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Report on the Exhibition arid Trial of Implements 



Wagoxs axd Carts. 



The Wagons and Carts form an interesting variety of useful implements, 

 having frequently some peculiar local fashion, supposed to be best adapted for 

 local wants, or it may be local prejudices. In the list of premiums offered by 

 the Royal Agricultural Society, at the Salisbury Meeting, is one of a novel 

 nature, drawing the attention of cart builders. It may be as well to repeat 

 the words of the prize as in the list (Xo. 11) : — " For the best one-horse cart, 

 constructed with a view to lightness of draught, and the ready loading and un- 

 loading of farm-produce ; qualities, it is subuiitted, which may be best attained 

 by the judicious use of long shafts, high wheels, and cranked axles." This 

 kind of cart as used in to^\^ls for the conveyance of heavy goods, and where the 

 load is received at the back end of it, is rarely intended or built for " tipping." 

 In the case of unloading farm produce tippiag is absolutely necessary, and 

 this is one of the stii)ulations in the premium offered. Some of the cranked 

 axle carts exhibited did not succeed in tipping the load as might be expected, 

 having gone to an extreme in high wheels and depth of crank. T. Milford and 

 Son (stand 124, article 3) succeeded in overcoming this difficulty by tipping the 

 body of the cart on the lower part of the crank. This was a novel and ingenious 

 contrivance, and the only one of the kind exhibited. 



In the construction of carts of this, or any other description, it is necessaiy 

 to observe the rule, that as the height of the wheels increases the length of 

 bearing on the axle must be increased in a corresponding ratio. This was 



