610 THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, (Aveo 
1, 1858, 
ag aR PE BERT BERT I am Se S neven surfaces, Wi tus for expanding | 913 poles per ho: 
1, ti the ni lect | over uneven surfac s, with a an appara p our, or lined 
of, better paren a Catan Campbell (18 (6 m months) | or contracting g them ta bring them on oe reece ‘esa ‘working e ses 
ant, and which obtained a prize Si Ricketts, of Buckingham, x . 15s: 9d.; thi 
of 181 Mh ar recta class high iy comm ended i in airea ary Steam Cultivator, A consisting of a va Borea work done ] per day, ae give about thes e 
this class, pošsesses good -poin s ut 1P EE hehai d ing in radial links ip driving the terse ae a een 
machine te 
deficient i in the ru mp. driven by pit St themit 
: Akr vn ean mat aa tines, spades, or | from further < ti ra » and the 
Hi aft are = ac S, Abii etition. 
fal see a 7 cu kes for hi Bo Bon Gurgon, a s scaling, other sabes which enter —— eso at h Two com comp now onl 
ir Piers Mostyn, Bart., ee second prize for a |bottom of the furrow, | cut up connie and either: br est Yl Fow. mler and’ Howard, i OU atin, 
ost ing calf. Am he. commendations ng. ‘arrangemen 
this Pats “ an particu’ larly refer to Lord Stanley, “J. & F. Howard, of Bedford, sent a set of Smith pane to need any description te It 
a Ter roan, 8 months old, belon; ging to Sir William Patent tal by Win S for cultivating land i steam power; | however to observ e that Mr. Fowler’s er's have see 
inve b pg 00. iderably 
ber of the | tured by t tite’ ‘this consists of an ordinary meeting of the Sockets: mil: a aa : 
3 t defici eae Mra steam engine, with as been effected p: important 
sare orn aa ace "ne vie tik Blossom ving band, wireropes, pulleys, ee bow, ploughs, power required and i in the w year a fm ae 
ths) . bel to Mr. Booth, of and o net all ee for wor 
4 year r ngre aiei ae ee notwithstanding the| And lastly, J. Fowler, jun., of Co: — sent his steam | now self-moving ani Pcie ‘hoa k mint 
erše jarama of prva we of opinion she plough, contain of an ordinary 10-horse engine with | large it may be, after bein so 
deserves her position. If pey head, g attach and, detach, ui “anchor, wi ith four- assistance whatever. 
ribs, a well set shoulder, depth and mente ey. be l T „tes ting the comparative ARAJ 
prize-taking points, Neetarine  Blosso possesses eek Airo of the plough mould-board. edho ought it sa to ai ect aaa 
reat merit. Mr. Douglas’s Rose of Athelstano and | commenced on July 13th, in a field of 2 2-year scldanuin 1st. The, co! workin day of Pom 
inglet, t yt not commende d, are fine an animals. _The tl ne soil alight sandy loam, upon a subsoil of s siltorsand;| 2ndly. The harder a description: oF work, 
Value of the 
winner es ghe econd prize, Mr. Stratton’s 1 the bed a The practical or agricultural 
Fourth, vi eea erior animal, possessing well | of the river r Dee work 
developed ita light description, offered pe aa Dt resistance owing 7 t field 
Heifers in Milk or in Calf.—The Third Queen of n scribed, :and:-were ia 
onging to Mr. Douglas, a-roan, 2 years and | growth of Couc! h and other Grasses, and represented a rare ina -ye ~ Blaco Eni. where:the soi) 
2 months, gained first prize. This is a most symme:- | fair trial ground for twe-bome work. Indeed a dyna- | strong tenacious } very dry andj musa 
trical animal, ing many points in perfection. To | mometrical experiment with one of How varg’ 's PL dition, and | matted 1 together on the surface bya 
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Rockingham,  belongi to the Hon. and Rev. ae hs, d d tal g 
J+H. Noel Hull, the second prize was awarded. Venus de ow, showed that the resistance offered was ; equal to| An experimental trial with a Wilkie p 
Medicis, the property of Mr. Douglas, was highly bani 38 32 stones, or E cwts gave a dynamometrical result: of 51 stones. 
The er may remember in our report o From rious causes the arrangements — for as ‘the traction power uired to turn a 6 X 9 fmoy 
ee D Dublin ses ak slate s spring show that th dell? thus showing it to be fully equal toa 
same Venus Sa the first prize, placing the Dusen of yen for the trials, and althou, ugh it subsequently | soil. The trials comprised ploughs on T 
eye in he background; and now, after the lapse | was at work, exhibiting ~ great ert powers, both | and ploughing and ent with Cotgreave’s 
of a E a ew months, they change aloa as they had done | with Coleman? s pen and Williams’s frame of | on the strong land by Fowlers machine ; while H 
previo 
usly. inference is to be deduced from this ploughs attached, e not abl e, for the above e reason, | exhibit ted Smi ith’s A Anai of culti tivation by mei 
circumstance? Simply this: either that the t it 
of our judges are no y ; or’ that _ The set of ok entered for trial by Cronies and pion i 
our first-class animals approach each = so which had ~ "daily ieir expenses fa PA 
that the most careful scrutiny of one or two men fails to be supplied by Fowler’s | engine, This fact „alone iremen s follow: 
in duly discerning their relative merits. No or is this jugineer +.) oe aa 
the .. e OOD 
pent Plotigh and anch 
element of which — the power, and not | ae itive. anchor men - 
sity of tastes and opinions of. our, best breeders and | the mere Seol or rari kaleh by which the work was to Water airh x . Lo ie a 
be performed. On trial how KeBa the ~~ of ploughs Coals 10 ewt. ee. 
Mr. Dawson’s Lowry, by Irish Boy, is a good | got deranged, and was at once withdra oe Sh Se 
heifer, Mr. Price exhibited in Lin this class two admirable |" ‘The rotary steam cultivator of Ricketts although | -Merest at 8-per-eont anid itr) sie 
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heifers, Vapo pasen ailh ing notice, as it at 15 per ant: & first ose esola 
Colonel Townley’s o, of Townley, a roan | contains many points well worthy 0 of samme ing a nabas an 
(2 years 10 months), highly commended, does Eae of tas yet | a rie who on locomotive rable the y 
win a higher plac, and maintain the a rotary to a “A sree 
Townley herd, a herd which does not ocenpy. An the near °c was of the ardien 
we og ; | Tocom tity wit! i 
Yearling Heifers. 
Te the light hag the work was pe 
i e carryin 8.83 
“Diadem ranking second. His Emma, which was hi ie h ok in a sana 
; . econd. ma, which was men were required when at work in the field.” ps ; yi $ FNR 
bn ae : Pe gett cin Mr. Ss ys Swee ame principle of as in this cultivator oe am being aon yee ds’ 13, poles were 
nie commen i i i 
i a oe = a proportioned heifer. a pinion o nthe’ ied by an endless pitch chain from ploughed in 9 bowisi 39 minutes, equal to 5 acres per 
Wen i ial li y — » 
: | aas ; j 
stne aa ai aes 4 pi With Cotgreave’s' trenching plough the rate of wart 
te pened ed on this oceasion. pein ae elevation „above the „ground. The s of this trans- | was of sa greatl diminebed. ~The furrow was 12 
a race rapidly advancing in publie a bei f tl are y ra — saopy seh rer Ee e same ap a 
‘strong and vigorous, and carrying a eee of | is parallel to that i oe pagine wheels, but ntrary — 
hat the. cut a we ghd removed as s by ti a ether r pionghs, Sri i 
* Bulls Calved on orb ttl hadir ngo of the | Boles q Es i 
six years.— d en years pee teams rOgTe: es per r hon am or 3 rs T roth 
; ’s p ssive motion ponghi 
“belonging to Mr. Price, was- stamped as a beast = by “this arrangement the cutters. enter the soil or P hese results blo to give eit 
= by being awarded first prize. Mr. R and working upwards to the | surface by hee =o “rare 
Benjamin won y pas Fema <a fikigtarage — 
-Lord gra o hey their peri _is „continued in an inv verted position. a a x eit ae oas a 
‘commended, cannot prove a getter o of goed sock of action t: l Of heavy land x 2 ES mre 
J merai it Aes aiant ai ae ne Shing feeor in OF trenuing dos”. a8 4 ee ba 
since pene Mr t July, 1856, and not over one | dividing the soil, and completes the inversion of the| Our estimate-ôf:thequality and. Poh ; 
sao aa a ar eps oe ne animal of | separa eces by moving through half a revolution | thus performed is—that’ the Hight land a; 
i eneen l aneb mer remaining beasts in this Sa angle of 180°) instead of three quarters of a revo- | been > 
a Calves between 6 and 12 months. —Why Lord | ordinary mode of applyi 
4 PP orse pow 
reena ‘obtained second prize amongst so , A considerable saving of power is effecte the trenching pease gic om 
: : [e is exceed. soils, and the soil 1 at all, and that 
ingly hollow in the back, and ort behind | more open and desirable state, The shat ft STen a grafting tool it could not bave been 
heifers or lowered to any depth of. cultivation | 10d. per pole, or 67. 13s. pest ati 
w slice can | 
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excellent animals, | be v: c oaks A ; 
old, > ee Quartley’s bull, 15 soniths | diate shafta a T yE nd interme- A en requires -two operations. 
Prince Leopold, $ 8 months old, with ¢ Ps| The field appointed for the: trials was. laid) up strong spud-tined cultivator, which, 
even cou eo a cote a arsin trom 7a 10 ft wido, with a | grown avn depti hi 
: i of level some 10 or 12 ears up, ving os 
| ridge and the furrow, and th tepe ar n gijp ps agag origini? ition, while the second, with a 
) nth) | the powers of this rotary cultivat , AS owing to thegreat | ment d largon- rags travelling: 
7 feet-—i e | 
| — sufficiently level to show its work Fagg tet Paini en by the firsts and reverses i 
nough work, however, was done to establish its capa- of the et soil, exposing a rough i 
iste, to indicate several points in its working details action of the atmosphere. 1 op the 
ich mig! readily tri vere gone over” 
principle of rot improved, show that the : gone ore 
ganent hineexhi result of WON te 
| Working details may be thus given :—While i in. motion | SOP: ei SF about 5 acres fe 
| per minute groma the machine adv, indw 20 feet | two operations of a ir 
|i mute, the shaft making 75 ear i and the * By ploughs “ s 
or cutters attached. taking a s wide Cotgreav 
G inches deep, and 7 feet m beonath, At “this rate | of furrow slice. š 
