Farm Machinery

First published in 1938, this remains the leading work on agricultural engineering and farm mechanism for students, farmers, advisers and the agricultural engineering industry. This new edition is the most extensive revision undertaken and incorporates the rapid new developments that have occurred in recent years. Numerous new illustrations are included. Preface to the Fourth Edition

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Chapter

I. Tractors: Development and Principles of Operations

II. Tractor Types: Constructional Features

III. Tillage

IV. Development Design and Construcion of Ploughs

V. The Setting and Operations of Ploughs

VI. The Principle Type of Tractor Plough

VII. Implements of Preparations of Seed-beds

VIII. Seed Drills, Planting Machines and Implements for Inter-cultivations

IX. Manure Distributors

X. Hay and Silage Machinery

XI. Binders

XII. Threshing Machines

XIII. Combined Harvesters

XIV. Root Harvesting Machinery

XV. Machinery For Land Drainage, Reclamation and Estate Maintenance

XVI. Barn Machinery

XVII. Pumps and Spraying Machinery

XVIII. Machinery For Milk Production

XIX. Crop Drying Equipment

XX. Electricity on the Farm

XXI. Farm Transport

XXII. Holicultural Machinery

XXIII. Care and Maintenance of Farm Machinery

XXIV. Development and Economic Aspects of the Mechanization of Agriculture

Appendix

Bibliography

Index

Claude Culpin is the author of Farm Machinery, 12th Edition, published by Wiley.