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5—1845.] THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE 73 
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TONM RE.—To Let on lease, a FA on and do i 
msoNmouTH her “containing 154 ae every pan we on a own hill, the dynamometer was applied | extremes of the variations in the draught represented 
=A Pasture Land, about 53 of which are arable, the remainder wii ascending the field. The greatest care | by this irregular line drawn by the pencil of the 
Grass-land of superior quality, well supplied with Water. og ered cut the furrow-slice of the right dimen- | dynamometer ; but any accurate estimation of t 
has been for some years ener ahha fei, for this purpose two of the ore i Iful men | position f such a line, when the pencil was still 
e e, 
Ti Pareto an improved state of cultivation: Itis situated e ote ani one accus wheel and | | comer a as the plough ne over the ground, 
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within Fi les of two goo e . be r to bla 7 ploug! ppan prei as plough ould have been i “ets sible 
tables, Ca and Tan ip-hous mg erent i ryt # Peoi od i a Fi jo 2 
orchard. For farther particulars, Orto es Pe o plough was trie till cher it had once o 
terahire.” oe oats y b Actes, Edge, Gionee | o oftener gone round the feering. Considering that r | 
arable, ma be had with the above, ue s aa enyi in the width of their respective 
ít í Ga tt xg rend that oe a aught i a wide plou ld " 
$ mu ch increase y its having to work into a 
The Age ict ura ae l, bassi nar pe er than its own, a vice versa, this | | 
oint of great importance, ma - : 
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1845. tioned a as, in a degree, ec oe the seine of his : | 
INGS FOR THE TWO EKS. usions, he — | 
pare Feb. 5—Agrical Er ea land, than the observer and the ploughmen in hie A Eri eT G es k dal + zs } A die os 
ea ches et ENY, while the inquiry was proceeding; and as it wll N D yi! i ii i i vai 
mates: Feb. 12—Agricultural Society of England, minds tothe influence the value atta che d by so N i ji { N '| 
THURSDAY, ’ Feb. 13—Agricultural Imp. Soc. of Ireland. | i | $ 
— ? sa or ae y if t 
We took an early opportunity, last year, of refer- will, prejudiced, lI, : | 
d  ringtothe important influence which the e employment in favour al De swing over the wheel-plou H ó i | 
e nesot cas asy raugh t upon the amount page and efficient farm implement ; he has ; 
of that important item the jga r's account- | #Ways used the former—a Scotch plough vi ig | | 
book—horse-labour expense and others | £9" Clark, of Stirling—on his own 7 | s 
have shown that the power required ae Bree pa z has no intention, for reasons which shall hereafter na 
ferent forms fhe E Parti be stated, of altering his practice in this respect. We may mention that the field in which fk 
work v n some instances, as much as 30 0 per The influence of prepossession on the experiments were carried on was a one-year-old 
cent, , Observer is, however, hardly anything when, | Clover a ploughing up for Wheat, It had 
Esmee ; ai two only were necessar JA with | #8 in this case, s only to ascertain the di- [borne Wheat t the previous year, for which the 
others. Having lately had an opportunity of test- mensions of the furrow-slice, and not to estimate | Jand had not been ploughed, at eel wie baile 
ing the results obtained by previous observers, under | "4 record the draught as indicated by the dyna-| yated* about 3 inches “deep ; the ground was 
circumstances particularly conducive to the accuracy |™ometer. And this is the point connected with thus somewhat hard: it is a deep siliceous loam, 
of our conclusions, we return to this subject a inquiry, and insuring the accuracy of its 5 re e old red sand- 
ong th points of ie 3 a se A by | Sults, to which we attach most importance. Two parallel lines 50 yards apart 
an EXPERIMENTAL InqQuir Dravent rn | draught of the ploughs was recorded Pd pei on | were drawn across the field, including that portion 
peu are—Iet. . The absolute resistance | to the | paper, not by the observer but hei thes of it whi 
motion of any Į which indicated it. The fact F hei matter is, that | t e “The plough under trial was taken once or 
di t soils ; T relative draught of the n re ce to the common dyname eter, and even | oftener up and down the field, round the feering, 
rious forms of the implement in the performance 2 of to that also which has been improved by Me the dimensions of rrow-slice being carefully 
the same work ; 3d. The alien pe o the | Cottam and Hallen—a woodcut of which is annexed, | measured at intervals get the ploughman accus- 
motion of the plough made by the different sources | 2d à description of which will be found at page tomed to the right h and width; the dyna- 
its draught, viz., ht, the a f th f our last volume—the oscillations of the r was then St ed a fe yards below 
a e dire: in cutting the sod, and that of the index of the instrument are so frequent and inces- | the lower of the above-mentioned lines, and the 
in eerie it; 4th. The absolute in- sant—owing probably in part to the gait of the | wheels communicating motion to the paper on 
nene ofthe weight g n its draught draught animals, but chiefly to an un sees in ~ which the pencil of the instrumen rds the 
E vele ity on draught in loug £ E of the soil—that the most sed a draught ent, $ d opp when over that line, and 
q ey a i "That of an inclination of the surface of | interested observer can rarely feel at pre shiek ho lifted again when the plough reached the upper one, 
the ground; 7th. The influence of the epth of has correctly estimated its average position on a correct figure of the tractive. effort of the horses 
ploughing on the force required ; 8th. The influence | § cale. during the passage eé the plough rate 50 te hn of 
on the draught of the plough of one or more wheels ‘the arla as thus obtained. Halves 
as supports for its beam. Most of these points were have been taki be these being at st ad a suit- 
hoo o, and many of them fully illustrated by able size for our colum and 
Pusey, to whose systematic and valuable le experi- thus, retaining to oureely ves cy office of descri ribing 
_ ments se ly subj ject* we have already alluded. de the circumstances under which the different trials 
inquiri 
haa so far as they 
; publi hed , appear to have been eei ered 
to the2d and Sth points mentioned above. To their 
results we shall refer in the sequel. 
It isessential to theac ccuracy ofany account of in- 
_quıries into these matters, not only that the amount 
y sta h 
wi 
took place, instead of Hepa to them a rough 
borer oar of their draug! tby an unpractised observer, 
the. Nepoditon of the ploughs themselves on this 
subject. 
limits impose upon us 
ecemeal, an aoe remarks on an interestin 
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ercome—th tr n WEN man R 
ior gg Pie the purpose of mea- Corram’s DyNAMOMETER KES present, BN otherwise shoul pee de 
elliptic ka aie cg come hone ot By Mr. Clyburn’s Dynamometer Ta ever, t la rim shall, however, 
ies with, and thus indicates the intensity | 0StUJations, instead of being left to the infinitesimal resume hace i on tha paatin as soon as possi ble, 
ARI aar ie s ted E Y | chance of a fair collation and correct reduc = 
TEET a magni ee ese | average in the mind of the observer, are aie red page Sure tar 
n a > eps ese ee sey at each| THis subject ha agitated during a course of 
S m ae s h ie and | by writers erdei but in a spirit of 
pte 
J 
pont Of one “fact, _ however, we ma 
y 
uses, and those are 
very important to a certain ks and under 
particular a rA of soil, &c., they greatly 
promote the grow "o, pi Turnips ‘Since ree pub- 
lication of Dr. Jus iebig’s ikin ane he- 
ation has 
way to : 
ene the cerionlbaeat way e was in high 
the hies A ei bane 
aor 
slightest degree—the weather was CLYBURN’S DyNAMOMETER. | the Purposes 
place in whole time. All the experi-| The following woodcut, r ie wea from the figure ne ‘On my 
of them Grab hee field, and thus of course | drawn by this irnir meter when attached pe ee 
= oC ina alluded to Bui tieit ooo to the first ae plough at work, tter illustration than 
3 the furro This es light | words, of the fre neno abd akion t of these 
cent, aig nd, ieia were all u d dow athe tions in its dra 
"a ting where the abject was| Wecan estimate with tolerable precision her 
~ e draught of a plough | abouts between parallels om = —the one 
ee of the English ing a draught of 4 cwt, and the other one o 
See Agricultural Society, p.219, vol. i. | a Te hold be dra medium | 
