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Practical Opinions on the Effect 
LINCOLNSHIRE 
Query 1— Crushing Clods. 
Query 2 — Strong Lands. 
H. Watson, 
Walkeviiijrham. near 
Gainsborough- 
I have had so litlle time to use the clod- 
crusher, that my experience, I think, will 
avail you but littlu. I have found it most 
invaluable for crushing clods. 
J. H. S. Kepwobth, 
Normanljy, by 
Maikel Uasen. 
For crushing clods and breaking up fallotrs 
in a dry season, I consider it the most effective 
implement ever in\ented ; in fact, a piece of 
land belonging to my neighbour, Mr- E. Young, 
could never have been got ready for sowing 
turnips this year, if it had not been for your 
valuable implement; it was baked so hard 
and dry, that a heavy iron-roller had no eflect 
upon It ; he passed the clod-crusher over it 
once, and most effectually pulverized it for 
drilling, and a very tine crop of turnips is the 
result. 
Last year was the first time of 
my using your clod-crusher on 
wheat directly after sowing, I 
used it on a 30-acre field, part of 
which I left imdone, purposely, 
about 5 acres, which I h,id rolled 
with a common roller, and har- 
rowed afterwards with a pair of 
light harrows. From the first 
appearance of the wheat, the 
part rolled with the clod-crusher 
wjis decidedly the best (and 
many people who rode past the 
field remarked it, and inquired 
of me the reason) u\) to the time 
of going into ear. when the differ- 
ence was then not so goo<l to see, 
but I fancy since cut there ap- 
pears to be a greater bulk of 
straw where it was rolled with 
the clod-crusher. 
Thomas Dixon, 
OsgoJby, by 
Market Rasen. 
I consider the clod-crusher extremely useful 
on clay-lands, and when a farmer is anxious 
to obtain a turnip c rop on strong land, he 
ought not to be without one; as, iu some 
seasons, it is impossible to get strong land 
properly worked or fine enough for turnip- 
seed ; and be the season ever so dry, the clod- 
crusher, by passing two or three times over 
the clods, will reduce them, I may say, to 
powder. I left my farm at I«ley last May- 
day, and am at pre-ent out of the farming 
business. At my sale last May-day. the 
crusher was sold within 30s. of its cost, after 1 
had used it four or five years, which fully 
proves the estimation it was held in. 
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE 
The Duke of Portland, 
Welbeck Abbey, 
Worksop. 
Perfect. 
J. D. Cl.ARK, 
Barnljy Moor, 
East Retford. 
I am happy to say I have one of your pa- 
tent clod-crushers, and have found it the most 
valuable implement I ever saw in breaking 
up the clods on strong clay lands. 
Mr. John Noton, 
Bailiff to 
R. Arkwrioht, Esq., 
of Sutten Hall, Derbysh. 
We have found it answer upon strong fal- 
lows better than any other implement. 
S. S. Short, 
Kingsey, by Tu.\ford. 
I have tried the clod-crusher upon strong 
clay soil- For instance, I had a field of tur- 
nips which were eaten off when it was wet; 
it was ploughed up, and baked very dry ; had 
it not been for your crusher, I should not have 
got it sown with barley. 
I h.ave used it for rolling wheat 
in the spring, and found it an- 
swer very well. I consider it a 
very useful implement. 
