MomKG MACHINES.] IMPLEMENTS AND MACHINEET [moaving machines. 



flour, three bushels per hour, with the power of 

 four horses. Price, £70 ; pulleys, 70^. per pair 

 extra. — The same makers have also a port- 

 able corn mill. This is a useful mill, mounted 

 on a strong, neat, and compact iron frame, 

 and is fitted with 24-inch best French burr- 

 stones ; the lower stone, in this mill, being the 

 runner. The adjustments are easy of access, 

 and it is not liable to get out of order. It 

 can be worked by steam, horse, or water-power. 

 Price, £35. — They have also a portable horse- 

 gear thrashing machine, which is arranged so 

 that it can be put to work without unloading 

 the horse-gear. The power is communicated 

 to the barn-works, through an intermediate 

 motion, by means of a strap. The horse-gear 

 is timed for horses, and calculated on the 

 strength of foreign horses. It may be worked 

 by oxen, if necessary. Price, £85. 



MOWING MACHINES. 

 The mowing is an offshoot of the reaping 

 machine, requiring no delivery ; it is more 

 simple in its construction, and has been brought 

 to a great state of perfection, cutting any de- 

 scription of grass crop with ease and certainty. 

 Messrs. Burgess and Key have made great 

 improvements in this machine. Cranton's is 

 made on Wood's principle ; it is a smaller im- 

 plement, and can be worked by one horse. 

 Many of the manufacturers have also com- 

 bined implements, both for reaping and mow- 

 ing. This has been done with a view to eco- 

 nomy in the purchase-money ; but as the 

 principle involved differs in each, the com- 

 bination can scarcely be expected to produce 

 an implement which can work effectually. 

 "Wood's prize grass mowing machine, invented 

 by W. A. Wood, of Hoosick Palls, New York, 

 awarded the highest prize by the Eoyal Agri- 

 cultural Society of England, at Leeds, in July, 

 1861, was highly commended by the Highland 

 and Agricultural Society of Scotland, at Perth ; 

 and received a gold medal and 1,000 francs, 

 and the grand gold medal of honour, from the 

 Prench government, at Vincenues, in June, 

 1860 ; also, the highest prizes by the United 

 States' National Agricultural Society; first 

 prizes of the Yorkshire, the Eoyal North 

 Lancashire, the Eoyal North Lincolnshire, and 

 the Kent County Agricultural Societies. Of 

 this implement, 800 have been sold in one 

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season. It is said to be unsurpassed in close- 

 ness of cut, simplicity of construction, light- 

 ness of draught, portability, &c., and will cut 

 one acre per hour, with one man and two 

 horses. It is built in the best workman-like 

 manner, with steel-cutter bars and cutters, 

 connecting-rod, crank-pin, and shafts ; the 

 metal used for the wheels and gearing is of a 

 very superior quality, which admits of being 

 made much lighter without reducing its 

 strength, making them more durable, and re- 

 quiring less power to work them. The cutters 

 are so arranged as to follow the uneven sur- 

 face of ground when at work, and can, by a 

 lever, be instantly elevated to pass over cut 

 grass and other obstructions by the driver. 

 The knives never work when the machine is 

 backed ; they are placed in front, the more 

 easily to be seen by the driver. Price, in- 

 cluding two extra knives, six blades, six fingers, 

 bevel pinion, oil cup, &c., £22. — Another 

 machine, constructed on the same principle, is 

 a little cheaper, on account of its not being 

 arranged with shafts for one horse, and a shorter 

 cutter bar, which is 3 ft. 6 in. long. When 

 not in use it will pass through 4-ft. gates. 

 It is light, portable, and of easy draught; simple 

 in construction, and well adapted for the use 

 of small farmers ; and will cut from five to six 

 acres per day. Price £20. — Wood's prize 

 combined mowing and reaping machine, is 

 another implement patronised by his late royal 

 highness the Prince Consort, the Emperor of 

 the Prench, the King of the Belgians, &c., &c., 

 and has been awarded more prizes than any 

 other in the world. Simple in construction, 

 light draught, portable, easily managed, it can 

 be changed from a mower to a reaper, and vice 

 versd, in a few minutes. Of this machine, the 

 large number of 1,200 have been sold in 

 three years. It will cut any kind of grass or 

 grain at the rate of ten to twelve acres per 

 day. Its price, including extra knife, blades, 

 fingers, pinion, and package, is £35. Notwith- 

 standing the great merit of these machines, 

 and the extensive patronage they have re- 

 ceived, we have some excellent makers amongst 

 ourselves. 



PLOUGHS. 

 In implements like the plough, the per- 

 manent form having been determined by 



