MANURE SPREADERS 



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which fed the manure to fingers extending to each side, and 

 securing in this way a better distribution of the fertilizer than 

 the former ways. Thomas McDonald, in 1876, secured a patent 

 on a machine much like the Stevens machine, except that it was 



FIG. 145 THE J. S. KEMP MACHINE OF 1877. (FROM A PATENT OFFICE 



DRAWING) 



provided with an endless apron passing around the roller at 

 each end of the vehicle. 



Many of the ideas of the modern spreader made their appear- 

 ance in the patent of J. S. Kemp, granted in 1877. The objects 

 of the invention read as follows : "To provide a farm wagon or 

 cart with a movable floor composed of slats secured to an end- 

 less belt or chain. To the foremost slat an end board is secured, 



