458 STEAM CULTIVATION. 



" We then shifted the tackle a mile to No. 6 (light land), 

 14 acres, working all day on the 10th (the llth was Sun- 

 day), working again all day on the 12th, arid we finished on 

 che 13th at 8.40 A.M. Depth of work 11 inches ; consump- 

 tion of coal 29 cwt. ; pressure on engine 65 Ibs. 



" We then shifted the tackle more than a mile to No. 3 

 (light land, part 2). 6 acres, and finished it on the 14th at 

 11.50 A.M. Depth of work 10 inches; consumption of 

 coal 10 cwt. ; pressure on engine 60 Ibs. 



" We then shifted the tackle to where it now stands, on 

 No. 4 (light land), for you to see it at work. 

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" It is not a set of new-fangled tackle, got up for the pur- 

 pose of racing, for the common portable engine has done 

 10 years' hard work. It lias done, in addition to my plough- 

 ing, a lot of threshing and grinding, yet it is in capital trim. 

 The cost of repairs has been but a 'mere trifle. 



" The windlass has had 10 years' work. In 1858 it did 

 55 acres for the late Prince Consort, on the Flemish farm, 

 Windsor, and I have worked it on my farm ever since. 

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" I have worked the rope T years. The first year it got 

 out several times. At one or other of the splices it pulls in 

 two ; indeed it has not, during these 9 days' work, gone 

 through a day without a break ; therefore the men have had 

 the mending of the ropes to do as well as the ridging and 

 subsoiling. 



" My average quantity of work per day is much greater, 



