John Ferrabee at Northampton Meeting of RASE

JOHN FERRABEE, of Phoenix Iron Works, near Stroud, Gloucester.

A cultivator or scarifier, with fine tines, invented by John Morton, of Whitfield, improved by Richard Clyburn, of Uley, manufactured by the exhibiter (the above implement had the prize at the Newcastle meeting and at previous meetings of the society); a patent chaff cutter, with two spiral knives, cutting a width of 12 inches, invented by the Earl of Ducie, R. Clyburn, and E. Budding, of Tortworth, Uley, and Dursley, manufactured by the exhibiter (this machine has received the prizes of the society at the Bristol and Derby meetings); (new implement) a patent machine for cutting straw for litter, invented by the Earl of Ducie, R. Clyburn, and E. Budding, of Tortworth, Uley, and Dursley, improved and manufactured by the exhibiter; a chaff machine, 12in, wide, a portable thrashing machine for two or three horses, a thrashing machine for bolting, and a haymaking machine, improved and manufactured by the exhibiter; a parallel expanding horse hoe, with five hoes and five tines, invented by John Morton, of Whitfield, improved by Richard Clyburn, of Uley, Gloucestershire, and manufactured by the exhibiter; a patent machine for crushing linseed, bruising oats, and splitting beans, invented by George Parsons and Richard Clyburn of West Lambrook, Devon, and Uley, Gloucestershire, manufactured by the exhibiter; a "Budding's" machine for cutting grass plots, pleasure grounds, bowling greens, &c., invented by the late E. Budding, of Dursley, Gloucestershire, improved and manufactured by the exhibiter; a set of Budding's adjusting wrenches, invented by the late E. Budding, of Dursley, manufactured by the exhibiter.