ExJiibited at Windsor. 
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Art. 3242 is arranged for the distribution of concentrated 
liquid manures and insecticides on ground crops, and also for 
urban sanitary purposes, and is convertible for sowing seed or 
fertilisers broadcast. 
The blast is directed into a pipe which divides into two 
branches, each branch terminating in five nozzles, about §-inch 
diameter, fixed at such angles as to produce a uniform fan-liktj 
current of air across the course of the machine. Up the centre 
of each nozzle passes a brass pipe about -J^-inch diameter, and 
these unite in a main pipe, which is connected to the supply- 
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tank by a flexible hose, |-inch diameter, controlled by a cock, 
the two pipes uniting in a common pipe, which, issuing from 
the cistern, is conti'olled by a cock actuated by a lever placed 
at the driver's side. The supply-cistern is of tin of a pyramidal 
form with the apex turned downwards, with a circular opening 
for filling in its flat top, fitted with a fine conical strainer and a 
close-fitting lid. The machines weigh about 8 cwt. each, and 
the fans are geared 225 to 1, so that at three miles an hour the 
fans make 4,750 revolutions per minute. 
Art. 3243 was arranged for broadcasting, and also for dressing 
hops and other high crops. 
Inside the wooden hopper is placed a tin cistern similar to 
that already described. The air pipe divides into four branches, 
the two lower of which have five |-inch jets, each directed sideways 
and upwards. The two middle branches have jets If-inch diameter 
