at the Lincoln Meeting, 1854. . 367 
was Cotgreave's plough. Its tliroe operations of ploughing, 
lifting, and subsolling, leave the land as if It liad been dug or 
forked over — an excellent preparation for planting. But there 
is another operation which 1 think it would perforin admirably — 
that of bringing again to the surface the day which has subsided. 
I allude more particularly to the Fen districts, where clay is 
applied in large quantities, and sinks below the reach of the 
plough in a few years, when the land has to be clayed afresh 
at an expense of from 2/. to 5/. per acre. To this implement was 
awarded a silver medal. 
Reapers. — These Implements are decidedly improving, and 
will ere long be much used in large occupations, or where labour 
is scarce. Let me have a reaper that will cut a good stout crop 
of standing corn, and I will find other means of cutting the laid. 
I have seen corn so beaten down and twisted that the scythe has 
been obliged to give way to the sickle. 
Dean and Dray's improved Hussey, with tlpplng-board and 
skeleton knife (very material improvements), appeared the most 
manageable, and performed Its work well : it has this advantage, 
that in cutting a stout crop you may lessen the breadth of the cut 
by keeping the horses a little further from the standing corn. 
We had also M'Cormick's exhil^ited by Garrett. 
The Automaton by Ransome and Sims. 
One by Mr. Harke that would not steer. 
A French reaper, by Marie Pierre A. F. Mazier, of L'Aigle 
(Orne), compact and worked by one horse. This machine with 
some improvements may become a favourite. 
The side delivery of Bell, exhibited by Crosskill, is a great 
desideratum, but requires too much horse-power, which might be 
remedied by lessening the breadth of cut, without at all lessening 
the quantity of work done In eight hours by 2 horses. 
Fowler''s Draining Plough was subjected to a severe trial ; it 
laid the tiles with admirable precision. The drain was opened 
in several places, and the remark of an Intelligent farmer was, 
" If I stood by my drainers from morning till night I could not 
get it better done." 
This plougli has been much improved. We were glad to perceive all 
reasonable obstacles oveiconie, and to testify by our especial commendation 
and the aivard of a Silver 3Iedal our liigh approval of the implement, because 
it proved its adaptation to drain land 3 feet 6 inches deep with facility ; and 
we trust that its usefulness will soon be abundantly proved in every part of 
the kingdom. The cost of such deep draining at 8 yards apart will be about 
305. per acre ; the soil appears to move about from 'j. to 3 feet on either side 
as the plough passes along. The cost of the plough is great, probably 400/. or 
500?., including the engine, which however may be used for other farm 
purposes, 
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