INVENTIONS AND APPLIANCES OF INTEREST TO AGRICULTURE.

Otago Witness, Issue 3495, 1 March 1921, Page 58

INVENTIONS AND APPLIANCES OF INTEREST TO AGRICULTURE.

C. J. LYNDE, MACDONALD COLLEGER QUE. PROV., CANADA.

DISC HOLDER. This simple Y-shaped holder is made of wood with a cone-shaped support block for the disc. It enables the operator to

hold the harrow disc properly against a rotary sharpening stone. —Ralph Colley, Tonioa, 111. (U.S. Patent, 1,346, 004.) BAG HOLDER. The metal rim of "this holder is supported at three points and can be adjusted to fit bags of different sizes. It supports the' bag partly by its curved-up bottom

and partly by means of a cord clamped around the top of the bag.-—Erick Erickson, Minneapolis, Minn. (U.S. Patent, 1,353,330.) SAFETY DEVICE. This device is used to help trucks out of sand and mud holes. It is made of cast iron in sections and has one curved section

which is used when it is necessary to guide a wheel side-wise to firm ground.— Wm LavaJlee, Central Falls, R. I. (U.S. Patent, 1,344,238.) TRAILER. The object of this invention is to provide a trailer that can he steered by hand when backing. The trailer is the same at

both ends and is steered backward by means of an extra drawbar, after the locking-pin is removed.—Ser.hler and Co., Cincinnati, Ohio. (U.S. Patent, 1,328,048.) TRACTOR PLOUGH. This invention relates to gang ploughs which are raised by power from a support wheel. The lift mechanism is so arranged tha t the ploughs are raised in succession ;

they are locked automatically in the raised position; are lowered in succession; and are adjusted as to depth, individually.—La Crosse Plough Co., La Crosse, Wis. (U.S. Patent, 1,347,992.)