THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, 
tion by fire. Even were they connected with each hy taken upon myself the responsi! bitity of thefirst machine, agricultarist to deepen his sod, and to weed and 
other by bridges, these might be so constructed as to on publie og Уучу failed in getting o others to do | — more thoroughly than he can do with his 
be easily removed, or they mi made of incom- | $9 Оп equitable terms to the worthy inventor. ] er tool, 2: — 
bustible ials cast-iron, for instance, — €——— 
with | THE ROTARY FORKING MACHINE. REAPING MACHINE COMPETITION AT 
| Ти torial position to which you admit the contri- STIRLING, 
коо AND ) PROGRESSION. | butions of “С, W. II., and the rank which he has „Tun Stirling General Agricultural Association lately 
a lar writer om agricultural topics, | offe the 
recently published letter in | "= dni : As 
them by in silence. It is no light matter 6 | Rossing g smile at some expressions of our sanguine friend |! premium of any amount has been 
incur the displeasure of the y and talented oer | Ir. p. enters S upon a a long disquisition, in which the | offered for reapers by any Scottish i Society, 
of the Clay Farm, and Lam, therefore, the more anxioas | following appear to be the leading ideas :— i it naturally exeited a i Loud deal of i 
ith "him ho | lst. p assumes tha nüon now directed to | The the 
to set py geet (if not my — right w 
and soften 
competition on Tuesday last, on 
his censure. I em rotary cultivating machines is the result of his writings farm of King’ 8 Рабу ре —— by Mr. Peter — 
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own opinions, although, of рын -: айе 
team cultivation; and that — he p M im It was originall tended that the competition Laus 
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then, it does, overtake and rush past him and the truth, pay io mas the machines made their appearance dat ад and 
or censu Well 
— m us to criticism ге, tn i gus 2 Ld хе, delayed vm * m. Pus 
with borse-power, cheaper — more “effective y. Heassumes, as an axiom peti no proof, th g trains brou n 
m Ив most inveterate enemy. I " not consider i economical. instrument of cultivation “that hand can | Where the competition — to take U^ presented а 
necessary to dissect too minutely eithe imus" or make or mind can conceive.” n scene of the greatest — By the hour of starting 
verbiage 24 i article, beyond — the ths “impaling Sdly. He assumes, also аз an axiom, that the inver- mbers had i imme and at one 
of the wri th e, after sion of 4 soil is а necessary part of the act of culti- | — of the day there could not have been fewer р» 
their wid e ind г опе | vation, and implies that his steam-rasping or sawing | b opi than 6000 Besides these, num 
thought, when in writing on this subjee! | machine will invert it. rsons crowded thi ais the park around, 
either of * Talpa " or his charming Chronicles. If I wer |. And lastly. He asserts thst the rotary forkers arp The sun quem out brilliantly, and the spectacle was 
to find fault with the spirit it would te | ће soil, “tops and bottoms uppermost, any how,” and | e TT he most ani escription 
on its vain assumption that persons in 21 111111018 | “ — the soil into a confusion that shames the very Twenty-one machines were entered for competition, 
d Ne to think alike, and draw similar conclusioss | n 8 ending at patentees, from all parts of the country, and it was anticipated that 
lany desire pip 1 * will admit on Ma аа is of question- out o о proved 
ions are hs ways — able 
Mise » | able in constru m be 
The | iret of these women is at peche by cho case, however, Qut — — 
necessary. Well sho dag after my “ gathering, icine the long list of rotary pronged machines, or les me forward in good time, one more (Bells) 
T Mr. Romaine, "who p esented to me the "follow ul every ng with Morton's of 20 me quin 30 — pe last — — — T 
etter of introduction i— 7 ears o own to Josiah Parkes’ мез а ar М бейе "pem supootivo- 2 
Hilaire, Canada Fast, ра 9,188. ceded the publication of his ew” on the subject of | heir ig 
Sm. A great rte of your courage, energy, and perse- cultivation, The refutation is important, not as а starting. 
verance, and a firm believer in your disinterested public spirit, | gr e gt this No. 1. Mr. 
Tam ab Paster notice а rng — or that — ч to s da of No. 2. Mr. ii Hopen friget) Vai s imp 
rocoediig TENE 9. J. Mr. M'Cormiek'&, man y Mr. M'Kenzie, 
Engiand with the model a is an pum cem — — sti up ho sl stand in No, 4. Mr, M Laren'a Dray's Cmm 
1 sme be worked b It has ali . 5. 'в( ouse) Bell’ 
ried at. 2 2 м шесһап pre be Paes aid so the — poston of endeavouring to realise with No. 6. Mr. — n rper 
ly thought of that the Government has been inducat to horse — — imitation of the i" ous but some- No. 7 ve Bell's own Crosskill, m d by Mr, Low 
imme a small un " ээ rte omedia; ito maker pere —— эң a “© cultivator, which he. sketches во | — Amon ng th н n the ie eld „ ja ri 
its merits tested in England. ave recommen r. graphic i ^ is “Chronicles.” The rotary forkin 
M M geo M in the м of implenent-| mac * not merely antecedent to, but i is quite ety Me ғы of Ф = аје, Lond d Kin 
with ` коой knowledge of these mor i If there is thing distinct * n the steam я clivatary о of C. W. H.,“ of : » y, Mr Е заа shen 2 ~ М.Р. Mr. Hay, 
n eme, or something wrong, witl er, and o am » R. 
Sec to ee м om Ma dà pingi f E, ИК amen Yo 
good, let him by all means follow it T up, and have an — wedded to the horse, and as a proposition it is незра reaping machine, was on the throughout the day 
— ond р: att —— de Agr prr — Society's X | of proof. There are, no doubt, advan gn attending ad во was Mr. Charles M'Cormick, the American 
anxious des ire to advance th o practice of agiculture the sal tnc C the plough in respect to | patentee. Mr. Pusey, who intended being 8 was, 
by every means in а your power, I am emboldened to Mc yon to tractio ere are other - —— we are re soriy fe to learn, detained in Ediuburgh by indis- 
model, and give the young man yom p mo t in К, mg 
inion of its merits, and your advice as to further т procesdings.~— | aetion rotary forkin machin His declamation 
ain, str, sid y ing пе. uto. th fields where competi 
THe Sie Bae pt wa D Ga?” [bout the ^ Пету alembie in which: dhe sues of man place, the public were admitted Vy екеш, the p 
After a very long examination of the plans, models, and horse hae been seething for centuries,” being 2s. 6d, and agricultural labourers at la, 
and other documents, I came to the conclusions which I vu 33 It might ав well be said of manual siderably more than 1001, was taken at the entrances 
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in my letter to the Times. Those eorclusions 1 „the power. of s man is most during tbe day, 
may be right or may be wrong, time will il амдын they economically exerted in raising a weight, therefore it is The first trial was made оп а field of Oats, 
my opinio "nose odels and wes pater vantegeous under certain circumstances in | aoi], eed nearly level. The field was well adapted for 
wings were made in North America log be SN Patin arem = or because the m was | machin mank A if we except the fact that the grain 
“Тараз? arti in print; on this poian i it | 80 long in fa of winnowing between t doors, | was slightly m da The whole of the machines were 
necessary, abundant affidavits сап be obtaüed ; and — — winnowing machine must not be ordered to start at once ; most of them went off in fine 
because а man of thought and genius happeied Е except in conjunction with steam power. style, except №. 1, Mr. Cochrane's Bell's, which had the 
working out practically ideas somewhat rw Ageing in| Thirdly. The necessi — стос —— revolving bands of the rolling web made of gutta 
PR on, far more comprehensive than those of|*Xiom, a be proved. percha, which was found sewer at all. It did, 
" am I to be held up to editoria — ar have been requisi —— — however, start at last, but speedily came to a stand- still, 
ridicule, in an article sensitively self-lauda 
of exposing, the bottom soil to the air than by bringing and was, after one or two ineffectual attempts to eut, 
Jey ten rtly I hope to present in your iliis it up; and it is still necessary whenever the objectis to | removed from the field, Each of the machines bad in 
of the machine; until then, it will Бе bury the vegetation growing at the surface. At such | this field an portion of grain to cut, 
oo жр dà enter upon long еам about fric- | times the plough or the spade must be used; neither | which were most — and most thought of were 
е, , &e. uffice to say, you |; ; я 
cannot have agricultural! 2 revolution without in vert it any more than “ the circular saw 
on, Tt Winton’s gn is 
e, because it has less 
mic ‘why good with the tel us as compared with the in br th, and, in doing so, absorbs 4-horse —.— No. 3, Mr. 
— understand. All our Crosskill’s rol 
that you 
the same | y-the-bye, it abrades about one-twelíth of am inch | horses was v reat, 
x read 4- Minot А 2А 
4 M*Corm 
ny m j s the No. 2, Mr. Hope's Bell’s, made fairish work, but will 
rable to the | Awdust “in going through a 5-inch Oak plank " (where, frequent stops. It was evident that tlle labour to the 
bo f i 
M'Cormick's, started in excellent style, 
of horses | But inversion is not necessary for decomposing the con- | eutting de un iration, The stubble was very smooth 
not be applied to a revolutionary orig Į | ituents of the soil when it is left 80 hollow м. don the air and regular, an and there was no stoppage, ва save from the 
ee | 
rs, carts, and water can penetrate it in a 
&c., must, on this — — as al as our |“ С. Л. н.” said pra know that, even according to ‘the | by plunging broke the pole after the first furrow had 
A host of tormentors, 
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mother earth, until her 
estroyed, 
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ner are well nigh des 
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in а by tol whick do mot invert the Er rapidly and 
The is. 
in а bet 
himse ача seen it in operation, Bell's, as it at present = are gel It s thus 
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tho sorry to shock the self-est — cmd re-state in ге чыгдан weight of two men, who are 
— du Y 25 . really the peculiar advantages of the forking machine. - ust add greatly on heavy eid ü | the labour of the 
I" : ngst but in 
oonelusio 
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xtending not — amon 
best was 
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the plough . changed, when the machine did its work beautifully, 
told me ther d 
at Mr. — die — idea of the — machine | the hands of old-fashioned practical farmers, me No. 4, чу M‘Laren’s Hussey, by D gs inse 
wae i letter in colum: de — 
. very bad work, was often stopped, am 
that merely “tumbles the soil into confusion ;“ | twice had to go over ho i stubble already — 
hes but I will disclaim, once for all, in print, as I have | before continuing to cut its - al н, work 
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“atin. truth that many minds think туа repeatedly done by word o meme aes idea that the | very slovenly done, and in 
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is intended as а substitute. for the * steam stalk. 
eulivator" No. 5, Mr. Robertson's Bell's improved, made 
pt shall be made to reduce the | excellent work, but had to stop repeatedly to 
latter to "Preces the difficulties and ineongruities of | gearing in order. After this was aecom 
(Having many inquiries, it may be interesting to the task w become apparent to those who, like | its work in an excellent manner 
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of his machines for my use. 
dx or ; late soever the steam engine good work, for: 
weeks I 'hopei it C" be in operation, either to fail or made useful in the cultivation че the soil the horse | not choke up so often as the other specimen mens of 
1, as tural world forking-machine will not have been without value to No, 4, but was very inferior to Bell’s or M‘Cormick’s, 
„ive the ag 
Rotice, and an opportunity "for its inspection. 
I have | the farmer, if in the meantime it shall have assisted the | in the style of cutting. 
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would | forking machine will, in all cases, replace the plough, I a little laid it was eut ror 4 the middle 
or that it 
to clean 
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