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prove ment for hilly roads ; but where roads are generally level, 

 the extra weight to be carried about would be more expensive 

 than the occasional advantage would be worth. We would also 

 recommend a pole, as used in Yorkshire, this method being superior 

 to double shafts, which are too confining, and expose the horses to 

 a great deal of jostling that with a pole they would avoid. They 

 would also escape the burden of the heavy harness which is re- 

 quired to enable them to carry the weight of the shafts. 



" Perhaps we may now be allowed to make a few remarks 

 on the advantage of lightening wheel-carriages for agricultural 

 purposes. We have found that a good cart with wheels 4 J feet 

 high, with hoop-tire 3 inches by § of an inch, will, if properly 

 cared for, last until it has travelled over greatly above 12,000 

 miles in road and farm work. Now, if we take the cost of a 

 horse at 2s. (yd. per day, and the carter at Is. (as he will 

 attend to and drive two horses), making 3s. 6d. altogether, and if 

 we further assume that 20 miles per day is a fair day^ work, 

 drawing 1 ton net material, we find that each cwt. costs about 2d. 

 per day's journey of 20 miles : so that if we reduced the weight of 

 the cart 1 cwt., we could add that amount to the load without in- 

 creasing the work of the horse. In this way we should save 2d. 

 in every day's work; and, as in 12,000 miles there are 600 days' 

 journeys of 20 miles each, if we multiply the 2d. by 600 it gives 

 us 5Z. as the amount saved before the cart is worn out, for every 

 cwt. by which we can reduce the weight of the cart; 1 and even 

 supposing that some additional repairs might be required in a 

 cart of lighter construction than ordinary, there would still be a 

 considerable balance left in favour of using light carts." 



Haymaking Machines (Judges' Report). — "We found that in 

 this class of implements there was practically no competition, as 

 Smith and Co.'s machine, stand 95, article I, was very superior 

 to any of the others in all its parts and performance of work ; in 

 fact, we think it so near perfection that no man need fear buying 

 under the impression that any great improvement will take place 

 in it in future. We regret to say that all the others fall into the 

 shade when brought into competition with it, yet we hope that 

 others will, after another year's application, be able to give Mr. 

 Smith a closer run for the prize." 



Gorse- Bruisers (Judges* Report). — " In this class there were 

 only two machines, That made by Mr. Charles Burrell (Stand 

 13, Article 11) did its work exceedingly well, but slow, viz. at the 

 rate of 3 cwt. per hour. The trial was interrupted by the giving 

 way of the leverage used for pressing the rollers together, in con- 

 sequence of the owner having imprudently put extra weight on so 

 as to reduce the gorse to a proper state at one operation, which it 

 failed to do, the gorse being too old. With two-year old gorse, 



