on Agricultural Implements. 



longer any necessity for incurring the expense of having waggons or carts 

 expressly for harvest purposes, as tlie ease and quickness with which 

 sinofle-horse carts can be worked more than make up for the additional 

 load carried by waggons. On the whole, the principles of construction 

 of Mr. Basby s cart are considered more correct than those of any other in 

 the Exhibition, and he has made great advances towards the production of 

 a good cart of all work. His cart has therefore received the distinction 

 of being named in the award of the Council medal ; but it should be 

 borne in mind that the medal is awarded to the improved principle of 

 construction, and that it is not intended to stamp this cart as a model in 

 respect of shape, size, and other points of secondary importance, which 

 may be varied to suit the taste or the wants of the purchaser. 



2. Crosskill's wheels are deserving of notice, being made by machinery, 

 and accurately fitted. His operations being conducted on a large scale, 

 he is enabled to furnish them at a moderate price. 



Crosskill's One-horse Cart. 



3. The cart made by the Messrs. Gray, of Uddingston, near Glasgow, 

 has been awarded a medal, though it is considered too high, and that the 

 naves are unnecessarily loaded with iron. The wheels, also, are too 

 much out of the perpendicular, showing that the arms are bent, and their 

 under surfaces not horizontal. As this determines whether the weight of 

 a cart, and consequently of the load, shall rest on a level bed or an 

 inclined plane, it is a point of importance. The deviation in this instance 

 is small ; but as it is a fault which a few years back was almost universal, 

 and was in many cases carried to a very mischievous extent, no oppor- 

 tunity should be lost of calling attention to it wherever it is observed. 

 Having thus pointed out what are considered to be the faults of Mr. Gray's 

 cart (the same may be said of the Scotch carts as a class), it is but justice 

 to him to point out that in many respects it is deserving of great praise. 

 The Scotch iron-work is notoriously excellent, and in Mr. Gray's case it is 

 just what it should be, substantial and well finished, and (with the slight 

 exception above-mentioned) with nothing redundant. It is also due to 

 the Scotch icheelic rights to bear in mind that during the dark ages of English 

 agriculture, when it was scarcely possible to meet icith even a tolerably tcell- 

 raade cart in the central or southern parts of Great Britain, and when there 

 seemed to be a rivalry amongst implement makers which cotdd pile up the 

 largest amount of unnecessary wood and iron in the form of a waggon, the 

 Scotch carts universally retained their compact form and workmanlike charac- 

 ter :; and from being used by improving farmers in various parts of England^ 

 tended very much to originate that reform in carts and waggons tvhich is now 

 making such rapid jjrogress. 



