572 
Agricultural Patents for the year 1868. 
implements for tilling through the land. Application dated 24th 
September ; provisional protection, Otli October, 1863. 
Engines and Apparatus fob Steam Cultivation. 
212S. John Alison, of Reigate, Surrey, gentleman, Improvements in apparatus 
for tilling land, which improvements are chiefly applicable when, 
steam power is employed. Application dated 28th August ; pro- 
visional protection, 11th September; notice, 22nd September ; patent 
sealed, 10th November, 1863. 
2513. John Fowler, of Leeds, engineer, Improvements in apparatus for 
hauling agricultural implements. Application dated 13th October ; 
provisional protection, 23rd October, 1863. 
1726. R. Hornsby, junr., J. Bonnall, and W. Astbury, all of Spitalgate Iron 
Works, Grantham, Lincolnshire, Improvements in traction engines, 
and in apjxiratus for ploughing and tilling lands by steam and other 
power, part of which improvements is also applicable to driving or 
giving motion to maohinery. Application dated 10th July ; provisional 
protection, 24th July; notice, 4th August; patent sealed, 11th 
September, 1863. 
880. James Howard, E. T. Bousfield, and J. Pinney, of Bedford, engineers, 
Improvements in steam engines, and in the means of applying the 
same to the tilling of land, also in apparatus to be used with such 
engines in the tilling of land. Application dated 7th April ; pro- 
visional protection, 24th April ; notice, 28th April ; patent sealed, 
2nd June, 1863. 
1379. Etienne Joseph Jarry, of 29, Boulevart St. Martin, Paris, merchant. 
Improvements in machinery to be worked by steam or other power, 
for clearing and ploughing land. Application dated 2nd June ; 
provisional protection, 3rd July ; patent sealed, 13th November, 18G3. 
*3156. W. H. Samson, of Underbill, Wittersham, Kent, Improvements in 
machinery for cultivating land by steam power. Application dated 
27th December, 1862 ; provisional protection, 9th January, 1863. 
68S. William Smith, of Little Woolstoue, Bucks, farmer, Improvements in 
machinery for cultivating land and sowing seed. Application dated 
13th March ; provisional protection, 27th March ; notice, 31st March ; 
patent sealed, 27th May, 1863. 
2614. Frederick Tolhausen, of 17, Faubourg Montmartre, Paris, civil engi- 
neer and patent agent, An improved steam cultivator. (A com- 
munication from the Marquis Emmanuel de Fongins, Feurs Loire, 
France.) Application dated 25 th September; provisional protection, 
17th October, 1862; notice, 27th January; patent sealed, 20th 
March, 1863. 
3126. Thomas Webb, of Smallwood Manor, Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, Im- 
provements in engines for hauling agricultural implements, and also 
in traction engines. Application dated 11th December, 1863* 
Traction Engines, &c. 
61. Thomas Avelins, of Rochester, engineer, Improvements in the construction 
of traction engines. Application dated 7th January ; provisional 
protection, 30th January ; notice, 5th May ; patent sealed, 16th 
June, 1863. 
1377. G. A. Barrett, W. Exall, C. J. Andrews, and A. Barrett, of Reading, 
engineers, Improvements in valves and apparatus far rrgulating 
