Wye Agricultural Museum
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The number given in the first column is the New Catalogue number. On each item in the museum is a tag, which has NC and the number. The third column gives the location in the museum. A single number refers to a bay in the barn, which is marked with a corresponding Roman numeral. (~ listed in original catalogue but not displayed) No. Description Location 1 Homemade hand operated donkey plough with large wheel and arrow head share. 5 to 6 A Kent turnwrest plough with gallows carriage. The wrest or mouldboard , the part that flips the 2 5 furrow over can be moved from one side of the plough to the other, he e turnwrest. 3 Small turnwrest digging plough with Suffolk type hake and single wheel. 6 A swing plough i.e. without wheels but having an iron foot (missing, but see plough at the back of 4 4 the bay) locally known as a foot plough. 5 Small cast iron turnwrest plough (gallows carriage) 6 6 Turnover one way plough made by John Huxtable and Sons, Barnstable, Devon 6 Cast iron two wheeled single furrow balance plough made by Ransome Sims and Jeffries of 8 7 Ipswich. A Kent turnwrest plough with gallows carriage. The wrest or mouldboard, the part that flips the 9 4 furrow over can be moved from one side of the plough to the other, hence turnwrest. A Romney Marsh jack plough (Sussex foot plough) - this is a swing plough of the Kent turnwrest 10 4 type with an iron foot at the front.. 11 Cast iron double furrow balance plough made as 15 made by Ransomes 6 12 Furrow press In open stall 13 Breast plough for skimming surface growth off Oast upper 14 Ridging plough In open stall 15 Cast iron ridging plough with gallows carriage made by Ransomes, Sims and Jeffries in Ipswich. 6 16 A Romney Marsh jack plough as above. 4 Cast iron long plate plough with single wheel made by the Bedford Plough and Engineering 17 5 to 6 Company. 18 Wrought iron share for a Kent plough. 4 19 Probably chilled cast iron factory made share from a digging or long plate plough. 4 21 20 Cast iron factory made share. 4 22 Chilled cast iron factory made knife coulter. 4 Wrought iron arrow head share for use with paring plough. i.e. removes top layer of weeds, no 23 4 coulter. 24 Cast iron broad flat blade for use with Kent plough. 4 25 Wrought iron rod with flat 'paddle' blade for use with a Kent plough. 4 26 Iron broad, flat share for use with a Kent plough. 4 27 Swing plough - missing foot 4 28 Wrought iron as 23 4 30 Iron, painted black, broad flat arrow-head share with feather squared off. 4 31 Wrought iron, painted black, large 'T' shaped share and buck for use with a Kent plough (see 23) 4 32 Wrought iron small flat bladed share Kent plough. 4 33 Wrought iron broad flat bladed share for Kent plough. 4 34 Cast iron buck (i.e. part behind share), tapered cylindrical with flat blade for use with Kent plough. 4 35 Chilled cast iron high sided share for use with long plate plough (Ransomes of Ipswich patent) 4 36 Chilled cast iron high sided share for use with a digging plough (Ransomes of Ipswich patent) 4 37 Factory made skim coulter for use on multi furrow plough - on left hand side. 5 to 6 38 Two-wheeled cast iron framed plough with ridging frame i.e. for root crops. 7 39 Mole drainage plough 7 40 Drainage spade Oast upper 41 Turfing iron or peat spade Oast upper 43 Drainage/slurry scoop Oast upper 44 Trenching fork Oast upper 44 Hanging - Branding iron Oast upper 45 Clay cutting spade Oast upper 46 Clay cutting spade Oast upper 47 Drainage spade Oast upper 48 Trenching fork Oast upper 49 Drainage spade Oast upper 50 Drainage scoop Oast upper 51 Hanging - poll axe for killing animals by hitting in the middle of the head (poll) and then cutting up Oast upper 52 Hanging - meat clever Oast upper 53 Horseshoe drainage tile Oast upper 54 Hanging - water pipe Oast upper 55 Horseshoe drainage pipe Oast upper 56 Horseshoe drainage pipe Oast upper 58 Drainage spade for dew ponds Oast upper 59 Scoop used by owner to clear dew a dew pond - a hollow thought to be supplied with water by mist. Oast upper 60 Drainage scoop Oast upper 61 Stone shovelling fork Oast upper 62 Drainage spade for dew ponds Oast upper 63 Boot iron Oast table 64 Boot irons Oast table 65 Digging spade Oast upper 66 Drainage spade for dew ponds Oast upper 68 Digging fork Oast upper 69 Horse drawn roller used at Biddenden. Centre 70 in WCAM cards as a small hand operated box-framed roller 71 Bean dibber Oast table 72 On the back wall a pair of frame harrows. 5 73 On the left hand side a wooden framed rhomboidal harrow with pointed and duck footed tines. 5 74/7 At the back a small framed rhomboidal harrow with two coupling hinges. 5 to 6 5 On the right hand side a large wooden framed rhomboidal harrow with five rows of duck footed 76 5 tines and small draw bar. 77 Hanging - Branding iron Oast upper 78/7 9 Small all metal zig-zag harrow at back. 5 to 6 and 80 81 Hop cultivator Oast ground 82 A shaft. In WCAM cards as a share 4 83 Ransomes digger – potato lifter In open stall 84 Bean self propelled toolbar In open stall 86 Seed lip - kidney shaped container with central bar and short handle for broadcasting seed - on 10 87 & raised part. 88 Leaning on left hand side home made six furrow seed drill maker with cultivator. 5 to 6 89 In WCAM five funnels for attaching to coulters 90/9 Long shallow box seed shaker divided into 22 compartments each with two metal plates at the 10 1 base. Small cylindrical hand seed sower with seed hopper flanked by a pair of disc wheels with small 93 10 handle. Single wheeled wheel barrow framed seed broadcaster with large horizontal seed hopper operated 95 10 by bevel gears. Single row brush feed seed drill with adjustable width for wheels - incomplete, no hopper plus 97 10 woodworm. 98 Brush feed seed drill In open stall Single row hand powered seed drill with tines and roller attached made by Wessex Industries, 99 10 Poole, Dorset coloured green and red. 'Aero' broadcast seed fiddle drill with revolving finned disc with hand operated bow - on raised 100 10 section to right. 101 Milk can seed sower 10 102 Hand sower 10 103 Single wheeled wheel brush feed drill on barrow type construction with wooden stand. 10 104 Brush feed seed drill. 10 Horse drawn drill with front disc rollers and rear wooden rollers with belt driven seed mechanism for 105 10 root seed. 106 Seed box 10 to 11 107 Horse drawn two row cup-feed seed drill for root crops. Centre 108 Suffolk corn drill made by James Smyth and Sons, Peasenhall, Suffolk in 1842. Centre 109 Potato planter Oast upper 110 Sulphur pan for use on furnace in the oast Oast ground 111 Sulphur pan on fire in oast with sulphur in In plenum 112 Corn dibber Oast upper 113 Corn dibber Oast upper 115 Bean dibber Oast table 116 Bean dibber Oast table 'The Planet Junior' hand powered cultivator/hoe with two tines and adjustable settings made by S. 119 10 L. Allen and Co., Philadelphia. 120 Hand powered two tine hoe with adjustable settings. 7 121 Thistle spud for lifting thistles Oast upper 122 Thistle pliers Oast upper 124 Dock lifter Oast upper 125 Hoe blade Oast table 127 Expanding cultivator. 6 Thistle pliers, hand weeding tool for crop protection. (note - also catalogued as blacksmiths tongs!) 128 5 to 6 on raised left hand side. 129 Cultivator 12 to 13 130 and Mattock with heavy weight triangular blade for tillage. 9 131 Single wheeled horse drawn 4 row hoe with tines on adjustable settings made by Weeks and Son, 132 6 Maidstone. 133 3 wheeled horse drawn expanding hoe made by Garrets Patent, Sutton at Hone, Kent. 5 to 6 135 Single wheeled horse drawn cultivator hoe (a nidget) 5 136 Cultivator In open stall 137 Dock spud Oast upper 138 Bird scarer Oast table 139 Liquid manure cart. Centre 140 Silage knife similar use to above. 8 141 Liquid manure cart probably from Wye. Centre 142 Hand held hop sprayer Oast upper 143 Hop sprayer Oast table 144 Stirrup pump Oast upper 145 Mysto crop knapsack sprayer Oast upper 146 Hanging - hand held crop sprayer Oast upper 147 Digging fork Oast upper 148 Crop powderer Oast under T 149 Crop powderer Oast ground 150 Crop powderer with bicycle wheel Oast ground 151 Hand operated two wheeled sprayer Oast ground 152 Small rake - pea swap - hanging Oast upper 153 Pea swap - scythe for cutting peas down Oast upper 154 Scythe blade Oast upper 155 Scythe Oast table 156 Royal –First class sprayer by Weeks and Son In open stall 157 Scythe blade Oast table 158 Bagging hook Oast table 160 Bagging hook Oast table 162 Mowing scythe Workshop 163 Pitch fork 9 164 Sieve 12 165 Rake 9 166 Mowing scythe made by Spear and Jackson. 12 Large horse drawn hay sweep with handles for worker and chain attachments for horses on wall at 167 6 back.