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quently been found to require less force of draught than lighter 
ones, for an equal weight of soil moved ; but stiffness is not in- 
compatible with lightness, and a diminution in the weight of an 
implement, when perfect action is otherwise secured, must be 
attended with economy of power, or, what is the same thing, with 
a diminution of resistance, whence truer work results. 
It is also important that the stilts or handles should be stiff 
enough to transfer the effort of the holder to the body of a plough, 
with the least expenditure of his strength ; for, the easier its 
guidance, the greater will be the certainty of the labourer's atten- 
iion to his business. This property has also received the care of 
Messrs. Ransome, and, together with the simple means applied 
for adjusting and replacing the mould-boards, shares, and wearing 
parts of the various ploughs exhibited by them, testified to the 
thought and ability bestowed on the most minute details of an 
implement which still maintains its claim to be the most indis- 
pensable, as it was probably the earliest invented, auxiliary to 
human labour in tilling the soil. 
Mr. Howard, of Bedford, again produced his wheel-ploughs, 
so much admired and rewarded at the Bristol Meeting, which 
appeared from their action to have lost nothing of their excellence. 
Mr. Hill, of the Brierley Hill Iron-Works, near Dudley, ex- 
hibited several specimens of Mason's plough with pulverizing 
knives. On trial they were found to effect an amount of com- 
minution which the Judges had scarcely anticipated in a soil of 
such tenacity as that at Rough Heanor. From experience in the 
use of this implement by two of their number since the Bristol 
Meeting, and by accounts received from other agriculturists, the 
expectations expressed in the last Report, of the practical utility 
of this combination, in certain suitable soils, may be considered 
to be in course of realization. 
The stand of Mr. E. D. Falkner, of Fairfield, near Liverpool, 
contained a variety of substantial and well-constructed })loughs, 
by Mr, I*]. Brayton, of Dykesfield, near Carlisle, which acted 
well ; and it was a matter of particular regret to the Judges that 
they were unable to compare the work and draught of a three- 
wheel implement by this maker with others. 
A double-furrow plough, by Messrs. Barrett, Exall, and 
Andrews, of Reading, gave great satisfaction, as also some single 
ploughs by the same firm, especially their one-wheel light-soil 
plough, rewarded at Liverpool. 
The swing-ploughs exhibited by the Earl of Ducie, and manu- 
factured by Mr. Clyburn, were specimens of excellent workman- 
ship and construction, and justified on this occasion the opinion 
formerly given of their merits. The same may be said oi Mr. 
Law's of Shettleston, near Glasgow, of Messrs. Rausonic's, 
