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XXXVIII. — Practical Experience in the use of BiddelVs Scari- 

 fier. — By Mr. Henry Case, Secretary of the South Norfolk 

 and North Suffolk Agricultural Association. 



Biddell's Scarifier. 



To the Secretary of the English Agricultural Society. 

 Sir, 



My engagements beyond my common vocation have prevented an 

 earher reply to your inquiries of October the 19th, respecting the 

 use of " Biddell's Scarifier/' and my own application of it, which 

 implement I have used for the last four years in the cultivation of 

 my farm.'^ 



There is such a variety of circumstances which occasion the 

 scarifier to be used, and which determine the different horse- 

 power to be applied on each occasion, that my own method of 

 using it, on strong hilly land (frequently with four horses), will 

 form no criterion for the guidance of a farmer differently circum- 

 stanced. 



* A description of this instrument has ah-eady been given in the Report 

 on tbe Implements exhibited at the Oxford Meeting (Journal, Part II., 

 Appendix, p. Ixv.) 



