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of their celebrated cultivator, hay-rakes, chaff-cutters, 

 ploughs, clod-crushers, horse-hoes, pulpers, carts, wag- 

 gons, &c. ; Burgess and Key's reaper, Hanson's potato- 

 digger, llorusby's portable steam-engine, and a com- 

 bined thrashing-machine of their own manufacture, 

 with a peculiar arrangement of the riddles, one below 

 the other, so that the pulse, corn, &c., traverses each 

 riddle in succession without having to be c:irried back- 

 ward for the purpose. They have improved the chaff 

 cutter by constructing it with a V-shaped mouth, fixin'^ 

 a comb to clean the teeth of the feed-rollers, and having 

 the rollers made of loose toothed rings, by which all chok- 

 ing is avoided. Their hay-rake has teeth peculiarly 

 curved for holding a large amount of staff, and the 

 wheels are of large diameter. An improvement is found 

 in the cultivator, the side-wheels being raised or lowered 

 by means of a sliding vertical standard, instead of the 

 old adjustment. 



Bentall, who took the second prize, showed a great 

 variety of sizes and adjustments of his famous broad- 

 sharer; a number of ploughs, including the original 

 Goldhanger plough, chaff-cutters, pulpers, rollers, and 

 troughs. He has attached the admirable pulper to an 

 overhand horse-work, vi'hich is quite portable, intended 

 for field use, or for transporting from one homestead to 

 another: price ^21. The prize for the best improve- 

 ment in any known implement was awarded to him for 

 bis new, simple, and effective oilcake breaker, the ad- 

 justments of which are very easy and durable, and the 

 coarser breaking or fine pulverizing is completely ef- 

 fected : price £5. The two-horse portable engine, 

 with iron intermediate motion, with straps and shafting, 

 driving a small thrashing-machine capable of knocking 

 out twelve quarters of mown wheat per day, a chaff- 

 cutter, a pulper, and oilcake-mill, was a very neat and 

 useful arrangement of machinery : price 125 guineas. 



The third prize v/as awarded to Messrs. Everett and 

 Taylor, for a good assortment of implements, chaff- 

 cutters. Turner's roller-mills, Holben's barley-hum- 

 meller. Smith and Ashby's haymaker. Burgess and 

 Key's reaper. 



Messrs. Ransome andSimshad a good standofimple- 

 ments, but not in competition for the prizes. They 

 showed their portable engine and thrashing-machine, 

 with Brinsmead's rotary shaker, and an improvement 

 which facilitates the delivery of the straw ; ploughs, 

 scarifiers, chaff-engines, bean-cutter, oat- crusher, &c. 



Messrs. Ward and Silver exhibited scarifiers, dress- 

 ing-machines, horse-rakes, haymaking-machines, &c. 



Messrs. Hunt showed Howard's horse-rake, some 

 chaff-cutters, Crosskill's carts, the American hay- 

 collector, &c. 



Impey had Barrett and Exall's haymaker, Parkes's 

 forks, chain-harrows, &c. 



Gripper and Co.— troughs, corn-bins, garden-seats, 

 &c. 



Catchpool and Thompson — among other articles, a 

 thrashing-machine, having a fixed sloping board instead 

 of a vibrating-table ; the corn, &c., which has dropped 

 through the straw-shaker, being carded to the riddle by 

 means of scrapers fixed to the shaker-boxes underneath. 



If this method would answer, it would effectually get 

 rid of the oscillation and strain and wear of the frame- 

 work, &c., caused by the common shape. They had a 

 double-blast winnowing-machine, iron roller, Essex 

 harvest cart, seed barrow-drill, stack staddle, &c. 



Dray and Co. showed their Champion reaper, and 

 their mowing-machine, which had been at work at Sir 

 John Tyrrel's. 



Smyth and Son their well-known corn and seed 

 drills. 



Haigh, washing and mangling machines. 



Woods and Son, of Stowmarket — poppy extirpator, 

 mills, crushers, cait with removable iron boxes in the 

 naves, and a complicated reaping-machine, to take the 

 same breadth of work as Burgess and Key's, but of 

 smaller size, weighing 8 cwt., endless bands across a 

 platform for the side delivery, and straps and riggers 

 instead of gear-work for actuating the cutters, &c. 



Goss and Peene— ploughs, scarifiers, horse-rakes, 

 chaff-cutters, root-graters, &c. 



Turner — mincing-machines, washing-machines, fruit- 

 parers, kidney-bean slicer, knife -cleaner, &c. 



Simpson — " Mechian" harvest carts. 



Grove. — Specimens of agricultural roots. 



Thorley's and Henri's cattle-foods also occupied 

 stalls. 



To keep in remembrance the steam-ploughing of 1856, 

 Burgess and Key's reaping-machine was also at work in 

 another direction from the show-yard. Again, Edding- 

 ton's steam-ploughing and draining with Fowler's imple- 

 ments and anchorage, and a novel form of windlass, in 

 which a portable engine is run up on to the top of the 

 frame containing the wiading-drums and gear-work, 

 were in operation in a field on the Broomfield road. 

 The ploughing with Fowler's four-furrow balance 

 plough, to one of Clayton and Shuttleworth's eight- 

 horse engines on the windlass, was well performed ; 

 although one part of the land was a very deep hollow. 



PRIZES FOR STOCK, & c. 

 HORSES FOR AGRICULTURAL PURPOSES. 

 Judges. — S. Jonas, Chrishall Grange, Saffron Walden. 

 W. C. Spoouer, Elisg, Southampton. 

 The best Stallion. 

 First prize of £15 and the apecial prize of £25, open to all 

 England, G. D. Badham, the Sparrows' Nest, Ipswich (The 

 Emperor). 



Second, of £8, George Carter, Danbury. 

 Highhj commt9ickd.— George Hare, Holbrook, Thoa. Crisp, 

 Butley Abbey, and George Slater, for Suffolk stallions, 

 Commended. — George Rust jun.'s stallion. 

 Beat Two-years-old Entire Colt, 

 First prize of £10, G. D. Badham. 

 Second of £5, Wm. Bott, jun , Broomfield. 

 Hirjhly commended. — W. H. Walker's colt. 

 Best Mare, with Foal at foot. 

 First prize of £6, John Ward, East Mersea (Moggy). 

 Second of £3, John Ward. 



Hi(jl>hj commended. — W. Livermore, Elsenham, for hia 

 mare. 



Commended.— G. Slater, Saffron Walden, and Wm. Belcher, 

 Saudon. 



Best Tbree-years-old Filly. 

 First prize of £5, G. D. Badliam. 

 Second of £3, George Carter. 

 Jlif/hly commended.— J. Ward, East Mersea. 

 Commended.— George Hart, North Weald. 



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