INVENTIONS & APPLIANCES OF INTEREST TO AGRICULTURE.

Otago Witness, Issue 3806, 22 February 1927, Page 77

INVENTIONS & APPLIANCES OF INTEREST TO AGRICULTURE.

GRAIN LOADER. This machine is driven oVer the field and picks up loose grain with its conveyor. From the top of the conveyor the grain falls on a wide belt, and is wound between it and a drum which has large

disc side pieces. When the drum is filled the implement is driven to the threasher and the belt unwound, the grain falling on a conveyor which carries it to the self-feeder of the thresher. FRUIT THINNER. The implement consists of a handle bar with a flat hook at its upper end, and, slidably mounted on it, an operating bar with a knife in its upper end. The

hook may be placed the fruit to be removed without injury to the cluster. The operating bar is then pushed tm and its knife severs the stem. HARROW. The harrow sections here are connected by chains to transverse shafts at the front and rear of the frame. These shafts are in geared connection with the

ground wheel, and. when engaged, the chains and raise the section. The shafts are then locked. The sections may be raised thus to pass roads or to clear them of weeds. HOG SCALDER. This tank is about twelve feet by six feet. It has two crank shafts carrying eight slats. The cranks have an eight I inch radius. Under each slat is a series

of cleats. The hogs are put into th e tank at one end. The cleats catch them and pass them to the other end keeping them under water all tl' n time.

TRACTOR HITCH.

This hitch is designed chiefly for corn pickers, and to support the implement tongue without lire use of a tongue truck. The main draft tongue is connected from

the tractor drawbar to the rear end of the stub tongue, and a secondary tongue is bolted across the implement tongue and to the brace rod nt the seat.

STALK CUTTING APPARATUS.

Depending from the frame of this implement are two vertical revolvable shafts, each carrying a number of spaced knives. The shafts are driven- in opposite direc-

tions by bevel gears through chain and sprockets from the ground wheel axle. The revolving knives move the stalks against stationary knives, cutting them in short lengths.