BOLLEBS.] 



OF EXaLISH FAEMING. 



[sACE-JJAUBO'n'S. 



matter of course, the passage of the aiiim:ils 

 drawing the machino traiiipK'il clown a largo 

 portion of the stalks before its track, tlie reaper 

 still worked as clearly and eilk-iently as ever. 

 First came one of the fans, pushing its <y«a/J- 

 tutn, when cut, on to the platform ; thou a 

 second, third, and fourth, when the rake swept 

 round in a senu-curve, and turned the whole 

 mass out in a thick sheaf on to the ground. 

 The horses appeared to draw it easily — more 

 easily, in fact, than the old machine; while, 

 from the strength and simplicity of the im- 

 proved mechanism, it was evident that, even 

 in the most inexperienced hands, nothing but 

 wilful damage could derange its slight but 

 strong machinery. It is estimated that this 

 reaper can reap and stack, in sheaves, from 

 sixteen to eighteen acres of wheat per day, at 

 a cost, including wear and tear of plant, food 

 of horses, &e., of Is. Gd. per acre. Manual 

 labour costs from 7*. Qd. to 10s. per acre ; and 

 a good reaper averages only from half to a 

 little over half an acre a-day. The new machine 

 effects a saving of, at least, one-third of the 

 manual labour that was still necessary with 

 the old reaper ; and the price at which Messrs. 

 Burgess and Key will be able to sell it, will 

 be lower than that which has hitherto been 

 charged — probably about £34. 



ROLLERS. 



A universal-jointed land-roller, invented, 

 improved, and manufactured by Mr. Nicholson, 

 is a three-part plain roller, constructed on an 

 entirely new plan, to adapt itself to the ground, 

 however rugged or uneven the surface, or 

 high or irregular the ridges, thereby overcom- 

 ing the great defect of all ordinary laud 

 rollers. By an ingenious arrangement of 

 universal joints, each part will move up or 

 down, or at any angle, independently of the 

 others. Price, 18 in. diameter, to cover 7 ft. of 

 ground, £11 ; driving seat, £1 extra. — Messrs. 

 Woods and Cocksedge have constructed a 

 double barley roll, to which has been awarded 

 a prize of ten guineas by the Eoyal Agricul- 

 tural Society of England. It is designed for 

 rolling spring corn, and is so constructed as to 

 obviate the evil complained of with those in 

 common use, which, in turning, are apt forci- 

 bly to displace the soil, and disturb the new- 

 sown seeds. This implement has become one 



of general utility to the farau-r, liom its ap- 

 plication to 80 many |niri)osea us a roll. 

 Price, £S 8s. — Amies aiul Barford have a new 

 implement, called a Water Ballasting JioUer. 

 It is mado with two separuto water-tight 

 cylinders of best wrought iron, which can be 

 (illud at j)leasure. A removable plug is let into 

 the solid plate, so that a tube or hose-pipe can 

 bo inserted, and the cylinders iilled in two or 

 three minutes. When full weighted this roll 

 reaches 25 cwt. ; when empty it is about 12 

 cwt., so that a two or three-horse roll is secured 

 in one implement. The size of the cylinders 

 is 27 in. by G ft. G in. Price, £17 10«.— Mr. 

 Cambridge has a patent double-action press- 

 wheel roller and clod-crusher, to whicix wa3 

 awarded the Boyal Agricultural Society's 

 prize at the Warwick meeting. It is com- 

 posed of a number of patent plain wheels; 

 and a serrated or notched wheel, of peculiar 

 construction, is placed between each plain 

 wheel, by which arrangement the ellective 

 action of the best clod-crusher and wheel- 

 roller are combined. It is G ft. wide, with 

 2U-iiich wheels. Price, £14. 



ROOT-WASH ER. 



Mr. Croskill has an improved Archimedean 

 root-washer, consisting of an open cylinder 

 partly immersed in water, containing an Archi- 

 medean screw. The potatoes, roots, &c., are 

 put into a hopper ; and as long as the cylinder 

 is turned round in one direction, they remain 

 in it, and are well cleaned; but when the 

 handle is reversed, the Archimedean screw 

 brings them out of the cylinder without the 

 necessity of lifting it out of the water, as in 

 all other root-washers. Price, £5 10«. 



SACK-BARROWS. 

 A combined sack-barrow and elevator, in- 

 vented, improved, and made by Amies ■ and 

 Barford, is a convenient implement. By its 

 aid one man can fill, tie, and remove a sack of 

 corn with ease, thereby doing the work of three 

 men at a great saving of time and money. 

 For corn-factors, maltsters, merchants, wharf- 

 ingers, coal-wharvea, and farmers' use in 

 general, this machine is found invaluable, as 

 also for facilitating the removal of corn from 

 a steam thrashing-machine. To prevent the 

 possibility of breakage, the best malleable iron 



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