318 Report on the Exhibition and Trial of Implements 
forward for trial. In concluding our Report on ligiit-land ploughs, we can 
only say that those ploughs which apparently are offered at the lowest price 
are not the cheapest, while those which are advertised at the most money have 
some advantages of construction and build not seen or appreciated by the agri- 
culturist generally. The power to move the ploughshare horizontally and 
laterally is of some importance to the ploughman, esijecially when it is nearly 
worn out. The value of the chill, and hardening those parts of the share 
exposed to the greatest wear and tear, cannot be over-estimated ; and we beg 
respectfully to call the attention of moulders and implement-makers to the 
necessity of pajing attention to this valuable process. We mention this be- 
cause it was found in the course of several examinations that the hardening 
had not been sufficientlj' attended to. 
Light-Land Ploughs. 
stand 
Art. 
Exhibitor's 
Time. 
Traction. 
Yards. 
Price 
Premium Awarded. 
Name. 
M. 
s. 
£ 
s. 
d. 
£. ,<;. d. 
142 
3 
Busby 
3 
2 
135 
175 
4 
4 
0 
Highly commended. 
66 
2 
Hornsby .. 
3 
15 
139 
76 
175 
4 
17 
0 
4 0 0 
95 
1 
Reeves 
3 
12 
120 
G25 
175 
4 
16 
6 
98 
3 
Tasker . . 
3 
30 
136 
54 
175 
5 
8 
6 
(Wallis and'l 
17 
175 
18 
99 
20 
( Haslam ../ 
3 
129 
9 
3 
6 
lOG 
3 
Bruce 
3 
10 
132 
95 
175 
4 
15 
0 
117 
-i- 
Goulding 
3 
o 
136 
75 
175 
5 
0 
0 
Commended. 
129 
Page .. .. 
2 
40 
132 
95 
175 
4 
0 
0 
Highly commended. 
139 
2 
Ball .. .. 
3 
2 
142 
175 
4 
14 
6 
Ditto. 
159 
11 
Hensman 
2 
30 
142 
3 
175 
4 
4 
0 
1 0 0 
176 
3 
JRansomes&\ 
\ Sims ../ 
2 
50 
136 
175 
4 
19 
0 
3 0 0 
188 
3 
Howards 
2 
40 
1.".8 
46 
175 
4 
17 
6 
2 0 0 
125 
9 j 
Maggs . . 
2 
35 
134 
55 
175 
4 
17 
6 
TuRNWREST Ploughs. 
stand. 
Article. 
Exhibitors Name. 
Fremium. 
152 
176 
4 
8 
Eddy 
£. s. d. 
2 0 0 
Highly commended. 
The use of these ploughs is confined, or nearly so, to the deep soils and 
undulating districts of the county of Devon. To be continually ploughing the 
soil down-hill appears a practical error, which, in time, miist materially injure 
the U])per parts of the field, without any corresponding advantages to the 
lower.* 
* The Devonshire hill-farmers are quite alive to the importance of turning the 
furrow up-hill wherever it is practicable, and this is not unfrequently done by a 
good turnwrcst plough, even where the gradient is so steep as to rise one foot in 
three. — T. D. Aclanu. 
