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spring or after harvest. It first cultivates the land, then con- 
solidates it by the heavy roller, and then cultivates it a second 
time. In the after-cultivation the tines are placed close together, 
so that the land may be left fine. The implement being carried 
upon the roller at the centre, does not sink in soft land, and the 
front wheel aids in keeping the depth true. The use of the 
roller will lessen the danger, in steam cultivation, of leaving 
the land too loose in dry seasons. The width covered is 7 feet, 
and the implement turns round at the ends in the same manner 
as the ordinary cultivator. It can be worked with 14-horse- 
power engines. 
In spite of its unprepossessing appearance and rough work- 
manship, the Judges very carefully examined and considered 
the combined Horse Rake and Haymaker (No. 1838), exhibited 
by Mr. T. H. Ramsden. As it was evidently a crude attempt 
to carry out a novel idea, we were anxious not to pass on until we 
had considered the merit of the notion, as well as its imperfect 
embodiment. The inventor has set himself the problem of 
remedying the following defects that he thinks of great im- 
portance ; 1st, that ordinary horserakes stop raking when they 
are lifted to empty themselves, so that the hay is dropped on 
unraked ground ; and 2nd, that the revolving finger-points of 
haymakers cannot safely be set so close to the ground as to 
prevent their occasionally missing and hiding sunk pieces of 
wet hay. In this machine the raking and delivering are two 
distinct operations. I am indebted to ' The Engineer ' for 
Fig. 32. — Diagram illustrating Mr. T. H. Bamsdens comhined Horse- 
ralce and Haymaker, No. 1838. 
the accompanying diagram (Fig. 32), which, in the absence of 
any complete illustrations, shows the chief mechanical details ol 
the implement when it is arranged as a haymaker. Instead ot 
the ordinary teeth of a horserake. there is a set of horizontal 
