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80 as [to be driven by one engine ; as Ransomcs and 

 Sims', Bentall's, Haywood's, Nicholson's, Smith and 

 Ashby's, Johnson's, for cutting'chaft", breaking oilcakes, 

 crushing linseed, oats, or beans, and even steaming the 

 food so prejiared. We saw, too, Hayes' straw elevator; 

 Chambeilain's rotary brick-making machine, producing 

 15,000 to 20,000 bricks a day ; Crosskill's powerful 

 bone-mills, crushini; whole skulls and liorns ; and Ihirns' 

 singular bone-dust mill for rasping instead of breaking 

 the bones. Patterson's compound-action grinding-mills, 

 and Tye's flour-mill, were also attracting attention. 

 Around the yard were the sheds, in which were erected 

 Barrett and Co.'s fixed barn-woiks, with separate win- 

 nowers ; Garrett and Son's fixture thrashing-machine 

 (self contained); Ilornsby and Son's one-fixture machine, 

 self contained, and another with separate winnowers ; 

 Sparke and Co.'s saw-table ; Clayton and Shuttleworth's 

 fixed barn-works, self-contained, and another set with 

 sepaiate winnowers. 



In our walk through the stands we must be brief, 

 but new machines and implements shall be occasionally 

 noticed in our columns — perhaps a better way of pre- 

 senting them to the farmer's consideration, than by 

 stretching this report beyond reasonable limits. Rich- 

 mond and Chandler's chaff-cutters have undergone con- 

 siderable improvement in construction, partly to enable 

 the machines to be packed in closer compass for ex- 

 portation. The pieces can be most readily put together, 

 and the steel mouth-plate is made separate from the rest 

 of the box, so as to be easily renewed when worn. 

 Warner and Son, in addition to their famous assortment 

 of pumps, &c., have a very compact horse-work with 

 pump on the same frame — a well-conceived arrange- 

 ment for many purposes ; their turnip and mangold 

 grater is also an effective machine. 



Ransomes and Suns exhibited their various first-clsss 

 ploughs, adapted for all descriptions of work, from 12- 

 inch heavy-land ploughing to the light-land ploughing 

 that can be done by a pony ; some strongly and simply- 

 constructed scarifiers ; a good grubber; two-furrow and 

 turnwrest ploughs ; Lord Beauclerc's singular sub- 

 soiler ; Cotgreave's wonderful trenching plough ; 

 Biddell's bean-cutters, oat-mills, and novel turnip- 

 cutter, in which the hopper rotates above fixed, hori- 

 zontally-disposed, " bomerang-sbaped" knives, forcing 

 down the roots upon the knives by the screw-wedge 

 partitions of the hopper. 



Sawney showed his well-known cheap and yet most 

 comprehensive dressing machines ; a new brush-cleaner, 

 for the screen ; and a very useful combined weighing 

 machine and sack-lifter. 



On Burgess and Key's stand, of course, the great 

 object of interest was the reaping machine ; but we 

 merely name it on the present occasion, as this harvest's 

 experience of reapers will be from time to time the 

 subject of further remark. Tools, churns, pumps, 

 are here in great variety — two especially noted objects, 

 viz., the flexible-pipe rotary pump, and the now self- 

 registering cbronometrical thermometer, valuable for 

 gentlemen's conservatoiies, forcing or orchid houses, and 

 for innumerable scientific purposes. 



Pearson and Co. — Various sorts and pizes of washing 

 and wringing machines, and washing machines and 

 churns combined. 



Fisher's chaff-cutter has a riddle attached, for sifting 

 the chatr as it falls from the knives. His horse- work 

 is well contrived, and boxed in so as to be out of the 

 way of injury. 



Banks. — Iron hurdles ; gates ; a cart, with turnip- 

 cutter attached to the axle, for slicing about a field, in- 

 vented by Caldow and M'Kinnell ; mills ; stable- 

 fittings, &c. 



Perreaux and Co. — Patent india-rubber valves, on a 



principle which promises to effect almost a revolution 

 in the manufacture of pumps and fire-engines. 



Hickman. — Cheese-presses, curd-breakers, milk- 

 pans, &.C. 



Fowler. — Assortment of pumps, garden engines, 

 hydraulic rams. 



Smiih and Ashby's chaff-cutters are characterized by 

 the strength and simplicity of the parts, working with few 

 wheels, and having different-sized gear put on for 

 cutting different lengths of stuff. The shaft which ac- 

 tuates the rollers is passed through the box immediately 

 behind the mouth-plate ; and its rotation acts as a fric- 

 tion roller, facilitating the egress of the fodder — an 

 arrangement reminding us of Clayton's brick machine, 

 where rollers form the oriiice. The haymaking ma- 

 chine of the Stamford firm also maintains its superior 

 position. 



Crosskill's carts and machine-made wheels and axles 

 are as complete as ever. His clod-crusher and Archi- 

 medean root-washer are still the best of their kinds. 

 The bone-dust mill, for rasping up crushed bones into 

 dust, is peculiarly efficient, and likely to be useful. 



Holmes and Son showed their drills, manure- 

 distributors, clover and seed-sheller, &c. 



Samuelson's was a very large stand of turnip-cutters, 

 root-pulpers, turnip-slicers with plates to fit in for cut- 

 ting into strips for lambs, or pulping, as may be re- 

 (^uired ; combined chaff-cutter and root-grater, for 

 mixing off the pulp at one operation ; chaif'-cutters of 

 all sizes ; roller mills ; oilcake-breakers, the upper pair 

 of rollers driven at reduced speed, with a good screw- 

 arrangement for setting to different qualities of work ; 

 lawn mowing machines, &c., &c. Ransome and Co. sent 

 washing and wringing machines, churns, sausage- 

 mincers, and little machines for numerous culinary pur- 

 poses. Boby had his unsurpassed corn-screen, and corn- 

 dressing machine with the screen attached. Barrett, 

 Exall, and Andrews' most striking article is the endless- 

 band saw ; they also show chaff-cutters, haymaking 

 machines, barley-avellers, bayrakes, &c., and the safety 

 boxed-in horse gear and combined intermediate motion. 

 Cambridge's press-wheel roller is conspicuous on his 

 stand, also his sets of chain-harrows with self-expanding 

 apparatus. 



A CATALOGUE 



IMPLEMENTS EXHIBITED. 



There are comparatively few of the visitors to our 

 national meetings who study very closely the cata- 

 logues they procure at the time. Fewer still, perhaps, 

 rcl'er to thcni hereafter. A yet larger class never see 

 these useful guides — or at least they never would do so 

 but for our custom of running them through our co- 

 lumns. There have been none that will be turned with 

 more interest than this record of the Chester Meeting. 

 As an Exhibition of Implements it has been alto- 

 gether unrivalled. There is scarcely an entry in the fol- 

 lowing list but has, in some way or other, received con- 

 firmation of its merit ami usefulness. The reader has 

 accordingly only to suit himself. Anything he may yet 

 require, from a cart-bridle to a steam-plough, is ready 

 to his hand. We can introduce him at once to people 

 who will do him justice. 



Jamks H.-vvwoou, juu., of tlie Pliccuix Foundry aud 

 Engiiieeruig Works, near Derby. 



A eeveu-horse power portable ateam engine, price 215/., 

 invented, improved, and niaDufactured by tbe enhibiter; a 



