- 

 plete, £15 10s; without the harvest frame, 

 £18 10s. — ]\rr. Thompson, of Lewes, Sussex, 

 sells a combined one-horse cart, water-cart, 

 and irrigator ; invented, improved, and manu- 

 factured by him. This implement obtained 

 the first prize — a gold medal — and 250 franca 

 in Paris, in 1S5G, and is a complete one-horse 

 cart, which, by a very simple and effective con- 

 trivance, can instantly be converted into a 

 water-cart, and with an irrigating apparatus 

 for water or liquid manure; its slight addi- 

 tional cost, beyond that of an ordinary cart, lias 

 commanded an extensive sale. Price, £18. — 

 The improved harvest cart, by Messrs. Hayes 

 and Sons, Stamford, Lincolnshire, has a great 

 advantage over all other carts, being low to 

 the ground, very roomy, mounted upon wheels 

 with 3 5-inch hoop tires, and Scotch iron axle- 

 tree, ao arranged that the wheels and axle can 

 be removed in a few minutes, when not re- 

 quired for harvest, and put under a manure 

 Scotch cart body, as preceding ones. Its 

 price is £13 los. — A pair-horse waggon, in- 

 vented by W. Crosskill, has had awarded, by 

 the Eoyal Agricultural Society of England, the 

 first prize of £10 at Norwich, £10 at Exeter, 

 £5 at Lewes, £10 at Gloucester, and £3 at 

 Leeds. This implement has patent wheels, 

 3 ft. 4 in. and 4 ft. 9 in. high, 2^ by in. tire ; 

 ia light, will carry 3 tons, and turn in a short 

 space. Price, with pole or single shafts, 

 £29 10s., and with double break, £32 10s. ; 

 harvest ladders, £1 10s. extra. — Tiie Yorkshire 

 waggon has had awarded the first prize ot 

 £7 by the Eoyal Agricultural Society of Eng- 

 land. It is constructed with oak soles, and 

 stout red deal or plank sides. ^Haa patent 

 wheels, 3 ft. 9 in. and 4 ft. 9 in. high, 3 by 

 2 in. tire, to carry 3 tons. Price, with pole 

 or single shafts, £30 10s. ; and with deep side 

 and end-boards, to put on for carrying bones, 

 soot, &c., £32 10s. ; drag-chain and shoe, £1 

 extra. — A light waggon, improved by Cross- 

 kill, has its framework of the body constructed 

 of oak, and lined with red deal. It has patent 

 wheels, 3 ft. and 4 ft. hiirh. 2h by ^ in. tire, 



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