INVENTIONS AND APPLIANCES Or INTEREST TO AGRICULTURS.

Otago Witness, Issue 3773, 6 July 1926, Page 78

INVENTIONS AND APPLIANCES Or INTEREST TO AGRICULTURS.

BEET TOPPER. The cutting knives of this machine are carried on revolving Tods which move up and down. The knives descend on the beet tops with a yielding pressure and

accurately top them irrespective of their height out of the ground. The knife members are so spaced as to get every beet in the row

CULTIVATOR. It is claimed for this garden cultivator that it is easier to propel since it has one centrally placed shaft and power is applied directly in the line of travel.

The handle bar allows the operator’s hands to be directly in front of his shoulders and his work is less fatiguing than with too widely separated handles.

ANIMAL POKE. This poke is adjusted for neck size by untwisting the two upper arms and then turning each arm individually so as to alter the length its spiral portion over-

laps the lower aim. A nose ring also may be used, and the nose chain of the poke passes through it.

T>RAFT DEVICE FOR PLOUGHS. The main draft beam and the forward draft beam are connected by a casting with a tapered oblong opening. The forward draft beam is pivoted in this casting.. When the ploughs are raised

it engages the bottom of the casting, when they are lowered it engages the top. The hitch may be made rigid by putting a pin through the casting above the forward draft pin.

DRAFT EQUALISER. This three horse hitch is constructed on the same principle as the five horse hitch shown in serial no. 551. The clevis

which is pivoted on top of the pole has stops on the left of the pole to limit the forward pull of the double tree.

NECK YOKE. The object of this device is to avoid weakening the neck yoke by the use of holes for attaching the pole ring. The

neck yoke is enlarged at its centre. A ferrule is placed against each shoulder of the enlarged portion and tflie bolt which connects them carries the pole ring.

What farm life really is under certain conditions was seen close to Ashburton recently. It happened that a farmer found himself in the immediate position of having to perform three duties at once—plough and harrow his land, and also mind the baby. It is said that necessity is the mother of Invention, and so It proved In this case, for the son of the soli contrived to arrange a safe carriage on the tractor in which he placed the Infant, and at the same time, by attaching a set of tin# harrows, so that they followed behind the plough, he was able both to tura and break the surface of Mother Marik,