sss THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. [Jorr 14, 1800, 
f 5s. 2 
s pe hg “si andadi in os the cases. 
18 cwt. of coal; 
d. per acre, every source | was at the rate of 11 acres ina da ay o of ai hours, with 
the expenses, with 2 men and 2 
homas Beard, towe, near Bucking- | boys and an ates man for various purposes, are 42s. 
hai Et is igri genious finale who exhibits the amd per day, or 3s. 10d. per acre; add 20 per ae n on 
a oa which has been working on his own occu- | the prime cost, with a yards of see ee “ys >. 
pation. The system is seme ths — kez pe [ea 15s. — y, and the total outlay is a day, o 
; ng laid ou 
gant t — ie cena: anchored "We inaltide the wear and tear and interest in Hi a 
snatch-blocks at the corners at the ends of the | of 20 per cent. for 200 days in a year; and thus 5s. $ 
work; a double-furro h is used in plough per acre is v eih it would cost to plough by s = 
ridge or h, the rope being unhooked at each end, | work w acre. he farmer must no 
rth 12s. per 
e | reckon ating for wear and 
have at least half a doz 
e ni 
tear, &c., cee A > will 
< the e antil the Wheat ero a 
Jan d farmers, ther efore, the relative adva; antage 
| steam cultivation as regards cost is greater than We eiam 
put it, and its relative “advantage as regards ra p 
work is also undoubtedly more obvious and u 
tionable. 
The res xl oe the ahte keg absurd] 
light Rye a very wise postponement A 
for the scythe and sickle; and the ju ar hara 
enough on make a selection ue hree machines # 
this final. contest, ich, it must be remarked, ig 
| local affair, and not part of the Society's pr rme, 
The three machines are Burgess & Key’s M 
spy ete m swath; I 
g = a ith the pk en fewer : haliit ain in 
fae. pdrtable ce ae any implement may remot and thus the saving of Porn a your vel acai 
be hauled instead. e engine stationary at pes all si y ae l for repairs, a ste: 
he plot to be cultivated, and a e | capital, ¢ 
et abel we indin; is attached to | for 3s. 10d. per acre, hii “st horses it would ¢ cost fae. 
the end of the engine, and drive n by an endless ayran Or n the tremendously A i Beri ieran cad the T 
chain from the crank-shaft. This is an t| plough; Some 
patented some time ago by Mr. Wi Mams es ja faker 10 inche s by 7, was no lt than 12 er Kite t 
are guided in their ca by a backward i "Torwar d| | the steam- a had to ascend and descend a long 
screw motion, similar the one rhy ae by M: of s y a sur sitet s level 
assey. There is ingenuity i in the contrivances shown ; 
but oe pa a night ad low- set e ue 
there is mech R m the om 
pms tie ps ell see pos 
than 2 mee diameter, ‘the seer block sheaves are only | 
18 inches diameter, 
wet ien nt vst ‘tr. B ascertai 
o be 1 in 43, Mr. 
in 4, 
Fowler. 
of 11-16ths of an acre 
All, >, 
HHH t 
ne 
ploughed 1% acre at the 
r in or 6h Ee per 
Co.’s recent improve eer i of the Champion 5 Dray and and 
which the cutters and platform are placed facet ey, in 
he platform curved, so that ler bask, 
t 
more easily deliver the cut corn in unches Wien ind the 
ck 
of the h 
and the one-horse machine of Messrs. Cuth 
Newton-le-Willows, Yorkshire. ater, of 
athbert? oping 
ay. 
man on the i 
toda 
a 63- inch pinion and a i pitch-chain. _ The 8-horse double- | 
: Rickett, of Buck 
ingham, was evidently c out of order ; the small | consump- 
this, Fhe > ploughing for Et ‘Mone. and 28 minutes was sat 
he 4 of 10 hours, with 5} ¢ 
y hors 
f ion and taking py a 1s. per cwt, the wages ene | 
4 men aus boys, the beste y pw oil or Ke., 
10d. 
mplem 
6s. 6d. per acre ; aad abe 20 per “centage or 15s., an mite 
8s. 9d. per acre, Farmers 
present differed in Min thee ext estimate of the value of the he e:m 
work, some setting it at 24s. Li 
seeing that 6 — paa be required to do 4 to $ of | knives are more acute in form; the fi 
d tak emt vot vente s datum of 6d, | 
| per ewt., , We get 24s. as bere i 
e-power; but Preh eo ought to be set | 
higher than hèbiasò the 6d. per ewt. refers to 2| kni 
ckward, ads a eatved piece can be 
achin worked the 
Bia s, and ‘the ped EEN “Piston e 
ba 
to the back of the platform for ietin “ae 
rak i í 
ves op 
or 3 horse plou ughing, whereas a team of 6 horsës at C point, so that the self-clearing from weed, 
c 
come to 32s. per day, or 9s. ge, and 
20 per oo oont on the cost price (with 900 econ of steel | per wien is probably ne nearer ue value of this 
rope) 356/., for 200 ca ina rm or 7s. per-day, the ect ork. The steam son ad it fo r 8s. 9d., 
As far as hauli ing p 
must still be “aed than half the 
r is concerned, it is clear then 
e 
| that the steam merc ad is is universally superior to animal | 
as 
were hóll oh . The: cutters are hung at ve = 
h wand The 
dividing iron aiso net elongated than in other 
Berges: This ai remarkably efficient aud 
certainly a ly 
sae Pee Eni a machi and its per formances in hear} 
ed lodged Rida are highly attested by long use and 
power, and that “the ertions of om who have M an Wood’s r eaper is well known. The | 
Maren 6%} tons without the water or pe. hitherto. denied the ote ibility of working plow ughs manner of raking off by hand is well arranged; the 
For For teeing it is self-locomotive, with a horse to | es ana —_ oer by steam power, are utterly | lever m ent for raising or de i 
ploughing for was at the rate of | groundless ality of the work, we|is ready to hand n e qu very 
ah deg with about 9 cwt. of coal. e | have never s “om demi ploughs, either < Fowler or |and clean. ‘The knives are 8 in es long, 4 inches 
expenses, e about 36s. si € er, seas such gaa a e Fowlers, in- | apart, have a 3ł inch range sof vibration a ar the crank — 
see paeeee hak per centage on the | deed, was as straight an ae ii lass hi y fo 
aa HE ek sale) 06 1a work, hime tne Seiad with the d | Cranston’s new naen. z 
windi lasses, 
way, and traversing from end to anol f the field. Two 
3- sion Fowler’s ploughs were used, but excepting for 
ploughin g a land or stetch there is no saving of ro 
ia way a on eraser e or on e passing each other mia | to his o. otini yi gh ridge or or 
the up 
pe. 
ores ploughing however, if oo implements travel | apparatus on this strong ae a vs fe a aeai short, | d 
of i , ‘vin 
ner 
‘of the mould-b: 
Patines apparatus poo ac two atl superb ; and l Cantor also broke up the mr in 
we nn also trenches with a Co t- 
ed desired, 
-Turnip or Potato plantin Pa 
The amount of work performed by Mr. Chandler’s 
from end to end, only half the lengt 
Onee, as compared with that required by Mr. Fowl 
but time is lost in shifting the ploughs to another 
groun one work has 
“mechanism,” but the 
| simplicity as, for clerverness. A slit is made round all 
inter A aim, or for 
dlasses with their engi 
other. win 
motive, without horses, „Unfortunately Mr. Eddington 
double cylinder engines did not arrive in tiere è, 
are much below the e point | st 
his new 
so that the results in his case 
for the onwar 
a 5-feet drum vò V 
indin rubber 9 ‘springs for Soong 
p the rope, 
slipping of the paitane u 
with all the force of this | Powe érful engine; the lar, 
ae peo ébe mee 5 broad felloes able 5 
vel fart ads ith a horse for steering, though 
The t 
th alar 
value can ms sind to a 
prai would eve: 
naa E 
Leable, though perhaps an 
for applying Mr. Halkett 
great 
rmanent ou 
2 the good lea 
has only one dram for takin up tho slack; a self- 
acting bent bi underneath throbs out the left x sh 
into the proper track for the return conrse, and t 
ploughs can es set to any width of furrow from 9} tc 
# inches wide; the rope r 
x e inch; 
ely worked up to a much higher pressure ; 
these trials (when the — engines also 
do SPs age 
Ibs, of coal burnt 
force of more than 
excellent merit, and thou 
d Thursday inspecte re 1e 
and sart other steam-tillage machines, 
mi 
c ite rardi 
nd while re eset a tillage eA A in e 
m ane value. 
TE The work done by Fowler’s and Chandler’s poroa 
ground on 
order t 
dea may = gleaned from it 
s advantages without. his 
(piate the purpose. The of 
take causes the Pa ‘across the pl 
form from side t side, ane k ‘the bunch 
Ps teh. 
eae 
‘bac 1 
collected, and deposit it on the ground oi T 
bunch made in the light crop ex 
t 
Mr. Romaine exhibite a model of his rotary: steam- | v 
culti: manufactured ured by Messrs. B 
ng the week has been of 
nds of visitors on Woannting 
perfor mances of th hese 
tid LFO ani. 
‘lift a fallen crop, ready to be delivered by Leonia 
the Aitona e-delivery reaper of Mr. Hellard, 
Lorton aan ‘knives, the bottom set fixe 
other vibrating above t them w 
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web. There is a moveable stop of compound 
lever action, for allowing to dha tees to collet ~ 
upon the web in bunches, which are ‘intermitt 
released for delivery by means of a ley j k 
¢ ing w Pre 
marks, that in taking 6d. 
D | per cwt. Fras ar ale as re cont of horse e-labow ar, in 
atters hav. th ano 
rte three ateheiiien or four to six cuts for each front 
that of ordinary plonghing, bpa 
steam-plough in every case bat that of fonie or 
even li 
ight “land farming 
e-labour is aia ruit 
ors gr 
are and revo- | om lighter lands, 
beca 
the formi a a latte er be the propor 
the work a rae yet sie individual cost 
i ‘inode mene of 
| advance— -the fij icker spe H ‘for Grass è 
erari t the cutters aro driven by abl 
On oe, farms the cost of | 
koik done than itis 
pe 
i febdihior fu number of horses 
the cla 
Oridentiy i is Amn 
sh nome ‘and the e: 
e greater in pri tion 
The 
ther ere isa “ Aka A wheel following and support, 
ing the machine behind and underneath the middle of i 
the sloping platforurs and by a screw motion | the pi 
sh i ape sr 2 
a 
df keping |; 
aek f horses “good” m keta ioiii. For clay 
an round is quite ‘edad nat dose ao 
ofertas ap may wi watki 29 7 
