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Turner, haviug an extra barrel, which turnetHn one di- 

 rection breaks for beasts, and in the other for sheep — 

 one of Picksley, Sims, and Co., breaking four different 

 sizes of cake, and haviug two screen-boxes for receiving 

 the cake and dust — one of T. W. Ashby's compact ma- 

 chines — one of Hunt and Pickering's— one of Bentall's 

 iron breakers, making six different sizes — one of Smith 

 Brothers — one of Johnson and Wbittaker's, which turns 

 off four different samples by simply reversing a handle. 

 The hand root-pulpers comprised some new minor 

 features, but some very successful ones. The manner 

 of trial was to serve out lOSlbs. of roots, and examine 

 the product made by the machine. They were of the fol- 

 lowing makers — Barnard, Bishop, and Barnard's, the 

 cutting parts made of cast-iron rasps, which sharpen 

 themselves j Hunt and Pickering, a disc pulper ; Picks- 

 ley, Sims, and Co., a new machine, with the knives 

 fixed on a disc; Mellard, a Martin's machine, shaped 

 like Gardner's, but with the knives on the outside and 

 the roots inside ; Bentall's well-known pulper ; Woods 

 and Son, Phillips' pulper; and Johnson and Wbittaker's, 

 with four toothed rollers on the screw principle. The 

 hand root-cutters and slicers were from the subjoined 

 firms : — Barnard, Bishop, and Barnard's grater, which 

 cuts turnips into strips ; Carson's Moody's gauge cutter ; 

 Picksley, Sims, and Co., with sickle-shaped knives, and 

 the hopper furrowed, to prevent roots wedging together ; 

 Bentall's Gardner, with improvements for separating 

 dirt and small chippings from the clean cut roots ; 

 Mellards', Martin's cutter; Johnson and Wbittaker's 

 double-action slicer ; the trustees of Crosskill, root- 

 cutter ; Bentall's Gardner, with improvements. 



The following power machines were tried three 

 minutes each : — The pulpers of Barnard, Bishop, and 

 Barnard, of the Trustees of W. Crosskill, of Hunt 

 and Pickering, of Picksley and Sims, of Bentall, and 

 of Woods. The cakebreakers of Smith Brothers, of 

 Bentall, of Dray, Taylor, and Co. The chaffcutters of 

 Picksley, Sims, and Co., of Page and Son, of J. Cornes, 

 of Hill and Smith, of Bentall, of Allcock, of J. Cornes 

 and Sons, of Johnson and Whittaker, of Plenty and Pain, 

 of Ashby &c Co., of Gardner, of Richmond & Chandler, 

 and Carson. The corn and linseed crushers were tried 

 on Friday, the power machines being run two or three 

 minutes each, first with oats, and then with linseed ; the 

 power consumed being observed, and the produce ex- 

 amined and weighed. The machines were those of 

 Turner, Amies and Barford (late Stanley), Bentall, 

 Woods, and other makers. The hand-power chaff- 

 cutters were tried with barley straw, this forming a 

 better proof for the knives. The makers were J. 

 Gardner, H. Carson, Richmond and Chandler, E. Page 

 and Co., Picksley, Sims, and Co., Johnson and Whit- 

 taker, Bentall, Ashby and Co., James Cornes, T. 

 Allcock, Snowden, Cornes and Sons, and others. 



Those rather out-of- date pieces of mechanism — horse- 

 power thrashing machines — were tried by the necessary 

 number of horses required ; a certain quantity of 

 wheat and of barley being served out to each machine. 

 They belonged to Haslam, Tasker, Hensman, and 

 Woods — the latter machine met with an accident during 

 the trial. The steam-power combined machines were 

 tried each with 100 sheaves of wheat, and then further 

 (unless ineffective in the first performance) with fifty 

 sheaves of barley. They were driven by one of Cam- 

 bridge's eight-horse portable engines. The makers 

 whose machines were tested were Foster, Nalder, Hum- 

 phries, Savory, Holmes, Gibbons, Gilbert, Tasker, 

 Ellis, Cambridge, Ruston, Procter, and Co., Plenty 

 and Pain, Wilkinson, Wright, and Co. Wedlakc and 

 Co., Kirby, Ashby, Turner, and others. 



The trials of the steam ploughs took place on what 

 wouldbe called^light land ; but the hardness of the ground, 



not so much in the clover lea half of the field, as 

 at the pea stubble end, also sloping abruptly up hill, 

 made six-inch deep ploughing to be bard pair-horse 

 work. Various operations were performed on the earlier 

 days of trial, such as Mr. Fowler's ploughing, grubbing 

 with the ploughshares and small-pronged breasts, and 

 ploughing with the Kentish rist plough ; Mr. Cole- 

 man's working his new scarifier, which has a set of tines 

 at each end of a frame mounted upon four steerage 

 wheels ; Messrs. Chandler and Oliver's ploughing with 

 their combined winding engine ; Mr. Beard's ploughing 

 and grubbing with a new windlass attached behind an 

 engine ; and Mr. Eddington's ploughing with his two 

 engines mounted upon windlass frames. On Friday 

 morning, a test was applied to each machine by the 

 judges, Professor Wilson, Mr. Wallis, and Mr. Owen. 

 Mr. Fowler's twelve-horse engine, with many improve- 

 ments in the attachment and driving of the drum, and 

 his newest four-furrow plough, turned over two roods 

 thirty-eight perches in forty minutes, the depth six to 

 seven inches. This is at the rate of one acre and seven- 

 teen perches per hour ; and the work by horse- plough 

 was certainly strong pulling for two horses, turning a 

 furrow of equal breadth and depth, that is, ten inches 

 wide by six or seven inches deep — one of Busby's 

 ploughs being tried by dynamometer in various parts of 

 the field to ascertain the draught. The quantity of coal 

 burnt in the forty minutes was 137 lbs. ; the number of 

 hands engaged was two men and two or three boys. 

 Messrs. Chandler and Oliver, with their patent three- 

 furrow plough and ten-horse engine, ploughed at similar 

 breadth and depth one acre one rood and eight perches, 

 in two hours and sixteen minutes, with 224 lbs. of coal ; 

 the number of hands engaged being four men and two 

 boys. Mr. Beard, with an eight-horse double-cylmder 

 engine and two-furrow plough, ploughed to the same 

 depth one rood and thirty-eight perches in one hour 

 and twenty-eight minutes, or at the rate of one and one-> 

 thiid roods per hour, with ninety-one pounds of coal, 

 employing six men. Mr. Eddington, with two eight- 

 horse single-cylinder engines, and two three-furrow 

 ploughs, turned over one acre and twenty-six perches 

 in one hour and eight minutes, with 2011bs. of coal, 

 nine men being engaged in working the apparatus. 

 This work is at the rate of one jacre per hour ; but un- 

 fortunately the new engines which the inventor en- 

 tered did not arrive in time, and thus the whole trial 

 was under the disadvantage of having two old engines 

 of smaller capability. 



A clever little French drill, with clock-work seed- 

 delivery, was in action; as also Mr. Hancock's pul- 

 verizer plough, which, slicing the soil it turns into three 

 pieces, effectually subdivides it, and makes a fine tillage. ' 



In the trial yard are to be seen Chaplin's locomo- 

 tive with upright boiler ; Aveling's portable engine, 

 made self-travelling by a pitch- chain, and ingenious 

 steerage in the shape of a disc wheel attached to the 

 shafts in front, thus dispensing with the horse ; Ward 

 and Burman's bone-mill ; the massive and powerful 

 bone-mill of Crosskill's trustees ; the portable engine 

 of Bond and Robinson; the thrashing-machines of 

 Maggs and Co., in a shed thatched by the aid of their 

 thatch-making machine ; Oldham and Booth's bone- 

 mill ; Wall and Haslam's straw-elevator; Parkins' 

 bone-grater ; and many other machines. 



As usual at these great gatherings of implements, 

 there were many of very doubtful utility. The Show 

 of this year we think has produced some singular 

 applications of the agricultural mind in providing for 

 modern improvements. One of the most infelicitous 

 of all infelicitous inventions was shewn in model by 

 Mr. Banks, and is thus described — " Patent portable 

 suspension railway mounted on wheels. Upon the 



