INVENTIONS AND APPLIANCES OF INTEREST TO ACRICULTURE.

Otago Witness, Issue 3519, 23 August 1921, Page 58

INVENTIONS AND APPLIANCES OF INTEREST TO ACRICULTURE.

C. J. LYNDE, MACDONALD COLLEGE, yUK. PJR.OV., CANADA. ANIMAL POKE. The spurs here are carried by a pair of curved bars pivoted to the main frame. They do not touch the coyv normally, but are driven into her neck when the top

t 1 - lever is forced back by fence wires. They ■ are retracted by the spring attached to - this lever.—Herman Gerdes, Benkelman, l Neb. (U.S. Patent, 1,365,594.) » IRRIGATING DEVICE. > The light volcanic ash soils of the yvest ’ are very fertile but are hard to irrigate 1 because the water washes down the banks of the ditches, especially at the corners.

5 This portable cany-as junction overcomes r this difficulty and can be used as a dam j or as a flow regulator, as desired. —Frank * Sullivan, Cusiefc, Wash. (LLS. Patent, 5 1,350,684.) : TR ACTOR. , The peculiar feature of this tractor is that the transmission is devoid of all gearing, the driving being accomplished by j means of sprocket chains and belts. The

wheels on one side are independent of , those on the other and can be driven l forward or back, or in opposite directions for steering.—S. K. and S. Co., El Paso, ? • 111. (LLS. Patent, 1,371,330.) 3 VINE TURNER. J It is well known that cultivator shovels * frequently tear vinos and pull vegetables out of the ground when cultivating be- ’ tyveen rows. This does not happen, how-

t ever, if the cultivator has these vine 1 turners, because the vines slide along the bars and are moved out of the path of the , shovels. —Charles T. McCready, Ouley, i Va. (U.S. Patent, 1,349,896.) 1 POWER TRANSMITTER. In rising this device the operator drives 3 the car up the incline until the rear >’ wheels are on the rollers, then chains

F the rear axle starts the engine, and takes . the power from a pulley, on the axle of one roller. —Vester Stark, Fairfield, lowa. ’ (U.S. Patent, 1,358,300.)