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ways. Fig. 10 is a view of tlic andior, showino; the arrangement by wliicli, 
upon Uie tightcuing of a strap by the anchor attendant, tlie motion of tho 
Fig. 10. — View of Messrs. Fowler and Co.'s Travelling Anchor. 
pulley causes a small barrel to rotate and slowly wind its way along a fixed 
rope anchored forward on the headland. The distance travelled is limited by 
unloosing the strap or clamp, and thus throwing the onward motion out of 
gear. The modes of guiding the anchor in conformity with a tortuous field- 
boundary, and of taking up upon wheels or setting down in readiness for 
work by aid of a portable leg or tripod, and the position and loading of a 
counterpoise box for preventing the anchor being toppled over, need not be 
described in detail. Like the rest of Messrs. Fowler's tackle, this set of 
machinery is completely self-transporting ; and the design and workmanship 
are of the same excellence throughout. 
At Barnhurst, on June 27th, the apparatus, with 7-tined double-action 
balance cultivator, was moved from the depot-field to Plot No. 5 and set down 
to work in 36 minutes, four men and two boys being engaged. The force when 
working consisted of one engine-man, one anchor-man, one implement-man, and 
two boys shifting the rope-porters. The plot, 233 yards in length by 58 yards 
across, and containing 2 acres 3 roods 11 perches, was cultivated 7 inches deep 
in 1 hour 28 minirtcs, this time including one or two stoppages, from the imple- 
ment being ill-steered into already worked land. The average time at the ends 
was about 24 seconds. The rate of work in similar soil to that of Plot 4 was 
19 acres 35 perches in ten hours, or 22 acres 4 roods 10 perches in an autumn 
<lay of twelve hours. The work was good, but the bottom uneven, and the 
surface somewhat gathered into ridges, owing to the angular or wedge-form 
arrangement of the tines in the cultivator, which track apex hindmost like a 
flight of wild geese reversed. But from the necessity of employing the slack 
gear a tm-ning cultivator cannot be worked with this tackle. 
Plot G in Field No. II. Messrs. John Fowler and Co.^s 8-IIorse-power 
Douhle-Drum Engine and Travelling- Anchor Set (Catalogue No., 6484) ; 
consisting of one 8-horse-piower self-moving engine with single cylinder, 
fitted with two winding rope-drums,' a travelling anchor with pulley and six: 
anchoring discs, 1200 yards of common steel rope, sixteen rope-porters, and 
a 5-tine turning cultivator (6503), jirice 678?. ; with 4-furrow balance com- 
bined plough and digger (6493) in addition, 758Z. In this engine the cylinder 
is placed towards the foot-plate end of the boiler, and the crank-shaft towards 
the smoke-box end ; and the axle of the main road or driving wheels being 
also at the smoke-box end of the boiler, while the fore carriage and front 
