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By the Royal Agricultural Society of England, at 

 Gloucester, July, 1853 : — £ e. 



For the best corn and seed Drill, with R. II. 



and Son's patent fore-carriage steerage .... 10 

 For the best turnip and mangold wurtzel and 



manure Drill, on the ridge 10 



By the Royal Agricultural Society of England, at Lewes, 

 July, 1852:— £ s. 



For the best Drill for general purposes 10 



For the best corn and seed Drill 10 



For the best turnip, mangold wurtzel, and ma- 

 nure Drill, on the flit 10 



For the best turnip, mangold wurtzel, and ma- 

 nure Drill, on the ridge 10 



By the Royal Agricultural Society of England, at Exe- 

 ter, July, 1850:— £ s. 



For the best corn and turnip Drill 10 o 



For the best Drill for turnips and manure, on 



the flat 10 



For the best Drill for turnips and manure, on 



the ridge 10 



With other similar prizes at earlier meetings of the 

 Royal Agricultural Society, as well as [at the Yorkshire, 

 West of England, and others. 



For Corn-dressing Machines : 

 The Medal of Honour at the Universal Expo- £ s. 



sition at Paris. 

 By ihe North Lincolnshire Agricultural Society, 



at Boston, Ausiust, 1855 10 



By the Royal Agricultural Society of England, at 



Carlisle, July, 1855, first prize of 5 



By the Bath and West of England Agricultural 



Society, at Tiverton, June, 1855 3 



By the Royal Agricultural Society of England, at 



Lincoln, July, 1854, first prize of 5 



By the Bath and West of England Agricultural 



Society, at Bath, June, 1854, the first prize of 5 

 By ';he Selby and Tadcaster Agricultural Society, 



at Selby, J uly, 1854, first prize of 2 10 



By the Great Yorkshire Agricultural Society, at 



Ripou, August, 1854, first prize of 2 



By the Hens Agricultural Society, at Hertford, 



October, 1354, first prize of 2 



By the Royal Agricultural Society of England, at 



Gloucester, July, 1853, the first prize of .... 5 

 By the Bath and West of England Agri. Society, 



at Plymouth, June, 1853, the first prize of. . . . 3 

 By the North Lincolnshire Agricultural Society, 



at Gainsborough, July, 1855, the first prize of 1 

 By the Royal Agricultural Society of England, 



at Lewes, July, 1852, first prize of 10 



By the North Lincolnshire Agricultural Society, 



at Horncastle, July, 1852, the first prize of . . 1 5 

 By the Yorkshire Agricultural Society, at Shef- 

 field, August, 1852, the first prize of 5 



By the Royal North Lancashire Agri. Society, 



at Preston, August, 1852, the first prize of .. 3 

 By the Yorkshire Agricultural Society, at Brid- 

 lington, August, 1851, the first prize of 5 



By the Royal Agricultural Society of England, 



at Exeter, July, 1850, the first prize of 10 



By the Royal Agri. Society, at Norwich, July,1849 10 

 By the Royal Agri. Society, at York, July, 1848 10 

 By the Royal Agricultural Society, atNewcastle- 



'upon-Tyne, July, 1840 3 



By the North Lincolnshire Agricultural Society, 



at Caistor, July, 1851 2 Q 



By the North Lincolnshire Agricultural Society, 



at Louth, July, 1850 3 



By the North Lii^colnshire Agricultural Society, 



at Brigg, July, 1849 3 



By the North Lincolnshire Agricultural Society, 



at Lincoln, July, 1848,. , , 3 



By the North Lincolnshire Agricultural Society, 



at Spilsby, July, 1847 ....£i 



By the North Lincolnshire Agricultural Society, 



at Market Rasen, July, 1846 3 



By the North Lincolnshire Agricultural Society, 



at Gainsborough, July, 1845 10 



By the Yorkshire Agricultural Society, at Bever- 



ley, August, 1815, the Prize Medal. 

 By the Lincolnshire Agricultural Society, at 



Sleaford, August, 1845 1 10 



The firm has been also successful with cake 

 crushers and chaff" cutters ; numbering in all about 

 200 money prizes, of about £1400 value, and 21 

 gold, silver, and bronze medal prizes. These in- 

 clude the Great Council medal at the Exhibition 

 of the Industry of all Nations, London, 1851 ; the 

 Grand Medal of Honour, at the Universal Exposi- 

 tion at Paris, 1855; three gold medals at the 

 Universal Agricultural Exposition at Paris, 1850; 

 the gold medal at the Imperial Royal Agricultural 

 Society of Austria, at Vienna, 1857 ; and the gold 

 medal at the Agricultural and Horticultural Society 

 of Gers, at Condom, 1857. 



In appropriate commentary on this legion of 

 honours, we may avail ourselves of the following 

 well-written description from the Official Illus- 

 trated Guide to the Great Northern JRailway : -- 



" No visitor to Grantham should leave the town 

 without visiting the immense manufactory of 

 Messrs. Hornsby and Son, whose agricultural im- 

 plements have gained for them a world-wide repu- 

 tation. Those who inspected the rich collection of 

 machinery devoted to farming purposes, at the 

 Great Exhibition of 1851, will remember the eti- 

 comiums awarded to the productions of this emi- 

 nent firm. The wonderful development in this de- 

 partment of science, and the great demand for first- 

 class articles, are partly exemphfied in the history 

 of Mr. R. Hornsby's career. Forty years ago this 

 gentleman walked into Grantham, — without capital 

 or friends, it is true ; but endowed with a patience 

 and determination which speedily placed him on 

 the high road to success : his present position is 

 entirely owing to the intelligence with which he 

 has studied the requirements of agricultural in- 

 terests, and to the encouragement he has given to 

 inventions of great ability and convenience. The 

 works of Messrs. Hornsby and Son possess an in- 

 terest which all must acknowledge and appreciate. 

 The Turnery, into which the visitor is ushered on 

 his visit to this manufactory, will prepare him, in 

 some measure, for the extensive operations of this 

 firm. In the immense department for machinery 

 are the corn-drill, successfully introduced by Mr. 

 Hornsby in the early days of his career, and ex- 

 hibited at the world's bazaar in 1851, where a 

 ' council medal' was awarded for it. Five of these 

 machines, each combining various excellencies, 

 were then shown. The ten-rowed corn and general 

 purpose drill is a ' highly finished machine, with an 

 improvement patented by this firm, of India-rubber 

 tubes for conducting the seed down to the channel 

 made by the coulter, which is a valuable imi)rove- 

 ment upon the old plan of a series of cups, made 

 of tin, working one within the other. This drill 

 has also another improvement of two coulter bars, 

 by which an equal pressure is obtained upon every 



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