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The Trials of Ploughs at Warwich. 
Two- and Three-furrow Ploughs (Classes IV. and V.). 
Price 10 
Mechanical qualities and strength 20 
Simplicity , 10 
Draught relatively to work done . . , , , 20 
Ease of management in work and in turning , . , 15 
Facilities of transport ....... 6 
Flatness of sole of furrow . . . . . . . 10 
Squareness of cut on land side 5 
Perfection of work and burying vegetation ... 20 
Efficiency of skim coulter 6 
Total .120 
Digging Ploughs (Classes VI. and VII.). 
Price 10 
Mechanical qualities and strength ..... 20 
Simplicity , 10 
Draught relatively to work done 20 
Flatness of sole of furrow 10 
* Perfection of work and burying vegetation ... 25 
Efficiency of skim coulter 6 
Total 100 
One Way Plough (Class VIII.). 
The points of merit here were left to the Judges and the 
Engineer, and they adopted the following scale : — 
Price . 10 
Mechanical qualities and strength ..... 20 
Simplicit}'' . 10 
Draught relatively to work done 25 
Ease of management and ease in turning .... 15 
Flatness of sole furrow ,10 
Squareness of cut on land side ...... 5 
Perfection of work and burying vegetation ... 20 
Efficiency of skim coulter 5 
Total 1^ 
The trials commenced with Class I., single-furrow ploughs 
for light land, eleven ploughs competing. Each implement 
was set to make two ridges and one empt within the plot 
allotted to it. This was followed out in all the classes with the 
exce^^tion of that for one-way ploughs. The depth of furrow 
was 5 inches, and the width was left optional ; this latter 
varied from 7^ up to 10 inches with the different competitors. 
Of the eleven ploughs competing, viz. : — 
No, 
Name. 
Address. 
Width, 
4 
Thomas Corbett . . , 
, , Shrewsbury , 
• H 
12 
J. C. & T. Yates , . , 
, . Doncaster . 
. n 
6 
Eddy & Sons . , , 
, . Exeter . . 
. 8 
2 
Cooke, John & Sons . , 
, , Lincoln . . 
. Si 
' Perfection of work being : to make a good seed bed ; to do work best 
adapted for the purposes of winter fallow. 
