Agricultural Patents for the year 1863. 
571 
Cultivators, Diggers, &c. 
*2G99. T. Beards, of Stowe, Buckingham, Improvements in machinery for 
cultivating land. Application dated 6th October, 1862 ; patent 
sealed, 6th April, 1863. 
18S4. J. W. Branford, of March, Cambridgeshire, merchant, Improvements 
in apparatus for hoeing and cleaning the land, and for cutting or 
setting out the plants of root crops at certain distances from each 
other, and which invention he designates " A longitudinal and 
transverse hoe." Application dated 30th July ; provisional pro- 
tection, 21st August ; notice, 15th December, 1863. 
•2501. R. A. Brooman, of 166, Fleet-street, London, patent agent, Improve- 
ments in implements for cultivating the soil. (A communication 
from France.) Application dated 11th September ; provisional pro- 
tection, 3rd October, 1862 ; notice, 13th January ; patent sealed, 
6th March, 1863. 
2676. 0. C Evans, citizen of America, now resident in Manchester, Improve- 
ments in digging machinery. Application dated 29th October ; 
provisional protection, 13th November ; notice, 8th December, 1863. 
2129. Charles Harratt, of Homsey-lane, Highgate, Middlesex, Improve- 
ments in apparatus for tilling land. Application dated 28th August ; 
provisional protection, 18th September ; notice, 20th October ; patent 
sealed 4th December, 1863. 
*3216. John Irwin, of Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, An improved 
machine for cultivating land. Application dated 1st December ; 
provisional protection, 12th December, 1862 ; notice, 7th April, 
patent sealed, 12th May, 1863. 
*3090. Charles Littleboy, of Straffan, county Kildare, Ireland, land steward, 
Improvements in implements for cultivating land. Application 
dated 17th November ; provisional protection, 5th December, 1862 ; 
notice, 10th March ; patent sealed, 5th May, 1863. 
1033. J. r. and E. B. Nunn, of Royston, Cambridgeshire, farmers, Improve- 
ments in hoes and cultivators. Application dated 25th April ; pro- 
visional protection, 22nd May ; notice, 2nd June ; patent sealed, 
23rd October, 1863. 
580. A. F. Pagny, of Paris, gentleman, A new agricultural implement 
called " Billon- Roide," for cultivating tubercles, roots, and all oil 
plants. Application dated 3rd March ; provisional protection, 17th 
April; notice, 7th July; patent sealed, 29th August, 1863. 
2948. James Piatt, of Gloucester, engineer, Improvements in machinery and 
apparatus for cultivating land. Application dated 23rd November, 
1863. 
545. Michael Puddefoot, of Blisset-street, Greenwich, hat manufacturer, 
Improvements in implements for tilling and cultivating land. 
Application dated 26th February ; provisional protection, 10th March ; 
notice, 7th July, 1863. 
1404. Joseph Seaman, of Lowesmoor Works, Worcester, agricultural imple- 
ment manufacturer, Improvements in implements to he used in the 
cultivation of the soil. Application dated 5th June; provisional 
protection, 26th June ; notice, 13th October ; patent sealed, 1st 
December, 1863. 
2351. William Woofe, of Gloucester, agriculturist, Improvements in imple- 
ments for tilling the soil, and in means of draxoing ploughs and other 
