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Practical Opinions on the Effect 
have doubted the practicability of Mr. Stace's scheme of growing 
tares, &c., after a fed crop of trefoil and rye-grass; nor have 
thought it indispensably necessary to sow early on a pulverized 
soil, and not on a fresh-broken-up ley, from which sheep had just 
been removed. 
I am quite aware that by the " old," and what may now be 
truly called the barbarous system of forcincj heavy lands by harrow- 
ing and rolling fresh after the plough, a mass of livery clod is pro- 
duced, and a state of land which, as the wi-iter says, "is fit for 
anything rather than the reception of seed ;" but by what I shall 
call the new system of first ploughing the land and letting it remain 
untouched either with roll or harrow till thoroughly dry, and then 
pulverizing it with the clod-crusher, it would upon the arrival of 
KENT, MIDDLESEX. SURREY, 
Query 1 — Crushing Clods. 
Query 2 — Strong Lands. 
Col . T. ArsTEN, 
Kippington, Seven Oaks, 
Kent. 
I used your clod-cruslier last year in pre- 
paring my land for mangold wurzel and 
.Swede turnips, and but for your clod-crusher 
I should and must have lost my season for 
sowing ; as it was, I never liad a l)etter crop, 
which I attribute in a great measure to the 
efficient manner in which the ground was pul- 
verized by your roller for the reception of the 
seed. I may safely and conscientiously assert, 
that among all the improvements in our agri- 
cultural machinery, I know none that sur- 
passes your clod-crusher roller. 
It is equally successful in roll- 
ing corn after it has been sown, 
more especially in srimc of our 
dry springs, where I could, after 
the corn was grown up, see how 
far to a nicety the roller had 
gone. 
Thos. Flight, 
Laycock's Dairy, 
Islington, Middlesex. 
I am hajipy to &y that I have used your clod-crusher in the Isle of Sheppey 
with great satisfaction, and have recommended it to my brother-farmers on the 
island, who, I have no doubt, will patronize it also, as they arc equally pleased 
with it. 
J. M. Beoadwood, 
Lyne, near Dorking, 
Surrey. 
My land is a stiff clay loam, which when ploughed wet breaks up in clods, 
that when dry become so hard as to defy the attempts of the iiarrow and com- 
mon iron roller to reduce them. Your clod-crusher accomplishes this fully. I 
have this morning seen it reduce to a friable sUite an oat ash field broken up since 
harvest, which, but for the operation of your clod-crusher, would not have fur- 
nished grit enough to have covered the seed. For all fallows I think your 
clod-ciusher is invaluable. 
G. Maitland, 
East Grinstead, 
Harttield, Sussex. 
I am quite satisfied with yovir clod-crusher, 
and it is much approved of by all my friends 
here. It pulverizes much more elTectually 
than any other implement, rendering the sur- 
face in a proper state for drilling in tlie seed. 
The use of the clod-crusher is 
always beneficial when the land 
is dry. In my opinion it is a 
very valuable implement upon 
our stiff soils. 
William Walton, 
Merdon Farm, Hursley, 
Winchester, Hante. 
In the spring of 1842, 1 had 24 acres of 
swedes all eaten off by sheep in wet w eather 
upon strong land. It ploughed up in lumps 
as big as horses' heads; without the clod- 
crusher I could not have got the land fine 
enough I'or barley. I grew 7 quarters of fine 
malting barley per acre. Several'of my neigh- 
bours, who were in the same situation, had not 
a crusher, .and grew 2 to 3 quarters of their 
barley per acre. 
Strong land, which is too rough 
or cloddy to be sown with wheat, 
should lie rolled with your clod- 
crusher previous to the last 
ploughing. It is invaluable in 
the spring, and saves a great deal 
of labour, in rolling and harrow- 
ing, to get the land «ufficiently 
fine for barley-seeds an 1 turnips. 
G. Jennings, 
Dover, Kent. 
It answers well for strong and light soils. 
Very valuable for crushing clods. 
