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THE FARMER'S MAGAZINE 



BiNNs' manures deserve notice. He shows a sample 

 of wool mauure. 



Barrett and Exall's stand commands attention by 

 a large display of medals. But this is not all ; their show 

 of implements and machinery is very superior, consist- 

 ing of a good assortment of their excellent manufacture. 

 We think their names so well known that we need not 

 add more. 



AxGEL and Co. make a selection of agricultural 

 books and almanacks. They appear desirous to aid in 

 agricultural literature by a choice selectiou- 



Crosskill and Co.— This, again, is a firm so well 

 known, and the implements and machinery they exhibit 

 are so highly appreciated, that it seems to us quite out 

 of place to do more than notice them otherwise than in 

 this general way : all was as is usual with them. 



Thorley called attention to his stand of samples of 

 flour for cattle food by the display of a magnificent gold 

 cup, which he is desirous to present to the Royal Agri- 

 cultural Society for their gift to the farmer who shall 

 fatten the most cattle best from his prepared food. 



Archer brings forward some useful nose pincers or 

 cattle leaders, at 2s. 6d. each. 



Tree and Co. show Ewart's cattle gauges, and Ca- 

 sella's weather instruments. 



Grove (James) has his usual good collection of 

 roots ; his long red Bugle mangels are excellent ; 

 turnips, &c., in good variety. We are pleased to see 

 hira keep up so good a stock. 



Richmond and Chandler take their usual promi- 

 nent position iu the exhibition gallery ; amongst their 

 machinery and implements we noticed a very useful and 

 cheap chaff-engine for small occupations, price ^^3 15s. 



Snowden (W.) exhibits a chaff engine and bruising 

 mill. The chaff engine has a large feeding-box, and is a 

 large machine to be worked by one person ; it does not 

 feed by rollers, but by a web underneath ; the feed 

 " only comes forward when the knife is from it ;" its 

 novelty deserves attention. 



Holmes and Sons send their manure-distribu- 

 tor, drill, and other machinery and implements ; their 

 weighing machines have long stood high in public 

 favour : they have also chaff engines, corn crushers, 

 cake breakers, turnip cutters, and pig troughs in good 

 variety ; their corn- dressing machine is popular. 



Moore and Co. have churns in variety; the Yankee 

 churn the chief attraction. We did not see the Yankee 

 I'eaper. 



Swift Brothers show their patent washing, wring- 

 ing, and mangling machines, liquid-manure pump, corn 

 bin, &c. ; all very good, 



CuLLiNGFORD (VV.) boasts of very excellent garden 

 netting, sheep-fold netting, rabbit nets, carriage-horse 

 nets, fishing-nets, &c., some from cocoa fibre. 



Page and Co. had a capital root-stall, immense 

 cabbage, mangels, and turnips ; six of Skirving's im- 

 proved weighed llOlbs., and six mangels weighed 

 1931bs. ; the largest specimen of mangel we noticed was 

 on this stand, its weight 441bs. ; turnips in fine variety. 



Barnard and Bishop have their celebrated root 

 pulpers in variety. 



Selby Hand, a combined crushing mill, sack weigh- 

 ing machine and lifter. 



PicKSLEY, Sims, and Co. : Chaff cutters, mills, 

 washing machines, chain harrow, lawn mower, and 

 wringing and mangling machine. 



Goddard : A very complete kitchen range. 



B. Fowler and Co. : Cast-iron and bored pumps, 

 wrought-iron pumps, liquid-manure pumps on tripod 

 stands, and iron stable pails. These pumps last year ob- 

 tiined great attention from their double action, thus keep- 

 ing up a continuous flow of water ; " the piston is solid, 

 and all the valves being out of the barrel, permits their 

 areas to equal that of the piston, and the water passages 



to be proportionately large ;" the arrangements of the 

 details are very good, the application of Holman's 

 patent reciprocating lever being an improvement. 



James exhibited his liquid-manure carts, 



T. Hunt and Brothers : A clover and trefoil seed 

 drawer, chaff engine, scythes, and a variety of other 

 useful farm machinery ; well worthy a better notice. 



Sigma : Dibbling implements, &c. ; specimens of 

 wheat unusually fine. 



Carsons's chaff cutters, scarifiers, mills, crushers, 

 pulpers, hay rakes, ploughs, &c,, stand deservedly high 

 in public estimation. 



Impey shows his well-known dressing machine. 



Smith and Sons, their truly-valuable drills, of simple 

 construction and excellent manufacture ; we believe this 

 firm is the oldest iu drill machinery extant. 



Cambridge sends his chain harrows ; we sup- 

 pose the regulations relative to weight (not to exceed 

 one ton) would preclude the exhibition of his large 

 rollers. 



Samuelson showed his Gardner's turnip cutter in 

 variety, as also several pulpers, corn crushers, chaff 

 cutters, pumps for irrigation, and foldyard washing ma- 

 chines, and a variety of other useful articles, in character 

 with his long-established reputation for first-class ma- 

 chinery. 



Williams' celebrated harrows were among other 

 things exhibited of highly useful character. 



Reeves. — In addition to his celebrated Chandler's 

 liquid manure drills, which he has improved b}' an alter- 

 ation of the speed of delivery, showed a garden or one-row 

 drill. This can be made to deposit seed continuously or 

 as a drop or " bunch" drill ; the regulation is by discs 

 with perforated holes of various sizes inserted in the up- 

 right cylinder containing the seed ; these are turned as 

 the drill proceeds, and the seed drops through. The 

 height is regulated by the diameter of the wheel, but it 

 is requisite that the dropping should be close to the soil 

 for " bunching." Price £5 10s. A new invention by 

 Mr. Reeve. 



Woods exhibited a section of his poppy extirpator, 

 pulper, and other useful articles. 



Delf entered a new invention for opening furrows, 

 or rather for taking the sheep droppings with the fur- 

 row sole out of furrows on seed pastures, and distribut- 

 ing them over the surface. It is of similar form to 

 Bentall's scarifier — say with one share on — and it has 

 two long iron plates four or five feet by six inches, which 

 expand and throw soil and manure over the surface. I 

 is novel, but did not appear to us a very useful implet 

 ment for its price, ,£10 10s. 



Warren's expanding plough we heard was here, 

 but we did not see it. 



Luck's dressing machine with patent elevators for 

 weighing, together with his mills, constituted his stand- 

 ing. The dressing machine is very popular. 



Fisher exhibited hisvery useful horse-rake, mounted 

 on his other implements for want of space. His cake 

 mill is cheap ; and his other exhibition consisted of 

 bean, oats, and barley mills, chaff engines, &c. 



Purdie and Co. brought washing machines and 

 knife cleaners. The washing machine is an oblong chest, 

 with dashers. 



Read's cattle probangs, &c.,and garden engine came 

 next in our walk. 



Smith and Ashby exhibited a well-known assort- 

 ment of their most useful implements ; the latest im- 

 provements in their chaff-engines, being anewly-invented 

 patent safety pressor : this is a lifting roller immediately 

 behind the cutting front, which prevents clogging. Their 

 chief novelty in this show is a 2^ horse power steam 

 engine, which can be used to work machinery, or is 

 easily converted into a steaming apparatus by turning 

 the steam into steam cylinders or tubs ; price ,£00. 



