on Agricultural Implements. 



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4. One-horse Carts. 



It is proved beyond question that the Scotch and Northumbrian 

 farmers, by usin^^ one-horse carts, save one hall of the horses 

 which south-country farmers still string on to their three- horse 

 waoforons and three-horse dung-carts, or dung-pots, as they are 

 called. The said three-horse wag-gons and dung-pots would also 

 cost nearly three times as much original outlay. Few, I sup- 

 pose, if anv, farmers huy these expensive luxuries now : though it 

 is wonderful they should keep them ; for last year, at Grantham, 

 in a pubHc trial, Jive horses with five carts were matched against 

 five waggons with ten horses, and the five horses beat the ten by 

 two loads. It appears that some of our one-horse carts, not being 

 well-made, carry the corn less steadily than the waggons ; but this 

 last defence of the primitive waggon is broken down by the 

 curved form which Mr. Busby has given his harvest rails, as is 

 well explained bv Mr. Thompson, of Moat Hall, a high authority 

 on these matters, in the following interesting report : — 



Carts and Waggons. — The Jurors appointed to examine these classes of 

 implements were considerably influenced in their selection by the opinion 

 that really good carts ought to be capable of easy adaptation to all the 

 kinds of work for which agricultural wheel-carriages are required, thus 

 rendering waggons unnecessary. The great majority of carts are, how- 

 ever, ill adapted for harvest work, and this is, no doubt, one reason 

 why such slow progress has been made in substituting: light carts for 

 waggons. It may therefore be useful to mention the leading points which 

 ought to be kept in view in the construction of harvest carts, or harvest 

 frames adapted for common carts. 



When a load of any height, technically termed a top load, is borne upon 

 one pair of wheels instead of two, it is exposed to much more violent 



