32 Implements of ufoandry.—Chaff-Cutters—Rakes.

ing to particular circumftances. Thofe contrived by Mr. Cor, of Leicefter,” on Mr. Winlow’s plan, are good implements, and will drefs grain with much dif- patch. And there are others which are employed in the northern diftridts, which are made by Rodgers, that are alfo upon good and convenient principles: as well as many more in different places which have‘great merit in their conftruction, and do their work well and expeditioufly. They are made of different prices, from three to five or fix pounds, and will laft many years when the materials of which they are formed are of a proper kind.

CHAFF-CUTTERS.

Or thefe ufeful implements there are a great variety formed on very different principles. There feems, however, in general, to have been too little attention paid to their conftruétion, as there is fearcely one fo cheap as to be fuited for gene- ral ufe."Thofe made on Mr. Cook’s and Mr. Nailor’s plans are in much efteem in many places; but one lately conftructed by the fucceflors of Mr. Winlow and other manufa€turers, in which the ftraw is regularly brought. forward by an iron cylinder contrived for the purpofe, as the implement is turned round, and cut by means of three knives fixed on the wheel, would feem to be more convenient. Straw may, however, be well and expeditioufly cut by almoft any of thefe implements; but in many diftri€ts, from their great expence, the common cutting-box is{till in ufe.

As the principal objects aimed at in this fort of machine are thofe of expedition, and the lefflening of labour, it is obvious that many of the improved inftruments of this kind muft anfwer thefe purpofes much more effectually than thofe that were formerly in ufe, efpecially where they are attached to any great power, fuch as that of horfes or water, as in the cafe of thrafhing-machines, or other mills, for which they are in common adapted,

ImpLEMENTS of this kind are employed for different purpofes in practical huf bandry.

The common //ay-Rake is too well known to require any defcription; but a late improvement upon it feems to deferve notice. This is the making oi the teeth to ferew into the heads, and faften with fcrew nuts, by which the danger and inconve- Mence of their dropping out is prevented.

Wh thefe Spring-teeth-lakes one perfon is faid to do confiderably more work than-with the common wood rakes; and they are made ufe of both for hay and