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is without detriment, or complication of construction, a roller, 
uitable for nearly every purpose, is placed within the reach of 
tlmost any arable farmer at the small price of 211. Rollers are 
expensive implements, and small farmers are generally depen- 
dent on borrowing from their neighbours, or, worse still, use one 
unsuited to the work — an evil which this invention goes far to 
remedy. 
It consists of a water ballast cylinder, which makes a light or a heavy 
smooth roller ; Cambridge rings slip on to this, and it can then be used as a 
clod-crusher, light or heavy as required. With the frame and shafts 
removed it becomes an ensilage roller. 
Messrs. Blackstone & Co., Stamford, exhibited their Rutland 
Mower (Art. 2570). The cutting bar in this mower has perfect 
freedom of motion, not only in a vertical line, but also in the 
angle which the fingers may take in relation to the horizontal. 
In other words, the " tilt," usually given with a lever provided 
for the purpose, is here automatic, and, more than this, the tilt 
is entirely governed by the lead wheel, but is beyond the control 
of the driver. This, we satisfied ourselves by a trial in the field, 
constitutes a serious objection to what is otherwise a clever 
mechanical movement. 
Mr. G. Greenfield, Eakring, Newark, Nottingham, showed a 
Distributor (Art. 2797). 1 This machine (fig. 5) is recommended 
Fig. 5. 
to be entered as a new implement next year by the Judges, who 
however were able to try it sufficiently in the' Showy ard and in 
the field to satisfy themselves that the appliance, though some- 
what roughly constructed and evidently hurried forward for the 
1 By inadvertence of the Exhibitor this machine was numbered 2807 
instead of 2797. 
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