. The standard cyclopedia of modern agriculture and rural economy, by the most distinguished authorities and specialists under the editorship of Professor R. Patrick Wright ... r cart is preferred to the larger,owing to the diflSculties of draught. A goodgeneral-purpose cart (Balls !e. first prize)is shown in fig. 1, which is equally suitable tohaul hay or corn crops, or for carting out man-ure or other heavy material. The ladders areremovable, the balance with or without theladders is good, the tipping is simple and notlikely to wear and get too much play—a dan-gerous feature in some form
. The standard cyclopedia of modern agriculture and rural economy, by the most distinguished authorities and specialists under the editorship of Professor R. Patrick Wright ... r cart is preferred to the larger,owing to the diflSculties of draught. A goodgeneral-purpose cart (Balls !e. first prize)is shown in fig. 1, which is equally suitable tohaul hay or corn crops, or for carting out man-ure or other heavy material. The ladders areremovable, the balance with or without theladders is good, the tipping is simple and notlikely to wear and get too much play—a dan-gerous feature in some forms engaging thebody with the shafts—the wheels are strongand conveniently dished to afford easy runningand a square bearing on the road, and theheight is suited to the ready loading or unload-ing of sacks. Vertical raves or frames can befitted on the ends of the ladders (fig. 2), and iftie-rods are made from one to the other, a safeand suitable frame for holding hay as pitchedby a mechanical hay loader is provided. Ordi-narily a wheel for a farm cart with a ring tire3 in. by f in. should carry 1 ton; with 3^ f in., IJ ton; 4 in. by f in., 2 tons, over 124 Carts. Fig. 2.—Balls Farm Cart, fitted with front and back vertical ladders, witli tie rods suitable to worlt elevator hay-loader rough ground for many years. Much of the I In some districts, carts with skeleton bodiesvalue lies in quality and thorough seasoning of | are used for hay and corn harvesting, with or without front or back . used without, they hold butsmall loads: when used with lad-ders, they are generally constructedso that but a small portion of theload is over the horses back; con-sequently, if a long-bodied cart isused, the balance of the load isbadly kept. Moreover, thay arenot types of general-purpose carts,and as such are less efficient thanare those which meet all a farmersrequirements. In the seed-gro\dng districts,specially constructed carts are usedto convey turnip seed and simila
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