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THE GENESEE FARMER. 



Sept. ( ' 



ENGLISH AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS. 



The Enrrlisli show of agricultural implements is the 

 most comjilote that lias ever heen witnessed in any 

 part of the world, and no other country but England 

 could make such a show. The United States would 



the axles at pleasure. The price varies from £13 

 to £15, ($65 to $75.) A great medal was awarded 

 this implement at the Great Exhibiton. 



2d. The Clod Crusher, (Croskill's Patent.)— A 

 great medal is also awarded to this implement. It is 

 in fact a roller, consisting of twenty-three roller parts, 

 with serrated and uneven 

 surfaces, placed upon a 

 round axle six feet wide 

 and two and a half feet in 

 diameter. These roller 

 parts act independently of 

 one another upon the axle, 

 and produce a self-clean- 

 ing movement. It is taken 

 to the field on the wheels ; 

 a hole is then dug in the 

 ground for each wheel, 

 deep enough to cause the 

 rollers to rest on the 

 ground, and then the 

 wheels are taken off. 



" The following are the 

 various uses to which this 

 implement is applied : 



1 . For rolling corn as soon as sown upon light 

 lands ; also upon strong lands that are cloddy before 

 harrowing. 



2. For rolling wheats upon light lands in the spring, 

 after frosts and winds have left the plants bare. 



3. For stopping the ravages of the wire-worm 

 and grub. 



4. For crushing clods after turnep crops, to sow 

 barley. 



5. For rolling barley, oats, U,c., when the plants 

 are three inches out of ground, before sowing clo- 

 ver, fee. 



6. For rolling turneps in the rough leaf befo e 

 hoeing, where the plants are attacked by wire-worm. 



7. For rolling grass lands and mossy lands after 

 compost. 



8. For rolling between the rows of potatoes, when 

 the plants are several inches out of ground." 



NORWEGIAN HARROW. 



probably come next. It is estimated that the agri- 

 cultural products of Great Britain (England and Scot- 

 land) have more than doubled within the last forty 

 years. A vast amount of tliis increase is clearly 

 traceable to improved implements of culture. Some 

 of our plain farmers, whose whole stock of imple- 

 ment consist of a plow, harrow, and wagon, would 

 be puzzled if he looked into an English farm-yard, 

 and saw such an array of seed drills, chaff cutters, 

 grain crushers, bean mills, rollers, scarifiers, cultiva- 

 tors or horse hoes, liquid manure carts, manure dis- 

 tributers, and a multitude of other articles not in gen- 

 eral use, and that many of us never heard of. The 

 English implements are almost wholly made of iron, 

 and are consequently very heavy. Many of them 

 would be quite useless in the United States, but 

 some appear to have properties that recommend them 

 to the attention of our farmers and implement 

 makers. For instance — 



1st. The A'urwrgi<tii Harrow. 

 — This seems to be an excellent 

 implement fi^r pulverizing the 

 ground to the depth of six or ^ 



eight inches. It consists of three ,^^" 



parallel axles, on which spikes 

 are fixed so as to pass between 

 one another as the axles revolve. 

 It is said to work admirably on 

 any sort of ground. At the same 

 time that the spikes fork the 

 ground over completely, the 

 weight of the implement crushes 

 the clods, and reduces them to 

 powder. I til ink it would be a 

 valuable article in the preparation 

 of wheat grounds, especially 

 where the soil is of an adhesive 

 character. They are made of 

 different sizes, from three and a 

 half to five feet wide, and the 

 spikes five to eight inches long. 

 These are in some cases curved 

 and in others straight ; some have croskill's patknt clod crusher. 



four wheels, and others only three — one; before and I I have been assured by gentlemen who have used 

 two behind. A greater or less pressure is obtained by this implement for several years, that it is highly 

 means of a screw or a lever, which raises or lowers effective. Of course it can only be used when the 



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