Agricultural Machinery.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 60, 10 August 1885, Page 2

Agricultural Machinery.

•" I • ■. ' *"■ ■ Q3.Z. Times). . ';' iThe^duiplay m thia I .depajrt;ij^t r .Qf tho,"i Exhijntibh ■ ia Exceedingly' good. There is a lqok of solidity' and finished appearance about the various ' exhibits which -has caused - ho, . little . astonishment iamongst.vuntpirs 'ifrjiq hare not had an /(SppjiMniiy of inspecting machinery of a •imilajr kind for Home years past. ■ ' ' Messrs Keid and Gray* Dunedin, have a grand display of their special lines. The machines, are nicely .painted and lettered; whilst some of ; the ploughs are shown just as they came 'frotn the workmen's hands. . Ther^ar^bTeir TOCO double-farrow plough* m use, the following extract from the jurors? ; report at the Melbourne Exhibition b^rag*-suf-ficient their In ploughs,; there is Jpne exhibit to which \we wish to draw ap^al attention as being the bes^ •■V' i<>he double-furrow plough ■ ,6:f 3leid- &' orij, of Dunediri, New ;2eiland., ; In finish arid construction- it is .far superior- to* any other." They exhibit a. combined dbuble-furrpw and subsoifar, made m such a way tht.t the front wheel-holder is put as close into •the plough ' as possible, a screw on the •chain regulating the deph of the share as required. The dout>lo I furrow' plouffh| 'fitted with swivel circular coulter, is wel[ adapted rfor s ploiigffing^rongli it. land ; whilst the hillside plough apTpeaCT> to , be li^ht, dHrable; and of eith^draught, tKi share being changed f rbm ; right '■_ to^ left by a single lever, v*:hich*t the v Eande tim« puts the coulter iri proper position. Th» New iZealand twine binder, with; Gray's patent knotter and oj(her improvements is a>ery fine machine. - It'has the ad* vantage over tbe imported article that duplicates of any portions which may 1 • broken can bepbtained, at any of the branches of fclie firm or from their agents, tlius saving a grieat fleal ,6i Valuable time, A largequantitjr of colonial made tvrine .has been used itf ■ -.these' nia&hin'e«, • of ' yiuch there are now lsOihrnse; Ai a r^apar r and binder contest at o<tmara, at which i twelve machines conipeted, inclnditfg all the leading.; American ones, Reid 'and : " Gray's took second plaice; Chaff-, cntterj. forße-BesdVgeed^6wer,-fitfed -'jnth , turnip attachment chain hart;owp,graß>, graia and rriahuredrill, horie^wer.V&c V are exhibited, all reflecting very great credit on the fitm. Wlien^Messrs Bei"4 ifeGray commenced business m Dun«din f about fifteeeii years ago, they employed 20 kaiid's.- Now they giv^ work; ilt,;the year, jqund to 250 menj and 'distribute £2O;OOo;<per' annum m wages; All the wobdv/brk and painting is done at the firm's premises j as well the iron and steel portions. - - '; ■■'■■'■■.:.