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THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, 
experimen’ ental | gar arden, which was thinly sown in| 
drills of about 7 inches apart. 
2 ms Te — 
0 
112 lbs. 
s: = notice cha taken 
tion "- 1 ewt. of co 
| shall pee. » the result the 8 of time duri 
of coal vit pue a ae ea k to that of 
It i of simple division 
r^ oda uce 
na the 2 time oceupied in 
vi 
nd finally dis- 
the engine h 
— at of one e hor 
| — comes another infinitesimal 
[Averg 13 aa 
ents, then PST i 
minutes or 80 Proms. 
wards for.a few mome 
goes s moothly on; 
fireman's anxious fac , as he 
and rakes h his ; fu 3 
wind OW, el sm 
standard, an nd the fiction break i is s the me mea ins by 
r 
are 8 upon rh the eir success Sep vil 
much 
be no difficult matter to apply it witl ith ¢ anc 
The word concentrated 
tures of this kind is a serious misnom er, = or th 
that can be said i s that there i is reason to 
N 
valve d 3 pon e 
pandas sheet nailed to the 25 beside which hangs 
ably 3 e 1 the 1 
F 
and nutritious in 
igher 
ity it is as Sacs more > digestible 
e occu upied | in getting up 
Gen 
e is off, the ERE compel ling her to lift 
d the “trial” has fairly 
. — look at that Tittle — of coal beside the 
l pe e power | tage o 
per hour - each — der requires, the owe in 
re 
Half anh 
UT asses 25 
series of " etitions of all 
seems but little — of ELTE 
and you € nder 
Another 1 ind. 
SS begun. 
RACING BY STEAM. — a most scanty mors seems; very en ene — a secon 
Ler me describe, as nearly as I can, what I saw at | has to be exhausted an every inge nuity eap is indeed vy ad E. 
my friend s to, to make that little scuttleful of quis n or be Tong as as In the interest of thi s 
In a large and convenient building to which I was ible. She runs steadily along for 15 yum 
there s ew beautiful steam. | t! di 
pm eai these having been eompleted a few days| of aslight fall in the pressure of the steam; ; more ges & husband ire 
* previously in the shops, had been removed to this must go on the fire, Now if you imagine that our an hour go 
* Experimental Shed," as it was called, where they now till; anothe 
awaited the trial of x. capabilities. As the method on pa oal by the shovel you are thi mistaken, but a E remaining. A 
of trial in each case was precisely € I shall speak | He first peeps through a small tale window about 2 fully r 
of the — made upon o hem, which inches i in diameter, set like s an eye in nthe furnace Gi pian BS like gold. 
may stand as the type of — he The boile —.— lens — fire is thinnest, opens a tiny circular | fire through the little window, and a 
was first filled with water tly laid r im ately below the eye aforesaid, an with a ft lling hand steal 
e buildi or this . séhe engine was Misi hooked U pricken " gently s spreads the fuel — over to the pump and st 
— oiled std cleaned down. A pair of scales | the fire bar en, in an Lewis of about the big- | of more water now, and it will give him 
stand by the wall of the shed; in these are "wed ness of a goo zed tablespoon, he takes a supply of | more to li 
m scil of wood i then 1 E Ae Welsh e oal, | coals and—he: E esto—in the twinkling of an eye, | 15 minutes more; in all, three hours and 
The stoker (a unty cap, while we are lost in astonishment at the — of starting. a 
with wondi ally w white ha "hands fo or his cling) takes his the dose abou o be admi inister As eu fire door is|and quietly, as first, 
ing first broken the latter | opened tl bited," and the | work, and holds now his int igh i. 
into ‘pieces about 1 sue of a walnut, bandlin ng each door closed with a elite.” all with the pa eel of | the next fall of the stea 
atom e wid t were a thin ng of priceless value, light; in goes the hooked * pricker ” id through 155 and «es is no mor 
Of the little circular door, spreading the fuel e . and he The “pricker“ i 
"WIR he io displays in Nt as well as firing, “15 minutes to first firing "— 2 good fragment of cinder is thrown in at the 
— coiere — Mean- ind e hand of the pressure gauge gins | now, watch in hand, w 
8 ction-break," is adjusted | moving upwards again, and is — 5 crawling —— the last time up the dial, — mo 
E of the — the appointed 45 lbs. per squar — lower and low! 
Dom sinter n explanation of the is closed in a m — nd s combustion slightly | s till she runs, iting her weight an 
uses of this eges em oe checked. But the water in te 3 ies ing lower | tho weight s to 
í j y caused : ; to | and lower; it is time to put the pump w 45! 46! 47! — 4 Stop her 
some 3 ave 8 the It is 2 * and you are wan 
“trial Ae attached; nig rito cket, | ex citeme: and rapier = e 
r yd is dm. — — cold water, na kept 
iE f the mitted, and the SE there’ — so terribly pre id foe 
pte ovrt mien nh pm T Pu woth woul bo speed e 1 
which of thi e (dd ted 4 mn. 
si i : given 5 Y TH of work 1 — the poles after « a few e Patte th divert d E u ber old are 7 not a bea 
| supply as rts a was — 
ur rem m 
— . 'enerall 
— Now a “horse F y 
er^ is only | w 
certain 
15 in 1 
im engine able 
minute is of one-horse power. 
topes is an instr m 
and the pump is 
Vw 
heated —.— vili the boiler, d f 
og suffice to show the cooling ilen en 3 to indicate | 
opened; the needle crawls weakly 
33 P. — this feed vilis 
arm though i with the 
t, and to indicate 2 the 
ere the steam is ick 
Again the steam falls, sa again 
and uncertainly | i 
à tient ts 
Then 
hin t 
the eee vac 
he da h 
me lunch." 
we were 
and bitter eee 
detailed memoranda of 
grimed and silent fireman 
ee ME and 7 stein young 
nd Bolt, who, 
for the work, — pues happy to 
and fire for experimen 
“Well, James,” said Plummer,“ 
tim. run with one c of coal? 
ee hours 47 m 
? said Ji 
say we — get another five minutes out 
— ei EID PROSPECTS, 
: TS * ON THE 9m OF AUGUST. 
å EHE. sok eae 
* 
ES d ER. Lok UR. HARVEST 
3 I poem | maxon. | porarors. | PASTURE. GENERAL, 
SCOTLA à — — i 
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LLL i - A 
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BANFF ac Thin and not wet Ball's erop good Light : Pro ià ES Da edite | 
ABERDEEN N. i 2 | Scorch : 
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| ed ery — Fair very bad 
Duet = ^ md e. Half a creep Un promising very gocd Fair 
— | Under average Under average Indifferent Promi 
dna | Hardly av average Under average, Over average Overaversge Un Mv Ba RE 3 i r average 
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