518 Report on the Trials of Implements at Wolverliampton. 
perches in 10 hours, or 14 acres and 22 perches in an autumn day of 12 
hours. At Stafford, the work was represented in the competition in Class III. 
Plot LI in Fidd No. XI. Messrs. J. Fowler and Co.^s 8- Horse-power 
Double-Drum Engine cmd Self-moving Anchor Set ; consisting of an 8-horse- 
power, single-cylinder, self-moving engine, with two winding-drams, one self- 
moving G-disc anchor, 1200 yards of common steel-wire rope, 16 rope-porters, 
&c. (Catalogue No., 6484), price 618?. ; and one balance combined 4-furrow 
plough, digger, and cultivator (Catalogue No., 6493), price 80^. ; with the 
engine, 698^. 
At tlie trial on June 30th, this apparatus was set in position ready for work 
in 23 minutes, by three men and two boys. When at work, the average time 
occupied in reversing the implement at the ends was 21 seconds, but many 
times it was only 15 seconds, and occasionally as short as 13 seconds; and the 
whole trial was accomplished without the slightest delay from beginning to 
end. The ploughing at 8;^ inches depth was exceedingly well done ; the 
digging at 9i inches deptli was also exceedingly good in every respect; and 
the same implement, fitted with short prong breasts and with all the coulters 
removed excepting that on the laud side, made beautiful work in cultivating 
at 8f inches depth. 
Flot A in Fidd No. XII. Messrs. J. and F. Howard's 12- Horse-power 
Double-Drum Engine Set, on tli£ "Skeio " plan ; consisting of a 12-horse-power 
double-cylinder self-moving engine, with transverse boiler, fitted with two 
winding-drums, 1600 yards of best steel-wire rope, two single snatch-blocks, 
three stecl-tined anchors, one dead-anchor, six 3-wheeled rope-porters, six 
2-wheeled rope-porters, one wood lever, one 5-tine reversible cultivator with 
steel beams, one 4-furrow combined plough and digger with steel beams 
(Catalogue No., 1168), price 700?. 
This apparatus, already described, was set down to work in 21 minutes by 
three men and two boys, with the help of two horses. In the trial on June 
29th, the cultivator, with 4 tines, made fair work at 85 inches depth, tlio 
bottom cut very level, and the ground well broken up, though left too fiat on 
the surface. The average time occupied in reversing the implement at the 
ends was 60 seconds ; and an area of 1 acre 2 roods was finished in 1 hour 
and 32 minutes, being at the rate of 9 acres, 3 roods, 5 perches in ten hours, 
or 11 acres, 2 roods, 38 i^erches in an autumn day of twelve hours. The com- 
bined plough and digger was not tried at Barnhurst. On July 6th, at 
Stafford, the plough was worked upon Plot 9, on eight-years-old turf, the soil a 
strong red loam on a pebbly bottom. At 6 inches depth, the implement 
turned big flat furrows, but cut a very good bottom. The digging-breasts 
made fair work also with a good bottom. The 5-tine cultivator with one tine 
removed made fair work considering the strength of the turf. The bottom 
was cut very level. 
The Iiavcnsthorpe Engineering Company's Stationary-Engine and High- 
speed Rope Set ; consisting of a Clayton and Shuttleworth 10-horse-powcr, 
cylinder, self-moving engine, two self-moving single-drum windlasses, double- 
six corner anchoi's, one tension-anclior, two claw-anchors, 25 rope-porters, 1200 
yards of -l-inch Manilla hemp rope, 700 yards of 3-inch steel rope, &c. ; one 
7-tined cultivator, one 4-furrow Fowler's balance combined plough and digger 
(Catalogue No., 6023), price 700?. 
On Jurie 29th this tackle was set down to work in Field No. XXIV. in 14 
minutes, and on the next day was taken up and packed ready for travelling 
in 16 minutes, — five men doing the work with the help of two horses. On 
June 30th, with four men employed to work the apparatus, cultivating was 
done at 75 inches depth, ploughing at 9 inches depth, and digging at an 
average depth of 7i inches ; but the whole trial was very inadequate, owing 
to the nature of the ground. At Stafford the ploughing was fair work, but the 
depth very irregular. 
