at the Bristol Meeting in 1842. 

 Experiments on the Draught of Ploughs. 



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Makers' Names. 



Howard 

 Mason 



Brayton .... 

 Sanders & Williams 

 Carson .... 

 Mason .... 

 Barrett & Co. . . 



Huckvalc . . . 



Earl of Ducie . . 

 Howard .... 

 Brayton .... 

 Carson .... 



Merrett .... 



Law . 



Wilkie 



Residence. 



Bedford .... 

 J Gral'tiin, near Alcester, 

 I Warwickshire 



Carlisle 



Bedford 



Warminster .... 



Grafton 



Reading 



Over Norton, Oxon. 



Uley 



Bedford 



Carlisle 



Warminster .... 



{Appleadon, near } 

 Ncwent, Gloucestersh. ] 

 J Shettleston, near 1 

 I Glasgow J 



Uddingston, ditto . . 





I* 



Depth, 

 inches 



1 



2 



1 



2 



2 

 foot or 

 floater 

 swing 



Width 

 incliei 



d 2 



Prize. 



Prize. 



With two knives. 

 C Ditto, with skim 

 X coulter. 



Double furrow. 

 Ditto. 



Turnvvrest. 

 Prize. 



Turn wrest. 



With respect to the excellence of the work done by these 

 ploughs, as well as lightness of draught, the palm of merit is un- 

 questionably due to Mr. Howard's two-wheel implement ; the 

 furrow-bottom being left cletmer and flatter, the slice better turned 

 and placed, and the depth more evenly maintained, than by any 

 other of the competing ploughs. The dynamometer exhibited a 

 peculiar steadiness of movement and uniformity of draught in this 

 plough ; and the same qualities were distinguishable as belonging, 

 in a superior degree, to all the wheel, compared with the swing, 

 ploughs. The remark made in recording the experiments at 

 Liverpool, viz. that the weight of soil actually raised by the wheel- 

 ploughs was, in every case, greater than that turned over by the 

 swings, is equally applicable on the present occasion, inasmuch as 

 all the swing-ploughs leaned more or less to the land side, and 

 did not maintain so even and horizontal a bearing on the sole as 

 the wheel-ploughs. The two kinds of plough from the same 

 workshop, of which there were three different pairs in the field, 

 manifested these qualities in every case. Two better ploughs than 

 Mr. Bray ton's have rarely been put into the ground, and they 

 were held by an experienced and skilful ploughman of Mr. Falk- 

 ner's of Fairfield, near Liverpool ; but the work of his one-wheel 

 was decidedly superior to that of his swing plough, though the 

 draught of both was alike. The same may be said of the per- 

 formance of Mr. Carson's and Mr. Howard's implements ; and it 

 is worthy of note, that the resistance of Mr. Howard's two-wheel 



