INVENTIONS & APPLIANCES OF INTEREST TO AGRICULTURE.

Otago Witness, Issue 3854, 24 January 1928, Page 76

INVENTIONS & APPLIANCES OF INTEREST TO AGRICULTURE.

CULTIVATOR SHIELD.

This shield consists of two oppositely revolving discs. The inner one is rotated by engagement with the ground, and

prevents earth covering the plants. The outer one, which is turned by the inner, picks up plants and turns them out of the path of the plough. REVERSIBLE PLOUGH. Two oppositely facing ploughs are mounted on this plough standard. The draft beam reverses on the plough frame *° r ploughing the return furrow. The land wheels at each end are adjustable

a s te ilistance from the line of draft, and they are connected for co-operative movement. When the plough is reversed, the one which was the land wheel becomes the furrow wheel and vice versa. BEET HARVESTER. ..3? 1 * 5 mac hine has the usual ploughs for lifting the beets. An endless conveyor is driven by chain and sprocket from the ground wheels. This conveyor comprises a number of pairs of toothed rollers which co-act with upper and lower

toothed racks which cause the rollers to revolve, one of each pair revolving oppositely to the other. The tops are seized by these rollers, and the beet conveyed rearwardly, until it is severed by a cutting knife. CULTIVATOR. The tool bars here are attached to the beam by a shoe, which allows them to be turned to vary the distance apart of their inner ends. They may be tilted

laterally to give deep or shallow cultivation next the row as desired. The bars niay be moved on the shoe to alter their cutting depth. CULTIVATOR ATTACHMENT. This device is attached by its two standards to a cultivator beam. The runners of the sled cut through trash, and the diagonal blades give a shallow

cultivation. A frame pivoted to the sled supports two discs between which is a shield to protect the plants. The cutting depth of the discs is regulated by a hand lever. FURROW OPENER. The plough beams here have collars midway their length, which are rotatably mounted on the axle. The two beams are connected by front and rear cross-

bars on which are vertical arms connected to a hand lever near the seat. By this lever the beams are tilted to raise or lower them.