98 Ecport on Steam Cultivation. [Reed. 



cbangcd — more especially to ■what extent autumu cultivation Las 



increased the growth of green crops, and the productiveness of the 



soil. 

 iv. The number of working days on which the engine power has been 



used for the purpjose of steam cultivation on or off the farm. 

 V. The number of days on which it has been used for other purposes on 



or off the farm, the nature of the work done, daily cost and amount 



charged when let on hire, 

 vi. The number of days lost by breakage and other causes. 

 vii. In the case of steam-ploughs, &c., let out for hire, what loss of wages 



has occurred from the non-employment of the men, this being an 



item of expense against the apparatus, 

 viii. The most economical mode of supplying water for steam culti- 

 vation. 

 ix. The best method of arranging and forming roads and headlands 



for steam cultivation. 



Co3i3iiTTEE Xo. 1 Consisted of: — 



1. Mr. Howard Reed. 



2. Mr. John Hemsley, of Slielton, Newark, Notts. 



3. Mr. John Hickm, of Dunchurch, Rugby, Warwickshire. 



To the first-named gentleman was entrusted the duty of 

 drawing up their Report. 



To THE President and Council of the R.A.S.E. 



Your Committee No. 1 completed their duties in 22 days, 

 having in that period visited 36 farms. 



With one exception they were welcomed with the greatest 

 cordiality, and every facility was given them for the prosecution 

 of their enquiries. 



They have considered it desirable generally to furnish a short 

 report of each visit ; to these reports they have appended a iew 

 general conclusions drawn from what they have seen. 



The Reports will not follow the order in which the visits 

 were made, but will be more conveniently distributed into three 

 classes, one for Heavy-land farms, a second for Medium soils, 

 and a third for Light-land farms. This arrangement, your 

 Committee are aware, will break up the continuity of the narra- 

 tive, but in as far as it will best subserve the practical objects of 

 the cncjuiry they consider it preferable. 



Your Committee beg leave to prefix to the Reports a few remarks 

 relative to the circumstances under which they made their inves- 

 tigations, and the special difficulties which met them in the 

 prosecution of their duties. Their labours commenced on the 

 3rd and terminated on the 27lh of September. Throughout 



