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THE FARMER'S MAGAZINE. 



WESTERN DIVISION. 



1855 Acland, T. D., Sprydoucote, Exeter. 



1855 Belfield, John, Park Field, Torquay. 



1855 Farraiit, M., Growing, Colhimpton. 



1855 Ffoude, W., Dartingtou, Totaea. 



1855 Gould, J., Poltimore, Exeter. 



1855 Hussey, Thomas, Waybrook, Exeter. 



1855 Michelmore, T., juu., .. Totuea. 



1855 Newman, T., Mamhead, Exeter. 



1855 Porter, William, Hembiiry Fort, Houiton. 



1855 SilUfant, John, Coombe, Copplestonp. 



1855 Troyte, A. II. D. Huntsham, Tiverton. 



1855 Wippell, William, .... Rudway, Thorverton. 



In the Eastern Division the following gentlemen have con- 

 sented to be submitted to the meeting for election: W. 

 Thompson, of Wrington, Bath, and R. Smith, of Exmoor. 



In the Western Division the following gentlemen have con- 

 sented to be submitted to the meeting for election in the room 

 of Sir M. Lopes, Bath, M.P., and W. P. Carew, Esq., M.P , 

 placed on the list of vice-presidents, and the rest of the re- 

 tiring gentlemen are recommended for re-election : R. H. 

 Clarke, of Bridwell; R. May, of Rewe; J. L. Oldrieve, of 

 Yealmpton; and J. Hooper, of Chayford. That the treasurers 

 (R. Badcock and R. Dymond, Esqrs.) be ex-officio members of 

 the council. 



CHEMICAL DEPARTMENT. 



The C3uncil report that lectures have been delivered by 

 Professor Voelcker, at Bath, Exeter, Yeovil, Barnstaple, Ply- 

 mouth, and NewtOD, on various subjects connected with agri- 

 cultural chemistry. The council have requested the professor 

 to undertake a careful examination of the different kinds of 

 lime and shell sand used iu the West of England, and to 

 write a report upon them, founded on careful analysis. The 

 professor confidently reckons on the assistance of the pro- 

 prietors of the several lime-kilns for the sending in samples, 

 and upon the members of the society who use the lime or 

 sand for furnishing data founded on their own experience as 

 to the effect of these manures upon their laud. It is probable, 

 also, that the society will derive much benefit from further in- 

 vestigations into the physical geography and climate of this 

 district, undertaken in the most praiseworthy spirit by Mr. N. 

 Whitley, and deserving of all encouragement from the society. 



MIDDLE-CLASS EDUCATION. 



Tiiis subject, which was brought under the consideration of 

 the society by Lord Ebrington, in October, 1855, has again 

 engaged the attention of the council in cousequeuce of pro- 

 ceedings which originated at Exeter iu January of the present 

 year. The plan was laid before the council iu February last, 

 in the form of a correspondence with the Committee of Her 

 Majesty's Privy Council on Education, intimating the fact that 

 two of Her Majesty's Inspectors, connected with this district, 

 had been instructed to give their assistance to the scheme. 

 The prizes being offered to boys educated with a view to em- 

 ployments in agriculture, arts, manufactures, and commerce in 

 the three counties of Somerset, Devon, and Cornwall, and 

 being therefore closely connected with the objects and district 

 of this society, received the sanction of the council at a meet- 

 ing (summoned by special notice), in the form of the following 

 resolutions: "That the council have heard with satisfaction 

 that the Committee of Council on Education have consented 

 to co-operate with a committee formed at Exeter, on the 7th 

 of January last, for the purpose of establishing a system of 

 examination and prizes for boys educated in the West of Eng- 

 land with a view to employments in agriculture, arts, manufac- 

 tures, and commerce." " That the council fully assent to the 

 opinion that skill in business generally is best acquired by 

 practice, and that the best preparation for practical life is a 

 good general education." " That the co-operation of some in- 



dependent examiners with a local committee appears well cal- 

 culated to secure confidence in the results of the examinations." 

 "That the council learn with satisfaction that in the present 

 and more extended scheme, as well as in that laid before the 

 council bj' Lord Ebrington, in October, 1855, several members 

 of this society are taking an active part, and they beg to place 

 at the disposal of the caramittee an honorary life-membership 

 of this society, to be competed for as a prize. The council 

 cannot but feel gratified by the fact that a plan, originating in 

 this district, and promoted by so many of its own members, 

 has been brought under the consideration of the University of 

 Oxford, in the form of a draft-statute submitted by the council 

 of that learned body to its convocation, and that similar mea- 

 sures are understood to be in progress at Cambridge." 



Lord CouRTENAY was duly re-elected president by show of 

 hands, and the above gentlemen elected and re-elected as 

 recommended. 



IMPLEMENTS, &:. EXHIBITED. 



The following is a sunamary of the chief attractions upon 

 which the Exhibitors mainly depended in furnishing 

 their several stands. 



Rt;eves, R. and J., Bratton, Wilts. — Patent four-row, 

 three-row, and other liquid manure drills, new and pa- 

 tent drills for drilling dry manure with seed. These 

 last-named implements deliver manure by means of a 

 revolving cylinder with portions of screws on the Archi- 

 median principle : they also keep the manure in an 

 agitated state, and will not clog by the use even of damp 

 manure, as is the case with other implements of the like 

 kind. The quantity to be delivered is varied by means 

 of a slide passing over and outside the apertures. Also 

 a dry manure distributor for top-dressing with guano, 

 soot, &c., and constructed to distribute from two to 100 

 bushels per acre. 



Impey, R., Street, Somerset. — Combined winnowing 

 machine and blower, simple and effective in its working, 

 and requiring very little power in its use. It has a 

 powerful blast, and perfectly separates the different 

 qualities of corn. Blowing machines, steel tooth-rake 

 (Howard's); Coleman's cultivators, chain-harrows, and 

 manure and seed-drill. 



Dray and Co., Swan-lane, London.— *An " alliance" 

 plough. The improvements in this plough consist in 

 the points of the share, which is formed of a wrought- 

 iron steeled bar, sliding in a dovetail. This may be 

 projected to any length required, and is secured in its 

 place by an eccentric wedge ; by this arrangement the 

 plough will work through the most stubborn or rocky 

 soil. The front of this plough is also made much 

 heavier than in ordinary ploughs, thus avoiding much 

 vibration, and securing lightness of draught. General- 

 purpose and subsoil ploughs, self-cleaning, lateral- 

 toothed grubbers, diagonal and light seed harrows, 

 three-tine horse-hoe, winnowing and blowing machine, 

 American churns, light two-horse waggon, small chaff- 

 cutter so constructed that the feed remains stationary 

 during the time the knives pass through it ; corn and 

 pulse bruiser, iron field-gates (tubular), and corn- 

 dressing machine, with tippet screen and registered 

 cliver or hariff separator. The latter can be affijfed to 

 either old or new machines, and is driven by the same 

 handle and at the same time as the machine to which 

 it is attached. 



Stark, J. C, Torquay, Devon. — Fixed and portable 

 cooking stoves for farm, kitchen, and cottage use; a 

 miscellaneous collection of articles used for dairy and 

 other domestic purposes, chaff cutters, winnowing and 

 screening machines, hurdles, gates, pig and poultry 

 troughs, field and garden tools, and stable fittings. 



