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estimates the annual repairs at 11. on tackle, and nothing has 

 been as yet required for the engine. This is a very satisfactory 

 account, and can only be attributed to good management and 

 the purchase of the apparatus when experience had brought 

 every part to the requisite strength. 

 Original cost was as follows : — 



£. 



Engine, 14 borse-power U14 



Anchor 55 



Plough 90 



Cultivator, 7-tined 70 



800 yards of rope 84 



20 porters 25 



Water-cart 20 



958 



One set of clips was purchased last spring. The average per 

 day of 10 hours has been — of ploughing 6 acres, cultivating 10 

 acres. The cost per day may be arrived at — 



£. s. d. 

 Labour 15 



Coals and oil 10 C 



Kcpairs, say 050 



Interest and depreciation at 12 J per cent, on 958/. for Todays .. 1 14 



Cost per day 2 4 G 



Annual cost 155 15 



10 horses have been displaced, the cost of which cannot be 

 estimated at less than 450/. ; therefore the use of steam at 

 RufFord has resulted in a clear saving of at least 250/. per 

 annum. In addition to which we have very decided evidence 

 from Mr. Somerville as to the improvement in the crops. We 

 saw the apparatus at work, ploughing a bean-stubbic for roots, 

 the work was being done well. The anchor has 2 spreads, 

 according to the length of rope out : fields of 200 yards can thus 

 be cultivated — a point of considerable importance. We found 

 the engineer and the working parts of the engine entirely pro- 

 tected from weather by a tarpaulin stretched over a framework 

 resembling a waggon-tilt — a sensible addition. This completes 

 our light-land examples. 



No. 129. Crow Park Farm, Sutton, the property of the Right 

 Hon. the Speaker, was next visited. This farm, consisting of 400 

 acres arable and 175 acres grass, was taken in hand at Lady-day, 

 18(53, being then much out of condition. Clayton and Shuttle- 

 worth'«i 10-horse-power engine, and Smith's cultivating apparatus, 

 consisting of windlass, 3 and 5-tined cultivators, 1400 yards of 

 rope, snatch-blocks, porters, tScc, were purchased at a cost of 520/, 



