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the leading pair being placed near the bridle, and the following 
pair near the after end of the beam. Tlie stirrer or miner is let 
down through a mortice in the beam, immediately behind the 
after pair of wheels, and fixed to act at any required depth. By 
this arrangement the entire weight is carried on the wheels, which 
also preserve the action of the stirrer at all times parallel with the 
bottoms of the furrows on which they travel. 
In consequence of the effective performance of this implement, 
and being of opinion that it required considerably less force of 
draught than any other with which they were acquainted, the 
judges awarded to Mr. Read a premium of 10/. 
The writer may also mention that a mole-share has been applied 
to this implement, and used in Kent with excellent effect in making 
mole-drains, with a force of four horses; and he may add that, by 
reason of its manageableness and accurate working, the implement 
has been found by farmers in the same county to facilitate drainage 
in clay soils by sub-pulverization, in a remarkable manner, if used 
with due caution. They recommend that newly-drained clays be 
not broken up, in the first instance, to a depth beneath the furrow 
greater than six inches; that the share be set another season two 
or three inches lower, and so on, gradually deepening the pulve- 
rized mass, rather than disrupting the whole at once. 
Clod-crushers. — Several clod-crushers and rollers — or imple- 
ments to which that appellation was given by their makers — 
were put to work at Mr. Spooner's farm, on land well prepared 
for testing their respective properties and merits. Tlie remarks 
made in the Report of the Derby Meeting relative to Mr. Cross- 
kill's implement were fully borne out by the opinions of the judges 
who acted on this occasion, and ^vho had the opportunity of giving 
these implements a quieter and more rigid trial. A premium of 
20/. was adjudged to Mr. Crosskill, of Beverley, for his now almost 
universally known and approved machine. The improvements 
made in the construction of this crusher have been successively 
narrated and commended in previous reports ; and testimonials to 
its useful effect in producing upon soils, not cloddy, a fine pul- 
verulent surface, as well as its beneficial influence as a roller of 
young growing wheat, $£c. &c., have been so recently collected 
and laid before the Society (Journal, vol. iv. p. oGO) that it might 
be deemed unnecessary to add one word more on the subject. 
The judges, however, have particularly requested the writer to 
submit to the exhibitors the utter inutility of all attempts to com- 
pete successfully with Mr. Crosskill's implement, unless they can 
produce a machine which, like his, can be turned round about, 
when one of its extremities is fixed, without tearing up the soil, 
and half burying itself in a hole formed vvhiLst turning. Jt will 
assuredly be wiser to prove such properties at home, than to bring 
