STEAMING APPABATus.] IMPLEMENTS AND MACHINEEY [cultivators. 



racks are now substituted for cast iron ones. 

 Price, £3 5*. 



SOWING MACHINES. 

 A grass and seed broadcast sowing machine, 

 invented, improved, and manufactured by 

 Earrett and Exall, consists of a box 12 feet 

 long, with a spindle running through the 

 centre of it, on which are fixed brushes work- 

 ing against copper regulators, and a barrow, 

 on which the box is placed transversely 

 when fixed for work. The barrow-wheel drives 

 all the machinery, and the quantity of seed is 

 regulated at pleasure. Price, £3 3s. — A broad- 

 cast corn-distributor, invented and manufac- 

 tured by Gower and Son, is quite a new im- 

 plement, and has been brought out to supply 

 a want in wet seasons — of a machine to sow 

 when the use of a drill is impracticable. Two 

 men, or a man and a lad, can sow with it more 

 expeditiously, and with much greater regula- 

 rity, than by hand. Price, £5. 



STEAMING APPARATUS. 



A fixed steaming apparatus for large farms, 

 gaols, unions, asylums, &c., was invented by 

 the late W. P. Stanley, of Peterborough, and 

 improved and manufactured by Messrs. Amies 

 and Barford. It consists of a strong 2-horse 

 power boiler or steam-generator; two 100- 

 gallon boiling or compound pans, made of 

 strong galvanised iron, for boiling water, cook- 

 ing, washing, brewing, and other domestic 

 purposes; also for preparing linseed meal, and 

 other compounds for cattle, horses, and pigs ; 

 two 12-bushel galvanised chaff or root pans ; 

 strong brass feed-pump for boiler, with all 

 pipes, cocks, and fittings as fixed. A similar 

 apparatus is in constant use at the Nor- 

 thampton, Cambridge, and Arlsey asylums; 

 the Strand and Poplar unions, London; and 

 nearly 200 other public and private establish- 

 ments. Price, £S0 ; wood and felt lagging to 

 the boiler, £5 10s. extra. — Another, called the 

 i'armcr'sportablesteaming apparatus— invented 

 by the same gentleman, and sold by the same 

 maker — received the prize of 300 francs and a 

 gold medal at the Paris Exposition ; and more 

 recently distinguislied at the public trials open 

 to all England at the North Lincolnshire shows, 

 and at every other local show where it has 

 been snhjpcted to competition. It consists 

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of a strong wrought iron portable boiler or 

 steam-generator, with an improved oval flue 

 of Lowmoor iron, one 6-bushel root pan, and 

 10-gallon compound pan, as fixed. Price, 

 £27 10s. ; water-gauge, 20s. extra. — Mr. 

 Thompson, also, has a paragon portable steam- 

 ing apparatus, which combines every improve- 

 ment for steam-cooking for agricultural pur- 

 poses, or for asylums, or other large establish- 

 ments : the boiler is constructed to produce 

 the necessary steam with a minimum quantity 

 of fuel ; it is fitted with a steaming-pan to 

 contain six bushels of roots, and a 40-galloa 

 copper boiler, in wood tub, for boiling linseed 

 compounds, soups, &c., by steam ; but the 

 apparatus may be arranged, in various other 

 forms, to suit any particular requirement. 

 Price, complete, £21 10s. 



STEAM CULTIVATORS. 



The patent steam plough and cultivator, with 

 windlass and rope-porter, manufactured by 

 Messrs. Eisken, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, takes 

 its place among other agricultural mechanical 

 improvements. It is a three or four-furrow 

 plough, on the balance principle, capable of 

 being used as a cultivator. The peculiarity of 

 the apparatus is, that the power is transmitted 

 from the engine by an endless rope, acting on 

 self-moving anchor-windlasses, so that the 

 plough is dragged directly from one windlass 

 to another. Price, £150. — A new implement, 

 called a regulating windlass, invented, im- 

 proved, and manufactured by Messrs. Han- 

 cock and Co., has also a claim upon the 

 notice of the agricultural world The hauling- 

 drums are tied to, and mounted on, independent 

 shafts ; and each drum is acted on by "clutches" 

 of two speeds, by which the speed of the im- 

 plement is adapted to the power of the engine 

 without stopping. It is a common 8-horse 

 power engine ; is enabled to master all the 

 difficulties of steam tillage ; and by which the 

 land can be tilled to a greater depth by a light 

 engine than heretofore. In hauling imple- 

 ments up hill, or through heavy or wet patches 

 of ground, the speed can be two miles an 

 hour of the implement up hill, the engine 

 working equal to 16-horse power; and four 

 miles an hour down hill, the engine going 

 at 8-horse power, or any speed that may be 

 required Price, £100. 



