Agricultural Patents for the year 1861. 
495 
2854. Thomas Procter, of Boston, millwright, Improvements in carriers or 
stackers, or apparatus for faciUtatimj the stackimj of straw, hay, or 
agricultural produce. Application dated 13th November; provisional 
protection, 22ud November. 
2871. F. K. Hughes, of Borrowstounness, and T. Bicliardson, of Newcastlc-on- 
Tyne, Improvements in treating certain natural saline compounds to 
fit them for agricultural use, and in order to ohtain p)otash and other 
salts. Application dated 14th November ; provisional protection, 
6th December. 
2876. James S])ratt, of Camden Town, Improvements in the 2»'eparation of 
food for hogs, dogs, cats, and piouUry, and in apparatus for the same. 
Application dated 15th November ; provisional protection, 29th 
November. 
2884. Matthew Gibson, of St. Andrew's Works, Newcastle-on-T3'ne, Improve- 
ments in reaping and moiuing machines. Application dated 16th 
November ; provisional protection, 29th November. 
2948. "William Bray, of De]itford, engineer. An improved locomotive apparatus 
particularly adapted to agricidtural purposes. Apjilication dated 
23rd November ; provisional protection, Gth December. 
2957. William Burgess, of Newgate-street, city of London, Improveinents in 
reaping and mowing machines. Application dated 25th November ; 
provisional protection, 13th December. 
2961. Alfred Vincent Newton, patent agent. Chancery-lane, An improved 
method of removing and p)reventing the formation of calcareous and 
saline deposits in steam-boilers. A communication by Lewis Baird, 
of Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S. Application dated 25th November, 
provisional protection, 13tli December. 
2989. Alfred Vincent Newton, patent agent, Chanceiy-lane, Improvements in 
mowing and reapiing machinery . A communication by Wm. Van 
Anden, of New York, U.S. A])plicatiou dated 27th November, 
provisional protection, 13th December. 
3019. John Cooper, of I])swich, and Charles Garrood, of Penge, Surrey, Im- 
provements in cidtivators, horse-hoes, horse-rahes, and harrows. Appli- 
cation dated 30th of November. 
3035. Wm. E. Gedge (Gedge and Son, patent agents), Improvements in the 
mamfacture of nosebags, &c., in apparatus connected with such mami- 
facture. Application dated 4tii December ; provisional protection, 
27th December. 
3039. James Edward Boyd, of Lewisham, Kent, Improvements in scythes, 
scythe-handles, and apparatus for connecting the same. Application 
dated 4th December ; provisional protection, 27th December. 
3045. Abraham Pullan, of New Cross, Surrey, and William Lake, of the same 
place, Improvements in traction and other engines, and in wheels for 
ditto and other carriages, and in giving mot ion to ploughs. Applica- 
tion dated 4th December. 
3047. Allen Thomas Carr, of Soho, Middlesex, Invention of the application of 
a material to the shoes on horses'' feet for the purpose of preventing them 
slipping. Application dated 5tli December. 
3053. William Busby, of Newton-le-Willows, Yorkshire, Irriprovement in 
ploughs. Application dated 5th December; provisional protection, 
27th December. 
