. Rudimentary treatise on agricultural engineering . ends of the cross heads, to render themmore portable. When still further increased in size, they aredrawn by a horse, and are in that state most valuable anduseful implements, and much used on fallows to extract thecouch grass and other rubbish, and in harvesting they areemployed in raking up the loose corn, &c. One of the earliest efficient implements of this kind isknown as the Suffolk drag rake ; it consisted of a row ofprongs, supported at either end by wheels, and a simpleapparatus, by which the prongs could be lifted up at oncewhen req
. Rudimentary treatise on agricultural engineering . ends of the cross heads, to render themmore portable. When still further increased in size, they aredrawn by a horse, and are in that state most valuable anduseful implements, and much used on fallows to extract thecouch grass and other rubbish, and in harvesting they areemployed in raking up the loose corn, &c. One of the earliest efficient implements of this kind isknown as the Suffolk drag rake ; it consisted of a row ofprongs, supported at either end by wheels, and a simpleapparatus, by which the prongs could be lifted up at oncewhen required, but as the prongs were all fixed fast in thecross head which carried them, they were very likely to getbroken, and in the modern improved horse drag-rakes thisdifficulty is entirely overcome, the implement having receiveda series of improvements from various persons, among whomMr. Sayer of Bodkam, Xorfolk, and Mr. J. C. Grant of HOWARDS HORSE DRAG-RAKE. 125 Stamford, are conspicuous. Fig. 32 represents one of thebest now in use. Fig. HOWARD S HORSE DRAG-RAKE Is one of the best implements of this kind; a prize wasawarded to it at Exeter, in 1850, by the Eoyal AgriculturalSociety, and again, it gained a prize at the Great Exhibitionof all Nations. It is thus described by the makers: It isintended for raking hay, corn, stubble, or twitch grass. Theshaft irons are furnished with a joint and quadrant, by whichthe teeth may be readily altered, so as to rake upon theirpoints, or set more or less off the ground. This method isto prevent the rake collecting the soil and rubbish with corn,an objection frequently raised against the use of horse-rakes ;the teeth being curved or sickle-formed, are much strongerthan when angular, and the hay and corn works round them 126 BIDDELl/s PATENT CORN GATHERER. much more freely; the bar running under the teeth, and bywhich they are raised, is so arranged that the teeth do not,as in other rakes, rest upon it, but allow them to drop intoany
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