Hi AGRICULTURE AND TARIFF REFORM. 



them through a stiii' bit of loam or clay land, 

 and there was a still more potent reason why 

 they were not used for beans. The cups that 

 revolved in the seed barrels were not big enough 

 to hold the large horse beans, although they could 

 be made to act tolerably well in taking up the 

 tick beans. 



Treating of drilling-machines, what an advan- 

 tage the modern light-made ones — mostly con- 

 structed with cast-steel instead of cast-iron and 

 wood — confer on farmers able to avail themselves 

 of them. The old Suffolk drill not only required 

 four horses to actuate it, but a man and a boy 

 to drive them, another man walking behind the 

 drill to manage it. A modern one of equal width, 

 stronger, although of such light draught, only 

 requires a pair of horses which can be driven by 

 reins held by the drillman. 



If we may here exclaim, " Look on this picture, 

 and on that," in regard to drilling, the exclama- 

 tion would be still more effective applied to 

 ploughing as once done, and now often effected 

 by farmers who can afford to have gang ploughs. 

 These are virtually ploughing machines, for 

 they have seats at the back for the ploughman, 

 who rides instead of walks. But the man has to 

 drive three horses with reins placed abreast, to 

 draw the machine as well as manage it, and when 

 the land is level and works well, an acre per horse 

 has often been turned over per day. What a 

 contrast to the state of things in the old days, 

 when the same number of horses driven in a 



