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The latter is too well known to need any special remark ; the 
former, however, we cannot pass over so readily, as it appeared 
to us to possess, in its mechanical arrangement, more of the ele- 
ments of success than we have hitherto met \y,ith in the machines 
of this class which have heen from time to time exhibited in 
England. 
The working parts forming the cultivator, or digger, were 
attached to the hind part of an ordinary field locomotive- 
engine. The engine, of 8-horse power, with double cylinders, 
was carried on four broad wheels ; the two fore-wheels, guided 
from the hind plate by a long pinion-rod, formed the steerage ; 
while the large driving wheels were actuated, separately, direct 
from the crank by toothed wheels. At the back, on each side of 
the hind plate, or platform, were tanks for carrying a small stock 
of fuel and of water. The accompanying woodcuts will explain 
the mode of arrangement and working of the cultivators ; the five- 
cranked axle, on which they were fixed, being driven by a pitch- 
chain from the main shaft. 
Fig. I. Vertical Section of Working Parts.* 
When the engine is in motion each revolution of the axle 
forces the tines into, and again withdraws them from the soil 
over which it passes, displacing the mass before them, and 
throwing it over that moved by the preceding cut. By a simple 
mechanical arrangement the cranked axle can be elevated or 
lowered, so as to suit the depth of work required, or to allow of 
the cultivator turning at the end of the lands. 
* Owing to the failure on the part of the exhibitor to furnish working drawings 
of the cultivator as promised by him, the present have been drawn from memory, 
assisted by a rough sketch made at the time of the trials. They are, however, I 
believe, correct in every essential particular. — I. W. 
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