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Aprit 19, 1856.} 
THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
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to each trade aw its owa pi rij 
Such were the first; day’s experiments. 
EAR EAE Bai the piip of their charter of incor- | 
ticular branch ? 
West India merchants sug rar and rum, cotton brokers 
Were there no compulsion upon them to | 
te 
| 
esults 
figs it well known, was not satisfactory as to leave | ile doubt 
a man of y of 
(oe mere | every 
his 
cotton ? ea ig but even of | I fi | t ure and c: cartage. 
return the desired particulars—were there no autho- of the was reje ected | The riments at Willesden, Middlesex, on 
rised offic: a to whom these particulars eaten ow com high-ton rt, Papin may be | Friday, ea sth inst., were not so successfully performed 
municate There are chambers of ere | kept out ht, but has never emia ered. as those at Cam den Town, owing to the heavy rain 
perce tine and ab! le— in Liverpool, Glasgow, and “hey you. noi out in your editorial tiie how | which fell dur’ oe a ER ceding night, and „the wan gn 
other parts : to employ to show, or c o be sho wn, at| the ae aay pre: 
import, export, cand shipping returns would be fully as the P isg tl ibah ri fi examp! 
feasible and as much in accorda ance with the id what in | 
a which pt aS a would be to employ | 
society originated | and chartered for the advancem: 
of a 
the bazaar line ; ae vin it as not be mer while ‘Samuelsons 
ya oMa the fact “that at the gran nd Ransome’s double plowgh A vided as 
t yen ar English agriculture was could not advantageous! worked. But 
Is, and” t the e: 
implements ; pers i the Scottish Ern these circumstances pi 
of the animals, xperi- 
lection of E statistics. Yet this. task has ponm, as i Society appea’ et b; represe gta | were in their favour in in another, 
think unwise ; and/or at Carlisle. adie conclude for the present by | as they exemplified the action of th or 
it ap oe tter of regret to Mr. Hosky: ns and a row while a may be fussiness Boao pro- pai a be - sene - soil, too wet for horses entering, 
yourself that die English SE sitcKing not merely to ai Ps may be quietude without lethargy. S., force of 
letter but also to the spirit of its charter, con- ne ik e aa made wasin hauling a Samuel 
sidered that it neit d nor should concern itse SSS r digger one round of the field. ae acious, or, as it was- 
with a similar task in England. The Irish pep is ae DELL’S TRACTION ENG | Soheead ie ihe Sear ie ioctl Wom then bythe bars 
undisturbed, because the constabulary do (in a way)| On Wednesday and Friday the 2d and 4t ‘tant. e | above, when it fell in shapeless sod ide generally 
llect the statistics of the en Isle, Jian Boydell & Glasier, of the Camden Works, ex- | uppermost. It also ad o the pra: Ama railway, thus 
n times past farmers have neve opi me oe rfi 3 | the traction force of the pt e while it increased the resistance 
r. eir traction engine at various performances | 
nish any statistical preety ; those haag. « Janc f panna tr specially invited on | ¢ cae tae a cae Eip ex anrr daagde 
and beeves” were un pE g n the tables of our the alo er day at the Camden Works, and by adver- | as the traction fo: the engine and action of the 
statists as if their productions ha infi t- | tisement on the ae at caer , Middle BEX. Both | | ay 00 ba pe d sn seaman pus: high esti nias 
s A èi 2 l lav. en made as to the number ormer 
MAYS pimi + well s Sera harar ameni k courses of a hav > | equivalent to; while all aneninosely, declare t the latter 
respec’ state or g irt g on oa land pan os S aa tely less harm to the soil than horses’ feet have 
is 
pg of a good or bad | harvest in Britain had an influ- | havir ng beon: fair ved. D a anes a IT a 
e experiment was made by ng four 
= heey en pos oney market of the | Mr. Mechi, of Tipe e Hall, who was preset on. woth inde each set to the depth of a four-horse furrow, one round 
e world. ow, all of a sudden, an out: occasions, will bear his invaluable testimony, and alao of the field; but the chains with whi they ere att: 
ee nap sire — rown do hota reach per | many thers who took a livel the =n being tov short. (to oy nothing of their tenni sat 
saltw n ich r public men have |i r every few Sak, the Ca aara and plonghmen were so cro: 
bee a ou ie men have | ings of the day. The engine ‘experimented with is one |wgeiber u tat the experime at, so far as ploughing is concerned, 
ies in arriv at; because they do no i d those ordered by Lord Panmure some — ago for | mus aes ae To. the same time it was generally 
at somebody's (they hag not well k who’s) asking, | t} mea, where the endless rai ee ow in success- adin waite ted t that a od “ fo horse furrows” were made in several 
what their commercial hren are bound to do fal eee on the wheels of gun-car’ ; General | Places, traction force of e equivalent 
through a specially commissioned Government officer _ bearing favourable taiii ny in his des- ee that of 16 horses of the district Rac ye noaety tes 
of customs or excise, that is, disclose as much of their pa of the invention, as enabling behing th è engine a hrtana Sn which indicated 8 ewt. 
individual os as will enable the State to make t have bea b measuring the depth and b of this furrow, and 
summatio ex rae similar ee of the com! erst ty, | been done by any other mea " The engine is greatly | pompa pim ks aight rant OF ray deere = 
which the ne purport of statistical inquiry, sopena 1 ip a ‘experimental one exhibited at Car lisle, other l siena be it-would have without intermission three 
The nation =P a right A prt EENE for | as will b ollow. wing deseription, onghs in a frame on wheel, ploughing three such furrows in 
it will be useful—it cannot well be called indispensable, ao si has eo a ee ech 6} inches in bach a si eee ving at a pace of one anda half that of the 
tta th tati orses 0! 
out iameter and w e of 10 inches. The i ing itself illeaden,, 
men ho direct the nation’s affairs tl x. (be engimaipragallina tint aR 
ged nee I rest my advocacy 
Phas ta i a nati Epai poe mE. 
to be conducted by a larl 
of State, that I shall consider it in a oree comm nate 
tion. In my last meee I expressed a doubt whether 
and a l ten- laaro pinio on on mesh 
out aad? in sare gearing bi Po sweat Ar citer On the | ine: po an 
yay wheel, 6 ya a 96-toothed w 
5 fee t in diameter, in eab 
e from W: hauling 
iri on one ne end, behind ita waggon and coal weighing upwards of 3 tons, be 
i a third experim: pha 
e Ppt ey in ee 
r promptly or eres it were 
culturi sts in their 
two slide-boxes are 
into which the pinion att when on ya slow 
market in 1846, might well be pe written off” by th th 
thai 
ined by “needy sellers” wie came early into the | ons toothed wheel. 
11 then 
os 
a small ten-leaved pinion, which then gears in the oy ew-fangisd vt Site more harm than good. 
This shaft and wheels a! are li fted out FF 
ects of si 
goang by pp di: tl meer pros: horses, than all the 
1855 ; yet this supposed loss ae 
oth anging thers made. 
dt o the s “All sanket ron sim-| The conclusions to be drawn from these experiments 
equired for threshing 
the ayn of ers President of t 
re Porad, of — 
ork 
5.8 
y sense by the propo 
profi, necessarily “the zemeinder of the community 
, to the e ose ! 
6 i e, b, oven it i 
antes F Trade (I ia and i impor 
the 
ae emt considered se | 360 Ibs. are lost by 
ot ther. 
‘te Hein mpirani 
slow speed engine wi 
fom 14 to 2} miles me hour, a and a uic ika nat met 
m 3} to 4h miles. It weighs 9 tons, inca 2 tons oir only reduces the amoun yal traction 
or coal and water. With 60 lbs. of stea r square | posable for _agricu ‘cultural or 
inch the pressure on the pistons | is 24 00 ibs. Of tt à of perk 
ing and plough ing arie ~ rect traction on 
paea level land ; that the “endlans aa rai an does 
th the motor force applied to “the 
ZE the pes p ‘but that this force applied to one 
“Lote ta 9040 1b 
Colt Ls. 1 4} Rad 
e 
portance; and it i d f 
t 
I 
your columns : in red meantime a shail 
ploughs, ry a Baie ree, we | made so as eo A oat out- 
or indirect 
st be 
the former, 2040 lbs ‘as above, for the uiek speed, = ai ” Whether direct ection, or 
succintly reply y previo ous lette. r. 
Tah À $ 
4080 1b: elof fixed lling 
i 
not quite satisfied: aro the Scottish return s there 
had been "ears of the ee things ane 
used. I believe you could'not be long in 1 those pps 
ard on the carriage wheel. Of aai and which e: 
forces "350 Ibs. are consumed i in frictio n and T course must decide. The probability is 
o 
poe ' mnd to ascertain this, so that the forces orces ap- 
jokes as to how little difficulties and obstinacies Dd, 
1 
cate of the unfilled-u p schedules ; or if that failed 
getting li ur to ee come oe 3 All 
show ee 
y | 3130 Ib: 
plied to produce movement are for the quick speed tin J art wien every 
1190 ibs. — ona wine rar of a Sae 6 inches from | slow iona on land being furnished with endless rails. 
endless rai r the slow w speed | A to place too 
n 1 sri re f PERE re. 
the above data as, to vie traction force of t! 
this was very -good m apagement—it has sueceeded— 
and as Talleyrand said, “ ‘nothing succeeds like success :” 
sooner the tural 
ided state of opinion on tiie aad better, the grand question at lets ie thos to 
we shall allow the eae experiments to speak. a ani i 
o | gress— 
| themselves, hoping b the endless railway W. B. 
T believe this dispute ted branch of the subject F anne eats 
Sehekentaer tines teams se Judicious managemen eben | peri 
voted. tether o notice. In the English|” The Wednesday experiments at the Camden Works 
partial inquiry the has been very differently | were as floes » s5 Bone-d In your Paperof 29th c 
handled ; e. gMr a es named to the world G the ground, one for each wheel: Way mae that the phosphate of lime in bone ash 
a Shropshire y 
. Two hes 
about 18 inches in depth, and in h sufficient to allow the | 18, WI 
n who tore his schedule and sent it 
back endorsed 
bi h tia 
named Campbell ‘of Monzie—a landowner ae skeep | bottom, 
Ba 
schedule, but came to « Bc: countereheek quarre arrelsome,” 
and a little further, in. with the High- 
ry y whi I enclose. Englishmen, 
rae th hort-comings of their own 
more > cently and quiet ; hence w 
Know of ev of every, ny short coming in Hampshire, , but had ac 
it is is notorious, pags 
he educational Į oat of the 
mp "Spie ie sais much bg in myo |° 
y una sed 
lengt 
n the bottom, for the or ae of doing | Why is this so ? 
we E 
if a 
not 
sway with an Saeko acquired in descending into the trench. s are, I belii consi: 
nto’ these. the slowly worked itself, pn still in the sr at of the grease in the 
experi’ 
y performed, much to the satisfaction of spectators. untry places may 
I to show what inclinati: ine will ascend grind rem, though may easily. . 
withou it t exerting any traction force, so as to ka ae tomer is no mill to pinara Dots they 1 be 
double the force pi hill, or in oe up hill guns or waggons burnt and then es , 7 
on the prinet neipleof a stationary wi taking short distances at phosphate: leanaoluble? What quantity of ‘water ag 
ce eee next hauled over soft ground 7 tons of bricks in P y a 
a waggon weighing 2 tous 5 owt, n making a total load of 9 tons, of burnt bones? and how much soluble 
manure, the pro- | be expected to result? 4 Ten Years? ‘a 
ai ns 5 cwt.) 
pae aapa at a four- 
expressed 
