1851 Great Exhibition: Official Catalogue: Class IX.: Harry Dafaur and Co
124A. DUFAUR, HARRY, and CO., 21 Red Lion Square — Proprietors. Dr. S. NEWINGTON, Inventor and Patentee.
Agricultural implements:—
Eight depositor hand-dibble, for all kinds of corn, pulse, etc. The cups drop any required number of grains in each hole. The same, on wheels; each box will shift to any required distance.
Hand-cultivator and drill-hoe, which, by adjusting long or short slots, can be used between rows of any width; for stirring or cultivating the land, the tines only are used; for hoeing, shares suited to the width of each row are fitted on the tines. To the frame, can also be adjusted coulters for drawing furrows for different depths; also potato-moulder with expanding wings.
Single-horse subsoil plough and pulverizer with shares for paring and hoeing, either on the ridge or flat. When used as a subsoil pulverizer, three strong chisel-shaped tines adjustable to any depth, are fitted behind one another in the wrought-iron beam in such a way as to pulverize the whole space, after the furrow slice has been removed. When used as a hoe, a slot is attached to the beam, to which two of the tines are fitted, shifting in the slot to any required width. To these tines shares of any width can be adjusted. By removing the shares, a cultivator or stirrer is formed. By removing the slot and shares, and adjusting to the beam a strong coulter with expanding wings, the implement forms a moulding- plough for striking out furrows; also for earthing up potatoes, etc.
Hand dibble-drill with three shifting boxes, fitted with cups suited for all seeds.
Hand implement for distributing pulverized artificial manures, intended to supersede the broad-casting by hand, of guano, soot, nitrate of soda, etc.; also useful for dusting with lime, wheat infested with slug, or turnip infested with the flea or fly; it is also made for horsepower of any width.
[The refreshment of autumn-sown wheat in spring, by the application of artificial manures in powder over the surface of the field, is an improvement extending among good farmers. The principle of Dr. Newington's machine for this purpose was approved at the Exeter meeting of the Royal Agricultural Society.— Ph. P.]
Horse dibble-drill, with six shifting boxes and manure distributor attached; it deposits any kind of seed at defined distances in the furrows, and any required quantity per acre according to the size of the cups used; and any number of grains can be deposited at each drop; with an apparatus for distributing artificial manures beneath the seed in any required quantity.
Single-horse cultivator, with fittings for hoeing.
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