522 Report, on tfie Exhibition and Trial of Implements 
is less lifibility to sweating in clnirning 10 quarts of cream than 20. Is it, 
then, desirable to have large churns ? 
A Silver Medal was awarded to William Pearce, Stand 42, Article 3, for 
" a patent spring shaft car or chaise cart." This article is novel, and though 
\vithout steel springs, travelled on the road easily and lightly, carrying six 
passengers. For famih' purposes it seems well adapted, but whether the 
principle applied to the shafts will be made available for farming jmrposes, is 
a question not yet solved. The car is a comfortable and unique vehicle. 
Mr. James Boydell, Stand 85, Article 2, exhibited a cart having attached to 
it an endless railway. This curious adaptation of a railway attached to the 
wheels of the cart by segments was also applied to a locomotive engine in the 
yard, which astonished all who witnessed its performance. On soft and deep 
sandy roads, where heavy weights have to be moved at a slow pace, the 
principle may have some advantages. But bad roads are now the exception, 
and we leave the consideration of this new principle in the hands of our 
mechanical engineers. 
J. Jephson Rowley. 
Lawrence Furkiss. 
Trial of Field Implements. 
Eeport on Ploughs. 
Two prizes were offered by the Society in this department, viz. : — 
1. For the plough best adapted for general purjioses. 
2. For the plough best adapted for ploughing more than 9 inches deep. 
Ploughs for General Purposes. — Eleven ploughs were selected for trial in 
this class, of which seven were from Cumberland and the neighbourhood, 
chiefly " swing " ploughs, or ploughs without wheels, belonging to Messrs. 
Brayton, Dalton, Hope, Hackness, Morley, Kobinson, and Sewell ; the re- 
maining four were iron tvheel ploughs belonging to Messrs. Ball, Busby, 
Howards, and Eansomes and Sims. 
The trials took place in a field of seeds pastured ; a rather strong loamy soil, 
with a considerable quantity of herbage upon it, and therefore well adapted for 
testing the merits of the ploughs, particularly in the most important parts of 
the operation — that of skimming or paring, deixisiting, and so effectually 
covering turf and surface weeds, as to prevent subsequent vegetation. 
The directions were for each plough to commence with a furrow of 9 inches 
by 5, to be subsequently increased to 10 inches by 7. It was soon very 
obvious, even in the shallow ploughing, that the local " swing " ploughs had 
not a chance of success against the wheel ploughs. The Judges therefore dis- 
continued further trials as to these, and the competition at the increased depth 
was continued ^\ith the ploughs of Messrs. Ball, Busby, Howard, and Eansome 
only. 
The work by all these ploughs was excellent, and such as fully to sustain 
the reputation of their makers ; the competition between the ploughs of Messrs. 
Howard and Kansome was particularly close, and their merits so evenly 
balanced that the Judges had some difficulty in their decision. In the hope of 
doing full justice to these eminent competitors, the Judges determined to sub- 
mit the following Table of results as a means of showing the comparative 
amount of merit, more clearly and accurately than could be done by mere 
description. 
The quality of the work, in the opinion of the Judges, has never been ex- 
ceeded ; the furrow was cut with great clearness, regularity of depth, and 
uniform inclination, and the well formed skim-coulters, with chains and 
weights attached, pared off, and deposited the turf, with a precision and com- 
pleteness that left nothing to be desired. 
