Agricultural Implements

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 69, 11 December 1886, Page 1 (Supplement)

Agricultural Implements

The Otago Agricultural Association Show. — Stand No. 1, first on the right hand as one enters by the main gate, js oce ipied by Messrs Reid and Gray. The exhibits of this firm are scarcely so numerous as last year, when they had aa extra lot of goods out of stock in view of the Wellington Exhibition that had been held just previonsly; but the assortment is a complete one, and comprises much that will interest country folk. We may mention that fchree-fourths of the implements shown iv this collection were taken at hap. hazard from the general stock, and were aot specially "got up" with paint and putty for this show. It will be observed that the Clayton and ♦Sliuttleworth threshing mill seen in motion^ is driven with a patent Unkjoicted leather belt that is, we are in* tQruiGd f coming into general use in

England, being in demand on account of its strength and flexibility. A single-furrow lever plough, that will attract attention has been designed specially to compete with the American sulky plough, and testimonials ac to its efficiency have been received from as far away as Queensland, from which colony several orders have recently been received. Another speciaity in this collection is a force-feed broadcast sower with turnip canisters and chain harrows, for which it is claimed that, owing to the altered mechanism, there is absolutely no possibility of the machine getting choked or sowing irregularly, no matter how inattentive the driver may be. This implement is now in its third season ; but the appliance referred to is new. Tne double-drill turnip and manure-sower has not been ahown previously. Its specialty is that both the rollers are driving rollers, which is considered an implement on haring the machine driven from one roller. The guano can be put in to any depth required, and the seed is sown behind tiie guano, and can be put in lighter. Attention may bo directed to a set of disc harrows and seed- sower, which, though made as a combination machine, can be converted into two separate ones without difficulty. The novelty about this implement is that a particularly streng spindle has been fitted in — one that is stiff enough to carry the harrows with only two bearings, one at each end. This simplifies the affair. The doing away with bushes between the discs is Ja distinct advantage, as these bushes are apt to gather a lot of dirt and obstruct the progress of the machine. The chaff-cutter and bagger on carriage is fitted with a patent brake, so adjusted that the risk of spilling the chaff when taking off the bag is reduced to a uiiai.usm Tiie manufacturers claim that this implement will do as much w>rk as any of the double baggers. To show the satisfaction these machines are giving, it may be mentioned that the firm have disposed of no less than fifty during the past eighteen months, two of them having gone to Victoria. The reaper and binder shown is one of twine-binding and is certainly a model of strength, and convenience.