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Dimensions. 



1, 2. The shafts, 4 feet 4 inches long, and 3 feet 

 asunder. 



3, 4. The handles, 3 feet long, and 20 inches apart. 



5. The fingers or teeth, 13 inches long. 



The wheels are 16 inches in diameter. 



The machine is drawn by one horse, and guided 

 by a man or boy. It simply consists of an open 

 box, about 4 feet square at the bottom and about 3 

 in height on three sides. To the forepart, which is 

 open, fingers are fixed similar to those of a cradle, 

 about 13 inches in length, and so close together as 

 to hold fast and break off the heads of the clover 

 stocks which catch between them, and which are 

 thrown back into the box as the horse advances. 

 The box is fixed on an axletree supported by the 

 wheels. The driver raises or lowers the fingers of 

 the machine, so as to take off all the heads of the 

 grass ; and, as often as the box is filled with them, 

 they are thrown out, and the horse goes on as before. 



PREVENTION OF SMUT. 



We extract the subjoined table from the Quarter- 

 ly .Journal for June, as particularly applicable and 

 useful at this season. . It gives the results of trials 

 with various liquids as steeps for seed-wheat, made 

 by Mr. Bevan, on a sandy soil in Bedfordshire. The 

 columns in the table marked A. contain the results 

 from the steeped grain sown, and those marked B. 

 are the results from smutted samples. 



