. Maize; its history, cultivation, handling, and uses, with special reference to South Africa; a text-book for farmers, students of agriculture, and teachers of nature study. Corn; Corn. HARVESTING AND STORAGE 479 among the firms in the market are : Marshalls of Gainsborough ; chap. Clayton & Shuttleworth, Ruston Proctor & Co., and Robey & XI- Co., all of Lincoln ; Ransomes Sims & Jefferies of Ipswich, and â Garrett & Sons of Leiston. Some of these machines will shell, on an average, two muids per minute, or where they husk as well, one muid a minute. The price in South Afr
. Maize; its history, cultivation, handling, and uses, with special reference to South Africa; a text-book for farmers, students of agriculture, and teachers of nature study. Corn; Corn. HARVESTING AND STORAGE 479 among the firms in the market are : Marshalls of Gainsborough ; chap. Clayton & Shuttleworth, Ruston Proctor & Co., and Robey & XI- Co., all of Lincoln ; Ransomes Sims & Jefferies of Ipswich, and â Garrett & Sons of Leiston. Some of these machines will shell, on an average, two muids per minute, or where they husk as well, one muid a minute. The price in South Africa is about £200 to £250 according to capacity. They are usually driven by portable engines of 6 to 7 nominal horse-power or 10 effective horse-power. In this case the sheller remains. Fig. 179.âSteam traction sheller (Fowler engine and Ransomes sheller). stationary and the ears are carted from the fields to the machine. At Vereeniging Mr. McLaren has attached a Fowler traction engine to a Ransomes sheller; this pushes the sheller before it at walking pace, through the field of standing maize ; the machine is fed by fifty boys who walk ahead, each pulling the ears from two rows of maize, and carrying them in sacks or buckets to the hopper of the machine; a strip of 100 yards wide is thus cleared at each trip down the field. In this way the machine has been found by actual tally to average 60 muid bags of shelled maize per hour, in a ten-hour Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Burtt-Davy, Joseph, 1870-. London, New York, [etc. ] Longmans, Green and co.
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