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THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
59 
view, in deciding on 4 this dra 
me 
o 
Ds 
portance to the health of the 3 f 3 chat, i in the hands o ood ma anger, 
the 1 ound it as dry as possible, The Bos served well during a peri s, and it seems 
of Health made some enquiries last year, with a v able of serving at least 14 more, ras holding sai a 
to ascertain thé 2 a has already been pro — — strong recommendati he re- no ne 
by draining, and zers showed the diminution of 
fever and ague, in districts wherever 1 he Bag 
ess of w this machine, Mr. Bell's 
een carried out ; and when we d the practice is to employ one man driving and conducting 
extensive tracts o pert in | the machi eight women required to collect the 
the neighbourhood of the metropolis, and that fevers) cut corn into sheaves, and to make bands t 
and ise within the metropolis itself, at certain | sheaves ; four 1 to close ane bind the ar and 
senson the prevalence of winds coming off the two me set them up in stooks— being in all 14 pair 
m rainage of the Regent’s Park, it is to of fe. 14 besides the driver of the horses, oh i tim 
3 hoped, iia be an example for landowners to consider | reckons along with them; and the work p abi 
e importa thei to day. 28 pata have 
health. and at ‘least, to og the land around their houses 
for it is a e act t 2 houses of many a 
of our wealthiest Pe are unded by large 
of undraine d; and many of eir parks wou 
th 
be considered plague pers if standing i 
Frederick’s-place, Old Jewry, 
towns, Hewitt Davis, 3, 
Dec. 23. 
THE REAPING MACHINE 
[ a paper by Mr. Slight, of Edinb urgh, in the 
current volume of the Highland Society's Transactions, | 
we extract the following ge e origin of the 
rican reaper, Th d 
he ye eld a e history |r 
of this k pan by the invention, and the perfecting a as 
well, really effective 5 reaper. Thi 
Weta is due to the k Bell, now minister 
of the parish of Carmyli a in Forfarshire. The prin- 
ciple on which its N 5 ae acts is that of a 
2 of clipping sh he machine had been 
maple aa M; 
* app prase. a pene of i 
operation in the field, a 
he trials piki Ve 775 5 being favourable, the 
arded the su 501. is 
ee ina 7 tour through th 
at ayy in operation which did their pork in 
a very sa red ere, Dundee a ears to have 
been (ge 10 seat of their 1 and —— 
then nee they were sent to various parts of the countr v. 
The expe 
d | such a machine will of ooren vary a little with the rate 
i y 
15 Bell E ai it — the Highlan d — 
e Husse 
the causes that may have — 
macia, we hay 
8 be 
st the extension of Bell’s 
fa 
ion to 
ood or better, if such may be fou 
orking 
averages 12 imperial acres per 
been obtained fro years N f the machi 
and have 9 a * — n the consideration | 
of the farmer, oney for reaping by | o 
at 3s. 60. 
there en be 1 
more 3 cover the price of a machine of the 
F 
wo 
a adverted to; thei 
mblance in “principle to that of “balls, leading, 
d w 
one of them can exist 
Bu ous 
8. oe been, they still are but copies, and imperfect 
0 
e ee from bu 
r | attributing prion of invention to the 
quoted by the makers at ; l; that of 2 — 
301. It is difficult to see how such a differe v 
in two machines di — s0 little f ‘rom pon 
other in their general structure and perform 
A sketch here been give ys the feces rough 
half a century, of the attempts to establish an effective 
eaping-machine by British machinists ; and it has been 
shown that the latest and mos athe 11 1 of them, 
though sanctioned and rewarded b e Highland and 
Agricultural Society, yet has, e undefined 
S 3 . to be almost neglected by bo 
agrieu ultur and ma * fortunately, however, a 
successful practice of 14 yea s has ag A yr its 
true ble charac nied In nterim our 
n n have been, in a isd Western 
et going aad ; an 
also of t o of them, sent 
to the ener stirred up the dia e body 
of Bri aided gr „no doubt, by the universal 
then 
hat machine which had previously acquired the 
highest one of merit in this country, This claim is 
made, not with any view to dis e the — 
the —— or to underv 1 e ee, pro- 
ductions—the importance of whieh, 
eireumsta o often overlooked, especially in 
5 eara the original has not been — by 
—— uple 
that not — — se 8 mpata — ol the reaping 
machines now used in the ased upon 
— principle, which i ua ‘eden ass 
n Bel rican machine, the 1 — 
S so cons —— 
change in the application of the power, as well as the 
construetion of the whole framework, are mere ma tters | 
of il, 
etal 
Highland and A agricultural Society i y paa anarà 
of Bell's machi 
observed, hay that a. oldest of the 
—conta ing 
sey’s bey t 
that is — Bal with this very unimportant e 
seg that the cutting-blades, instead oe soling grme I 
tre bolts, are fixed dead u upon ing 
— — to the bar so named in ‘the e desoripion of 
. = of course move along with that i bar, pro 
* — alone can decide the question of ultimate success: 
in this country. We have, on the one hand, the snige 
we cannot doubt that the 8 of auother er 
will go far to solve the poin 
Home Correspondence. : 
Butter — have an artiele on the Duke of Bed- 
ford’s far tion 
cows — ng ae . 
send p * butte — 
Swedes, and you — judge yourself 
. spoil | the milk. A Constant Reader. 
that of Swedeshas gon 
f aheara 
sent 
models 
page it highly probable. g that t they becam 
the Hed i ons 0 
from which 
ican r = p> ap 4. sprung. e great 
fair or 3 nay at New York in 1851. 2 ee fewer 
exhibi y different hands, 
and during 
1 3 his reaper, he ticular 
ben of 
managed v 
( 0 By these 
Mr. Bell has been poe ee tag 
manner 
t is then 
four- 
reaping- 
to — very appropriately: be eu 
ew 
— pe! of a mone 8 of 
of w 
— ioe Lind being e 
Pekin ines were 
and this 8 | 
| changes as are 
front by the he side of th 
eeing it put in proper ‘working z order at the | ori 
the harvest ; re 
ies perfect success us. — ploughman of | origina’ 
intelligence. e precautions, 
in hen — satisfactory the 
of all his grain | the 
ess, | the oy 
two without, like Hussey’s. Of the actual 
l two tie visi 
>| rate of 24 — 
th at ev 
N ioe ry short at that paak where 2 
inventors in this field of mechanics have found t 
ee test difficulty — the collecting and den, ‘the 
rn after being cut ; for in all attempts 
ap 
th same dificulty but taking a short m 
t, he gives forth his machine 
al the after-details to be pe — ct 
ethod of obviating 
y manipulation. By 
ted he 
so 
profitable result in an 
t Kk. 
with the eutter only, leaving | u 
stil age oblige us by s stating your way of . N 11 
Me chi has published his Balance Sheet, and t 
eu a ary point o rok s far fr 
satisfactory; a farm of 170 ae ing under 18 
management an annual loss of 6581, 18s. 4d. ; but, apan 
cannot devote ose attention at markets, and 
were Ms ae e 7 fractonaliies, a and details 
y to agricultural success,” 
ag 
© 
may it his i 
— of his ne ide eas. 
aoe mbling 
toget ther un —— — 
ee laints, 2 to — this Sp ti is — 
a | the earnest ‘tis groundless 
ick’s A ne, which, on 
ed an 
rently a new charact 
fact it is no more than — as a new idea 
ginal—Bell’s, Mr. og rmick has also gono a sep 
beyond his neighbour, M ing from 
al also 
and holding e corn 
machine is made more effective, and operates with 
ree — man upon the machine besides 
all other wie yg 2 in — sensibly 
t from the other, Of the inci- 
dentally. phates to as of 8 — and 
ju published figures of each, they stand— 
two with the the revolving vanes, like M‘Cormick’s, and 
cutting 15 
the same ae with the same 
same rate. — — "far as this- 
> 5 “af 
1 at £41 82838 n T. 
devote their funds to to bring the soil into 
asi perfect 3 — unite there with a zealous 
endeavour to devise the t and most suitable ap- 
e 
2 
ussey, by taki 
t pa t vanes in front for collecting | 
th tter. ese m 
in| Gomes ‘along with me, my 2 mn —— 
seemed inevitable, and in every case 
itude 
In every, 
ou lubbers.” e 
object ject of which o prof, dere will be — — 
——— oe 
of eriticism without any remarkable holes — 
— in them, tithe tooth of dio that they have 
walk even —— — — 
hi g e been analogous | 
