The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-06-12 00:00:00

TRIALS OF iMPLEMINTS.

Wet as it was, Tuesday commenced the trial of
field implements. A contemporary says the reapers
were not worked at aIL Messrs. Canon and Toone
gave their turnip hoe an hour's trial. The
trials on the tint day were coneequently restricted
to steam ploughs and culti•ators, h....rse ploughs, and
mowing machines. The trials of steam ploughs, and
cultivators, took place about half • mile from the
show•yard. Messrs. Fowler and Co. worked •
plough and cultivator, Mears, Tasker and Sons, of
Andover, • cultivator, and Messrs. Howard and
Sons, a plough and cultivator. Fowler commenced
ploughing, while Howard brought their cultivator
into operation. Marra. Howard's ploughs made the
neatest and hest turned furrow, hut Fowler's took •
much broader furrow. The cultivators all did their
work well, Tasker's smashing up laud; Fowler's
and Howard's cultivating. We are not sore that the
shares on Taeker's implement will stand the kind of
wok required of them where there are so many
flints. There were certainly a few breakagee on this
occasion, but otherwise this implement is just the
thing required on our barge farms on the chalk hills
—to work the laud up an that the ordinary harrows
and field rollers can effectually work it af,erwards
without • second operati.in of steam, which Howard's
and Fowlers cultirators almost require. Their
implement is that invented by Smith, of Woolston.
The steam cultivation of Weduoklay, took up
• larger field. Taelter did not bring their large
cultivator, but worked • scarifier. The land was
dry and hard to cut through. The ploughing was of
equal merit, only Fowler's plough took a broader
furrow than Howard'a, which gave the latter an
advantage to the eye it did not possess in reality.
The uniform straightness of the furrows produced
admirable effect, awl the spectator, however, pre.
judiced against steam ploughing before, could not
but admit that such quality of work, combined w:th
tho depth ef furrow taken, was well worth the coat
of getting. A fruitful topic of remark, was the
smell 'pace occupied by Fowler', rope and windlass,
and the saving of power by having the engine an
virar its work. Haosomes and Sums patent jointed
harrows worked on • portion of the land ploughed
up by steam, and a beautiful even mod lied was the
Iseult, the free action of these harrows in a jointed
instead of a fixed frame giving facility for the better
working of irregularities of soil. They would appear
lobe well adapted to follow after steamilloughling.

- • Six mowing machines ware put one piece or ,Ta
clover, vii , those of Hornsby and Son, Samuelson
and Co., Pickily and Sims, Hamlett, Blighani arid
B.okerton, and Fur did their work very well.
Samuelson's machine swarmed itself lase oomph.
ratted. The Eagle mower likewise did its work very
effectually, and in the opinion of many was of mush
lighter draft than any other in the Sad. On Wed.
nesday, • piece of meadow grass, adjoining the
show•yard was caleulated to test well the oapatelitiee
of the implements. Six implements put in an
appearanoe. Hornsby's again performed their work
to complete satisfaction. Sanauelson's have mach im•
prived their mower since last year. Wood's grime
mower worked well.

Wednesday proved a favourable day for mowing,
and the little field allocated for the porpcse was
literally crowded with machines, horse', work.
Melll, and spectators So many manufacturers put
in an appearance that only a small plot of rye could
be apportioned to each, not anything like sufficient
to show off the capabilities of the various imple.
manta, The cutting, too, was remarkably easy, and.
under these favourable oircumatanoes, there was very
little, if any, had work, the corn in all cases being
cut perfectly close to tbe ground.
Tbe reapers on Wednesday were those of Hornsby
and Co., Samuelson and Co. Barber, Bamlett, Pees,
Brenton, Barrow, Young, liaunder, Wood, Pickily
and Sims, the Beverley Iron. Company, do., to.
_ _

Hornsby and Son worked a heavy reaper, with
wiodlass and swathe delivery drawn by two bones.
The "Eclipse" one-bores machine of Samuelson and
Co cote 4i feet wide, and the sheaf is pat off et the
back, but if fitted with the patent apparatus deliver,
the cut grain in swathe. ne one-horse machine. of
Page, Barrow, Young. and Meander all haves back
delivery, the tilting of the platform being performed
by the foot of the driver operating on • treadle, the
action of which mons perfect so far as the delivery
of • straight and oven shod is concerned. Hamlett
exhibited, in conjunction with his one-horse reaper,
• platform of light construction, that would tilt by
prewar* on the rake at the heck, at the driver's
option, thus obviating the action of the foot. In
Brenton's, the grain as it is cut falls on a platform,
with • cylinder at the beck, made to revolve at lb.
will of the rake man when sufficient corn has been
gathered for • sheaf.
The champion ploughmen connected with the
firms of Howard and Rantomew were present on
Friday. Idesare. Howard, as wool, sent their own
horses. . . .

—.—
Several horse hoes and other implements were
tried oo Wednesday. 1.-reon and Toone's cleaning
single row, worked for several hours, both where the
turnips were on the ridge and on the fiat. Keodell's
improved steerage horse hoe was adjusted to clean Ili
drilla at one operation. The steerage acted to a
nicety. flourard's new horse hoe was also working.