SEPTEMBER 20, 1856.] 
OD i, eat aah 
THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
more luxuriant would be the growth of plants so fed. | Gf a rope be employed it must have knots about it for , advance, 
we hav 
Tı ly 
If in th g 
for v ated hoeings, indeed re és invention w was for conve, coals e Durham 
pag ac een ih hall become by any m ; but trav: as on store- | 
closed up as to prevent the ascent of gaseous fluids | ways purposely laid, pe ata song of 7 or 8 miles an 
think there are very strong, perhaps cng hour, was also proposed. For e this scheme | 
vertible arguments in support of =i Re oiogt ut into 3 pracha operation at the Beann Colliery, but | 
ot by which leaves receive gaseo | failed, | ing to the waste of power arising from the | 
riction of the chain. This failure of the | 
poran to receive an upward current ; and it is said | | principle for rapid locomotion, hbwever T, fo: o alid | 
that when leaves, have been by man’s hand re Eaim applied to the short journeys, and 
till by their own ekaia tey have at the slow pace, of field implements, particularly 
recovered their original and natural positio where different construction of de | 
r Claussen sag an ie al 
But 
groun und is evidenced by ow r very sense of smell, 
the probability of all, even the i inorganic constituents of | 
3, 1846, Pe 
, and 
y). The principal Te * use oe Coulters or e 
g c fro 
thus ee ve a 
tting iro ttached 
revolving i hatin and by scarifying 
or slicing the land into — longitudinal slips, facili- 
tated their comminuting action Aaoi part of the 
tent refers to a mowing sie N ih consisting of hori- 
tal scythes fixed upon endless straps or chains, and 
brought rapidly ac the 
wly progressed. J. 
Reaping Machines.—The adjourned trial of reaping 
machines at Boxted Lodge proves that the makers have 
disregarded the pointed criticism of Mr. Fairbairn upon 
the engineering qualities of their Pate a and set at 
afforded 
i 1 engineer in his official report 
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Ih 
, 
th. ¥ 1) 3 3: 
|1855. "The judges “regret to observe that very little 
he following extract 
culture.” 
ve l is much sustained b by t 
irom | by t 
tee PF 
tii ba Chomiet try of Agri 
an 
inexplical Ni G pe it appear that bodies | of a single eer rigger, 
arra spec 
onderful 
whieh remain fixed i in the petra he at of a fire have 
“Instead 
the patentee pols rar 
the 
nge ed with re to each other like 
volatilising and, | ae O O, the rope one passed first under both, | 
at ordin nary temperatures, of ‘pas state in | both, and then again underneath them, in | 
rm ne. 
vapours in gene a very singular infiuence in 
pom the volatilan of such bod that is, of 
caus g them t to assume a gase _A liq uid | 
3 
ame 
team or be proove i on only the outside half (as 
nome in then class of machines 
ear’? Your may also lament that 
the je ‘ode ee ractical m poe aes ted no DVn, 
but ae E+ wet blanket over pe gress by scattering 
‘the rewards o f the » Society upon “ stand-still”” machinery 
way as with common pm t bais lying in | 
ro) of each | 
riggers 
with, 
will ga jus! t the same, therefore, as if it et one 
turn round only one rigger. It is Leet that 
the a loop b 
the sam a grea degree to 
thecal inane i in a seg ay do not of them- | 
selves possess that rty. 
miles 
is ge PARNA in 
since last ye ear’s exhibition and award. Having exten- 
sively used for the last three years the machine con- 
| sidered by the judges wd “ E om By ecided] 
est machine,” I feel th at good service may be a by 
| Stating | its defi fects paraa d in racic e. 
a tendency draw 
wuld cause are rable friction 
them close 
fi 
evenly c cut. d th 
I do not find 
rl be ll ang 
ently 
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riggers 
together, pen wo 
if the 
ir axles were merely supported in er = 
in the fire ; it suffers no change of weight faprecable 
Kera get — balance sed to a white 
ea F 
T 
tio 
orated by the gentlest heat, 
n 
eam. 
Now, if it is possible that the matters lene 
n | so 
our warmest thanks sal I regret ae sac to award 
ee our mechanists in the con- 
ae 
1 to each is a friction-wheel of abou the 
diameter as the rigger; and a third fi 
be ee interposed between the two, holds them apart, ie 
that all the stress is taken with a simple aed 
instead of rpg action, |The rope is fixed, say, a 
each end of a 
small gearing kee hg 
| the p ower of thre 
mess 
and upon 
Th 
moti mg ing 
riggers, oy. putas along the rope, cae heir be earing- 
frame and c 
a plant = SEREN by the leaves, and that its roots onnecting machinery and implements along | non and prevents the use of the pte prone 
descend to depths, under favourable circumstances, a with them. A having double grooves on each r rigg er, | the grain is dry aud ready fi tting. The above ob- 
hi d naht part of the | jections are so fully met by Mr. W. Fairbairn in 
they do th di h which they | d it p "riggers, ne i be no alluded to, that I shall be glad if you have space 
ity for tightly stretching a eons of our valuable journal for hi: ing i 
that ani sin pedea of water the ey ar ill } very posible * that this | to stimulate the machine ind judges 
nourished by what y take in their leaves, if not it arrangement may i P a e for propelling | of their short-co D ful examination of 
can their roo! boats and barges on rivers and cans o or vehicles upon | the several machin tered for the prizes, it will be 
vies it might be said the cost requent roads and railways (as proposed by the inven tor), but | observed that in every one of them an attempt was 
stirri ould exceed the profits. I ‘oan no, for the | for short distances in which reat tension o de to effect a certain purpose by certain means of 
wings need not be but rs imager al, suficient only to be maintained, I can see no valid objection against it, | transm lated to retard rather than facilitate 
break the crust, and agai the e profit would not rest | But to come now to Sir John Lillie’s invention : he | the progress of cutting. In machines of e nasi 
mp! 
ing fertility of the soil, but in the —— it would 
give to that produce, as ‘seed for futur ty ae a con- 
tinually ee produc etiveness. believe 
that the adoption of a 
whelp- | w. 
P 
wheel ’—that i is, a whe RRA with projections on | 
each arm having notches in which the rope is firmly |e 
held $ ; and these” projections were adju ustable i in slots, 80 | 
ect the motion of whibg pris ae, with as ar 
A ontirng cov these 
wheels and ea Now, W, 
would give 
us so much greater | ae returns as would 
and th n order to vary the speed of progression. 
much Same than it is. I know it would in Ireland. It 
w rales per geared with a pinion ect Pe crank- | 
shaft of the engine, and could be turn ed e 
at present in use Pee 
heaviest ete of the 
urge u 
to me to be the very ‘worst and 
stly e makers 
machir ne, and L wou uld earn 
and we 
would indeed give us the “ sort,” 
Ear i: avail erage at “the “ circumstances.” 
M.G , Co. 
Ys 
carriage | 
edit 
| the diameters and Arakan of the gear which works 
had two sets of travelling-wheels ; 4 namely, ie 
fix and attach the 
so that 
in a straight-forward direction, and th 
for movi sideways upon | the | “headland. Two of | the 
f the 
—s cannot vary in Sato bat must move, and, 
ly Z, 80 
Home Corresponde nce. 
Steam Cultivation.—About nine 
latter were lifting: wheels,” 
speaking, and come with the machine, 
means of screws attached iio one end of their axles. 
years ago some ag receiving boards, we might 
cultural Seott Lil was A rag y 1| be hauled on light platforms r vanade on rails at right | then look ‘Teese to vias ter of the harvest being 
Sir Jo hin Se tt I ; 1 f the work, p with much greater wigs and feet 
featu theempl drag-roy ie l; fresh is now sevvspliched by the p 
fa { the field by g ipnels), along which a tra- | ] To facilitate the arch tof | R. S. G., Mells. 
velling | k machine, an endless sippy was provided for the Common Things. a ei the common things cor- 
by öyarigger of o Te Now recent in bearing wheels, consisting of broad flat pieces of i eB 
Waser Messrs, Fisken a spione ipine rola is propelled or wood connected to om “other by hinge joints, and greatest importance, and d yet how generally are they 
ooved rigger winding, as it were, along a The difference of power ore to move a 
pe (though its claim to originality does not rest on by the frame work of the apr before and behind, loaded Bas ir on a Lewis sd and through a common 
the point), it m yb If. ded I erable ; the strength of an 
Mess 
thod of = u facilitating ge means and 
railways and die 
which ar. consisted i in the use of a chain po 
reduci: ne th 
py 
itm: 
or paths for ma parar ia i certain cases the 
to d rag the vehicle over a 
maeng Tiare of the advantage 0 of sa aa 
patentee proposed to draw the 
travelli ing rope, band or chain passing “round “drums 
the A rege road the ase to market, the mring $ in ep 
Hald 
field ; the 
Pead 1 
porary” rails. In Peat would use ‘only one 
rigs E stationed om erste te head and working an 
whel yee ; the 
The 
end Ws sctalt riat peA or wi 
e or more turns roun 
like those of a 
sanity 
may 
a z= "wedges capstan, so pi sat the 
p- 
acl ne a mova 
at the of ‘The 
ing ri ‘ound a 
n* ne alas end. of the field. 
yo 
en 
o hol ld in the poe ea 
laced b 
itch o; 
een them and 
hav 
which may rte pes jen 
when 
operation 
por at any time of the year, w. 
Th ing the nae 
ri ‘and do more on pe than bad roads, and knowi 
he farrier’s, leaner right's, and saddler’s bills diminiah 
ees the improved 
rmer for his outla; 
er vi 
the stuff squeezed out will be better than 
The fact cannot be too often seroma 
e patentee p roposes t o pass it eian 4 
having an angular groove fitted with 
eep the Gep from slipping 5 ; the ong 
back upon wo guide s so that 
a anil ow, 
the tilling part of the machi 
tion imp vena may 
ing shafts or arms on 
ridges 
pennies 
attached ; and by extend- 
each side the carriage several 
or lands rip Hog gent Pig eg e brs 
up an and d the same tra track. F. 
arose to. 
er precaution 
further 
ing wheelsare riderra a couple of compress- 
of an axle e extending across 
groove on the 
maiga retiring or slack Pope each miee these 
tee hoes, or other ope 8 points 
the carriage „ and parti 
are fixed neo or E ened pi ane me 
1 bolted to 
© 
pt 
sep a 
ican 
peers 
t appears that the 
An the Y forks on the road, and taken up by the rigger | 
poy a grinn YE a direction of the sabeblon’y lan 
In cee of 1033 and wring of 10553 
small piece of pasture was dressed five times with 
