1862 London Exhibition: Catalogue: Class IX.: Robert and John Reeves
2170. REEVES, ROBERT and JOHN, Bratton, Westbury, Wilts.
Liquid manure drills, manure distributors, patent corn manure, and turnip drills, etc.
PATENT LIQUID-MANURE AND SEED DRILL. Invented by Thomas Chandler of Aldbourne, and manufactured by the exhibitors. This drill has received 42 prizes from the Royal Agricultural and other societies, including the first prize at the Royal Agricultural Show at Leeds, 1861; first prize and gold medal at the Paris Universal Exhibition, 1856; and prize medal at the great International Exhibition of England, 1851. Price £25-0
CHAMBER'S PATENT DROP LEVER, manufactured by the exhibitors, for dropping liquid manure and seed in bunches. Price £2-10
A 7-Row SMALL OCCUPATION CORN DRILL. This drill is suitable for small light land farms. It will sow all kinds of grain and seed. Price £14-10
PATENT MANURE AND SEED DRILL for sowing manure with mangolds and turnips, invented and manufactured by the exhibitors. This drill received the prize at the Royal Agricultural Show at Leeds, 1861. It is suitable for drilling general compost manure, or for artificial manure in its pure state, from 3 to 60 bushels per acre. Price £16-0
PATENT ECONOMICAL MANURE AND SEED DRILL, invented and manufactured by the exhibitors.
This drill has received the following prizes during the last 5 years:—
- First prize at the Bath and West of England Show at Newton, 1857.
- Silver medal at the Royal Agricultural Society of Engand's Show at Salisbury, 1857.
- The prize at the North Lincolnshire Show at Louth, 1857.
- First prize at the Bath and West of England Show at Cardiff, 1858.
- First prize at the Yorkshire Show at Hull, 1859.
- First prize at the Highland Agricultural Show at Edinburgh, 1859.
- First prize at the Highland Agricultural Show at Dumfries, 1860.
- A prize at the Royal Agricultural Show at Leeds, 1861; and the first prize at the Highland Agricultural Show at Perth, 1861.
It is adapted for sowing artificial manures in their pure state, from 2 to 20 bushels per acre on the ridge. Price £12-0
PATENT BROADCAST MANURE DISTRIBUTOR, invented and manufactured by the exhibitors. This machine has received 11 first prizes during the last 5 years, by the Royal Agricultural and other societies, to the amount of £54; it also received the first prize or honourable acknowledgment at the German Farmers' and Foresters' Show at Schwerin, 1861. Price £10-0
PATENT THISTLE DESTROYER, for killing thistles or other perpetual weeds, invented and manufactured by the exhibitors. It obtained a silver medal at the Royal Agricultural Society of England, at Leeds, 1861. This is a simple implement, used the same as a common spud or weeding paddle, which, at the same time as it is pushed into the ground to cut off the weed, discharges a portion of salt on the bleeding root. The salt thus penetrating the roots will effectually destroy them. Price 10s-Od.
PATENT COMBINED ARTIFICIAL MANURE DRILL and HORSE HOE, invented by H. and T. Proctor of Bristol, and manufactured by the exhibitors. This implement is adapted for hoeing the plants and, at the same time, to deposit a small portion of suitable manure to carry out the growth of the plant in its last stages.
R. and J. R. can with confidence recommend the above class of implements, having received during the last month a large number of testimonials as to the efficiency of their patent manure drills and manure distributors, which they will be happy to forward post-free on application.