Messrs Booth and Macdonald

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 18 November 1890, Page 2

Messrs Booth and Macdonald

The firm had one of the finest displays of implements ever seen on a -how ground at Addingtou It in eluded highly fhn-hed double and single fuiTOw lever ploughs, ab ut which were not; d a number of important improvements. Ono of the ploughs was fitted with Carter's patent poiato planter, an ingpni<niß attachment for dropping the potatoes into tho furrow behind tho centre mould board of a threefurrow plough. Another new im* plement was a patent reversible disc harrow, which Messrs Booth and Mucdonald h .ye beea making to fill large orders reeked from Queens'and, ono style is adapted to work between vows of growing corn or caun, and can be drawn by one strong hors ■ or a pair cf light ponies. A special and entirely nn\v feature is tho method of attachment of the gangs to a frame, which is such, th it it allows a great range of adjustment ns to »ngle, aii'l, wore >ver permits of the gangs being completely reversed, so as to throw inwards or outwards, at the driver's pleasure. Thus, at ono working, the soi may be gathered up towards the centre, and at tho next working it may bo thrown outwardly towards tho rows, providing in the thorough and efficient pulverisation of tho soil, the h ghost degree of surface cultivation. All tho operations necessary for adjusting th* angle of the gangs, or reversing them can bo performed quito easily and rapidly by one man or a strong lad. Two sizes are manufacture I. Ath ugh they have boon made to fill special orders fr >m Q'ioon4aud the}* will be found v-.-vy useful for o diniry land cultivation purposes. Another implement, show worthy of mention is a new and greatly improved fla stripper, a machine that is now giving tho greatest satisfaction to the large numbers of flax mill own^r-* who are using them in various puts of the co!' by. The firm also showed cultivators, grass seed stampers, corn crushers, fanning m Its chaff cutters, seven 1 styles of windmills and double and single action lift and force pumps. Lough's patent wool press horse rakes, large and small sheep racks and chuff boxes, &c. I hey also exhibited Woodhouse's patent stoel fo ding hurdles or gates, and the Piano harvester anl Piano mower, j In the awards Messrs Booth and Maodonald, three-furrow plough,