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Recent Agricultural Inventions

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Parent Issue
Day
14
Month
November
Year
1879
Copyright
Public Domain
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Mr. Adam Haueock, of St. Albans. West Va., has inventad au improved feed cntter, which consists of a metaagularbox, open at the top and rear, and having a vertieully movable front, whose lower edge is furnished wlth an inclined cutting blade A lever, orte end of whicb is l'ast in a rocking shaft iixed bet ween the sidesof the box, projects througn a central opening In the movable front, and is the medium Ourough which the deviee ís operated. An improved check rower, to be allaclied to corn and othereeed planters, lias been patented by Messrs. Kobert II. and William A. McNair, of Elsah, Iil. This invention consists of two spiders pivoted to a frame eccentrically in relation to each other. and carrying between them spades, which are always kept in a vertical position as they are carried around by the spiders. Mr. Iliram S. Smith of Austin.Minn., bas patented an improvement in harrows, which consists In a beam and tooth fastening f or harrows, formed of two straight parallel bars and two or more socket bands, which latter serve the doublé purpose of securing the bars togutbflf and clamping the teeth between them, so as to permittheir adiustment wider apart or closer together as muy

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Ann Arbor Argus