22 THE EQUIPMENT OF THE FARM. 



which separate bits of wire, nails, and the like, as the grain 

 flows over them. 



Gorse mill. McKenzie and Sons, Cork. The gorse is 

 fed in between two rolls the upper spiked and the lower 

 plain ; it is next cut into short lengths by rotary knives 

 on a spindle, resembling those of a lawn mower, as fast as- 

 it comes from the feed rolls. The gorse chaff falls into the 

 masticator, which consists of two rolls, alternately toothed 

 and plain, the short teeth of the one acting upon the 

 smooth portion of the other. The toothed rings and 

 smooth rings are of equal thickness, about J of an inch, 

 and as they fit each other closely nothing escapes their 

 action, and from the greater diameter of the toothed rings- 

 they masticate and at the same time clean each other. 



Dairy Implements. Milk is utilised (1) in rearing 

 calves, (2) in towns, (3) in butter dairies, (4) in cheese 

 dairies, and for each peculiar utensils are required. 



(1.) In the lac-trephoer (Brooks & Co.) for rearing foals, 

 calves, lambs, &c., artificial teats of vulcanised india- 

 rubber are made outside the milk vessel with tubes- 

 inside. 



(2.) A milk strainer is a wooden or tin-plate bowl, with 

 hair cloth or wire-cloth bottom. A milk cooler consists of 

 two corrugated plates up between which cold water flows. 

 The milk in two sheets flows down over both plates, and 

 is conducted at foot into a pail below. A lactometer 

 consists of four glass tubes a foot long by 1 inch internal 

 diameter, fitted in a frame. At 10 inches from the bottom 

 each tube is encircled by a line, termed the new-milk line ; 

 3 inches below is graduated in inches and tenths of 

 inches. The tubes are filled with new milk up to the milk 



