576 Practical Opinions on the Effect 
DERBY, LEICESTER, WARWICK, GLOUCESTER, 
Query 1 — Ciushing Clods. 
Query 2 — Strong Lands. 
S. Johnson, 
Somersall, Chesterfield. 
I have used your clod-oruslier for several 
years, and have found it of the greatest pos- 
sible benefit. In regard to the questions con- 
tained in your Circular, Nos. 1, 2, 3. and S, 
iu all which 1 have tried your elod-crusher, 
I found it most invaluable. 
Henry Wood, 
Cropston, 
near Mouutsorrel, 
Leicestershire. 
I have great pleasure in conveying to you 
my experience of the clod-crusher, which I 
was induced to order of you last year, after 
the loan of my neighbour's, Henry Paget, 
Esq., of Bristol. I deem the implement in- 
valuable on all lands subject to stick in 
ploughing, and which are iucapab'e of pulver- 
izing in parching dry seasons. I first used it. 
and succeeded in reducing a seven-acre close 
to a barley tilth in one day. 
I have this year rolled all my 
wheats w ith it in the spring, and 
with decided advantage. 
N.B. In the present very de- 
pressed state of agriculture, land- 
lords could not confer a greater 
benefit on their tenantry than by 
keeping implements, like the 
one io question, for the common 
use of the occupiers of ihcit 
land. 
R. FULSHAW, 
Knighton, 
Leicestershire. 
I have great pleasure in answering your 
questions respecting your patent clod-crusher, 
having tried it in all several times, and find it 
answer remarkably well. 
J. B. Bl'SHEL, 
Colesliill, 
Warwickshire. 
No implement ever came under my eye 
equal to it for this purpose. 
J. B. Massev, 
Buntiiigford, 
Herts. 
It answers remarkably well. 
It exceeds my most sanguine 
expcrtatiiins. 
William Thomas, 
SoihvcU, 
Gloucestershire. 
Very valuable. 
More suitable than any other 
implement. 
Norfolk. 
Thorpe AhholVs Hall, near Scale, 
September 12lh, 1843. 
Sir, — As touching your question relative to the "advantages 
resulting from the use of the patent clod-crusher upon my farm 
in one year more than if I had not had a crusher/' I beg 
distinctly to state that I have been benefited to an extraordinary 
extent, both as regards the preservation of wheat from the ravages 
of the tcireworm, and in the production of root-crops. I believe I 
was the first to introduce it into the county of Norfolk, and at first 
was much ridiculed when I wished to exhibit it at a neighbouring 
agricultural meeting. But it was not long before I was enabled 
to produce one of the finest beet-crops ever grown, and that too 
whilst many of the heavy land-fallows in the neighbourhood exhi- 
bited an almost total failure. For on the following spring the 
weather proving remarkably dry, and the late-broken fallow lands 
being extremely rough, I went to work with the crusher, rolling 
it twice over 1 1 acres of 30-inch ridge-work, upon which the mass 
of dry clods had previously been thrown by a double-breasted 
plough, and with the kind aid of a light rain which followed, tlie 
