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Implement Show at Leicester. 
settinn;, as we Imvc seen very mucli better results with this imiilement. It, 
however, appears somewhat light for such very heavy work. 
Fowler and Co. led off with a o-furrov/ Balance l'lou2;h (2495) for deep 
work ; only two sets of shares, &c., were used at each end of the implement, 
which made the furrows 12i inches by 13 inches, leaving the same upright 
and well exiwsed to the air. 
Fowler and Co.'s 4-furrowed Patent Balance Plough (2491), fitted Avith the 
long, straight, Kent breasts, made excellent work, leaving a regular surface 
that could be distinguished from that produced by any other implement. The 
particulars of draft will be seen by reference to the subjoined table. 
Both Howard's and Fowler's Deep Ploughs are meritorious, and are occa- 
sionally valuable in England. 
We awarded prize of 121. to Fowler and Co.'s 4-furrow plough with Kent 
bveasts (2491); highly commended Fowler and Co.'s 3-furrow deep plough 
(2495) ; and also highly commended J. and F. Howards 2-furrow deep i^lough 
(1199). 
Cultivators and Diggers. 
The trial of these implements occupied a considerable time and excited 
much interest. Ploughing may occasionally be necussary, but the great bulk 
of steam-work will be disturbing and breaking without inverting, and the 
cultivator and digaerto precede it when the surface is hard, are the implements 
most in vogue, and with wliich nearly everything can he accomplished. 
Fowler and Co. exhibited their Bevel Beam 5-tinc Cultivator (2505), first 
introduced at the Newcastle Meeting. 
The difference between this implement and the digger is so slight that the 
work is nearly identical, the forked breasts of the latter jiossibly producing a 
rougher siarface ; but both operate in the same way as an ordinary ])lough, viz. 
by removing a portion of soil and passing it off to a loose side, and this 
should always distinguish between a real cultivator and a bastard implement 
like the digger, which figures under two characters. 
The tines of the real cultivator force their passage through the soil by lifting, 
throwing the soil on either side, and riving it up indiscriminately; whereas 
the great bulk of soil disturbed by a digger, such as the tool in question, 
is thrown to the right of the imi)lement. The im])leuients are adapted for 
difi'ercnt operations : for autumn work, acting on a bard unmoved surface, we 
greatly prefer the digger, as making deeper work, leaving a better bottom if 
properly set, and throwing up the soil in a rougher condition, most suitable for 
atmospheric action. The work of the Bevel Beam Cultivator was decidedly 
superior. 
Fowler and Co. next tried their large 7-tined Balance Cultivator (2498), 
working only 5 tines. This is a true cultivator, and more suitable to cross- 
land already smashed than to go into a hard soil. This is shown in the much 
smaller weight of soil moved per square yard. The bottom was ridgy and 
uneven ; and the depth, as calculated from the weight, was 5 inches. 
Fowler and Co.'s new Cultivator (2496), principally intended for light land, 
is really a novelty ; and promises to be most valuable for double-engine work 
on large areas. 
The width of im]tlement is 7 feet 8 inches without the wings, which increase 
it to 12 feet ; it carries a large number of tines, and consists of a strong frame 
on 3 wheels. 
The tines are independent of the travelling frame, though carried on it 
when in work; by a lever action they can be lifted whilst the inqilement is 
turning. The position (in height) of the i'rame in reference to the wheels, and 
consequently the depth of the tines, is adjusted b}' a screw in front. 
The engine travelling forward on the headland slews round tlie head of the 
