400 Report of the Steioards of Implements at the Battersea Show. 
work on the second day, owing, it is said, to a disarrangement of 
the slide-valve of the steam-engine. 
Messrs. Howard of Bedford exhibited and worked a cultivator, 
and a plough of recent invention. They were each worked by a 
steam-engine of 10-horse nominal power. The engines were 
stationary when at work, and one of them was fitted with loco- 
motive arrangements, which would enable it to take the cultivator 
and tackle from field to field. 
Messrs. Howard's arrangements with respect to windlasses and 
anchors are very similar to those of Mr. Wm. Smith ; but they 
have introduced several ingenious mechanical improvements, 
some of which have been brought out since the Leeds Meeting. 
The drums of the windlasses are enlarged in diameter, and the 
diameter of the wheels is increased, so as to bring the driving- 
shaft to the proper height for coupling with the steam-engine. 
The fixed "brakes" are dispensed with, and an ingenious con- 
trivance is introduced, which effectually prevents undue slack- 
ness in the unemployed rope, and this without that loss of power 
which the previous use of the brake entailed. 
As an improvement on the rope porters or carriers, a lever has 
been introduced which enables the boys to shift them with greater 
ease. Their cultivator is mounted on higher wheels than formerly, 
and they use a new description of " tine," into which is fixed a 
thin "cutting-blade," which cuts the soil in a more effectual 
manner, and, it is asserted, with less power than was formerly 
required. They have also applied a harrow, which they attach 
to the side of the cultivator, so as to answer the twofold purpose 
of bringing weeds to the surface, and harrowing out the wheel- 
tracks. By an alteration in the curve of the flukes, the anchor is 
enabled to enter the ground without the tedious operation of 
digging holes for their insertion. 
The plough consists of an iron framing mounted on wheels ; 
and the ploughs are attached to a lever arrangement, enabling 
one set to be out of use when the other set are at work. The 
ploughs are fitted with two sets of mould-boards, right and left- 
handed, so that the field may be commenced at, and worked from 
either side at pleasure. A locking motion applied to the two 
land-wheels accomplishes the steerage of the implement. 
The land upon which these Implements worked was too light 
to afford a real test of their capabilities, but they did their work 
satisfactorily as far as observed. 
Mr. John Allin Williams of Baydon exhibited a steam-plough, 
consisting of an iron frame carried by four wheels ; to that frame 
were attached six ploughs of the ordinary construction, means 
being provided for lowering the " beams " of the ploughs into the 
ground by screws fitted for that purpose. Three of the ploughs 
