Jory 16, 1859.] THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTU 
RAL GAZETTE. 611 
ravels ls round it t and rou round a1 an anchorage |! 
field, 
for the 
the 
at the — end Tor the fl 
rope t ] a — from the use of the 
ams. ti 
skim coulter, 
often gr cen with the u ere 
n of which. we ate to draw indemnification for the 
wind. ie lover 
Bot r } instances the 
8. ut in one or r two 
t 
l 
The tr ial of strong 1 scarifiers took place on the 
e obe e manager directs along their oan was bea n fall 
ce shown, as complete a 
leld neigen whee Bae: = ughs were tried, where it 
pr ed 
X 2 was soon competit. 
angearing of a winding pulley into wheels conn rial e old as possible— — between Hornsby t remi ree rese 
with the windlass. The whole thing is exceedingly | Ransome, and Howard, amongst whom the nearest | baked until p aa as aoe as rock, * ting swingle, 
simply — guidin ng arrangement on the compe tition seemed to lie, the judges will sipa a em trees, chains, horses, 2 eie nts to the utmost, 
culiiv pl 1 The following are notes o ne soon n showing the weak — and defective points of 
and dow ga g 
the ey to take the n tod laterally — of. "the Law, of Shettleston, Scotcl 
action. S Men were 
cor ntrived that the 
— ong the curved ridges u 
H Might e. 
eri — lasg 
* Work rough and brok 
9. T. C. Mason, of Stamford. —A lighter bigis wheels, 
coulter, and skim—very — and shallow mould - board with 
n it, and hardly capable of pressing 
or T 
ridges 
In the . field, occupied by Mr. Palmer, | co 
y: tood, after th h E 
omaine's rotating cultivator s beving. done 5 Jones, of Redditch, not tried.—A timber-framed old- 
beet be — . high mould-board, and con- 
n, hówever, owing to vance for shiftin coulte’ 
ie ied tat 2 . Busby, ale. zuo wheel, solid beam, long and taper 
— was a spe P. E e Joller fas = by — d 0 mould - board. everywhere 
Orns on r 
wheels, the — front balance "ud; the —— ng d vex to ita work, umeo TED. nore ied 
linder behind, with the stage for engincer and fue . Ree wheels and skim and coulter, | 
ded water tank atop of boiler high over all, | s Vu a he E monid board, Grass hot buried, — 3 m 
strike one as a cumbrous and bulk t; but it roland, eter kiin than way oF fuses. Board, 
1 tons altogether, and travelli t — Teddington.— Wide set à rt 
ierit . ial spr 
e got into tug — shopper 
Rental and Colemau's — m 1, 
the ibing of draught t being pe tt in favour of 
Coler but Bentall's appeared to s stick the closest 
to its wor Je were grieved to find so much fine corn 
land lying undrained as another EM of the 
"E 
ignorance of the Jangonas and proo t their in- 
| telligence is not yet enough to induce tenants entering 
| upon the task of" bebe the land to its high — pitch of 
| productiveness, Woul Md to. Heaven s such men re bou: nd 
| capital and enterprise to f and eae it — 
1 1 + y +) 
of gton 
wheels, skim and — 
* ale ing & Co., Leicester.—Long mould-boarc 
angement | * holdi ng sock. 
0. Page, of Bedford.—Very long 
uld- m 
1. Ball, of Rothwell.—Large mould-board, with coulter and | 
m, two whee wheels. 
2. 
i 
it 
It 
t 
weighs only 1 
one-sixth the rate of a ploug 
would not take two-l 
h horse's ordinary pace, 
s poren to merely move it. 
BE 
1, 3 
— in — — about 1 
ke and taper, and shal 
rork the > locomotion ‘of the engine, while 70 or 
which thus takes seven or 
needed to m 
te of half a m 
eight times — much 
els at 
—A im plough, | — -— 
lter did — 1, otherwise the 
oughing w as good, 
used | talker, Penrith.—Shorter and rsa mould-board, more | 
"n — form, not straight w. 
also shown by O. yy ein of ; 
mier of 1 Tb n — wo ndorfully long an 
rn. furrow, making very Ea work); Hornsby (again and 
ea first- — — ki ker — th a cellar —— T 
the — 
— 
the ing cylinder, arm 
teeth x a form and relative m arrived at 
sive trial. orks i — the same direc- 
much ſuster as to 
ve 
tion as the travelling v Poe only 
apart) just 6 — in —— of its neighbour or t 
one — — ed it, and as each overlaps its pug. |a 
bour side of it, * pere er en Sade 
s are well ng need no 
ption or praise. Their work was first-rate. After 
— trials with dynamometer and without, both tools 
to travel from end to end of the me unheld, and 
—— A work; better it ap s in the case 
of Ransome's than in that of Howard's.) 
There were several turnwrest ploughs on the — 
— "s pe, - MN — arrangement 
Lu Ransomes; two mould- 
boards — 2 * a fly coi — to boch, a 
— into —.— Somit s —— (Kenford, 
— in which the “fly " 
d-boar — N mai & 
7 ve bom vay — and imperfec ty 
Steam cultivation at Warwick has resolved itself this 
n f Fowler, Smith, and Romaine, 
and, owing to the defective engine of the last, it has 
practically s Tn Hast into a compas arison of the two 
ormer, from s trial 
Eddy's — to ood as any. 
Cultivators, iz "s the E field of . land 
Snowdon's paring-plough w. ork. n a hea 
carried, however, not on 
rning four furrow-slices 9 Dem 
ed a power equal to 10 horses, and | 
— his cultivator he —— a 
whereas the latter taki 
and tre up from 8 to9 — ie 
11} horses, Notwith- 
he latter work yu 
— of each of 
— — at work Ae, this hard and . soil 
not much beyond either of the figures her 
. Lieut TRIAL GROUND.— The iras here 
exactly sui 
woul 28 ly dog on — or y 
ze list below must be consulted m 
in this department. M. S. 
TRIALS. T 
machines took place upon a field of uple and meadow 
- the bottom 
d-bourd, skim 
fic 
—.— catt 
MÀ yin each | f 
ery poor work; G 
eavy to E this par 
id 
Mowrne Macuryes.—The re of the mowing 
ttom, 
tert one of the most — for machine cutting ; 
to 
rove how 
P 
ing edge 
various circumstances were happily combined to 
EET in the machines if such exis 
ph ras 
len, of New 
the exhibitors ; and Mr. illiam Har 
dlesham, near Stonham, eco o combined reaping — 
mowi ng ma achine The only machines that 
to it to ved 3 
| Each machine Red about two acres of meadow 
y 
` | field ove 
ra 
passed over, This Burgess ey's machine did i 
irst-rate style; i nearly as well as where 
rass had not been trodden. Wood's being — to 
B. & Ks 
cope with this er, the judge aske 
r Mr. Cranston, and so EE 8 
Mey lis v work. ished all en abont Pes 
finishé 
roller had n 
where the rol 
— Grass 
m cut it with the scythe, 
itself — a standard implement of the 
essed the performance exeo that 
he Wi 
nough to justify their use on a thick bottom Grassed 
— A the c inch is the most aleile of the 
| whole, and averaging from 4 to 5 cwis. of the best hay. 
PET] 
TUESDAY: July 12.—Hravx Lanp T 
— - lace to-day. 
ul ughing.—In the fie aps adjoining the mower trial 
ada to teen referenc 
both of these —— vk be useful ids to the 
farmer when mowers could not 
work at a moderate pr 
al that the difficulties to ^ra 
e in combining a Sef and mowing 
are e almost too great to be surmounted without — 
E poses. P. L. í 
ing its value for both pw 
Merton July 13.—The Cattle 
curves of the lighter, i better polished e is made below, the general pur- 
— implements. no doubt on the|pose ploughs and strong ‘Mind ploughs were tried, so 
re of er draught — "quality of work or cost of|soil the strongest we have ever had these trials o 
5 5 which the palm is due. The Scotch before. The competition was as usual pretty lose | 
at rest lies over on its mould-board, the side between the ol ndards — Howar reduc 
pe if held i in that position when at work lies —— Busby, and Ball. But the , well- known firm 
land and d he furrow, and the slice it | Hornsby & Sons, of Grantham ith 
not rectangular but that edge which, a plough which appears to o. taken ie judges by 
: 5; the who i has | surprise. These ploughs hs break the land up a pieces 
erefore to.be shifted later: fore it can be pasos s iui heal d yot resem resemble them in laying the a C 
— hat rerit. Bat the — re ers Gier 45 dap it ot being data pe cde 
be ition angleof 45 ae not to tell whether the 
in which it zs. — 2 E farrow has been Mene the right or left. It is very 
is then no k Mora the that now ie on the eve of going into culti 
slice is cut is no kag a pai 2 if 2 moved earth vation by So ait of making ploughs n; 
_ off it = a fi with the best principle should be still a doubtful questio 
"n nding to the he path "taken the point | Certainly the elap-trap tale of every soil oe 
; and h = low of of quality | | partic inei plough has at 
poc ila But, DAYS a a deficient quality in | tical answer; Mr. Hornsby’s gg r Sing e 
the won ofthe Scotch pi hs has not ie oe suis) tally ee DM sorts of land. We E. 
for to-day € the | Mr. Amos was taking the amount of 
y: crooked fervet en odio and|by the various epe It was he A XE tel 
every defect, th that ean be — are the soit of | Society in 1848 wit 3 
the — 4. badly or ba ,|the power uired by a yw Ot our ur, Implements er 
on being — agi . Most machines with anything "ike pretens 
of ER ital. even a therefore the 3 of our advances Ves "E qe d 
EU then an race 
badly held, 
have vt. much better work—little good appears to, seeing that the power required is the 
great elemen 
