492 Report on the Exhibition and Trial of Implements 
in-oved 1)}^ Cihandlcr and Oliver, of Bow, and manufactured Ly J. and F. Howard, 
of Bedford. Price CAl., subject to 2-5 per cent, discount for cash. 
No. 3. Thomas Beards, of Stowe, Bucks. — Eight-horse-power portable 
double cylinder steani-en<iine ; invented and manufactured by Thomas 
Ricketts, of Buckingham. Price 250Z. 
(New Implement.) Apparatus for steam-cultivatinp; land ; invented by the 
exhibitor, and manufactured by the Buckingham Castle Iron- Works Company 
of Buckins^ham. One set of stcam-pioughiug apparatus, consisting of pair of 
drums, with fixings for attaching to portable steam-engine, with set of pulleys 
and blocks, anchors, rollers, &c., with 900 yards of steel-wire rope. Price 
1001. 
Iron double-furrow plough, invented and manufactured by Howards, of 
Bedford. Price 6Z. 6s. 
No. 4. Alfred Eddington, of Chelmsford, Essex (New Implement). — ^Wind- 
lass for ploughing or cultivating ; invented by the exhibitor, and manufactured 
by A. and W. Eddington, of Chelmsford. Driven by a portable steam-engine, 
complete with Fowler's anchor for drawing ploughs or any other implement 
hy itself ; or it may bo worked in combination with the following, no anchor 
being required. It is self-shifting without any horses, both on the headland 
and from field to field. Price 200?. 
Steam-engine ; manufactured by Clayton, Shuttleworth, and Co., of Lincoln. 
Double cylinder, made extra strong, to woi'k at 80 lbs. pressure per square 
inch, with reversing-gear, and fitted with extra safety-valve, pressure-gauge, 
and whistle.* Price 315Z. 
Steam-engine ; manufactured by Clayton and Shuttleworth ; same as pre- 
ceding. Price 315Z. 
Four-furrow plough ; invented by John Fowler, Junr., and manufactured 
by Ransome, Sims, and Co., of Ipswich. Fowler's ordinary plough vnth steel 
breasts. Price 84?. 
And lastly — 
No. 5. John Fowler, Jun., 28, Cornhill, London. — A 12-horse set of steam- 
cultivating apparatus ; invented and improved by the exhibitor, and manu- 
factured by Kitson and Hewitson, of Leeds. 12-liorse engine (double 
cylinder), witli self-moving and reversing-gear, windlass and tender, anchor, 
800 yards of steel rope, lieadland rope, 20 rope-porters, 2 snatch-blocks, and 
field-tools complete. Price 099/. 
Balance 4-furrow surface-plough ; invented and improved by exhibitor, and 
manufactured by Ransome and Sims of Ipswich. Fitted also with scarifier- 
hearts, adapted to be worked by the same traction-tackle. The furrows 
c»a])able of being set to plough a furrow of 9^ to 12\ inches wide. Price 81?. 
The trials were commenced on Wednesday, July 4th, on Folly Farm, the 
field selected presenting great capabilities for testing the working powers of 
the implements to be tried. The soil was a moderately strong loam on an 
indurated gravelly subsoil, and in some portion.s of the field was strongly held 
together by the growth of indigenous herbage. About two-thirds of the 
lengths ploughed were level, with a considerable inclination at the end ; the 
level portion was in old clover-ley ; the other liad been in peas sown on the 
ridge, and in old grass of the most worthless character. An old farm-road 
crossed a portion of the upper part of the field, which presented a considerable 
obstacle to the working of the implement (Fowler's) in whose allotment 
it was. 
Steam-plough trials have become so familiar to the agricultural public that 
* Neither the horse-power of the engines, nor the description and length of 
rope supplied, are specified. 
