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Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 1000, 20 July 1883, Page 3

JIRANOIS T. HAMPSTEAD, ASHBURTON, HAS FOR Sections, with or without cottages. Potatoes, Blue Derwent and Bath Kidneys. Carrots. Mangolds, in any quantity. Pone Manure, from bone meal fo inch bone Also, — An 8-horse-power Engine and Clayton ard Shuttle worth Combine and Elevator. Bones Purchased in, any quantity for Cash. Orders by Post promptly attended to. F. T. Mayo,

F. Permnan Has for sale harrow BY HAXTON & BEATTIE, Patentees and Sole Makers of the Celebrated SPRING TOOTH FLEXIBLE HARROWS. They combine Lightness of Draught, Practicability, and Cheapness, and meet the approval of all who have examined them. Over 500 at work in New Zealand silica 1880. This Patent Harrow has been awarded First Prize at the recent Exhibition held in Christchurch New Zealand, May, 1882, and the following prizes were also gained after competitions, trials, and testings:— Ist Prize Medal at Taieri Agricultural Show, 1880 Ist Prize at the Mataura Show, Gore, 1880 Ist Prize at the Invercargill Show, 1880 Ist Awari of Merit, Ashburton Exhibition, March, 1881 Ist Prize Medal, Napier Show, 1881 Ist Prize Medal, Invercargill Exhibition, November, 1881 Ist Prize, Launceston, Tasmania, 1882 ... Ist Prize for Light and Heavy, Dunedin, 1872 Ist Prize, Gore, 1882 Ist Prize Medal, Taieri Show, November. 1881 . Ift Prize, Patea Show, December, 1881 . Ist Prize, Riverton Show, December, 1881 Ist Prize, Oamaru Show, December, 1881 Ist Award of Merit, Dunedin Exhibition, 1881 Ist Prize, Dunedin Show, December, 1881 Ist Prize, Christchurch Exhibition, May, 1882 Ist Prize, Invercargill, December, 1882 Ist Prize Sonthbridge, 1882 FIRST PRIZE, ASHBURTON, 1882. The Principal Advantages of this Harrow ark as Follows: It is 25 per cent. Cheaper than any other. Because of its simplicity, it ia more durable. The flexible and spring-tooth working of the Harrows produce a steady strain, which prevents horses from having sore shoulders. A twelve-foot Harrow can be taken to pieces and put together again by any boy in five minutes’ time. Every tooth being a component part of the Harrow, the extra labor and expense of tools, bolts, nuts, threads, shoulder pieces, framework, etc., is entire'y done away with. Each tooth acta independently of the others, and will do its SWork thoroughly over level, rough, or unevenly ploughed ground. ' ■*; ; . It is the only Harrow in the world that* can be taken to pieces in ten minutes, and securely packed in a bag ready for shipment, or that can be taken to a blacksmith’s and sharpened, at half the coat of any other. It is the only Harrow in the world that will do its work thorough and wall in harrowing crosswise over new ploughed ground, without turning overthe turf. Because of the flexible and spriugtooth movement of the Harrow it is impossible for any of its teeth catching against roots or rucks, thereby making it much easier for the team that is drawing it. It is a perfect haiu or Seed Harrow, when turned on ita back, acting an inch or inch and a-half in the soil, leaving a smooth, surface. 1132

jTOPvTH BRITISH AND MERCANTILE INSURANCE COMPANY. Established 1809. Subscribed Capital ... £2,000,000 Fire Fund 1,201,243 Life Fund 3,380,107 Premiums for 1880 ... 961,179 • Ashburton Agency: F. FER RI MAN, Bast street.