CHEESE PEES3ES.] IMPLEMENTS AND MACHINEEY [cultivators. 



' CORN-SCREENS. 



The corn-screen, or smut machine, tas a 

 diameter of 14 inches, and consists of iron 

 conical-flated scrubbers, interspersed with 

 covered fans at suitable distances. Immediately 

 the grain leaves the machine an exhaust-blast 

 is applied, which draws chaff and light seed up 

 from the good grain. Price, £30.— Another 

 implement of this kind, invented, improved, 

 and manufactured by William Ball, of Both- 

 well, had awarded a silver medal by the Eoyal 

 Agricultural Society of England, at Chelmsford, 

 an°d the first prize at the trial of corn-screens 

 by the Eoyal Agricultural Society, at Chester. 

 This machine effectually separates all the thin 

 kernel from either wheat, barley, or sainfoin, 

 and gives an equal and weighty sample by 

 means of a patent screen that clears itself at 

 every oscillation. It will screen about sixty 

 bushels per hour. Price, £7. 



A new implement of this description, in- 

 vented by Mr. Boly, of Bury St. Edmund's, 

 has two screens, worked from one spindle. 

 The advantage of this is, that the same lad era- 

 ployed to turn a No. 1 screen, can work this, as 

 it requires no more power, one screen acting as 

 a counterbalance to the other ; and, compared 

 with a No. 1 screen, just double the work can 

 be done. It will screen, in fact, ISO bushels 

 per hour. Price, £16. 



CHEESE-PRESSES. 



A single cheese-press, with wooden stool and 

 double lever and pulley, invented by the late 

 Hugh Carson, of Warminster, has been, and 

 is now, improved and manufactured by Messrs. 

 Wedlake and Dendy. It has a compound 

 lever, and a pulley at the end of the second 

 lever, over which a chain passes, secured at 

 one end to the press, and, at the other, the 

 weights are suspended ; the effective weight is 

 thereby doubled, and great pressure obtained 

 for large cheeses. There are four weights, 

 which can be used as occasion requires, de- 

 pending on the state of the cheeses. The 

 price of this implement is £2 15s. — Another, 

 by the same makers, has received prizes from 

 the Eoyal Agricultural Society of England, at 

 Chester, and a silver medal at Salisbury ; from 

 the Bath and West of England Society, at 

 Newton Abbott ; and at Cardiff. It is similar 

 900 



in principle to the other, but has an iron stool, 

 eighteen inches in diameter, with a channel for 

 carrying off the whey which runs from the 

 cheeses. Price, £3. — A cheaper press is made 

 by Messrs. Wightman and Dening, Chard, 

 Somerset. It has been improved by a roller 

 being placed on each side of the follower, to 

 facilitate its working against the uprights, or 

 guides, thereby preventing friction. It occu- 

 pies but small space, and the pressure can be 

 regulated from 1 to 16 cwt., by means of a 

 weight shifting on a lever. Its price is 

 £2 10s. 



CORN-DRYING MACHINE. 



A patent corn-drying apparatus, invented 

 and improved by Don and Co., of London, and 

 manufactured by Smith and Co., of Leeds, is, 

 perhaps, rather expensive for most farms. It 

 is made for drying all kinds of grain, seeds, or 

 berries ; is heated by steam, and fitted with 

 apparatus to exhaust the steam as it is given 

 off from the grain. It is well adapted for the 

 drying of Egyptian and Black Sea wheat, or 

 other grain which has been washed, for the 

 purpose of freeing it from clods of earth or 

 other impurities, and for mollifying the 

 grain which has been injured by salt water, or 

 found too dry for grinding purposes. Com- 

 plete, and fixed in London, its price is £150. 



CULTIVATORS. 



Messrs. Eobinson and Son, of Burtou-upon- 

 Huuiber, Lincolnshire, have invented a drag- 

 harrow, or cultivator, suitable for working tal- 

 lows. It is made almost exclusively of wrought 

 iron ; the teeth can be moved either horizon- 

 tally or vertically, so as to suit the number of 

 teeth to the state of the land. The principal 

 improvement consists in one lever in the middle, 

 raising and lowering the whole of the harrow, 

 without the aid of side levers, as in other cul- 

 tivators. They are made of various widths, to 

 suit different occupations ; and the price is 

 £10 10s. 



A chain harrow, invented by Cartwright, 

 of Shrewsbury, consists in the absence of any 

 rigid links in the body of the harrow, which, in 

 some states of the soil, have a tendency to clog ; 

 the links are expanded by improved bars, which 

 ! only touch the extremities of the harrow, leav- 

 ! ing all the links free. The size 9 feet wide by 



