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that better crops are therebj^ proilueeJ ; and 

 from the opportunities 1 have had for observation 

 on this matter, I am constrained to airree with 

 the concdusion. I conld not help remarking; hist 

 snmnier on the farms of the Messrs. Howard, of 

 Bedford, the renowned agricultural implement 

 makers, as also in other parts of Eni'land, that 

 the growing crops appeared more luxuriant and 

 promising where steam culture had been adopted, 

 all other conditions, soil, manure, &c., being ap- 

 parently equal, than when, sometimes in the 

 same field, what was considered good horse-power 

 cultivation had been practiced. The difference 

 in favor of the former was explained by the facts, 

 that steam power effects a deeper, more thorough 

 and uniform moving and intermixing of the soil, 

 without subjecting it to the tramping of horses, 

 which in wet weather and on heavy land, every 

 practical man knows is very detrimental. The 

 steam plough has, as yet, been only introduced 

 for experimental purposes, 1 believe, in this 

 country. Various causes have combined hitherto 

 to prevent its general introduction. 



Notwithstanding, I feel it is a moral certainty 

 that on this continent, particularly on the im- 

 mense prairies of the great West, the steam 

 plough will one day achieve its i:)roudest triumplis. 



