Archive image from page 253 of Dairy farming being the. Dairy farming : being the theory, practice, and methods of dairying dairyfarmingbein00shel Year: 1880 184 DAIRY FARMING. ten minutes. One or ntlicr of tlicsi' im))lem('nfs, aeeoi'ilin<T to requirement and taste, will Ije found of great service to the dairy-farmer iu the time of harvest. Artijicial Jlaij-mnhiitg.—The artificial dryin<j of hay in a treacherous climate like that of Britain is a question full of importance to farmers. It not uncommonly lia])|)ens that the cro]) is made almost completely worthless, and it is fr
Archive image from page 253 of Dairy farming being the. Dairy farming : being the theory, practice, and methods of dairying dairyfarmingbein00shel Year: 1880 184 DAIRY FARMING. ten minutes. One or ntlicr of tlicsi' im))lem('nfs, aeeoi'ilin<T to requirement and taste, will Ije found of great service to the dairy-farmer iu the time of harvest. Artijicial Jlaij-mnhiitg.—The artificial dryin<j of hay in a treacherous climate like that of Britain is a question full of importance to farmers. It not uncommonly lia])|)ens that the cro]) is made almost completely worthless, and it is frequently <ireatly injured, Ly continuous wet weather in harvest-time. In such cases the farmer is utterly helpless, and all he can do is to stand by and see the done, being' powerless to prevent it. But the pi-oblem of saving the hay-crop in a wet season by means of artificial heat a]ipears to have been solved bv Mr. Gil)})s, of Gilwell one dircctiiin, llien in another, the combination of the two movements being such that it causes the '•rass to along from the end at which it is fed to that at which it is delivered in a dry con- dition. The third movement is very novel and curious in its action. The tines are not (ixed on the shaft, but the 'boss' which carries them, and which is connected to the shaft, has a certain amount of play given to it; hence, when the tines are lifted by the revolutions of the cranks, they finish oif with a diagonal action, which gives a movement in the direction of the delivery end of the machine, and this causes the grass to move along the table towards that end. ' The result of these three actions is that srass fed in at one end in the most tangled Fig. 84.—Artikicial Hay maker. Park, Essex, after many years' patient study and experiment. In Fig. 84 we give a woodcut of the harvester, and the following description of it by Mr. R. S. Burn :— ' When examining Mr. Gibbs' latest form of machine for hay-drying, I was str
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