796 THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. [Jort 23, 1864, 
inch fnrrow, with onl n the, carrying „between them a light i ron rod, oa gun is ni i 
he e whole rather psa ve 7 seemed to us, for 
n The 
u E i pind 
capital AbyaT to e 
and 
n by m guine for use in 
uer all the T gran they 
ums, | guided, 
| springs, is kept to its zak when down, not pe by its 
b the plou 
j 
prk out of work. 
yw 
hollows of the ridges. His lou 
and each frame of ploughs, 
S 
l failure i 
cb B vey jir 
E held up by coiled 
own beh pa but — which 
d o 
a 
as itis trailed 
k 
v ge the rope 
, | behind the tool when leaving the engine, the hook picks 
either by han b is own weight upon his seat, | it up in front a wheels, and the handle holds it 
thrusts Roni the por of the pair of Mo yr behind, It i "n io the rope and travels 
M xt to him, so that the whole of the hinder half of| with it of itself drm one end to the other of the field, 
e framing must lifted ue the E ee Ae ean be| One pair of whee s thus : attac at the 
t int and on the 
*Y. E 
journey thoy ar are e ciy doch as they arrive, What 
T NE 
g. Fowler's 14- wh power engine, and pe two 
of drawing 10 or 12 of these 
- of ‘the he ies mo and made the 
g , each with a drum around its | pit Srima A from end to end of the field, : and | meantime it is eat relief to the porter boys, who 
RS pable of hey har on it the g by far the hardest worked people in the steam- 
its rope one strand deep. of 12-horse power, orked hs wd plou Both here and in Field B, | cultivated field, and nothing ca ffective or 
and have been worked for a e time by Mr. Bomford, bw, 4 acres apiece T. allotted to the competitors. | lighter looking s. an th andy contri ies for 
of Pitchill, n Evesham, whose —— men, as | Savory’s pr A. could not accomplish so great a length | accomplishing a very im nt wor must be 
engineers and stoke ae ied them l waaier | of furro the oer Howard's ploughing was t that these porters will only be a lable on level 
them here. Here again rapid id mdi v » but | best eld—as deep as any, and laid in rather} or uniform land. hen hillocks IR DEL MM rope 
neither very deep nor very even, was — "with | narrower slices, which thus lay not so flat. The might id on the an between two distant rope- 
Steevens’ 4-furrow plough. | whole of the ploughing in this field was well done, 7 and | | por 
3. Coleman's Mess. of 12-horse power, drawing | 8 inches deep. 
his well-known eultivators, two of these tools bein 
na! actuated the 
Tater on in the course of the trials the harrows and 
rags used in steam cultivation were subjected to trial, 
and some very good work was made by those employed 
alternately by t engine, each bei In Field D, pe and Fowler had a racing trial over 
rawn the distance, and drawn back the|about 4 acres apiece, the one with Cla: yton's 10-horse 
midway cf the furrow, and the other to! power engine Ms a 4-furrow ploug pues d the other 
end, while each alternately is at work. The with one “of his nominally 7-horse power and 3-furrow 
advantage is that the pull is in every case direct, and | aa h Mum. M Ls Su bo: anchor. This engine 
back of the empt; is the only strain working more of steam, 
th 
and 
LAE Dad "Iso rh 200 revatio per "uM. The 
wo vork of Howard's {plough h 00d —the 
plough was Ossi ae. a T 
ay. In Fowler's p 
+h 
and 
was ge ty hed ne 
g ie 
4. “Fowl “so s 14-horse power engine, working his large 
plough with digging bre made very good 
oa exellent — — striking the eism of|h 
zeli field, the more for its 
wholly inverted 
eben sed 
er's s nominally 7-horse power single 
e time E pulling, eu Nae: s "ire, à 
the other Pa the drum 
Ke was t iut th is plan 
in advance a n the « double en ine i 
step os piae s 
Clover more perfectly hearted, pay it was ig ages gu? 
M complished across the roadway. Towards 
nese however, the. rate was too dea for the 
dikey of the work, whioh was left very rough. 
Fowler’s 14-horse power single engine, working a 
urrow plough at not so yo a rate, made some 
very good ploughing in this field. 
Ps, Field E, Mr. Richardson, of a worked 
= 
owler’a Shor r engine 
attached in Ws cni 
This 
it w 
tom of t ie: C Cole 
a — each m ust be of oem pow er; and py waste 
on apnoea im the case o of each, notwith- | 
it 
ork, 
| man was " g^ am his qqitiyetess 
g 
w-slices, -— eut pec E oe y; but the|i 
end of | r 
24 
the » ridges, which none of his c MA ghe to do, 
by rad 
standing that each is oi 
fuel co d 
latter tai A compariso! 
— hasnot eh p 
reatly in a^i 
au Ty 
vns s 
an 
er of Fowler 
ert ny here for 
accom 
< 
le 
| In 
ds. accomplishing 
;|& very 
rs Benes 
r 
k | under Mr. eer nem wa 
e| quantity of his LL And 
or stirring of the land accomplished hey any of the riva 
machines at Benton, was done here by him. 
e hest grubbing | 
4 
adjoining Field F, wbije i iapa 
good agriculture in the midst of of 
foul piece of hard land, his aude Fowler and 
ihe nr under Mr. reign and the other 
ere tearing 
kept rediret tie 
pé i 
ratus a Tope 
by d the Leer T the e plough 
itself that eem 
"t 
fov: to adopt his double co-opera- 
i tools w plough— 
iis drawn by Chgten. & Shuttleworth 10-horse- 
n bis babe ivator was not drawn so fast 
Savory’s nid or it, and the ook, Rao 
and deep, w tossed abont enough to 
Pubs 
makeit E a thoroughly gon sha shalt adi the land. No Nothing | 
could be t than his ploughing. 
as | with, cur 
7. Collinson ma ire “Yokel Tope, in which links of | 
ug hieh the f with his nom 
T-horse. isi piens ine, 
1201bs. of steam, and 
300 revolutions a DEUM T 
o ill and 4 tines id 
O-horse power 
M 
pag sometimes 
s driving his NS 
Bini and the 
on's engine 
s tant be it could go 
atk keg up tọ ET no hu oE de 
as driving his 4 4-tine cultivator 
the engine making as many 
iously enough, the siad tenliantne r persisten 
stationary at about 55 Ibs! In i — "E " 
the fly- "wi of Fowler's engine, ha 
off a e rate of 30 miles an ho ag 
M pae 
[vpisa of Tp drill, vele dann |E 
A bu dd tim! Tm 3-furrow | wi 
a 
s md a ap gent in the devices by which 
ties 
dif s of his. tem are overcome, or more 
Fowler's d g is best when p 
: make the ton gore and E le divini the depth i 
f | and thoroughness of the diggin in 
f the steam sultivation, G—an 
A. 
Howard adt 3 Da plot fi AT ut 8 aeres in 
5) hours AU ok seh the 2 iode gd the 
cidedly wit ltr, 
on 
Heap ri 
the last field o 
of d covered with long Grass 
vh. Pais v belo eid: double 
nominally 7 ved -powe each end of a 
pute bel d ene than Mr. Hall. 
eo al em us Pag B, BUT 12 acres, 
cue 
ep hs 
a fro 
, worked his slg very elent ly, Savory’s 
pa e Howard's — very 
ga 
pire vigi s his balance-plough h with t 
| digging d "^ threw the furrow-slice about in an 
| extraordinary 
Ta the Bs co 0 of these very thorough trials of 
men age of ang a vae took place, 
ple 
irum EU "os portanco bap ier Arein ine extremely 
al 
rbd s jeprte at work, hey are 2 
by Fowler and by Howard. Ashby’s rotatory arrows 
been done by steam. gu ues 
Tur DrNAMOMETER.—The implements were also 
submitted to the test of a An extremely inge- 
nious and eff The mous of this 
ended 
the Ex upon the 
however fast the dise may revolve, the ipla "n 
nM centre, is pera When 
ukia] ud the button cou p 
ey fast, a 
Apnd dre 
locty are 
a Mee deal, both È bei 
P| because the button n at Eee 
from the centre "e the dise, 
arra aw for 
secon on of hd 
are adop Lees 
Peters A. Ei to the im t 
ingenious way. Two horizontal pulleys, 18 ys mart 
d ationed horizo mee m, and a 
& 
mid against the spring. 
of this 6c à Pi ge! the ae 
button. When a & the button heute at 
centre of the dise, "bot it it would not do for it to recede 
inch by inch along the vx of ho Sen "for every inch 
deflecti becaus bis pei d 
pulley is howe 
dise by v suerossivo ori of i 
green. e e button being in 
eigen i means of a 
h 
upon the rope. 
p the tool, and the time occupied 
are both observ , and the number i 
counter as the combined result of i s 
becomes a perfect indication of the labour required i : 
the case of any tool to produce a certain result, An 
Mie of a certain formula the quantity of ques 
is kn 
In "Tn tiis way ib was ty of 
that the quanti 
t forth by f ane 
ascertain 
b d engine in working — 
all round rope, a 
Fowler double engines. 
experiments and others will be given 
We add here that to Mr, Fowler's at TN 
power” engine uniting to actuate » 
them is awarded the lst prise « 1001. [X M e 
-power to tillage. 
inus 
t the clin apă “thes 
Writers of Ba hig 
coe et thorou E work, bub are 
Is, 
awards w 
Me iy 
{ridge plough a af ha. 
did occasion: 
mbrous teat (E ; 
| cu! 
2 H Prov: — 
Lol TEM Lene 
strain poder: 
