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ON IMPLEMENTS SELECTED FOE TEIAL. 



the implement, so that a greater number of the weeds might be 

 pulled up. We have to report an important fact — that the barley 

 received almost no injury by the working of the machine. The 

 Committee again inspected the field on the 22nd of June, when 

 they found that the weeds had been very thoroughly eradicated 

 from that portion of the field on which the machine had been 

 employed. The Committee have no hesitation in reporting that 

 the machine invented by Mr Ingermann did its work well, and 

 that it may be usefully employed in all cases where fields are 

 overrun with weeds'; and they recommend that the Society's 

 medium gold medal should be awarded to Mr Ingermann. 

 This report was approved. 



IV. — Barclay's Cultivator. 



This implement (fig. 5) was exhibited by George Sellar .& 

 Son, Huntly, and invented by James W. Barclay, M.P., and was 

 tried at Mr ]Monteith's farm, liberton Tower Mains, on the 

 loth and IGth Xovember. 



The objects sought to be accomplished by the digger are in the 

 case of stubble land to open and pulverise the soil more effect- 

 ually to the depth required ; to cut the roots of thistles and other 

 deep-rooted weeds ; to turn over the upper two or three inches of 

 the soil so as to cover the stubble, expose the roots of weeds to 

 the winter's frost, and to bring up and mix a portion of the sub- 

 soil with the upper mould. The effects to be produced are thus 

 a combination of the work of the plough and the cultivator. In 

 the case of green crop land for a seed furrow the objects are to stir 

 and pulverise the earth, without exposing the dung or leaving 



