404 Five Years Progress of Steam Cultivation. 
Name and Address. 
Stone Grange, North- 
ampton. 
Mr. E. Buck, 
Hill, Cricklade. 
Castle 
common turnips, grovm upon a stifi' claj- soil, 
the cultivation of which, in a season like 
last, I should not have attemx)ted by horse- 
power. I have the fullest confidence that 
the land will become much lighter and 
more pliable, and assume altogether a dif- 
ferent and more valuable character, espe- 
cially for the loroduction of root-crops." 
" The increase of Crops (after an exj^erience 
of 3 years) I i^lace at 8 bushels to the acre. 
I have found that the crops under the 
stefim-plough will come a week or ten days 
earher to harvest ; whilst the sample is 
'better and heavier. ITie crops of seeds are 
wonderfully better, in conseqiience . of the 
extra depth of the cultivation. The in- 
crease of stock also must be very great, 
from extra crops of vetches and rye, and 
from the root-crops being of much greater 
weight and better quality. I am of opin- 
ion that the value of the land may be in- 
creased one-third." 
From Messrs. Howard's Apparatus, 
'^Ir. J. W. Pell, Stanion, 
Thrapstone, Korth- 
amptonshire. 
Baron Meyer de Pioths- 
child, M.P., Mentmore, 
Leishton Buzzard. 
ilr. Pike, Stcvington, 
Bedford. 
Mr. Wilhams, North 
Court, Abingdon. 
" On 30 acres I have a capital crop of com- 
mon turnips, and the remainder was late in 
the season sown with coleseed. By horse- 
labour I could not have prejiared any jxjr- 
tion of this for turnips." 
" Owing to the parched and sodden state of 
the part horse-ploughed most of the grass 
and ucarl}' all the clovers j^erished. On 
the steam-cultivated ix)rtion, sound land 
and a full plant of both grass and clover." . 
Twenty years since this farm was' pur- 
chased of Earl Spencer by the Duke of 
Bedford for 157. per acre : now it is more 
than doubled in value ; and it is a fact that 
this additional value has been gained maiijly 
since the advent of the steam-cultivator in 
1858. 
Ploughed 20 acres by steam alongside 20 
acres by horses, on purpose for experiment : 
the produce upon the former far exceeded 
that upon the latter. 
From Mr. Smith's Apparatus. 
Mr. F. Sowerby, Ayles- 
by, Grimsby, Lincoln- 
shire. 
A field on the Aylesby farm was partly 
cultivated b}' steam and jinrtly in the 
ordinary way b}- horses. The steam-culti- 
vated portion produced one-fourth movd 
weight of turnips i^cr aero than the jiart 
