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horse needs no baiting, tT). ; action of 

 fertilisers assisted, 614 ; worms in arable 

 and meadow land, ih. ; requisite outlay 

 in steam culture, ib. ; tlirasliing, 11). ; 

 comparative advantages of the plougli 

 and cultivator, ih. ; wear and tear, 618 ; 

 economy of powerful engines, ib. ; cost, 

 of fuel in comparison with horse-keep, 

 ■ih. ; improved management introduced 

 by steam, 616 ; etfeet on labourers, ih. ; 

 use of long rope, ih. ; traction engines, 

 617 ; Boydell's system, ih. ; abolition 

 of summer fallow, ih. Discussion — 

 Howard's tackle ; comijarative merits 

 of the plough and cultivator (IMr. 

 Dent, M.P.), 618; clover a deep-feed- 

 ing plant (Frere), ih. ; comparison of 

 ihS'erent systems of steam cultivation 

 (Lord Berners), 619; light soils (Col. 

 Kingscote), 620 ; exiierienco in Surrey 

 (Bradshaw), ih. ; steam cultivation 

 companies ; importance of good occupa- 

 tion roads (Sidney), 621 ; practical con- 

 siderations (,Mr. Holland, M.P.), 622 ; 

 rei)ly (Ruck), ih. 

 Steam diggers, with direct action, their 

 advantages and difhculties (J. A. 

 Clarke), xx. 176. 



l)loughs and cultivatra-s shown at 



the Carlisle meeting (1S55), xvi. 525. 



at Boxted lodge (Colchester meeting, 



1856), xvii. 581. 



at Salisbmy (1857), xviii. 445 ; re- 

 port of the judges, ih. 



at Chester (1858), xix. 313 ; report 



of the judges, 320. 



at Warwick (1859), report of the 



judges on, xx. 315; competitors, 7 in 

 number, reduced to 3, ih. ; table of per- 

 formances, 316 ; award, 317. 



at Canterbiuy (1860), report of the 



judges on, xxi. 491 ; tables of work and 

 cost, 494-; comi^arative cost of steam 

 and horse ploughing, 495; importance 

 of prolonged trials, 497. 



at Leeds (1861), report of the judges 



on, xxii. 462 ; description of trial plots, 

 ib. ; experimental tests with an or- 

 dinaiy plough, 465 ; table of competi- 

 tion on fallow field, 467; prime and 

 working cost of Fowler's and Howard's 

 heavy land cultivators, 468 ; competi- 

 tion on light lands, 473; prime and 

 working cost of Kirby's, Fowler's, and 

 Howard's light land cultivators ; awards, 

 477. 



at the Battersea meeting ; trials at 



Famingham, xxiii. 395 ; diagram of 

 Sniith's cultivator as seen at work, 397 ; 

 liis implement and combined machine, 

 398 ; Fowler's steam-tackle digger, and 



STEAM-BOILERS. 



foiu'-fiUTOw plough, 399 ; Howard's 

 cultivator and plough, 400 ; Williams's 

 (of Baydon), plough and cultivator, 

 401 ; Brown and May's apparatus, ih. ; 

 Taskcr and Son's cultivating imple- 

 ments, ih. ; Coleman and Son's steam 

 cultivator, description and diagram, 

 402-3 ; Evenden's system of cultivation 

 404 ; cost per acre of ploughing by 

 steam, ih. ; caution as to steam-boilers, ih. 



Steam ploughs and cultivators shown 

 at Worcester, report of the judges, 

 xxiv. 480 ; Hayes's engine and self- 

 acthig windlass, ih. ; CoUinson Hall's 

 liidv chain, ih. ; Coleman's cultivator, 

 481 ; Fowler's tackle, ih. ; Howard's, 

 ih. ; Savoiy's system, ih. ; Smith's appa- 

 ratus, 483 ; tables of results, 482, 485 ; 

 awards of prizes, 487. 



at Newcastle, report, general, 



XXV. 391 ; report of the judges, 394 ; 

 Darley's steam-engine, 395; CoUin- 

 son Hall's polygonal ckiun and link 

 chain, ib. ; Richardson's steel plate 

 boilers, ih. ; table of competitive residts 

 with ploughs working 7 in. deep, 397 ; 

 advantages and defects of imjjlements 

 on the balance j^rinciijle, 396 ; working 

 cost of tlift'erent systems, 398-400 ; com- 

 petition of cultivators working nominally 

 8 in. deep, 401 ; ploughs worldng 7 in. 

 deej), 404; cost per day of different 

 tackle, 405-6 ; cultivators working no- 

 minally at 8 in., 407 ; ploughs for steam 

 power, 409 ; cultivators, 410 ; trial of 

 steam harrows, 412 ; windlasses and 

 aiiplication of power thereto, 414; 

 anchors, 415 ; rope porters, 416 ; the 

 double-engine system, ih. 



ploughs and cultivators, see 



" Fowler's steam plough," Smith's cul- 

 tivator, Romaine's cultivator, Usher's 

 steam plough, Rickott's rotary culti- 

 vator. 



Steaji-boilees (agricultiu'al), their proper 

 management, P.D. (Mr. Holland, M.P.), 

 xxiii. 428 ; extensive use of steam 

 power, ih. ; Mr. Crook on the pheno- 

 mena of steam, 429 ; advantages of 

 fixed boilers, ib. ; Carpenter on the 

 generation of steam, ib. ; cause of acci- 

 dents, 430 ; Mr. Spiller's mode of pre- 

 venting incrustation on the inner siu'- 

 faee of boilers, 431 ; associations for 

 preventing explosions, 432. Discussion 

 — Mr. Amos on the selection of engine- 

 (bivers, and the causes of explosions, 

 433; Mr. Appold, 4,34; Professor Wil- 

 son, ib. ; Mr. Amos on the glass gauge 

 and gauge cock, 435 ; Mr. T. B. Brown, 

 Blr, Amos, Sir E. Kerrison, and Mr. 



