242 Hints for Experiments. 



Polyanthuses, at 2s. 6d. each, with the exception of those to which 



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Billington's Beauty of Over. Mill's Highland Mary. 



Buck's Marquis of Anglesea, 20s. Massey's Venus. 



Buck's Traveller. Nicholson's Gold-lace. 



Brown's King. Nicholson's Bang-Europe, 20*. 



Cox's Regent. Park's Lord Nelson. 



Collier's Princess Royal, 10s. Pearson's Alexander, 7s. 6d. 



Crownshaw's Invincible, 15s. Pearson's Competitor, 5s. 



Cartwright's True Briton. Pearson's Commander. 



Cutler's Duke of York. Stead's Telegraph. 



Fletcher's Defiance. Stead's Supreme. 



Fletcher's Lord Hill. Thompson's Lord Nelson. 



Fillingham's Tantararara. Thorp's Golden Ball. 



Hattersley's Invincible. Turner's Emperor Bonaparte. 



Heap's Smiler. Turner's Princess Charlotte. 



Harley's Defiance. Timmis's Defiance. 



Hobson's Victorious. Waterhouse's Bishop of York. 



Lee's Sly Boys, 5s. Washington's Black Boy. 



Lumbard's Highlander, 5s. Willat's Beauty of Coventry. 

 Martin's Prince Henry. 



Art. VII. Hints for Experiments. 



The Application of Steam to Agriculture has hitherto been confined to 

 putting in motion some thrashing machines : but, as steam will probably in 

 a short time be applied to the dragging of heavy waggons on the public 

 roads, the succeeding step will not unlikely be its adaptation to the imple- 

 ments of aration. 



The advantages of ploughing and harrowing by steam promise to be con- 

 siderable in every country, but especially in an uncertain climate. The soil 

 can only be stirred with advantage when in a moderately dry state, and in 

 dry weather. To enable a large farmer to accomplish this, he must keep 

 a considerable stock of horses and men, which in unfavourable weather 

 cannot be employed, but must be fed and lodged. A steam plough, guided 

 by one man, which could do the work of six pair of horses and six men, 

 would cost nothing but during the hours it was in action : there would, 

 therefore, be no temptation on the part of the farmer to use it in bad 

 weather. Any agricultural implement drawn by horses can only move at 

 a certain rate per hour ; but a steam plough or harrow might be made to 

 move at any rate of rapidity, and, at all events, at three times the rate of a 

 plough and pair. The advantage of such a rapid mode of stirring the soil 

 in a variable season in any country, and in rapid climates such as those 

 of northern and tropical countries, will be appreciated by the agriculturist. 

 In short, the power of steam would give the cultivator an unlimited com- 

 mand of labour at the moments favourable to labouring ; and fifty acres a 

 day might be ploughed with one machine and one man, as easily as they 

 are now ploughed by fifty days' work of one plough, or ten days' work of 

 five ploughs. 



The sort of implement best adapted for stirring the soil by the power of 

 steam is the next idea that presents itself. Every cultivator/we think, will 

 agree that it must be some implement of the grubber kind (Encyc. of Agr., 

 § 2553.), and by far the best of these is what is called Finlayson's Harrow. 

 (Gard. Mag., vol. ii. p. 250. fig. 66.) This implement may be enlarged so 

 as to cover any breadth, and regulated so as to go to any depth ; and the 



