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Application of Steam Foicer 
Eight-horse engine (single cylinder), with reversing £ s. d. 
gear, windlass, water-tub. anchor, 700 yards 
steel rope, headland ropes, 16 rope-porters, 2 
snatch-blocks, and field-tools 455 10 0 
Two-furrow plough (adjustable to any width of 
furrow), witli scarifier irons 52 10 0 
508 0 0 
Twelve-horse double cylinder engine, 800 yards of , 
rope, &c., and four-furrow plough 780 0 0 
And intermediate prices for eight-horse double-cylinder engine 
with three-furrow plough, and ten-horse engine with four-furrow 
plough. 
The windlass gear is purposely constructed so as to be added 
to any ordinary portable engine. To work the machine are re- 
quired one engineer, one ploughman, and two boys to shift tlie 
rope-porters. 
J he numerous and prolonged trials of Mr. Fowler's machinery 
have shown that heavy land can be ploughed by steam at the rate 
of five acres a day, for a total cost of seven to ten shillings per 
acre ; and that light or mixed soils can be ploughed at the rate of 
seven acres a day, for about five shillings per acre. The work is 
done in admirable style, of course being all one-way, or turn- 
wrest ploughing. The trenching implement turns up the ground 
12 to 14 inches deep, inverting and sub-dividing with all the 
perfection of spade-husbandry. The recent improvements in the 
construction of the apparatus have materially reduced the ex- 
penses below even the above figures, and the scarifying or culti- 
\ ating is performed at a still more expeditious and economical 
rate. 
Ten sets of Mr. Fowler's steam plough have been supplied to 
the following parties : — 
Mr. T. H. Redman, of Overtown, Swindon, Wilts. 
Mr. J. H. I^nngston, of J^arsden Lodge Farre, Chipping Norton, Oxon. 
Mr. E. Holland, of Dunibloton, Evesham, Oxon. 
Mr. Lyne Stephens, of Lynford Hall, Brandon, Norfolk. 
Mr. CoUinson Hall, of Princesgatc, lloniford, Essex. 
Mr. John Smith, of Coven, near Wtjlverhampton, Staffordshire. 
Mr. S. fiumey, of Ijcatherliead, Surrey. 
Mr. E. H. (lurncy, of lied Hill, Kuigate, Surrey, 
Mr. Thomas Aveling, of Kocliester, Kent. 
Mr. J. L. Morton, of Murray Farm, Dalkeith, Scotland. 
And twenty-five other sets are to be delivered in August, 1859. 
Mr. Williams, of Baydon, H ilts, has the credit of having made 
some of the earliest experiments in steam-cultivation, and pa- 
tented the mode of hauling witli wire-ropes by a portable wind- 
lass, attached, when required, to a portable engine, both shifting 
