INVENTIONS AND APPLIANCES OF INTEREST TO AGRICULTURE.

Otago Witness, Issue 3769, 8 June 1926, Page 82

INVENTIONS AND APPLIANCES OF INTEREST TO AGRICULTURE.

STRAW SPREADING ATTACHMENT. The side bars of this spreader frame are pivoted on the frame of the machine so that the spreader will ride over obstructions.- The spreader is muunted on

a pipe placed between the ends of the side bars. This pipe may be turned so as to make the spreader Tevolve in a horizontal or an inclined piano. ATTACHMENTS FOR LISTERS. This device is designed to he attached to the frame of a Lister plough, one

disc being positioned on ench side of the plough to destroy the strip of wood* usually left by a Lister plough. HAYSTACKER. This slacker is mounted on a low wheeled truck. The upper horizontal beam and the extension bracket beJow extend far enough from the truck to

allow a team to pass between the vertical part of the cable and the truck. The team turns the operating bar on top of the drum, winding up the cable and raising the upper beam.

rOTATO-HARYESTER ATTACHMENT. There is an auxiliary conveyor on each side of the main of this implement. Small p ■ -ce are picked by of the fanner* Each conveyor dumps «.I_i

a separate bag. When digging in heavy clay tlie potatoes may be picked and placed in the side conveyors, while the clay and sods are dumped over the end by tlie main conveyor. PLOUGH TRACTOR. A lateral bracket is attached to the drawbar of this tractor. From this bracket a connecting rod is carried to

levers which control the land wheel and furrow wheel. When the tractor is turned these connections turn both wheels, and the plough follows the tractor. GRAIN CONDITIONER. The grain is run through the chute here, and its flow' turns a paddle wheel in the chute. The paddle wheel turns a rotor in the adjacent water chamber, and the rotor discharges water through

a pipe on to the grain in the discharge chute. When the grain is very dry and flows quickly, the rotor is more rapidly revolved, and more water is discharged. The opposite results when the grain ia damp.