We will now proceed to explain the pro cess of placing the machinery, and manner of cultivating and harrowing the soil, which will be the better understood from the follow ing diagram showing the position by letters of each portion of the apparatus and machinery : : I • i In n | : H H i D P G E ~"~"™" : n H : ——— I A X Supposing then the diagram to represent the paddock to be operated upon, the outside line being the boundary, the engine a is brought up and placed on the upper end broadside on to the field, Six pulleys are then taken round the field in a cart, and placed in their several positions b,c, d, e, f, andG, where they are firmly held each by two anchors weighing separately 60lbs. The rope h is then unwound from each of the drums carried round the several pulleys, and the two ends attached to the cultivator i, the whole process occupying not more than half an-hour. The propelling power of the engine then having been disconnected the rope drums j and k are thrown into gear, the rope is wound on to the drum j, and off drum k, and the cultivator i drawn towards pulley b where, on arrival, the man guiding it, being supplied with a white flag, signals to the engine-driver, who stops the engine, reverses the action of the drums, whilst the plough man is changing his seat, and the cultivator is then drawn towards pulley o. As the

ground is cultivated, the pulleys b and c are moved nearer the engine, but this is only required every fourth or fifth journey of the cultivator, and is effected with very little delay. This operation is continued until the field is cultivated, which can he done within a foot or two of the fence all round, the room occu pied by the pulleys, &c, being very small, The harrowing is done on a precisely similar Bystem to the cultivating, the harrows being attached to the rope in the same way as the cultivator, and conducted in the same manner. 