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Iniplement Shoiv at Leicester: 
^lessrs. Fowler and Co., of Leeds, exhibited four diffcrcut sj'stems : — 
Catakipie 
Number. 
2482. Two Traction Engines (each furnished with one winding-dnim) to 
move on opposite headlands, and draw the imiDlements to and fro 
between them. 
2483. Two Traction Engines (each furnished wth two drums) to move on 
opposite headlands, and intended to work two imijlements at the 
same time to and !Vo between them. 
2485. One Traction Engine, furni.shed with patent chivdruni, to move on 
one headland, to work with a travelUng disc anchor, moving on the 
opjwsite headland. 
2484. One Double-drum Traction Engine to move on one headland, and 
work with a travelling disc anchor, moving on the opposite head- 
land. 
Messrs. James and Frederick Howard, of Bedford : — 
1194. Apparatus consisting ot Portable Engine, windlass, snatch-blocks, 
anchors, and porters, on the roundabout system. 
ilessi-s. Aveling and Porter, Piochester : — 
5967. Traction Engine, separate windlass (Fowler's patent), snatch-blocks, 
anchors, and travelling porters, on the roundabout system. 
Messrs. Tasker and Sons, Andover : — 
5516 Traction Engine, by Clayton, Shuttleworth, and Co., driving wind- 
& 5517. lass by strap, snatch-blocks, anchors, and p>orters, on the round- 
about system. 
Mr. E. Hayes, Ston}' Stratford, Bucks : — 
15 & Portable Engine, windlass driven by strap, snatch-blocks, anchors, 
16. and porters, on the roundabout system. 
In addition to the above we had to adjudicate upon a large collection of 
steam-driven implements, ploughs, cultivators, diggers, harrows, rollers, &c. 
Class I. 
The prizes in this class being olfered for the best application of steam power 
for the cultivation of the soil, without regard to the extent of the occupations, 
we had no hesitation in restricting the entries to such systems as worked on 
the direct principle, believing that on large areas steam could be more 
economically and efBciently employed in this way than on the roundabout 
system. 
Having come to this conclusion, it was apparent that Fowler and Co. were 
alone in the field, and the only point to determine was which of their systems 
was most meritorious. 
The absence of Messrs, Howard's double engines was a source of much 
regret to those who had visited the trial fields anticipating a keen struggle 
between the celebrated firms of Fowler and Howard. 
Thursday afternoon and Friday were devoted to the preliminary trials of all 
the systems, these trials being, so far as regards 2482 (the two single drum 
engines) and 2483 (the two double drum engines of Fowler's), also the final 
trials. 
We will now describe Fowler's systems, in the order given above : — 
Xo. 2482 consists of two 10-horse power single cylinder traction engines, with 
one winding drum each, such drum lying in an horizontal plane, that is, 
having its axle vertical. The drum is placed below the boiler, and is driven 
by a spur wheel on the circumference of the drum, receiving motion from a 
