OF NOTTINGHAMSHIRE. 15k APPENDIX,“No. V: E'xtradi of a Letter to Sir R. Sutton, Bart.

I AM so bad a draftsman, that I am quite ashamed to send you the inclosed draught of the Cultivator; but hope you will, by the annexed description of the dimen- sions, be able to understandit. You see the teeth intersect, and as they are but twelve inches from each other, and by intersecting, the distance is reduced to six inches, and then the breadth of the shares being full three inches, reduces the intermediate space to so small a dimension, that the whole of the ground is entirely broken up, and answers the purpose not only of ploughing, but harrowing likewise, without cutting the quick grassroots in two, which is an advantage that ploughing has not.* It likewise, from the Standing forward, and bend of the teeth, brings all the roots up to the top of the land, which is another advantage that cannot be had from the plough.‘The reduction of labour is another advantage that belongs to this instrument, as four horses and one man will do from six to seven acres per day in sand land. If any other information is wanting that is in my power to give, I shall always be happy to hear from you, and am,.

with the greatest respect,

SIR, Your most obedient humble servant,

W. BOWER.

* Tt gives me much pleasure.to find that the idea I_transmitted to the Board, in my notes,on the Gloucestershire Report, is reduced to certainty by the in- strument described by Mr. Bower. By arranging the teeth in the common harrow, the teethin each row answering to the interstices of the bars on either side of it, if the clods pass through the interstices of one bar, yet they are certain of being broken by the teeth, in one of the other bars.

Mr. W. FOX,