INVENTIONS AND APPLIANCES OF INTEREST TO AGRICULTURE.

Otago Witness, Issue 3775, 20 July 1926, Page 76

INVENTIONS AND APPLIANCES OF INTEREST TO AGRICULTURE.

DISC PLOUGH. This plough does away with the front furrow wheel, and uses only one rear wheel. The weight of the tractor is

used to hold down the front end, and the rear furrow wheel is heavy enough to hold the rear end of the beam down.

HARNESS. This harness is designed for simplicity. The breast strap has no supporting strap,

as it is claimed the traces support it. The breeching straps hitch on a ring below the shaft loops.

COMBINED TRACTOR AND POWER PLANT. This tractor may be used as a truck by mounting a box on the chassis. It may be used to haul implements in the ordinary manner, and it may also be

used as a power plant since a pulley is provided at each end of the transverse shaft. When so used the sprocket chains are removed from the rear wheels.

CORN PLANTER DEFLECTOR. This device is pivoted at the point of the planter shoe. Near its rear end it is by a bolt and washer which sit in a slot in the upper edge of the

shoe. If an obstruction is hit this bolt is forced out of the slot, and the deflector is free to revolve. In use it clears sods and trash away from the shoe.

HOLDING DEVICE FOR ROPES. This device consists of two clevis-like members pivotally connected by a transverse pin on which are two washers.

When used as illustrated the strain of the rope locks the clevises on it, and prevents the hitch slipping.

PLANT TOPPING MACHINE. This machine has a transverse revolving wheel which is gear-driven from the axle, and which has a series of knives

which top the plants in the row. The frame which carries the wheel is adjusted for height by a hand leyer.