INVENTIONS & APPLIANCES

Otago Witness, Issue 3860, 6 March 1928, Page 77

INVENTIONS & APPLIANCES

OF INTEREST TO AGRICULTURE.

BROODER. An angle iron strip is secured around the stove here. All th c converging sections of the hover except two \re meted to a similar angle iron, which

rides upon the first. Two sections are nmged to adjacent sections. The hover may be turned around the stove and access had to any part through the hinged sections.

DRAFT APPLIANCE. The illustration shows a tongue attached in offset relation to a stiff-hound! wagon The queen bolt which passes through th e hounds and the stub tongue

frame is replaced by a longer one. A triangular frame is attached to one hound to give a parallel bearing for the tongue. The end of the queen bolt is stayed to the axle. STRAW SPREADER. Each side frame member of this spreader comprises two bars connected by bolts passing through slots. Slots are also provided in the end member for

securing it to the side bars. Th e frame may thus be adjusted for length and width. The semi-circular guard is extensible.

PLOUGH. The pintle on the rear wheel of this plough turns in a sleeve which is connected to a bracket on one of the beams. Ibis bracket is connected by a rod to

the land wheel crank axle. When the crank axle is turned to raise the ploughs the connecting rod swings the pintle, thereby raising the rear of the plough frame.

DISC HARROW. In this arrangement the two inner gangs are positioned on e behind the other, and an auxiliary disc is attached which cultivates and levels the soil between

the inner discs of the inner gangs. This disc is mounted on an adjustable arm, which permits wide variation vertically' and laterally.

STONE PICKER. TheJ.crank arms of the forward rake here are revolved by chains and sprockets from the ground .wheel. They revolve

the rake so that it carries stones over the second rake, from which they fall on to the elevator which conveys them to the tipping bucket.

“Go for solid colours, and cut out the fancy feathers,” advised Mr E. C. Jarrett, poultry instructor, in the course of an address at Gisborne the other evening (says the Poverty Bay Herald). The instructor pointed out that the plain blacks and whites gave plenty of range, and that the best types had been developed for shape and constitution, and not for details of colouring in the feathers. The men who had the. greatest success with egg-laying competitions had bred in this way, and had been able to concentrate on shape and constitution, without bothering about the re- - production of “ a tvnch of colour here and another there.” The elimination of colour details had enormously simplified the breeding, and had encojraged the breeders bybringing . excellent results in competitions and in ordinary production.