On the Agricultural Improvements of Lincolnsliirc. 305 
quest by throe Berkshire fanners living near Farringdon. Mr. 
I'^dniuuds, who has lately introduced one-horse carts, and Mr. 
Brookes, who employs the light Berkshire waggon, agreed to 
compare the quantity of wheat carried by them from two fields of 
similar crop, along the same kind of road, to their homesteads. 
The result appears in the following table : — 
Acres of 
Driving Time. Distance in , Wheat 
lads. b. m. Furlongs. Horses, cleared. 
Mr. Brooks 3 waggons 2 4 50 5 7 5 
Mr. Edmunds 4 carts 3 5 0 4| 4 9 
The crop carried with waggons was a little thicker upon the 
land than the other, but not so much so as to make much differ- 
ence in the trial. It was necessary also to try the one-horse 
system in the other branch of farm- carriage, the carting of dung. 
This was done by Mr. Harris, of Hinton. One day he led the 
dung with his own three-horse carts ; the next day he led it to 
the same field with the one-horse carts of Mr. Edmunds. The 
strength employed was as follows : — 
Carts. Driving lads. Horses. 
Three-horse carts 4 3 10 
One-horse carts 5 4 5 
Though the horses on the first day doubled those on the second 
in number, Mr. Harris carried nearly or quite as much dung on 
the second day as on the first. These two trials seem decisive in 
favour of one-horse carts, which are used not in the North 
alone but in Bedfordshire and neighbouring districts ; and as a 
cart with a moveable harvest-rail may be bought for 13/., I have 
now no longer any doubt that, unless on very deep land, if a 
farmer Avill part with all his waggons and heavy dung-carts, buy- 
ing a complete set of light one-horse carts in their room, he will 
be quickly repaid by the large immediate saving in horse-keep. 
Again, though the farm-buildings of Lincolnshire are excellent, 
I was sorry in some of the yards to see the numerous cattle stand- 
ing shelterless in the midst of a snow-storm. These yards should 
at once be furnished with sheds, for the beast's sake and his 
master's. One more improvement only I will beg to suggest. 
After passing through north Northumberland or East Lothian, 
one misses in Lincolnshire the high steam-engine chimney which 
in those districts towers over every farm-house, and though tra- 
velling steam-threshing machines are partially used in Lincoln- 
shire, the large farms at least should, I think, have a fixed one. 
A steam-engine has been already set up on Mr. Uppleby's farm 
at Wootton, of which his relative, Mr. Graburn, gives the following 
account : — 
" The disc-engine exceeds our expectation in every respect ; it is 
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