IMPLEMENT TRIAL

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5067, 3 July 1895, Page 2

IMPLEMENT TRIAL

Of tho many necessary mechanical appliances for farm use, the seeding drill may bo reckoned as among tho most important-, for few—if any - will now essay to sow grain by hand or broad-cast machines. By the uso of drills less seed is required, and what is sown is put into the ground secure against the attack of Mr Sparrow, and consequently tho* farrnor can rely on getting the full value for his labour, and a better rofcurii for tho seed planted]* A successful trial was Tuesday at tho farm of Captain Holmwood, Opaki, of the "Farmers. Favourite" grain and manuro drill,, which is manufactured by the: Bickford and Huffman Company., ijff Macedon, New York, and for which tho Walter A. Wood Company are tho New Zealand agents, Messrs T.. Wagg & Co. being agents for Masterton. The trial was conducted byMr A.Duncan, travelling representative for tho Walter A. Wood Company, who fully explained the working parts, and showed howsimplo, what at first sight appeared a somewhat complicated price of mechanism,really was. The drill is made like most Yankeojmacbines, of light matorial, but it is exceptionally strong and well-built, and will withstand the ordinary wear and"? tear of farm work with most machines of heavier build. Of the. many points of vantage pointed out,, tho first that strikes the practical; fiiimei is that the driving gear is. worked from both travelling wheels thereby avoiding the. usual sidling' motion which occ|fc in driUj 1 . driven only from one Ay. Hk, OQ there iB the BimnjjMof jR' of made by tMTof sma ll cog/ wheels which others in an „ enclosed steel cad, co _'.t giving somo Ji' can be " either for grain ii n _

1 avorito " , bushols of grain mauuvo ffom 701b In the manure ments parji umdo so that be iffected, as is With the sown from a worked siz^E ment kind direct easy the easy to the ipiH|||^^HH the drill. disposed of on the