642 = 576 
Practical Agriculture. 
horses, and with one ploughman out of two in turning over the 
same extent of land. 
Mowing-machines now cut a major portion of the clover and 
meadow hay on all but the area under small occupations ; ami 
it may be estimated that fully three-fourths of the white corn 
in England is reaped by machines, pre-eminent among which 
are the reapers of Messrs. R. Hornsby and Sons, of Grantham 
Messrs. Samuelson and Co., of Banbury, Messrs. Burgess and 
Key, of Brentwood, Messrs. Howard, of Bedford, and Mr 
Walter A. Wood. 
Harvest work is now greatly facilitated by stacking-machines 
and hay and sheaf-elevators working by horse-power ; whili 
sheaf-binders and loading-machines are all but sufficientlj 
perfected to prove a boon to all farmers in that most laboriou! 
season. 
