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Class 9.— AGRICULTURAL AND HORTICULTURALOn tub South Side : Areas N. O. 1 ; 1’. Q. It. 1 to 27.

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improved tubular boiler and reversible motion. Thespeed can be varied from 90 to 110 revolutions per minute,without stopping the engine. The following cut repre-sents this engine.

Burrell’s Six-horse Portable Steam Engine.

Registered machine for making hurdles or gates. Itconsists of a circular saw bench, fitted with a machine forboring and morticing at the same time. An extra frameis also supplied for putting the hurdles or gates together;it is also adapted for morticing posts for fencing. Thismachine is represented in the annexed cut.

Burrell's Hurdle-malting Machine.

Registered gorse-cutting and bruising'machine. It firstcuts the gorse as chaff, and then passes it through onepair of rollers, one of which has a pressure, by means of aleverage, of four tons weight. It is also fitted with an

extra hopper when used for crushing. This apparatus lSshown in the cut.

A thrashing-machine, with straw-shaker attached, in'vented, improved, and manufactured by the exhibitor-This machine is upon double carriages, and is welladapted for a portable steam-engine.

Burrell’s Registered Gorse-cutting and Bruising Machine-

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A spirit-level, for laying draining-pipes or tiles,^vented by John Matthews, and improved by the exhibitor

38 Steevens, Wm. Dan., 157 High Ilolbom —Inventor.

Model of a new plan for an agricultural railway, witfrfnew engine for the same, without steam or horse po^c »and carriages, trucks, &c., for farming purposes.

38a Armitage & Co., Mousehole Forge— Inventors.

An improved plough.

38b Murphy, D. J., Chamber of Commerce , Cork —

Inventor. „ ,

Model of the Archimedean agricultural machine ^cutting, turning up, and pulverizing the soil, so asprepare it in the one operation for receiving the see >and thereby economizing much of the time, labour,expense heretofore incurred. It can be worked either Jsteam or horse power, and even, on a reduced scale, *manual, for horticultural purposes.

41 Elliot, John, Southampton —Inventor.Deodorizing water-closet.

Model of farm buildings.

Model of cottages for labourers.

Portable draining level. 0 f

Specimens of clay tubes, for building roofs and walls ^cottages, farm buildings, &c. Manufactured in 1848, 1the brick and tile works of the Duke of Richmond.

41a Fyfe, William Wallace , 30 Hamilton Place,

Edinburgh —Inventor. f or

Siphon apparatus, for the washing of sheep, andimproving the growth of wool by the copious appli° atof pure water. ^

[Though employed in a rude form in the ca . SC j i0llCanadian sheep or store farming, the use of the sip ^in this country is unknown in sheep-washing, a P r °which is performed either by “leaping” orhandling ” the animals, to their great injury andof the wool. There is reason to believe that theapplication of water, promoted by the use of this a D^ratus, will improve the woolly fibre, by precludinggular growth, and the formation of knots or joints, ^ e ^. g f Sconducing to the health of the sheep. A prejudice e ^against giving water to sheep, yet the necessity of ^ aSis admitted.]