New-York daily tribune., 1859-07-29
SUCCESSFUL TRIAL OF PAWhES 5
STEAM PLOW.
From On Own Reporter.

hLs been engaged ID trying 20 PracteohJ sV'e Wv va
the gres. questions Of the AEGEAN steam power oe
used cultivate the soil Great wealth OF insenoas
experiment and large sum. Of money have been Law
,-hiy bestowed nud successive failures have seemed
tu. more eF,ctu.ly TO stimulate to new attempts
Many poor MECHANIC bs- mayhap n1urished dim
and intangible theory Of bow II was % be done, snd
many rch one attempting 20 give form a1d SUD-
.ts1ce his e1n spec,rai illusioEs has ended in
grea; disoovery-tla. Bothirg could b. done; aDd so
one and all, with few exceptions, desparei. John
Fowler, jr, Of LonGon, Richard Boyden. aud William
Smith Of Wooson after 4, ,ntirg the good light, hsye
cone a. sst out Of the woods and appear before tue
English pubic as champions Of plowing apparatus,
each Of which is claimed by its inventor as per-
feet, and all Of which, having been seen by Us IN
sctusl work, We pronounce imperfect. IA, to ta'ry
urderstsna the results Of Wednesdays trial Of
Fsvkes's steam plow at Pbisdelphis, onr resders
should know hat the EnglshneD have accomplished.
l. vii be well TO state t1e principles adopted by the
three parties naued above.
ISGLIsH STEAM FLOWS.
There are three inventors. bet only two principles
involved. Fowler and Smith have their engines
placed al side Of the fed and wire cable rolling
around drum passes 20 the other side Of the held
one case TO be rolled around another drum in the other
10 pass around anchored pulleys and return 70 the
place Of starting; having meanwhile drawn frame Of
plows acro,s and back. Boydel harnesses his engine
TO the instrument Of lage, opens MS valves SUD away
with puff and 1t marches across lots for AL
the world Ike some huge elephan, drawing childs
plsythipg after him. Here hen have e1glnes
Stationary ard engines penpstetio but far a. the
cultivation of the .o s concerned, principle ia
involved. l. IA merely hitching elephan. OF hippo
poamus ones wagon, in place of the little Shetland
pony that Tor years may have filed the place.
FOWLER PLow.
Fowler does bis plowinl IN this wise To his engine
is sttac ed drum drums OF iron, over which passes
coil of wire rope. At the other side OF the field Is
sort Of truck on sf arp edged wheels which is caused
to travel at srais pace along, keeping step with
Ike forward travel Of the ergine, by the action of
gearing worked by the unwnaing and winding up of
the wire cable on q drum drums on the truck.
This truck which he calls An anchor" runs parallel
with the engine, and, the sharp wheels cut deep
into the sod il is overturned by the strain OF the
long length Of cable across fields. The two ends OF
| the cable are attached to double frame Of pows,
hung on wheels in the middle, six plows face one
way and six the other. The poE frame il shaped
that when one set ia in the ground at work. the other
is hosted in the air the principle Of the see-sa|,
that every understands. To this apparatus, cum
bersome troublesome. snd expensive as It IL, the
grand prize Of 500 soveregus was last year awarded
by the Royal Agricultural Society the judges esti-
mating that a saving could be effected by il OF frcm
| five to twenty per o-nt in the cost of ploSirg
SMITHS SYSTEM.
Smith, of Woolston uaes the drum on or about his
engine but not that at the other side of the field in
place of which he substitutes large grooved puies,
auchored to The ground by sout grapnel hooks. lie
hes sua rollers foot wide, fixed on bits OF
plank on which the wire cable rolls at different places
throughout tie whole length Of the farro~, the better
to avoid gre at friction the ground He has also
different attachment to bis implements and in fact he
| prefers to use different implements, for whereas
Fowler takes only the ordinary pillow and attaches It to
a frame Smith the grubber, loDgtned sort OF
| machine with teeth shaped little like one of our
wire-toothed bsyrskes He has patent for what he
calls tuning bow, which is in fact merely very
large ceys arrangement, by the use OF which he can
turn bis implement al the end Of the furrOw and not
be compelled to travel forward and back now elevst-
| ing one end and the other, as does Fowler.
Fowler mas pocketed the 600 of the Royal Society,
bu smith has sold fifteen twenty sets ot his appa
ratus ard 20 the matter stand. between them. The
| comnps of Tie Mark Lane Express are filed with
letters and replies from the introducers and friends OF
eiti sy-tem, and victory perches imphauy on the
| bsnhers Of both.
| BoYDFLL's TRACTION ENGINE.
| Boyden 10 get over the field muet have means
IL /. tins He applies power 10 large driving whesls,
70 the periphery of which are attached at equsl dis
tsnces each other pieces OF track, OF snch shspe
that the forward end Of locks IN with the rear end
AZ predecessor as the revolution Of the wheel brings
them In turn beneath and each piece being attached
by bow to the wheel and free 70 move on bolt, the
wheel lsys it, track turns on Il, picks mp again
rs i, moves along. Here il the sum total OF Boyde
ereire except that il may BE- steered by roi working
into cears Oh the truck Of two snail front wheels, ar
ranged 70 turn trapsOm. All these Inachloes we
practical operation last year at the Royal Sh3"
a. CT eseT and while i cannot be denied that rO"er
| did good plowing sId did il continuously; snd Smith
erubbed away zeaously until the whole field looked as
If large Grove OF lard pike hogs had been turned III
thet.ovtr sight; and BUydels fiery chariot, pulling
continuously ~ Il overworked, and drawing its baby
| cuhiva,or az omnibus would boys sled, dii toll
erabe hare Of work they al seemed to Us either too
sNpensiye in construction too complicated and cum
b.isome or too Ineil ilicent III performance. Boydeus
en,ire drew seyeu-iiIed grubber 10 depth OF s.x
inches and in going up -ight hllock OF mound was
stopped completely and could not proceed until the
| trubter had been loOsened. Smiths grubolns We
| thought very rough york-certalny not gOOf enough
Ia ildace us 10 purchase one for any farm We might
own; and as Fowler., the fact tina, he mast
have steam engine ~ turn dTun, 10 wlod rope, to
drag plOs TO tnrn up furrow, to say nothing Of the
necessary after of bsrrOw, roller, clOd cTusher
| and seed.dfiD, thought - we would call again
| .ttough cur e1celen. fieui Mr. Allen Rausome as-
s,rd u he bad used the pow successfully on his farm
| IL Suffolk.
The advocates Of the Boyd7n mach1e say thst if
steam i to replace horses l. should carry itself aud the
| l,sds of horses from place 10 place Tle machine
s.ouIa ,,art from it, shed dragging It's complement oi
Goals snd the implements OF tage, 90 over Sue itrn
raIs Ia the field to BE- plowel take is position,
and move about up and down furows and across neal
| lards u required. These qualifications were, to a
| certain degree combined in The Boydel tri'ti1n en-
| sits bu, il seemed 10 u that engine Of 3,hoHe
nner cosiipg 81 600 OF more shOnld be abe y draw