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Implements of Ilujbandry. — Chaff-Cutters — Rakes.

ing to particular circumftances. Thofe contrived by Mr. Cor, of Leicefter,'*’onMr. Winlow’s plan, are good implements, and will drefs grain with much dif-patch. And there are others which are employed in the northern diftriCts, whichare made by Rodgers, that are alfo upon good and convenient principles: as well asmany more in different places which have great merit in their conftruCtion, and dotheir work well and expeditioufly. They are made of different prices, from threeto five or fix pounds, and will lafl many years when the materials of which they areformed are of a proper kind.

CHAFF-CUTTERS.

Of thefe ufeful implements there are a great variety formed on very differentprinciples. There feems, however, in general, to have been too little attention paidto their confirmation, as there is fcarcely one fo cheap as to be fuited for gene-ral ufe. Thofe made on Mr. Cook’s and Mr. Nailor’s plans are in much efteemin many places ; but one lately conftruCted by the fucceffors of Mr. Winlow andother manufacturers, in which the draw is regularly brought forward by an ironcylinder contrived for the purpofe, as the implement is turned round, and cut bymeans of three knives fixed on the wheel, would feem to be more convenient. Strawmay, however, be well and expeditioufly cut by almofl any of thefe implements; butin many diftriCts, from their- great expence, the common cutting-box is flill in ufe.

As the principal objects aimed at in this fort of machine are thofe ofexpedition, and the leffening of labour, it is obvious that many of the improvedinftruments of this kind muff anfwer thefe purpofes much more effectually thanthofe that were formerly in ufe, efpecially where they are attached to any greatpower, fuch as that of horles or water, as in the cafe of thrafhing-machines, or othermills, for which they are in common adapted.

' RAKES.

Implements of this kind are employed for different purpofes in practical huf-bandry.

The common Hay-Rake is too well known to require any defeription ; but a lateimprovement upon it feems to deferve notice. This is the making of the teeth toferew into the heads, and faften with ferew nuts, by which the danger and inconve-nience of their dropping out is prevented. -

With thefe. Spring-teeth-1iuka one perfon is faid to do confiderably more workthan with the common weed rakes; and they are made ufe of both for hay and