Five Years Progress of Steam Cultivation. 401 
Xame and Addr^i;. 
Mr. Bray, Pyrgo Park, 
Romford. 
Mr. H. Collins, Dnffryn, 
Castleton, Cardiff. 
Messrs. Imj^j and Bott, 
Broomfield, Chelms- 
ford. 
Baron Meyer de Koths- 
child, M.P., Mentmore, 
Bucks. 
head than formerly, as all the hard work is 
done by steam. I find that by constant deep 
til lage, my land moves easier erery year ; con- 
sequently it is less expensive to cultivate." 
" There is no part of my farm operations 
gives nae less trouble. To my mind it is 
superior to any other known svstem of 
tillage." 
" The work of this farm was never before so 
forward as at this season. The cultivator 
is a most valuable adjunct on any ferm of 
moderate size, whether the soil be light,(as 
some of mine is) or heavy." 
In September, 1862, had a large extent of 
land already cultivated, cleaned, snd banked 
up in drills for the manure, ready for 
mangel wurzel ; a good deal of wheat 
stubble tilled and ready for sjrinz sowing 
of oats and barley; and one field drilled 
with rye for spring keep. 
The high-backed lands on the stiff clay 
have been levelled (mainly by the steam- 
cnltivator), and the drains thus made about 
5 feet deep; yet the deep steam tillage 
withotLt trampling insures a perfect removal 
of water from the flat fields. 
With Mr. Smith's Apparatus. 
Mr. C. Eandall, Chad- 
bury, Evesham, 
worth. 
near Blia- 
' The effect of the application of steam to the 
cultivation of clay land is, that the work is 
better done ; and of greater importance still, 
more of it is done while dry weather lasts. 
Instead of the subsoil being compressed, as 
formerly, by the action of the horses' feet, 
it is now cracked by the tines of the culti- 
vator, and the di-ainage thereby;' ifendered 
more effective : while the autuian cultiva- 
tion, which should be commenced in har- 
vest as soon as a field is cleared, goes far to 
insure a crop of roots upon land where, 
without the aid of steam, there wotild t-e 
difSculty and much uncertainty in obtain- 
ing them. On light land the steam ctilti- 
vator is valuable, as by its use such land is 
more effectually and more economically kept 
clean." 
' This land runs to twitcb very much. I 
have known it in the turnips above a yard 
long ; and I have now in my ofiBce twitch 
5 feet long, dragged out of the fallow by 
Mr. Smith's grubber. The advantage of 
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