THE FARMER'S MAGAZINE. 



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Wallis and Haslam have a good selection of im- 

 plements; their two-horse portable thrashing machine is 

 good for small occupations. 



Whitmee. — His flour mills, crushing mills, &c. 



BoBv's Screen. — This screen has received an improve- 

 ment J it will now separate into three distinct qualities. 

 It has an additional separator like a flat box, fixed in 

 front, and receives beans, peas, &c., which it deposits 

 by spouts behind. 



Barton's stable fittings are very complete through- 

 out ; his self-acting rack keeps the hay always within 

 reach of the horse, by the elevation of the bottom, like 

 as sash windows are raised. 



Boyd's dairy and washing utensils are worth a closer 

 inspection ; he also shows a variety of implements. 



Bridges has an almost infinite collection of butter 

 prints, of very pretty devices suited to the purpose. 



BuRNEY and Bellamy have iron cisterns of various 

 sizes. 



The St. Pancras Works show varieties in man- 

 gers, stable fittings, and furniture, specimens of wire 

 and iron fencing, hurdles, field-gates, and wire netting. 



Jas. Hayes. — Grinding mill, straw elevator pat- 

 tern, &c. 



S. Skye axd Co. — Coffee-mills, sausage mills. 



Perreaux's patent pump is a capital general pur- 

 pose pump, and its india-rubber piston-valve has proved 

 well under severe trial. 



Whitehead shows his very superior brick and tile 

 machines, which have received many honours from our 

 different sociT'ties at home and abroad. His pug ma- 

 chine is exceedingly good. 



Thompson's haymaking machine and horserake — 

 two very superior implements, of which we reported 

 favourably in our Salisbury report. 



Coleman displays his Hanson's prize potato digger, 

 his scarifier or cultivator, harrows, &c. Hanson's po- 

 tato digger is t/ie implement of the year : its capabilities 

 are great — it will clean a ridge of potatoes without diffi- 

 culty, throwing them abroad for picking so that all can 

 be readily gathered. It has been more ihan once 

 described in the Mark Lane Express. " Coleman's 

 cultivator" is assuming a new position. He has suc- 

 ceeded in adapting it on a large scale for steam cultiva- 

 tion. Its adaptation was fully proved at the great 

 meetings of Salisbury and York, where it was worked 

 by Boydell's traction engine. 



Crowley' and Son show a truly well-made and 

 very useful cart, the wheels run on bevel tire or square 

 level soles. Tipping apparatus very good. 



Oliver MaCtGS exhibits a good assortment of ma- 

 chinery. Chaff engines, cake breakers, turnip cutters, 

 bean and other mills and crushers, &c., &c. 



Smith's steerage horse hoe is the best of its kind, 

 and after Goorka pattern. Delving machine good. 



Wheeler sent his patent root grater, turnip cutter, 

 circular saw, and bean mill. The circular saw is a 

 very useful machine. 



CoTTAM and Hallen have an attractive stand, con- 

 sisting partly of stable fittings, in variety of racks and 

 mangers. "Their new triangular manger, for corners, is 

 a very convenient one. We noticed a good and unique 

 corn-bin of sheet-iron. Their stable furniture, con- 

 taining every requisite, is excellent. They make a 

 small portable liquid manure pump to run on its own 

 wheels, the pipe of vulcanized India-rubber. It is of 

 very simple arrangement ; can be moved to any cess- 

 pool for emptying it, &c. 



Halifax and Co. display their farmers' account 

 books, recommended by the Royal Agricultural Society 

 of England, containing five books, i. e. for weekly 

 transactions — sale, purchase, ledger, and cash re- 

 spectively. 



Ransomes and Sims occupy the most extensive 



stand in the gallery, consisting of ploughs in great 

 variety, chaff engines, cake-breakers, crushing mills for 

 every farm purpose, with other machinery of their 

 almost unrivalled manufacture. We did not observe 

 any new invention or recent improvement of moment ; 

 while to give here any extended notice to describe the 

 uses and exquisite finish of their implements and ma- 

 chinery, would indeed be superfluous. 



The Royal Dublin Society's Exhibition.— 

 The efforts of this Society have done much for Ireland. 

 It was established so far back as 1731. It now enjoys 

 a Government grant of i,7,000 annually, besides annual 

 subscriptions amounting to £2,000. An entrance fee 

 of ^^20 with an annual subscription of £1 Is. consti- 

 tutes an honorary member, and an entrance fee of ^ 5 

 5s. with an annual subscription of ^"1 Is. an annual 

 member. The specimens on the Society's stands 

 were a portion of those shown at the Society's winter 

 exhibition of farm and dairy produce, held last month 

 on their premises in Dublin. The several roots, and sam- 

 ples of cereals, pulse, wool, and butter, were principally 

 contributed by the following noblemen and gentlemen : 

 the Duke of Leinster, the Earl of Charlemont, Col. 

 Kane Bunbury, the Marquis of Waterford, Major 

 Quentin, Doctor Taylor, Doctor Collins, the Com- 

 missioners of the Board of National Education in 

 Ireland from the Albert Model Farm and several of 

 their district model farms, J. H. Peart, Doctor 

 Radchfie, LL.D., J. E. V. Vernon, Lord Talbot 

 de Malahide, the Marquis of Kildare, &c., &c. The 

 Royal Dublin Society exhibited, for the first time, 

 collections of Irish-grown produce at the Smithfield 

 Club Show in 1851, at the request of the Earl 

 of Clarendon, then Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, 

 and, by virtue of his oflSce, President for the time being 

 of the Society. The good results which attended that 

 step are well known in Ireland and in this country. 

 The collection shown at the Smithfield Club Show during 

 1851 and the subsequent years brought before the 

 British capitalist the capability of the soil of Ireland for 

 the production of white ami green crops, " the great 

 reproducers of beef;" and English capital, still further 

 stimulated by the Great Irish Exhibition of 1853, flowed 

 freely into Ireland, and was largely employed in land 

 speculations, which turned out to be of a permanent 

 and highly remunerative kind. The Council of the 

 Society have sent forward this year a collection of 

 excellent farm products from various parts of Ire- 

 land ; and there are cards affixed to each lot, setting 

 forth the particulars of the various modes of culti- 

 vation, quantity and quality of manure, time of sov/ing, 

 and every particular which may be useful to the prac- 

 tical farmer, or others interested in husbandry. 



Mr. Halket has a miniature field set out, to show 

 his new system called guide-way culture. It did not 

 appear to us very feasible, and must involve, in a great 

 degree, a new order of agriculture. 



Nicholson's celebrated haymaking machine has our 

 unqualified praise. His assortment of machinery is ex- 

 ceedingly good ; his dressing and screen machines are 

 superior and cheap ; he has a capital machine for break- 

 ing thick cake ; grinding-mill, very serviceable. He 

 was prevented showing his newly-invented 2i-horse 

 power steam engine, owing to the regulations not per- 

 mitting, as it weighed 1 ton 6 cwt. We saw some ma- 

 chinery we thought equally heavy. We hope in all cases 

 one rule was adhered to. 



Sawney exhibited his renowned hariff-screen at- 

 tached to his almost equally-noted dressing machine. 



Stage Y had his barley-hummeller and chaff-cutters ; 

 the former has the long cylinder, in which revolves a 

 spindle armed with steel knives in a spiral form. 



Spill — specimens of rick-covers, tarpaulins, horse- 

 cloths, and other covers. 



