OUR LOCAL INDUSTRIES.
On Wednesday, the 9th instant, Mr. Lancaster's threshing mill, newly erected on his farm at the Beaumont, was opened in the presence of a large' uumber of visitors from Lawrence and the neighbourhood of the Beaumont. The threshing machine and chaff-cutter are driven by a turbine wheel — the first of the kind introduced into New Zealand. Jt is only ten inches in diameter, and cost £70 landed here from America. It has a wooden feed pipe, giving a fall of twenty-two feet, equal to seven horse-power, and is capable of threshing a 100 bushels of grain an hour, and placing it in bags in a dressed stale. By increasing the fall, we are informed the wheel is capable of working as high as sixty horse-power. The threshing machine is of Mr. Lawson's construction, and is partly made on the American principle, but is a combination of inventions, and performs its work splendidly. It is fixed in a large substantial barn, also erected by Mr. Lawson, and is fitted with all the modern inventions for the lightening of manual labour. Mr. Lancaster has, in addition to these improvements, built an eight-stalled stable, and is carrying on the work of improvements on his farm with great energy and enterprise. He has many thousands of trees of all kinds planted on his farm, and an orchard extending over several acres, surrounding the site of the private residence he is about to build during the coming summer. Everything on the farm is utilised — no waste allowed ; even in the feeding of the pigs, of which Mr. Lancaster has some excellent specimens, great savings have been effected. One of the most pleasing sights we observed on ilie farm was two douh]e-£nrrow ploughs at work. Mr. Lancaster informed us that they do double the work of the single plough, and their work is equally good. Mr. Lancaster cannot be +oo highly praised for the enterprising manner in which he is carrying on the work of colonisation, and we trust that his example will stimulate many others to a similar activity and go-aheadism.
Mr. Lancaster had a sumptuous repast provided for the visitors, who appeared to fully enjoy his hospitality, and wish him success in his noble work.
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Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 184, 17 August 1871, Page 5
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374OUR LOCAL INDUSTRIES. Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 184, 17 August 1871, Page 5
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