1858-12-10 The Engineer - Samuelson

THE CATTLE SHOW.

THE annual exhibition of live stock and agricultural implements by the Smithfield Club, at the Baker-street Bazaar, warns us that another year is well nigh gone, and suggests the advent of Christmas, with its accompaniments of fat joints and holly sprigs gleaming in the gas lights of our principal thoroughfares.

SAMUELSON's self-raking reaper is certainly an ingenious novelty. After the crop has been cut in the usual manner by the reciprocating knife and sheath, there is a sort of "steam arm," which comes out by the action of sundry excentrics, cams, and universal joints, and rakes me up the whole amount of cut material in the moss weird and fantastical manner imaginable.

There is, unquestionably, much ingenuity displayed in the arrangement; our complaint is that it is too clever, too ingenious -such a complicated piece of mechanism is but ill adapted for the every-day work of a farm. There is, besides this novelty, a considerable assortment of chaff-cutters, oat-bruisers, turnip- cutters, oil cake crushers, and a very pretty modification of the lawn mower, with an adjustable screw to regulate the depth of the cut, and a hair brush to clean the spiral cutters and deliver the grass.