FARM IMPLEMENTS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2579, 29 September 1915, Page 14

FARM IMPLEMENTS

An important' Canterbury undertak'-; ' itig is the agricultural implement manuof Messrs. Alexander Storrie, • Ltd. This firm lias been in existence ' nbW for nearly'twenty-five years, and • has devoted its energies chiefly to agri-'.. cultural implements,, consisting of: , ploughs, harrows, cultivators, etc. Special attention has been paid to the dairying industry, and much time and mean's;devoted-., to this end, with the result ■; that hundreds of Storrie milking-ma-; chines are now in use throughout NewZealand, Australia, and oven in England. The well-known firm of Lister r and Co., Dursley, have accepted th& | Stofrib milker in preference to others. ' I In addition to dairying machinery,, ( the firm has made a special feature in, j turnip and root-crop machinery. Sinco the Hidger was introduced, some 2500 ) have been built 'by tho firm, and each I year's sales are keeping up to tho full I average. The firm some few years ago < ilitrotfuccd a two-row horse-hoe ma- , chine. This machine was after a good deal of testing perfected, and now there ■[ ore hundreds in nse. It is regarded i by the farmers to be one of the fiuest I cultivators for flat and drill work ever .) introduced. It is • fitted with a special device controlled by the, foot, leaving i the. hands frse to handle the reins; it i can bo raised and lowbred to any depth or: Height required. Another machine 'I that the firm has introduced, and is giv-. J ing splendid results is tho turnip and ! voot-cvop thinner, which tho farmers say , is equal to the ordinary hand thinner of i tho day. These machines are made, j entirely in Messrs Storrie's own works, \ the only parts imported being the raw: | material, everything else being made ! here in New Zealand. . ;' '

One airfiiah at the front always carrfei i a tiger's whisker with him as a m&scdt;:, There is an average of About 350''j births sevefttj deaths & day in L0n- .... '. ; ..J