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Ferrabee Threshing Machine at RASE Meeting at Bristol

The article has a brief mention of John Ferrabee's threshing machine and his Budding's Patent Lawnmower, at the July 1842 Royal Agricultural Society of England meet in Bristol. The same article includes further information on The Uley Cultivator.

  • The Royal Agricultural Society of England Meet at Bristol             Page 128            THE FARMER'S MAGAZINE.

    No. 50. Mr. John Ferrabee, of Phoenix Iron Works, Stroud.-Threshing machine, in which the feed-rollers are dispensed with. The corn is presented to the drum at a tangent to the circle described by it. The quantity it will scutch out depends upon the power applied, and the yield of the crop. With two men at the handles, it has thrashed forty-two bushels of oats in six hours. It may be driven by horse-power is for the purpose of cutting lawns or extensive A Budding's patent grass cutter. This machine pleasure grounds; it cuts a width of twenty-six inches, and when drawn by a small pony, will cut at the rate of an acre in an hour and a quarter, collecting the grass as it advances.

     

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    Google Books/The Farmer Magazine/1842/P128