. Rudimentary treatise on agricultural engineering . ve in introducing such a valuable machine, I am, respectfully yours, John Palmer. Both MCormicks and Husseys machines have sincethis period received many improvements; the former anarrangement for cutting closer to the ground than formerly,and Husseys in an improved form of knife by , which much improves its cutting action. BelVs Reaping MacJiine.—In 1852, at the SmithfieldClub Show, held in Baker-street, last Christmas, reaping machine was exhibited by Mr. Crosskill, whohad made arrangements with Mr. Bell to construct
. Rudimentary treatise on agricultural engineering . ve in introducing such a valuable machine, I am, respectfully yours, John Palmer. Both MCormicks and Husseys machines have sincethis period received many improvements; the former anarrangement for cutting closer to the ground than formerly,and Husseys in an improved form of knife by , which much improves its cutting action. BelVs Reaping MacJiine.—In 1852, at the SmithfieldClub Show, held in Baker-street, last Christmas, reaping machine was exhibited by Mr. Crosskill, whohad made arrangements with Mr. Bell to construct it forhiin, and thus have the American reaping machines, aboutwhich there has been so much talk, been superseded by anEnglish one invented thirty years before. HAY-MAKING MACHINES, OB HAT-TEDDINGMACHINE. This was invented by Salmon, of Woburn, about the year1816, and has been modified and improved by several persons HAY-MAKING MACHINES. 123 since. Fig. 31 represents one of these machines as con-structed by Wedlake, of Horncastle, Essex. Fig. It consists of a skeleton cylinder, with a series of rakesplaced upon it, which revolve as the wheels of the carriageupon which it is placed move forwards. Wedlakes improve-ment consisted in making the cylinder in two parts, withmotion independent of each other, and in so adjusting theteeth upon a spring-supported bar, that they yield to anysudden inequality in the ground, and immediately afterwardsreturn to their ordinary position. An arrangement alsoexists for pushing back the implement without turning therakes, and for raising them from the ground and keepingthem there while the machine is travelling from place toplace, or for a few seconds. The tedding of hay is most efficiently done by thesemachines, and they are great favourites with the Middlesexfarmers, and are extensively used in large parks in variousparts of the country. They are manufactured by most 124 RAKES. implement-makers, some having greater celebrity thanothers; a
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