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1858-12-01 Farmers Magazine - Hill and Smith Article

HILL and SMITH, of Brierley Hill Iron Works, near Dudley, Staffordshire.

A screen for malt, &c., price 11. 158., manufactured by the exhibiters; (new implement) two sizes of a chaff-cutting machine, price 61. and 127.; and a chaff-cutting machine, price 6. 10s. (obtained the premium at the Paris Agricultural meeting 1856), invented and manufactured by the exhibiters; a chaff-cutting machine, price from 41. 108.

to 13, invented by Mr. Cornes, of Barbridge, improved and manufactured by the exhibiters (this machine has on repeated occasions obtained the Society's prize for the best chaff cutter for horse or steam-power); two sizes of a chaff-cutting machine, price 21. 10s. and 351., invented and manufactured by the exhibiters; two sizes of a machine for crushing oats or beaus, price 51. 58. and 61. 10s., manufactured by the exhibiters; (new implement) a machine for breaking oilcake, price 31. 59. and 31. 10s., invented and manufactured by the exhibiters; two sizes of a turnip-cutting machine, price 41. 10s. and 51. 10s., invented by Gardner, of Banbury, improved and manual pulping machine, price 4/. 58. and and 4. 10s., invented by Moody, improved and manufactured by the exhibiters; a horse works, price 121, 128. and 147. 148., a premium wrought-iron light-land roller, price 101. 10s. (obtained the prize as a light land roller at the Chelmsford meeting of this Society), (new implement) a wrought-iron barley roller, price 87.; and a cast-iron land roller, price 147., invented and manufactured by the exhibiters; a cast-iron clod-crusher, price 10. and upwards, invented by William Cambridge, of Bristol, and manufactured by the exhibiters (obtained the prize as a clod-crusher at the Chelmsford meeting of the Society); a wrought-iron stubble paring skim or light scarifier, price 51. and 67., may be had with grubbing tines if required at an additional cost of 10s. (obtained a prize from this society); (new implement) a strong wrought-iron skim or broad-share, price 71. 10s.; a strong wrought-iron broad-share, price 31. 10s.; and a wrought-iron horse hoe, price 31. 3s., invented and manufactured by the exhibiters (the last has obtained the silver medal of this Society); a set of Smith's patent wrought-iron harrows, price 27. 158. 6d. and upwards, invented by Henry Smith, of Brierley Iron Works, and manufactured by the exhibiters; two sets of patent self-relieving chain harrows, price 31. 10s. and 47. 158, invented by Jno. Cartwright, of Salop, and manufactured by the exhibiters; two sizes of a granary or warehouse crane, price 77. 10s. and 101. 10s., invented and manufactured by the exhibiters (has obtained a prize from this Society); a rotary gravel screen, price 67. 16s.; and a gravel screen, price 21. 10s., manufactured by the exhibiters; a patent sack holder and sack-barrow combined, price 14. 12s., invented by Henry Gilbert, of London, improved by Henry Cooch, of Harleston, and manufactured by the exhibiters; an iron portable forge, price 51. 58.; an iron portable Smith's work bench with vice attached, price 21.; a sheep rack, price 41. 48. and 61. 6s. (obtained the silver medal of this Society); and a wrought iron sheep trough, price 30s., invented and manufactured by the exhibiters (the last article obtained the silver medal of this Society at the Salisbury show); numerous specimens of different sizes of improved pig troughs, price from 21. 58. to 217. 68. each, manufactured by the exhibiters; (new implement) a registered pig trough, price 30s, invented by Mr. David Prosser, and manufactured by the exhibiters; (new implement) a set of cattle drinking troughs, price from 45s. to 65s. each, (new implement) a set of iron work for cattle sheds, total cost exclusive of timber 71. 148. 2d., an iron water tank, price 31. 158., (new implement) a wrought iron brewing and cooking boiler or copper to hold 150 gallons, price 9d. per gallon, a wrought iron rack feeding hurdle, with trough, price 35., & wrought iron cattle crib, price 31. 7s. 6d., and an iron wheel barrow, price 278.6d, invented and manufactured by the exhibiters; an iron wheelbarrow, for stables or ashes, &c., price 358.; an iron swing barrow, price 40s., and an iron heating barrow for tar, &c., price 31. 38, invented and manufactured by the exhibiters; a set of iron arms and boxes, for carts and waggons of different sizes, price 30s, per cwt., an iron lifting jack for carriages, carts, &c, price 20s, a sack barrow or truck, price 158, another size 20s., and a garden engine to hold 15 gallons of water, price 41. 10s., manufactured by the exhibiters; a machine for salting gravel walks and carriage drives, price 131. 10s., invented by Flemming, of Trentham Gardens, and manufactured by the exhibiters; a set of lawn mowing machines, from 21. 109. to 117. 10., invented by Budding, improved and manufactured by the exhibiters; a specimen of patent black varnish, price 1s. 6d. per gallon, invented and manufactured by the exhibiters; a specimen of galvanized game proof wire netting, poultry netting, &c., from 3d. per yard upwards, improved and manufactured by the exhibiters; a roll of galvanized sheep netting, price 11d. per yard; a specimen of game proof plant guards, price from 18s, per dozen upwards; a specimen of

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Google Books/Farmers Magazine/July-Dec 1858/P234