at Home and Abroad. 
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English farmers will be able to see it in operation, as well 
as the rival machine by Mr. Bust, at the forthcoming Show 
at Shrewsbury. 
2. Messrs. F. J. S. Bust, IVinterton, Lincolnshire. — The 
following description and illustrations have been kindly 
furnished me bv the makers, and I can only regret that I 
have not had an opportunity of seeing the machine at work : — 
Fig. 19. — General View of Messrs. F. d J. S. Bust's Special " Ensilage " 
Cutter, with extra Knife-wheel, Bagging apparatus in position, and 
the Horse shafts removed. 
Special " Ensilage " Cutter. 
" The above is a most powerful machine, fitted with five knives, and is 
specially adapted for driving direct from the fly-wheel of a portable engine. 
If placed near to the " silo," waggons can be driven up alongside, and their 
load teamed direct ou to the cutter feed-board, when it will reduce the 
product treated into chaff at a tremendous rate, and also throw it into the 
"silo" as it is cut, thus saving a great amount of labour. The feed rollers 
are on a principle which entirely prevents choking, however wet or green the 
fodder may be, and the labour of the feeder is greatly reduced by a travelling 
web and extra spring roller, which bring the feed fonvard to the main rollers. 
Both feed rollers and web can be instantly reversed or stopped by a new self- 
releasing safety lever, which is so arranged that the very fact of a man 
getting his hands entangled in the feed rollers, would cause him at the same 
time to bring his weight to bear on the lever and instantly reverse them. 
This lever acts on a clutch on the fly-wheel shaft, and is quicker in action 
than it can be on any other, the importance of which will at once be seen, 
when it is remembered tiiat twenty-five knives pass the feed rollers per second, 
so that a second saved in reversing them might save a man's hand. The 
main shaft, and both feed rollers, work in adjustalle gun-metal hearings, pro- 
vision also being made for taking up any play which the fly-wheel shaft may 
