104 On the Economical Manufactory of Draining -Tiles, 8fc. 



case, the arrangement adopted by Mr. Denison and Mr. Beart 

 must be the best, namely, to pay for the tiles delivered, — in fact, 

 to employ their labourers, in this department, by piecework. 

 There is a slight discrepance in Mr. Beart's statement as to the 

 price of coals : I will therefore take the lowest price he has stated 

 for coals (20s.), and the highest for tiles (225.), in order that the 

 reduction of cost may be underrated rather than be exaggerated : — 





Making the Tiles 





Price of Coals, 



at the Proprietor's 



Selling Price, 



per ton. 



Yard, per 1000. 



per 1000. 



s. d. 



s. 



s. 



6 0 



11 



18 



9 6 



12 



19 



13 0 



13 



20 



16 6 



14 



21 



20 0 



15 



22 



23 6 



16 



23 



27 0 



17 



24. 



30 6 



18 



25 



This is certainly a great reduction, but it appears to be prac- 

 ticable. If it can be effected, no one thing would be more 

 advantageous to English husbandry. 



Ph. Pusey. 



yiVW,— Trials on the Draught of Ploughs, By Trelawny 

 Freeman, Esq. 



To Ph. Pusey, Esq. 

 Sir, — I SEND you an account of some trials I have made on the 

 respective qualities of two ploughs made by Messrs. Plart and 

 Ransome, as compared with those used in this county, and also 

 with each other ; and I have the more pleasure in doing so, as it 

 was from reading your paper in the ^ Journal of the Royal Agri- 

 cultural Society' that I was first led to interest myself in the 

 subject, for you have clearly proved that the same quantity of 

 work may be better done by two horses with some ploughs than 

 by three with others ; and I conjectured, from the appearance of 

 ours, that we used a great deal more horse-power than was ne- 

 cessary. The ploughs either have the improved Scotch mduldboard, 

 which gives them rather a narrow breast, and curves out con- 

 siderably behind, but with a thick narrow share and no wheel, 

 or are fuller in the breast, have less expansion behind, and are 

 also without a wheel. The very small farmers employ a light 

 but clumsy implement, called the old Welsh plough, which has 

 scarcely any iron about it but the coulter, a narrow share, and a 

 band forming its very long sole-piece. The first trial was be- 

 tween these and one of Hart's : the ground selected was an oaten 



