THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 319 
ade ban “se 
thro ae th oun e mass, 
ane ce pam anys = ees 
ng OF 
eap to 
— 
hin, and mis atime send 
ay 
be Fi 
"erop 
e smoke 
only a 
go ashes. 
nly y spread and | 
ashes i K 
which e crop of hi me ist p, and s 
be SEEI mov si from time to time, by means of chains made plicity of the ma chines ere taken into consideration, 
average quantity p 
a te ns heav y aye i| | | fast at one end, and coiled over pulleys worked by wer ) the tri al field, but it 
diameter, are worked alterna‘ely by a pinion being | of the 12 which the ean offered they took but five 
made to engage alternately in spur whee on the| leaving us seven to award o our large and varied 
drums. The implement is drawn backwards and for- departr ment, 
wards across the field by means of a rope or chain, The dry manure Bree: ributors were the first selected 
working over a snatch- pulley attached to a anchor- | for trial. Thes EEA were required to sow half an 
carria ge placed or 1 the 0 pposite side of the field. . The t th f 2 bushels per acre, and half an acre 
I i ] l HANG distribute wet, coarse, and me 
| 
r | eng 
|axis, and both the engine and anchor-carriage are | manure. “Of “the pan ter manship, a 
+1 
| eng’ ime. that were those of 
| “182. Model of a Farm, under Burcham’s Circular | Messrs. Fam eves, a Holmes 
ane 
4 ond of the n Turn i e first 
of i the field ‘thus persed had Better roots t han | Method of Tilling Land by Steam or Horse Power ; | and the last have been some time before the 
arn artifici = |C: 
a agection 
a p 
Kamak pr o ‘process 
3 tse 
ever a common practice in many clay 
ps i ton hemo Taree: on epee of yei in heaps by meat 
ply t the 
a 
p k aag circular allotment Tba seam- mi arlisle jud es. ae mor 
rim sieri t work, Panes period | | cultivati ting platform is then 
y t 
aye Hea aha m, Lynn, Norfolk, and 8, Upper pe blic; a Spei epas of them, therefore, would 
| John Str olden Square, W.—This system of agri- supe erfluous, especially as an account of them 
culture maiden the entire „farm trito cra plots or ad their lengthy trial in 1854, wa i iled 
Ast = 
distri- 
It very simple in its cou- 
r executing any required operation a a pri aria sweep srt ion. j a is ‘only one rout in which ipai. a 
over the pss of each plo’ w of Archimedean screws, _, These t urr the mi ure 
“ 1883. Pat nt Har rrow ae Emery. lt; di 
j he thi 
“Ay itahl 
oal, and ap 
kie oba t 
this harrow is in a the wali like or opago gae Ea 93 om thus, determines the 
its 
pi 
Tad Me pake was a poor clay, at a rent | them to the whippletree. All the teeth in the ‘harrow | favour but gh cost 
2 burnt earth again has been on, 
ere when took it i 
hand, | 
y, 
“teduced. by the poverty: and Ea eee amiy of | are es into is A gin rows, in alternate cross | of gee aking it very Me Shine amplis yE ye nor 
‘its. 10s. per 
| parallels, a positi t greal tly fav ours an equal and | the workmanship were first-rate, and there must be 
soil, The arra 
tp change 
ay soil, ies tells us agg in 1853 he 
c yards o acres of land wit 
ult, His pe was quadrupled in 
i an eooent 
pu 
s been ager raised fi 
h an | 
rom 
e has been 
nge- | seer: profit to the inventor at the present 
adm uch a “mode ‘of gearing i to the pri Ont be whole we were much pleased with the 
whippletre that bees “tooth in the harrow wed a small qronsity of fine manure 
force of the draught direct upon it. The et i ex- with ma regularity an nd all other sor ts very fairly. 
hibited represented a light seed-harrow for o rt of the box. is 
“184. Patent Steam Cooking Apparatus a Cattle ah one or two trifling alterations i in matters of detail 
s| Feeding ; George Forsyth, Stakeford Foundry, Dum- | which we pointed out to the man ane avon tend 
fries.—In this a apparatus there are two boilers, the | greatly to improve this machine. s dis- 
outer one being set in brick-work, in the usual manner, | tributor sowed coarse manure better inita sa pr the 
and the inner one of similar s shape, but smaller, inserted | others, but Mr. Cha iets s seemed to us the more 
inside it ater is conveyed into the space between | generally useful Danae it acted well in distribut- 
the two aE aoe the roots, or other food to be | ing all the manures, whether rx wet, coarse or fine, 
‘ per cubic yard of the clay measu aie bur mening ; | perfora ted ‘false. and are covered close with a | guineas; 1 of work about it, and 
1 joing, and applying, 2d. ih &e., 1d. ; 
acre covered the cost of putting on io 
s. pn sey gives us his EDR a on clay will pass to the under ed the false bottom, and rise | the I li he speedily damage all iron ork which is not 
eh inner boiler, and rest on aja large quan ntity or a sma all. The price is high, 
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lid. Fire e being applied, and steam rai ised (which N bd that Work is turned out in y aAa style. This is 
sa 
put on 80 yards of burnt cl 
er | preparing the food placed i ind , bu Si ill also cook food 
boiler, when made large | well made, and of the best afeli: We aw: 
enough, will not only supply the steam necessary for | Messrs. Ga arret mgar — w Pante „broadcast 
cis Page, of Baldock, on a heavy cla , placed a ongsid two we gave a 5l. ity ze. 
2 in Cambridgeshire, burns all the borders and | “186. Patent Straw and Hay. sor making Machine ; | It has recently | been said that it is the duty of the 
urf and faggots | J. H. Simpson, Petersham. i out to the public the short- 
ery slowly in | oblong cast-iron frame supported o m four standards ; 3 in comings of the. unsuccessful machines. We do not see 
r | the centre of the frame a hollow shaft, wi f this. We explained to the makers, as 
T e|and double pulley, revolves in bearings. the courteously” as we could, what we thought the chief 
eat crop from 25 to are pulley fixed on the shaft, power is reed Fe) defects in their machines, but those remarks do noi 
the practice of burning | means of bands, to two other pulleys of the same} want to be paraded before the public. The absence of 
the surface, diameter, S on the hollow shafts hi tet in er a prize or a igen oe will show we did not appre- 
of ings ach en nd of t the fra the outer | ciate this ei Leg meee very highly, and as long 
= cost. of 
or straw is attached. Under or tary circumstances considered a as certificates of merit, and direct the agri- 
the hooks do not revolve, gat 1 the shafts to which cultur o the best implement in its class. We can 
ted b fth +h Qq 
r with | they are connected ma; evolving ; but as d lisbury prize 
and n crops. the straw or se is sees ad. the ‘ drag ’—made by | astbatow to o our ar brother farmers. If ao. Rin a ta 
emarkable instance of the ïm- | the operator as he walks o d from the ma chine— machine any sort or an quantity 
‘cold and heavy soils by burn =W is that put on, its be Chaba is 
ea Parm Evesham, in ie oe tch driv: ing s Shaft, and it framed the best; if rn require Pols to sow coarse or 
a cost of from 22. to 4l. takes of its Eat on the Bie Fost prt A e manure, Mr. Holmes’s is to be pre ferred , but if they 
bic eh of burnt ai, gar wis ro hook is pulled out of ae iy the catch pist the | wish for s that will ede Eet e a sm sa te ee 
s that in aie instances the Wheat shaft by means of a ae g. By thiss fe? aa Bie | fine with t exactness, the 
separa rie oie oie f bands may be ma the | reco nena Mr. Reeves’s. 
hooks t wheel A Mani sation, | creak “pots wre do not entra oly 
e that e finished T = haat cet butors to Ban ae a lot of ro T fey as bs pose a 
i pars a mei “he can commence attachment to | 2 to 4 bus highly conce ntrated manures, Wi e have 
ith remarkable | t eye without ‘ieccatitsiing A the topake of the a ME Ee macht ine was well aie, We 
to work more wie tw not mean oe Taa that the Oak was beaut 
green crops | “229. ‘Moa e of Utilising and Deodorising Sewage | varnished, the ork well Benet or that the 
dantly. M. 8. | Matters, &e. ; 3; Dr. Jo hn pey Llangefni, Anglesea, — ~ pau was of tis Softest blue, but we mean that the 
This i ying he Steed. ations or mon ate of all and every part of the machine was 
EX were fully confirmed in 
wes ‘ovebga wf “ans om bination ae quick-lim by the willing testimony of the consulting 
IETY O 
ane annual exhibiti ion age inven- 
“Set the Society of Arts, and 
cia iculars possessing 
small quantities of ‘iloride of time, to reire the engineer. thie as to the length of the trials: in a 
uisance pro roduced by the sewage “i houses, ais thus | very short time we satisfied ourselves as tọ which were 
. the closet it is proposed should awaya if piore be | carts. Sowing artificial manures by such m 
h 
reduee it to an inoffensive state, to be easily removable the: three best aetna: Some of sn: wi ag ge we 
with such refuse, and so to e fay as me a “The d not require to do much. One well in 
, inside of ed ar bl in an hour what a aaas SA annot do, 
. | metallic A of a square shape, di a par- Dar it requires a long and varied trial to say with ye 
tition, sọ as effectually to pat hee a) ton the beng bois ch machine, out of a lot of good ones, 
liquid deposits. The ashes and lime rapidly solidify, | the 
and even fossilise the solid pea = convert them | liquid manure distributors were next tried. er 
to masses without smell. mpartment of aniier these distributors should s serve as vee 
filled with the mixture of lime and ashes. It} think useless, one t erefore did not much appr 
Linear of the framing ; 
means of the winch- Arg Ai hich 
acts in this manner :—the e quantity of liquid passed into | Mr. Reeves’s ingenious machine for fa purpose. T 
the pinta: the closet forms a mass of wet lim phage h acts i in its | liquid drill may Pid of great service, but ficial 
in the angle of incli- a known capacity of annk gase: are to be sown with water, they are best — 
weri e| any offensive smell. i „great n of the — thus deposited in the ground and covered up, not scattered — 
th haft | passed into the closet is at on sorbed, and any | over the surface of the soil, ‘There is plenty of 
excess of it filters usagi the mass ot Time jar vache. liquid manure which now escapes frc our yards; we 
ugh a pipe to the sewer, and by ing b want to mak economise what 
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divested of nearly all foreign matters, eke off as|wehave. The chief supply is in the winter ; 
nuts on e pender 
recede 
P Oa or 
and as the 
lime water, with only a very small proportion of im- | distributor is hardly wanted in the _ sil Post ek it 
from each om sin à 
af rie purities, and in a state that the ordinary putrefaction | should serve on the farm to carry i” 
by | and smell are re: aye ed impossible.” needed, and it would be 
to ———— several; none roe Be aie Ser , ut 
inciple very few scattered the well. , James’s worked 
me as was MA en rire e best; it has a a: for distributing the 
f Tne portion of the priz which was allotted to | liquid, and i va aprind it inea ine a 
2er A s Wiliam | us ene wand eg Aya 200. was the Tobe non o g that would choke A eh delivery, 
a direct line, u the | toth "i stributors, but for the miscellaneo aay © man who rides 
engine Co th- | awarded peher geraak prizes, po only such of the pao he It holds or 4 fas Aa and scatters the 
ight. Two drums, of large | medals as the judges in t the other classes could spare. | liquid 12 or r 14 feet wide. The cart is all composed of 
