568 Report on the Exhibition and Trial of Implements 

 Cultivators on Light Land — continued. 



Prizes and 

 I Awards. 



Exhibitor's 

 Name. 



£. s. d. 

 3 



10 



Com- 

 mended. 



5 



4 



4 



78 



37 



10 



59 



39 



131 



110 



33 



I 

 E. H. Bentall. This implement was tried in the class of heavy- 

 land cultivators, and proved itself a most 

 useful implement as a drag and scarifier on 

 light land, at a moderate price. It takes a 

 larger breadth than Coleman's, and does not 

 consequently so thoroughly pulverise the soil. 

 Messrs. A Finlayson drag, or harrow ; a most eiScient 

 Phillips tool on fallow lands; worked well, but not 



and Wood. intended for a scarifier in the present form. 

 Messrs. , A most useful implement for small holdings, 

 Ransome with a moderate price ; the tines covered 



and Sims. the land, and it worked well. 



Obs. — The trial of paring implements was 

 very imperfect, owing to the hard and impe- 

 netrable nature of the soil. It will be well 

 to state that, if any implement could bear the 

 test of the Chelmsford trial on the notable 

 clays of Essex, it need not be afraid of the 

 soil of any county in Great Britain. 



Scarifier or Parer. 

 R. Coleman. ^ The same implement tried as a cultivator on 



I light land, to which we refer. 

 E. H. Bentall. This implement tried as a cultivator on light 

 j land, and, as before stated, proved well in all 

 I the different states of trial to which it was 

 ' submitted. 

 Messrs. Hill This implement received a commendation. It 

 and Smith. is useful as a stubble-parer ; cuts all the 

 ground well ; not expensive ; it would be 

 improved if some arrangement were made to 

 cause the cut surface to lie hollow, and thus 

 dry better in the autumn. 

 James A paring plough (Glover's principle). The 



Comyns. land too dry to admit of its working ; it is, 



however, under common circumstances, a 

 useful implement on a small farm. 



SUBSOILERS. 



This implement worked well, and followed the 

 plough smoothly, notwithstanding the hard 

 and dry nature of the subsoil. It is cheap, 

 and has the advantage of a long beam and a 

 long bottom. It thoroughly broke up the 

 subsoil. This implement is a part of the 

 broad share, the sides being taken away, 

 leaving the beam, handles, and centre 

 coulter. 



The tooth of this implement was very strong, 

 and in a proper shape and inclination. It 

 broke up the ground completely, but would 

 be improved, with additional teeth, by a 

 longer beam. 



A useful subsoil plough (Gray's), broke up the 

 land and thoroughly pulverised it. The im- 

 plement would work steadier if the spring 

 in the gauge-bar could be prevented. 



1 E.H. Bentall, 



William 

 Smith. 



Messrs. Dray 

 and Co. 



