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is avoided ; and it may be expected that the practice of selling 
store animals by live weight wUl receive an impetus should this 
machine come into general use. 
Mr. James CouUas, Grantham — The Manm-e Distributor (Art. 
609) is of decidedly novel design. Ai'tificial manures are for the 
most part hea\-y. and many of them have great powei-s of absorp- 
tion, and are thus frequently in a moist condition when taken to 
the field for distribution. AVhen substances which possess the 
characteristics just mentioned are placed in a hopper or feed-box, 
and especially when they are subjected to the jolting wliich 
occurs when a vehicle is drawn across rough fields, they become 
so consolidated that they will not fall freely through small ports 
or openings, ard are therefore difficult to distribute with the 
degree of accuracy required in the case of highly concentrated 
manures. 
In most machines revolving spindles carrying studs, or some 
other form of stirrer, are used to keep up a constant flow of 
manure to the outlets. This they do with varying success, but 
if the manure is very moist or tenacious, they work it up into a 
paste, and make the distribution unequal and unsatisfactory. 
The difficulty of distributing moist manures is overcome in the 
Schlor patent distributor (fig. 1) as shown by Mr. Coultas. The 
feed-trough or manure box, made from 7 ft. to 10 ft. in length, is 
carried between, two travelling wheels, and directly over the box 
is a revolving rake in the form of a spindle, along which a large 
number of prongrs cr spikes are placed helically. By means of 
gearing driven from the travelling wheels the rake is made to 
revolve, and at the same time the manure is gi-adually forced up 
to the top of the bo::, the bottom of the box being made to work 
