THE WISCONSIN FARMER,

      J. W. HOYT,                                                 EDITOR.

VOL. XV.                      MADISON, MARCH 1, 1868.                   
      No. 3.

     The Great Internatisnal Exhibition.   with a small wheel running before,
and with
                 NO. VI.                   strong, forward-curving, coulter-like
teeth or
                                           tines which penetrate the soil
like the cultiva-
        GREAT BRITAIN, CONTINUED.          tor or scarifier. When drawn by
four power-
  Prominent among the numerous classes ful English horses no mass of roots
has any
of articles in the "Eastern Annexe," where business to attempt
a resistance to its steady
we but recently found a multitude of the won- progress.
ders of the Chemical Arts, wee find       I Stump pullers are not so much
in demand in
AGRICULTURlAL AND HORTICULTURAL MACHINES the great garden of England as in
the wilds of
             AN]D IMPLEMENTS.             'this new continent, and accordingly
we find
  The display of these is magnificent, and to nothing of this sort in the
British Department
an agriculturist would, of itself, have been worthy of especial notice. But
their
worth a voyage across the sea. They nre pro-                 rLows
perly divisible into five sections:          Of every description, except
the superior
  1. Implements for the tillage and iratinagei Yankee specimens, are the
finest here. Fow-
of the soir. such as steam cultivators, plows, ler makes a splendid show
in this branch of
scarifiers. pulverizers, grubbers, harrows, roll- the implement department-exhibiting
a hun-
ers, and clod crushers.                    dred plows and models of plows,
ancient and
  2. Implements for the culture of the soil, modern, illustrations of the
history of traction
and the harvesting of crops, to wit:-dibbling tillage from Scripture days
down through the
machines, drills, manure distributors, horse- classic period of palmy Greece
and Rome, un-
hoes, mowing machines and hay makers, reap- til this present.  Here are the
rude forked
ers, horse-rakes, wagons, carts, and the like. stick; one branch sharpenedansweringforthe
  :. Machines for preparing grain &c. for post; another for the beam;
while the trunk,
market and food for cattle-locomotives, port- dressed down to proper size,
served as a han-
able a-id fixed. steam engines, steam elevators, dle by which it was held
upright. Time went
threshing machines, winnowing machines, len, and next we have the Roman plow,
similar
crushing and grinding mills, machines for cut- to the first, but its nose
pointed with iron. A
ting and pulping feed. apparatus for washing,  generations having passed,
we get the bet-
cutting and steaming roots, &c.            ter Roman plow, consisting
of several parts
  4. Miscellaneous agricultural machines, im- rudely put together with earpenter's
tools, and
plements and articles, such as churns, washing with trowel-shaped, shovel-share
of iron. A
machines, carts, cheese presses, cider mills &c. few generations more,
and we have the hori-
  5. Horticultural implements and machinery. v ontal nod the inclined eheve.
with two narrow
         THE ENGLISH "ORURBBE,?E wooden mould-boards; then one umould-boid
  You will observe, consists of a heavy iron in the middle between two shares;
next a si-
frame supported upon two wheels like a cart, l gle horizontal or slightly
inclined share with



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