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looked for by proprietors who (like some I heard of at a 
Bedfordshire Agricultural Meeting) forbid tlieir tenantry tlie use 
of a reaping-machine, out of tender love for the partridges ! 
The VVoolston farm, though the smallest, is not the only 
limited occupation supporting a steam plough. My tables refer 
to steam cultivation upon several farms of small or very mode- 
rate extent. Among Mr. Smith's imitators, we have Mr. Tubb, 
of Melcomb, with a 10-horse engine, on 165 acres arable of clay 
and loam ; Mr. Crawley, of Luton, with a 10-horse engine, on 
262 acres of clay ; a Warwickshire farmer, with an 8-horse 
engine, on 300 acres of clay and gravel ; a' Chichester farmer, 
Avith an 8 horse engine, on 400 acres of strong and light land. 
Among Messrs. Howard's customers, are Mr. Henderson, of 
Sandwich, with an 8-horse engine, upon 200 acres of loam ; 
Mr. Bayley, of Romford, with a 10-horse engine, on 204 acres 
of medium or light soil ; Mr. PuUen, of Shackerley, with an 8- 
horse engine, on 230 acres of loam ; Mr. Pike, of Stevington, 
■with an 8-horse engine, upon 370 acres of clay. And among 
Mr. F9wler's followers, we have Mr. Lawson, of Brayton, with 
a 12-horse engine, on 233 acres of medium and heavy land ; 
Mr. Holland, of Dumbleton, with a 12-horse engine, on 360 
acres of clay and light soil ; Mr. Marjoribanks, of Fawley Court, 
with a 10-horse engine, on 440 acre? of chalk and gravel ; and 
Mr. Cooper of Fen Drayton, with a 14-horse engine, on 450 
acres of light and heavy land. 
But partnerships are quite common. A couple of farmers, 
being able to sell off double the number of displaced draft- 
horses that a single farmer could spare, find the steam plough 
an easy purchase, and the annual saving of maintenance of horse- 
teams is double what it would be for one farmer alone. Perhaps, 
the advantage of combination in such a purchase is greater than 
may be commonly imagined. Two farmers, working 16 horses 
each, buy say a 600Z. apparatus, having to find 300/. each. 
The sale of 6 horses at 25Z. per horse, produces 150/. for each 
farmer, just half his share of the purchase-money ; and so 150/. 
is all the hard cash that each farmer has to find ; whereas, 450/. 
would have been required, had he bought the machine by him- 
self. And what is better still, interest and depreciation (that 
heavy item of 3s. or 45. per acre) will be, in effect, only a third 
of this sum. 
Purchasing windlass, rope, implements, and tackle, and hiring 
an engine to work them, is sometimes an economical plan. Mr. 
Bignell, of Loughton, hires a common 8-horse thrashing engine 
to drive his Woolston apparatus, paying an extra price per day 
for the privilege of being first customer when he wants to culti- 
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