54 • Agricultural Iniplonents and Froduce. 



Engines. ■-- • Aggregate horse power. 



1852 sold 243 1,349 



1853 ,,293 1,723 



1854 ,,363 2,297 



1855 ,,491 3,332 



1,390 8,701 



Besides the constant increase in numbers, it will be seen there is 

 a constant increase also in the power of the machines. In the 

 year 1851 each engine averaged scarcely the power of five horses. 

 In the year 1855 they average nearly seven. 



It is computed that 90 per cent, of these engines are used for 

 agricultural purposes in England ; the remaining 10 per cent, 

 are sent abroad, or are used for purposes not connected with agri- 

 culture. We Iiave tlierefore in the last four years, deducting 10 

 per cent, from the wliole number of 8701, a power equal to 7831 

 horses added to the force of the farmer from one firm alone. 

 Messrs. Clayton and Shuttleworth direct their attention exclu- 

 sively to steam-engines, and to machinery moved by steam power, 

 This devotion of the undivided attention to one class of objects 

 is of itself an indication of progress, and conducive to perfection. 



The increased power afforded by steam has led to improve- 

 ments in all maciiinery moved by steam — in none more than 

 in threshing-machines. The corn now is commonly delivered 

 from the stack upon the machine, and delivered from the 

 machine into sacks ready for market — a great economy of time 

 and of money. For these and similar processes, the use of steam 

 power is making rapid strides, and will continually extend itself, 

 to the great help and furtherance of every operation to which it 

 can be applied. 



Our leading machine-makers all concur in attributing marked 

 results to the Exhibition of 1851. 



Messrs. Garrett have foreign orders, arising from connexions - 

 formed at the Exhibition, still coming in. One customer in 

 Hungary has had not less than 8000/. worth of machinei'y, chiefly 

 drills and threshing-machines. Drills have been improved by a 

 new steerage patented in 1854. 



Chambers' patent manure distributor is a new instrument, the 

 invention of a practical Norfolk farmer ; it will sow from 1 to 

 100 bushels of artificial manure per acre, delivering it with great 

 regularity, and is excellent for the simplicity of its construction. 



Drills for liquid manure are still undergoing improvement. If 

 found useful in this country, how much more valuable are they 

 likely to prove in the dry and sun-burnt plains of southern 

 Europe ? 



Messrs. Hornsby consider the improvements in threshing- 



