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IMPLEMENTS AND MACHINEEY [i-aem EAiLWATa. 



It is for separating the husk or hull from the 

 seed, which it does in a most expeditious man- 

 ner, and without injury to it; a dressing 

 apparatus is attached for separating chaft", 

 seed, and hard cob, mounted on four wheels 

 for travelling. Its price is £46. 



DRILLS. 

 These implements are made by numerous 

 manufacturers, but are all very similar in their 

 construction. What is called the Improved 

 Suffolk Lever Corn Drill, made by Messrs. 

 Garrett and Son, obtained the prize of £10 at 

 Norwich. It is adapted for drilling in rows, 

 at any distance apart, wheat, barley, beans^ 

 peas, and other grain ; also turnips, mangel- 

 wurzel, and other seeds, on every description 

 of land, and will deposit quite evenly on steep 

 or side hills. The price of the 13-row drill, 

 with good levers, is £26 15s. — Messrs. Holmes 

 and Son have a seed and manure drill, on the 

 flat ridge. This machine received the highest 

 prize of the Eoyal Society of Leeds, and has 

 rollers working between the manure and seeds, 

 which effectually cover the manure, and leave 

 the ridges in their proper form. The seed is 

 also covered up by a light roller following, 

 when worked as a ridge drill. Price, £25. 

 —Messrs. Tasker and Sons have invented a 

 broad-cast corn-sowing machine, which delivers 

 the corn by cups from the box on to a wire 

 screen, which distributes it regularly, the 

 quantity is regulated by difterent-sized cog- 

 wheels. Three screens are sent with each 

 machine, to be used according to the descrip- 

 tion of corn to be sown. One horse can draw 

 it, and twenty acres a-day can be gone over. 

 Price, £1G 10s. — They have also invented a 

 corn drill for eleven rows. This implement will 

 drill every description of grain in rows at any 

 distance apart, from six inches and upwards, 

 and is seventy inches wide between the car- 

 riage-wheels. The quantities sown are regu- 

 lated by diiferent-sized cog-wheels, and the 

 supply of corn from the box to the barrel by 

 movable slides. The price, fitted with im- 

 proved steerage, is £27 10*. ; without steerage, 

 £123. — Another machine of theirs, the nine- 

 row corn and seed drill, is suitable for small 

 occupations. It will drive all kinds of grain 

 and turnip seed, the quantities being varied by 

 different-sized cog-wheels. The distance be- 

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tween the rows may be increased to suit the 

 various crops. The whole of the different 

 parts are arranged as simply as possible. 

 Price, £21; mangel-barrel, £1 10s. extra. — 

 They have, besides, a drill for sowing turnips 

 and mangel-wurzel seed with manure. The 

 quantity of manure drilled can be regulated 

 by a slide moved by racks and pinions, and can 

 be adjusted, at pleasure, by the man in at- 

 tendance. It is 84 inches between the car- 

 riage-wheels. Price, £24 10s. ; steerage, 

 £4 10s. extra. 



ELEVATORS. 

 A portable straw elevator was invented by 

 James Hayes, of Elton, and improved and 

 manufactured by Messrs. Clayton and Shuttle- 

 worth. It is adapted for taking the strr.w 

 from the end of shakers, when worked in con- 

 junction with a portable thrashing machiue, to 

 the height of 20 feet, or more ; absorbs very 

 little power ; will deliver the straw, in any 

 direction, from a straight line to right angles, 

 and is calculated to save the labour of three 

 men. Tiie price is £59. — The same firm has 

 another implement, invented by S. "W. Cam- 

 pain, of Deeping St. Nicholas, and improved 

 by them. It is adapted for conveying the 

 straw, by means of an endless wire rope, to any 

 distance, height, or angle. The apparatus is 

 simple, and not liable to get out of order. 

 Price, complete, including carriage for travel- 

 ling, £45. — Another implement, of a similar 

 description, was invented by James Hayes, of 

 Elton. It is worked in conjunction witli the 

 portable thrashing machine, and will deliver 

 the straw 20 feet from the machine, on to a 

 stack at any angle, which saves, also, the labour 

 of three men. Price, £59. 



FARM RAILWAYS. 



Specimens of improved portable farm rail- 

 ways, invented by William Crosskill, have 

 appeared at various exhibitions. The rails are 

 constructed to carry loads of 15 cwt., and are 

 made of wood edged with iron where tiie 

 wheels run, and framed together in lengths of 

 15 feet. These lengths are connected by an 

 improved fastening-piece, easily adjusted, and 

 not liable to get out of order. Price, 4s. per 

 running yard. There i*^ an additional charge 

 for points, switches, &c. Trucks are con- 



