Uley Ironworks Advertisement

The Farmer's Almanac

AND

CALENDAR

FOR

1843,

Being the Third after Bissextile, or Leap Year.

BY

CUTHBERT W. JOHNSON, ESQ., F.R.S.

(Editor of the Farmers' Encyclopædia,)

AND

WILLIAM SHAW, ESQ.

(Late Sec. Roy. Agric. Soc. Eng., Hon. Mem. Cer. Agr. of France.)

THE EARL OF DUCIE'S IRON WORKS, 

ULEY, GLOUCESTERSHIRE.

Have been established with the view of manufacturing machinery, and introducing such improvements as may be applicable for the better cultivation of land.

No expense has been spared in establishing the Works; the intention being the production of machinery, manufactured in the most workmanlike manner, calculated as well for the uses to which it is intended to be applied, as for durability and strength.

It is needless to state, that in order duly to appreciate the merits and value of agricultural machines, they should be worked by persons who understand their use and management; and that they should be taken proper care of.

And it is highly necessary that attention should be paid to cleaning and oiling the machines, both before setting to work, and on laying them by after use, and that they should be kept in the dry, and occasionally painted, in order to their working with ease, and to preserve them from rust and decay.

HANNUIC'S PATENT GOVERNOR, for regulating the speed of water wheels and steam engines; it is a great economizer of power, always regulating it to the quantity of work performed. It can be seen in operation at the Uley Iron Works.

 

STEAM ENGINES, MILL WORK, AGRICULTURAL

IMPLEMENTS.

AND OTHER MACHINERY MANUFACTURED;

ALSO,

BRASS AND IRON CASTINGS.

Sole Agents for the manufacture and sale of Hannuic's Patent Governors, for the Counties of Gloucester, Wilts, Somerset, and Worcester.

Agents for Grant's Patent Lever Horse Rakes, and Newberry's Dibbling Machines.

Letters to be addressed to MR. JOHN MORTON, Director, Chester Hill, Stroud-water; or, MR. R. CLYBURN, Engineer, and Manager to the Works, Uley.

THE EARL OF DUCIE'S, R. CLYBURN'S, AND E. BUDDING'S PATENT CHAFF CUTTING MACHINE.

This machine gained the First Prize of the Royal Agricultural Society at their Meeting, held at Liverpool in 1841, at Derby, 1843, and at the Yorkshire Society, held at Doncaster, 1843.

It is manufactured upon an entire new principle operating by a continuous drawing cut with a serrated edge, by which means much less power is required than in the old machines, the quantity cut in any given time depending on the power applied.

From the peculiar arrangements of the cutters they are sharpened without removal, and consequently without risk of any derangement.

The method of changing the length of cut is exceedingly simple, and managed with ease; the sharpening is performed in two or three minutes with unfailing accuracy, There are three sizes made, the smaller one, No. 1, can be worked by one man, the other two sizes by two men; these two cut three lengths of chaff ¼, ½, and ¾ inch.

All these machines even the smallest may with advantage be applied to horse, water, or steam power, as by increasing the velocity from about forty revolutions per minute, which is the speed by hand power to 200 or 300 revolutions when the power is sufficient, a proportionate quan- tity of work will be done. In all chaff machines, a great deal depends upon the feeder to make good work; this machine requires less labour in that department, than any other; the only thing necessary is, for the straw or hay to be put in uniformly.

		£ s d
Price.	No. 1	8 10 0
"	No. 2	14 0 0
"	No. 3	20 0 0

 

THRASHING MACHINE.

The foregoing thrashing machine was exhibited at the Royal Agricultural Society's Meeting at Liverpool in 1841, and highly recommended by the judges. (See their report.)

It is made in five sizes suited for hand, horse, or any other power. It is a simple and effective machine, works without noise, and having but few working parts is not liable to get out of repair, is quite portable, having shafts and wheels so that it can be removed from place to place with one horse, and requires no fixing. 

Price.	Hand machine	£25
"	Two horse power	£55
"	Three horse power	£65
"	Four horse power	£75
"	Five horse power	£85

IMPROVED HORSE WHEEL.

This horse wheel is compactly constructed in an iron frame, only 5 feet 6 inches by 4 feet. It is provided with a pair of wheels and shafts rendering it easily moved from one place to another, requiring no other fixing than levelling the ground, and driving in four iron pins, the wheel work is compactly boxed up, protecting the machinery from harm, or individuals working it from accident. This machine is readily adapted for driving thrashing mills, straw cutters, corn bruizers, or any other farming machinery.

This machine is readily adapted for driving thrashing mills, straw cutters, corn bruizers, or any other farming machinery.This machine is readily adapted for driving thrashing mills, straw cutters, corn bruizers, or any other farming machinery.

Price.	Two horse power	£30
"	Three horse power	£35
"	Four horse power	£40
"	Five horse power	£45

A SINGLE ROW TURNIP AND MANURE DRILL.

This is a very simple and useful drill for sowing turnips, mangel-wurzel, and manure on the ridge or bolt; the quantity of seed deposited is regulated by a screw acting upon a brass slide in the box, and the manure by the man who attends at the handles drawing the hopper towards him, or pushing it from him. - Price £8. 8s.

A DOUBLE ROW TURNIP AND MANURE-DRILL.

This implement has two rollers, and possesses all the advantages of the single row drill, it is made principally of iron. - Price £15.

THE ULEY CULTIVATOR.

Which gained the first prize at the Royal Agricultural Society held at Liverpool in 1841; and also at the Yorkshire Society, held at Hull in 1841; and again at Doncaster, 1843,

No. 1. size, with 5 tines, covering a space of 40 inches, price £10 10s.

No. 2. size, with 7 tines, covering a space of 56 inches, price £12 12s.

The frame is of cast-iron, made to receive five or seven tines, each tine covering a space of eight inches and so arranged that, although drawing lines only eight inches apart they are two feet from each other, this, with their curved shape and length, prevents its clogging in the foulest land. There are three sorts of points, one two inches wide for grubbing up or breaking land, another nine inches wide for working stubble, the third set has steel blades and are used for paring instead of the breast plough, these points all fit the tines without pins to hold them. The tines are fastened into the frame with a key, and, in the case of breaking, they can be taken out and others put in as easy as the coulter of a plough, the height of the frame, from the ground, is about two feet; the wheels are of cast-iron, the front ones 1 ft. 6 in. diameter, and the back ones 3 ft. 4 in. diameter. The machine is raised and lowered by turning a handle, the axle of which has a worm fixed on it, working into a wheel fixed in the crank-axle of the back wheels, this wheel has a projecting arm in which a stud is fixed, to this stud is attached a connecting-rod, the upper end of which is connected to the long lever which has its fulcrum in the centre, and is connected with the frame by a joint, the other end of the lever is connected to the top of the T axle, on which the front-wheels work. 

It will be seen, by this arrangement that, if the handle is turned to the right, the machine is lifted up; and if to the left down; this is indicated by the dial-plate on the right hand side of the machine, marked in inches, in and out of the ground, one rotation of the handle raises or lowers the  machine one inch. 

PARALLEL EXPANDING HORSE-HOE.

Which gained a prize at the Royal Agricultural Society, held at Liverpool in 1841.

Price- With five hoes and five tines, - £8.

With three hoes and three tines, £5.

These implements are made principally of wrought-iron and can be regulated to any width from twelve to twenty-seven inches, with the greatest facility, by moving the small pin into the different holes made for that purpose in the side of the beam, so that the hoe always presents its edge in a straight line to what it has to cut. This is effected by the support of each hoe moving parallel with the beam; they are worked on the principle of the parallel rule; there is a tiller in front to yoke the horse to, the  depth is regulated by raising or lowering the wheel, and the handles are for the man who attends the implement to steady it with.

R. C. IMPROVED IRON SWING-PLOUGH.

Which gained a prize at the Royal Agricultural Society, held at Bristol in 1842.

Lightness of draught, neatness of construction, and performance of its work are some of its chief recommendations. Price £5.

 

SMITH'S SUBSOIL PLOUGH.

Invented by Mr. Smith of Deanston, and manufactured according to the principles laid down by him.

There are four sizes-of two, four, six, and eight horse power respectively.
The weight	of the	Two horse	plough, about	220lb.,	price	£6
"	"	Four horse	"	256lb.,		£7
"	"	Six horse	"	260lb.,		£8
"	"	Eight horse	"	267lb.,		£9

A SUBPULVERIZER.

Invented by the Hon. M. W. B. Nugent of Higham Grange, Hinckley, Leicestershire.

Which gained a prize at the Royal Agricultural Society, held at Bristol in 1842.

This implement is made of wrought-iron and and has four tines, which can be put to any depth; the foremost tine going at less depth than those behind, by this means the draught of the implement is lessened. It differs from the one exhibited by the honourable gentleman at the Bristol show, as it has but one wheel and a pair of handles, the same as a wheel-plough, is easily guided. By removing the tines and putting on the sole it can be converted into a Smith's subsoil-plough, and, therefore, becomes one of the most important implements that the farmer can have. - Price £10 10s. 

A SUBPULVERIZER.

Invented by the Hon. M. W. B. Nugent, of Higham Grange, Hinckley, Leicestershire, with additions by John Morton, of Chester Hill. 

Which gained a medal at the Royal Agricultural Society, held at Derby, 1843. 

This implement is made of wrought-iron, it has five tines and eight mortices, so that the tines can be put to follow the common plough at nine inches or at eighteen inches, to stir the land betwixt  the the rows of turnips, potatoes, &c. - Price £8

LAND ROLLER.

Price £14

The above Roller is made with two separate revolving cylinders, for the facility of its turning without injury to the crops, whether grass or grain. There are three shafts, each quite portable. If the horses are required to work abreast, the three shafts remain, but if before each other, the middle shaft is removed, and the outer ones put nearer together, for the thiller horse to work in.

 

IMPROVED CLOD CRUSHER.

Price £15

This Clod Crusher has two rollers, with square wrought iron bars, presenting their angles to the clods, so that they penetrate them with the greatest ease. It is also very useful for rolling or pressing wheat in the spring.

It has three shafts, each quite portable. If the horses are required to work abreast, the three shafts remain; but if before each other, the middle shaft is removed, and the outer ones put nearer together, for the thiller horse to work in.

 

IMPROVED SCOTCH CART.

Price £15

This Cart is fitted with wrought iron axles, case hardened, chilled boxes and brass caps; also rathes for carting corn and hay, which are easily put on and taken off; also an improved cast iron nave, which makes the wheels stronger and more durable. 

 

A PORTABLE SMITH'S FORGE.

Apparatus attached, will supersede the common bellows-not being affected by damp. It is well adapted to noblemen and gentlemen's estates, large farms, and other situations where it is not required have a stationary smith's shop. It may be taken to and from any place where it is intended to be used, with as much ease as a cart or any other carriage. It is con- structed entirely of iron, and weighs about 8 cwt., and with the use of a boy to turn the wheel, smith's work of any description may be performed, and iron of three inches in diameter welded with as much conve- nience as in a general shop. Gentlemen purchasing this Forge will be enabled to have their work done under their own inspection, without the incon- venience and delay frequently occasioned at a smith's shop. To possessors of large studs, or teams of horses, it is particularly recommended; also to architects and those engaged in erecting mansions and other large buildings.

Price £14

 

A PORTABLE FAN BLOWER FOR SMITH'S FORGES.

Invented by Richard Clyburn, of Uley.

It consists of a wheel and fan placed in a box, and fixed upon a neat cast iron frame, the power required to turn it as compared with the common smith's bellows, is as a boy of fourteen to a strong man; it is quite portable, and can be used with a stationary or portable forge. Price £8 10s.

A CORN METER.

Invented by John Morton, Chester Hill.

Which gained a medal at the Royal Agricultural Society, held at Derby in 1843.

This machine is used for measuring corn for cattle instead of the man going into the granary. It consists of a cylinder, divided into two compartments, each holding a quarter of a peck, the dials are three in number, the first is divided into 16, so that each division represents a quarter of a peck, and a revolution of the dial one bushel; the second is divided into 10, each division being one bushel, consequently, one revolution of the dial will indicate 10 bushels. The other dial is divided into 8, each division representing 10 bushels, and one revolution of the dial will be 80 bushels, so that if eighty bushels of corn be put into a granary, it can be known when it is out, by inspecting the dials. - Price £4 4s. 

 

CLYBURN'S SELF RECORDING DYNAMOMETER. 

Which received a 'premium of £2 at the Yorkshire Agricultural Society, held at Doncaster, 1843.

This instrument is on a different principle from any previous dynamometer, and will be found to give a correct diagram of the work performed, however irregular, the power may act. Hitherto the oscillations of the index hand of dynamometers have been so rapid and varied that it has been impossible truly to note them.

There are two sizes, No. 1 recording 8 cwt., and No. 2, 14 cwt.

It consists of a spring. When the power is applied the spring is compressed, which gives motion to a rack and pinion that has a pulley fixed on the same spindle; this pulley has a chain passing round it which gives motion to to a pencil and pointer, the pencil acting upon a roll of paper, each division in the length of which is twenty-five yards of ground passed over, and each  division in the width is 112 pounds of force applied to the instrument, this paper has motion given to it from a pair of wheels which roll upon the ground while the pencil is moved backward and forward according to the power applied, thus drawing a line on the paper, showing the draught and the distance passed over. Price No. 1 £10., No. 2 £12 12s. 

 

PARSON'S AND CLYBURN'S PATENT CORN, RAPE, AND LINSEED CRUSHING MACHINE, 

Which gained a Medal at the Royal Agricultural Society, held at Derby, 1843, and a Prize at the Yorkshire Agricultural Society, held at Doncaster in 1843.

This machine differs from all other machines, as they have generally been fluted in a line with the axis or spirally, consequently are liable to clog, or having plain surfaces, could not crush very hard or minute grain. It has a large and small roller, with a series of grooves turned in each, in the form of a V, and fitting each other, the sharp edge of the V penetrating the grain, while the varying velocity of the top and bottom of the grooves produce a grinding motion; the grooves are kept clean by scrapers, so that the work is quite uniform, and the minutest grain will be crushed. It is used for crushing grain, bruising, or splitting beans, &c. for cattle.  Price £10 

 

 

R. CLYBURN'S IMPROVED SHIFTING SPANNER,

Registered Sept. 5, 1843, in pursuance of the Designs Copyright Amendment Act, 6 and 7 Vic. c. 65, for protecting Inventions of Utility.

It will be found one of the most useful tools that any gentleman's Tool Chest or Workman's Bench can be provided with, as it is shifted to suit any nut with the greatest accuracy and facility, while its peculiar and bent shape enables it to be applied in places where other shifting spanners cannot reach, it is strong, and at the same time light, and at a moderate price. The many ingenious attempts of late years to improve the shifting spanner sufficiently indicates how much something of the kind has been wanted, and the applicability of this tool, its lightness and strength combined, it is believed must meet with approbation. They are made of four sizes. 

				s. d.
No.	1.	9	inches long	7 6
	2.	12	ditto	11 6
	3.	18	ditto	14 6
	4.	24	ditto	18 6

 

A DIBBLING MACHINE.

Invented by James Wilson, Newberry. 

This machine consists of several wheels three feet in diameter, having twenty hollow tubes radiating from the centre, and extending through the rim of the wheels to form holes for the seed, and at equal distances from each other. The tube or dibble is composed of two halves, one being fixed, and the other sliding upward and downward as the wheels revolve. The shape of the dibbles, when closed, is conical with spherical ends. It enters the ground forming a taper hole, when the sliding half is pressed downwards, and deposits the seed in the hole before the tube leaves the earth; the tubes are supplied with seed from the centre, or axis of the machine. Each wheel is furnished with a scraper to free it from the adhering soil, and a separate hopper to supply the seed, so that they are independent of each other. The object proposed by the inventor is first to economize seed by depositing only a sufficiency of grain, and determining a proper distance between the plants. Secondly, to ensure a greater certainty of growth and produce, by depositing the seed at an uniform depth, and pressing the soil firmly about it. The number of seeds to be placed in each hole is accommodated to its kind, and to the wishes of the cultivator. The mechanical arrangements are simple as the dibbles are opened and shut by their unerring machinery. Price, with five wheels, £50.

 

AN IMPROVED DRAIN-LEVEL.

Invented by Andrew Notman, of Painswick.

For which a silver medal was awarded at the Royal Agricultural Society's Meeting, held at Derby, 1843.

It is used for the purpose of draining land in a dry season, its frame work is three horizontal bars of wood and two up right legs with a spirit level fixed in the uppermost bar; it also has a sight attached to it, for taking levels at a distance, one of the legs is moveable, and has a Verneir scale, so that if the fall be ever so small,  the level can be set to it and locked, it can then be put into the hand of the workman and used the same as the common level. £3 3s.

 

PRICES OF SOME MACHINERY MANUFACTURED AT ULEY WORKS

AXLES,	improved wrought iron, for one horse carts, case hardened, and fitted with chilled boxes and brass caps		3 5 0
Ditto	for two horse carts		4 0 0
BODKINS,	for ploughs, harrows, &c.,	small size, each	0 4 6
Ditto	ditto	large size	0 6 0
BUDDINGS,	set of carriage punches and screws for repairing harness		1 5 0
Ditto	set of punches (iron frame) for repairing harness		0 10 0
Ditto	screws for repairing harness and straps, at per dozen
Ditto	pneumatic oil can		0 1 0
CHAFF MACHINE, PATENT,	No. 1.,	6 inches wide	8 10 0
Ditto	No. 2.,	12 inches wide	14 0 0
Ditto	No. 3,	20 inches wide	20 0 0
CULTIVATOR,	with five tines, covering a space of 40 inches		10 10 0
Ditto	with seven tines, covering a space of 56 inches		12 12 0
Ditto	scarifiers or broad points, each		0 1 3
Ditto	grubbers or narrow points, each		0 1 0
Ditto	breast ploughshares, steel, each		0 7 0
CARTS,	farm, turn up, with improved wrought iron axles, case hardened and fitted with chilled boxes and brass caps		15 0 0
CLOD CRUSHER,	with wrought iron bars		15 0 0
CORN CRUSHER			10 0 0
CORN METER			4 4 0
DRILL HARROW,	or common horse hoe		3 3 0
DYNAMOMETER,	No. 1, recording 8 cwt		10 0 0
Dittto	No. 2, recording 14 cwt.		12 12 0
DIBBLING MACHINE,	5 rows		50 0 0
DRAIN LEVEL			3 3 0
FIELD SPUD,	with points		0 10 6
FAN BLOWER,	improved for Smith's Forges		8 10 0
HORSE HOES,	parallel expanding three tines and three hoes		5 0 0
Ditto	five tines and five hoes		8 0 0
HARROWS,	per pair		3 0 0
LAND ROLLERS,	with wrought iron bars and wood shafts		14 0 0
MANGERS,	cast iron, with water troughs, per foot		0 6 6
Ditto	without water troughs		0 5 6
OIL CAKE CRUSHER			8 0 0
PLOUGHS,	Smith's Subsoil for 2 horses		6 0 0
Ditto	4 horses		7 0 0
Ditto	6 horses		8 0 0
Ditto	8 horses		9 0 0
Ditto	RC improved swing		5 0 0
Ditto	strong wrought iron swing		6 0 0
	light wrought iron swing		4 10 0
	spades, each		0 2 6
SUBPULVERIZER			10 10 0
Ditto	and horse hoe		8 0 0
SMITH'S FORGE,	portable, with improved blowing apparatus		14 0 0
THRASHING MACHINE,	portable hand, complete with wheels. axles, &c. for moving from place to place		25 0 0
	portable, two horse power portable, three horse power		55 0 0
	portable, four horse power		65 0 0
	portable, five horse power		85 0 0
TURNIP DRILL,	for two rows, with manure apparatus		15 0 0
	for one row, with manure apparatus		8 8 0
WINNOWING MACHINE			10 0 0
WINDOW FRAMES,	cast iron, per foot		0 1 6
Pair of Narrow CART WHEELS,	with iron naves and improved axles		9 0 0
Ditto	with wood naves		9 0 0
Improved AXLES	for one horse carts, without boxes and caps		2 2 0
PARSON'S PATENT SUSPENSION RICK COVER			7 7 0

*** All Agricultural Machines delivered, free of carriage, to Gloucester, Bristol, Stroud, Cirencester, Tetbury, Malmsbury, Birmingham, and London.