are to be taken as tru of the 
to ‘be | place and civiunbdtancet “of the Pontefract trial. 
si 
in 
taken, and the result in ou opin 
jati 
THE GARDENERS CF RONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
and it is plain that t the tyi tying Ganda pe tangy E up should 
mply o time and | 
[Aveusr 4, 1860. 
had no alternative but to decide 
had themselves 
ion proves as 
uch against judgments of short trials on à ew 
tare 
è judges 
ing to the records we ey h 
ke P 
vantage of its use. 
No 
e the full ad- 
wr which Mr. FOWLER here competed. 
There was.a good trial of mowing machines, 
first 
tains ret ty. and CRANSTON receiv prize, ae? Th, 0 
Show. The trials of | BURGE cae EY the second; the former) asin ordinary reaping t e same with BELS 
steam- ieme ma > being of too | being per, lighter, simpler, doing | or CUTHBERT’S or i, te hie When this has 
ba a Saarion and also the absence | the Sork a ‘est as w well as the other. The ias been clearly ascer si Be ya è hir market value or 
: the of 0 ne o T O exem- | was well adapted to machine rice per acre ck aE po y ascertained by 
plified Pe a ropresantative of La anu- | and also to the iA Ša these, the pie | reference to the ep rel rate o rage s iu the par= 
T wë take proper charge of by Asser, of Stamfor Te and Cay ike cad * Fih ; sober oy Gth ke ye ap get k every 
did ver ood wo ork—t ein ike each other i e S machin 
judges acted simply on the ren iot t wonk yg ry sire jen et hn 
YS rea 
to be used, no i Ret 4 "or the á pita en 
many acres could be eut ina day, but doing 
a steady moderate day’s wo be maintained 
t : 
sr ae and Tars the wa priz 
justly claiming riar a ingot of the jessy the 
Hanák. L i 
of the _ Sh ow—the judgments ; in whi 
Pr a ad pit awarded, wie 6 cultivato r not prize was awarded, e—a 
not having su isd gn doing ee rk at less cost Bisten orcs rakes were tried on the o eon Guana AN AGRICULTURAL PILGRIMAGE.—No. VIL 
; ch, in the judgment ofthe val uers | just f a taney ae Ses Gabe 1s- WE ing lately revisited the gle! l 
i it 5 : eee acom- SURTE ak oould rtan kri for so many N rs ¢ rH by the 
ä ith on that modific: tl ‘all’ 
~The following are the details of the steam culti- | act by means of a pressure bar. Mr. Courtas, jun., othon bh which ths nama of this danih lus = 
vation trials :—Fowler’s 4- furrow plough turn ned of apne kin the age of the thes bik given, I send you this report of its present condition, 
ure. bars, an All agricultural readers know that for 15or 16 years f 
of la land, 7} inches deep, in one hour’s time, sey given. commen ce G the position of the British f 
1 ewt. and 79 lbs. of e gals the work was valued a lt òf th inati ned almost desperate, the e clengynian q 
from 8s. to 9s. per acre as perfor at by eek s give a prize list elsewhe wan darefer-|of this paris Sch I ie annually urged upon farmers | 
The avera ge pe weed ae in pang = Kar head- ses is + obot hai to the "The stock departs possibility of growing Wheat more constantly and 
ch, | therefore more dantly and more profitably onall- 
į 
lands was rather r un here were 
h 
17 such turning griešyn littl t 
minute lost in AERA to pid out “slack,” ape 
cost of a day’s work was estimated a 
WS :— 
Labour— 8. d. & d è a. 
Engineer’ SoS . 40 
2 menat plough .. as ~ &-0 
Anchor boy .. a ih zp 
Boy for porterage of chain a @ Wis 
pe 
aw 
Water (1 horse and man) . ú 
— 5 9 16 9 
Half the cost of one a (viz., 
= tn a) of 98 eg e items 
“ide. a ton, de- 
45 6 
One-tenth of this is 4s. 
6d., and 
| car a ~ “of exciteme 
oie Han the e aeann Secretary, and the | 
her os. pees of the Society, may be co ie 
talated on one o Ss ag successful meeti ng 
which they can re 
MLC 
Tue French vege hc trial of re aping 
| machines took place ea nday last a ae 6 
and | d iner 
fitness of bot ie the circumstan 
pe ae get soils of the ty. y. 
It 
5 
ish 3 
Burerss & Kny’s‘‘ MCormicr;” 2d, BELES; 3d, 
UTHBERT’S; 4th, CRANsTon’s ‘¢ Woop.” The 
French exhibitions were oy MAZIER, Se as 
LAURENT, ROBIN, Cournrer, ANNER! 
niran was divido in 
|of which were badly caper 
unripe and altogether un $8 
URGE 
& Kr y’ smachine cut aay, and it ‘wasevident 
rvellous thing that notwithstanding the 
extraordinary pro oductiveness of his land under “ Init 
es elp! amagament, so few attempts have bem 
e to son e his experience elsewhere, and mote 
wondertal ail it seems to me that notwithstanding the 
annually published for carrying owt 
ne oll of those who have attempted to 
EOE teit ould have failed to copy his methods and 
at not eneerindng his renli, f i 
Most astonishing of all, perhaps, it is that "he 
| grow = should Reclare ” Lois. Weedon to illustrate w Aa; 
pr inciple of an y 
f the cost of one removal (viz 
mac oe introduced ye dhe fields this season for 
ra 
than an acre was done, costin Biche ex are Hei its rivals, BuELL’s was a fa ilur ; the horses, | was done at a recent meeting of the Conte Farmes 
i or We a ata oe wed TRS OAI t by | ans pable to work it, broke down, At ‘about half. | Club by a gentleman who is I believe an agri es 
horse-power. “A in = afterno 4 EMPEROR came, and | and who said that what they had seen at Lois- 
‘ other avatem—wusing’ d dultivator: aid machines were tried before him, but only 
double windlass and wire Kik going iai d pelts two succeeded in accomplishing their task before > Consider what the am are. Here is afield w 
at the four corners of the work to be done—the | Me left, viz., Buraxss Ys and Maze E L ee than the zest a 
whole ari re ay oe nary arm locomotive |The EMPEROR Pensi: some considerable time | Parish, now let at ab at ~ ava tni 
exhibite a manner which | With Mr. Mackenzrr, Burerss & Key’s repre- | Paved 1 or 2 inches een doe dan pea uel” 
eral. have Riek satisfactory te its originator. It re apr ae ae The red to take a great interest in | Oats succeeded by Vetchos, both crops being be 
accomplished 140 perches of grubbing, hoses LE Nae bte, A e result of the trial is as | wholly away; the field wn with 
7 inches ti in one hour’s time, using 103 lbs. apes Foreign machines—Ist prize and Grand | Wheat in triple rows 1 foot apart, with 3-feet “aterals 
of edal of | Honour as the best of all the machines ap See the growth* of the ap = the sed- y 
‘The work was valued at less than 3s. 6d. an acre. tied, Burerss & Ke d prize, CUTHBERT; | bed of next year’s triple rows of Whea heir Soot 
A | similar wiin with 6 horses and 2 men would sa prize, — French machines—Ist prize, Dr. int Boils ing the culti ubble a ‘ts 
MAZIER ; no 2d prize awarded ; 3d, LEGENDRE, pe ‘And so, annually, since that time, has a crop, 
ce grubbed” was not good. The average period | Wednesday Was the day of public trial and | Wheat been grown without manure and heen sa ; 
iy sen di hong headlands was more than half exhibition. ee ee thout return. The. 4 
a minute, and ti i c bee bearing under robbery, beginning wit 188%, F: 
tin at : - ORT report of the  baHlend Soait be AH TOOTEGA Pa Ee A RRE E aa in 18583 è 
Se e ARSE OE ig al Bot en a | 
The cost of a day’s work was estimated as he meeting are And one practical farmer who has j ene’ À 
tillom: — fi 1 after 17 years of t uc 
“A „Taboir :— : ; ad å sd & @. ling Short-horn heifers, It ae There is no better Wheat soil in tl omita, ‘ 
ome ee OES 2d and. 34 at | And another practical farmer gets upand says vitais | d 
+ Gae manat cultivator Se, bo o R ; ; en, it seems to me that there is n woe Fy p 
PE E a E CR a the practice here, no principle involved, of any "5è ; 
O AN AANS, i fone” i 
Water (man and horse) oes š r Pelee pone ent on ey Bi wd 7 
poy ee | Tuere will be a very pi number or poda on rae farmer inthe: co as i 
i| 
Hal 
2 hours of Eo the ove Tea 
s: 
3s. 7d. +t ame time of 3 
a1 
additional pnd s. 2 6i 
Coals 1030 lbs. at 14s, a Ha 05 
gettin hei steam (1 hour's 
consum pia oals) 0 74| 
jare of -. “ot repairs and 
interest on 520l, viz., 1-200th t 
£ 1072. 2. i 4 va Ss 0 8 
One-tenth of this ins 9d. and only 7- sins i an 
was done for this so that it cost more by 
adh n by an 
nudéasiond tood, that these 
cen as deseriptive of the 
ordinary experience. They 
| the first time. Any of 
them in use in pee ous s seasons, and who may | field than it does on any other thing wha 
have made a point of observing the number of! To what else Spots fertility 
hands nseni as up = place the corn | owing? The s of plants are lying seati 
fi rape! y r the machine, would do real| just under that surface which tes 
| service who are without that bp earth and air, all over t ‘ound ball the 
eed such information in the co ts through 
ag about the 
arves! Wa we saw in som 
Whe eut by the active and not a sheaf tie 
p; others in various stages of tyi ve tooking 
ter the machine; bu t doubtl at ad 
the corn is not merely severed but ready to stack ; 
eaders who have had 
wilt bi 
of another fortni ght, by communicating the exalt 
observations through the Agricultural 
ow 
during the On the dept: 
geen an Bence field of sper i thus presents depends its w 
d 
freely 
n- | de 
sie o its use must be the expeditii Wi with which eve their ser Sag 
„ The bread of this co unte a ds more on the pe 
i it = depends m well-cativet 
sr at 
bessy miner 
moving ait 
cup 
et he asat 
what does Mr. Smith exhibit To the agricul! ot 
| Lois-Weedon but an illustration of the way ™ 
w. 
ae. 
