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Samuelson, Banbury, Oxon. — Double-action turnip 

 cutters (Gardner's), fitted with improved cutting-plates, 

 having a number of ledges and open slits, through which 

 the dirt separates from the roots, and falls in front of 

 the implement : the cutting-plates, screwed off and on 

 at will, are adapted so as to cut and slice to any re- 

 quired thickness ; turnip graters and slicers, combined 

 food-preparer, the chaff-cutting and root-grating por- 

 tions being so arranged as to possess the advantage of 

 two machines, mixing the food as fast as cut ; chaff- 

 cutting machines, roller mills, linseedcake breakers, 

 roller and mat-crushing mills, lawn-mowing machines, 

 clod crushers and serrated roller, horse rake, haymaking 

 machine, American floating ball washing machine, so as 

 to submit linen to the gentle friction of a number of 

 small balls floating in the suds ; also a collection of steel 

 digging forks, and a double-action turnip cutter, by the 

 use of which the sizes and thicknesses of the pieces of 

 turnip cut may be varied at will. 



RicHMoxD and Chandler, Salford, Manchester. — 

 Economic chaff-cutting machines of several kinds, and 

 adapted either for steam, horse, or hand power : these 

 last-named, compact and well made, are constructed 

 with simplicity, and can be easily managed and worked 

 by one lad ; power corn crushers, linseed mill, sack 

 truck, and holder combined, farmers' steaming appara- 

 tus, vegetable-washing and sack-holding machines. 



Sparrow, J. W., Plymouth, Devon. — Specimens of 

 manures, consisting of superphosphate of lime (con- 

 centrated), common superpiiosphate oflime of commerce, 

 calcined bones from South America, carbonized bone 

 from France, sulphate of lime from Rouen, and highly 

 dried and ground sugar scum. 



BuRNARD, Lack, and Co., Plymouth, Devon. — 

 Concentrated superphosphates of lime, common ditto, 

 and soluble turnip manure. 



Clark, D., Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. — 

 Sample of sewage manure from the town of Weston- 

 super-Mare. 



Foster, G.,Exmoutb, Devon. — Concentrated super- 

 phosphate of lime and urate, corn and grass manure and 

 superphosphate of lime of commerce. 



PoNTEY, Roe, and Co., Plymouth, Devon. — Samples 

 of bone manure dissolved, bone ash also dissolved, and 

 murio-phosphate of lime. 



The Western Counties and General Manure 

 CoMPANV, Plymouth. — Bone-ash samples, also con- 

 centrated and other superphosphates of lime. 



Comins, J., South Molton, Devon. — General pur- 

 pose light and turn-wrest ploughs, sets of drags and 

 harrows, various sized horse hoes, clod crusher or land 

 presser, and a cultivator or scarifier. 



James, J., Leadenhall Street, London. — Weighing 

 machines of ten, six, three, and one cwt., set of single, 

 double, and treble iron sheave blocks, and a treble brass 

 ditto. 



Fry, a. and T., Bristol. — Patent steam plough, 

 worked by a 10-horse engine and windlass combined, 

 break spring waggon, Nev^port cart, wrought iron 

 liquid manure cart, press ploughs, iron horse hoes for 

 green crops, iron four-beam diagonal harrows, clod 

 crusliers, one-horse gear for chaff machines, chaff 

 machines for horse or hand power, root graters, win- 

 nowing machines, oat and bean mills, oilcake crusher, 

 grass-seed distributor, one and two-row seed and manure 

 drills, lawn-mowing machine and digging forks. 



Sawney, Beverley, Yorkshire. — Corn dressing ma- 

 chine adapted for all kinds of grain, and can be readily 

 altered into a simple blower. I"he improvement in this 

 machine consists in the tappet screen, which gives to the 

 corn a vertical motion, and allows the screen to be fixed 

 at a lower angle than in ordinary use. The small seeds 

 and other refuse are by this process more effectually 



separated from the marketable corn. The cliver or 

 hariff apparatus attached consists of a revolving web of 

 endless flannel, which receives the corn as it falls, deli- 

 vering the same in a clean state for sacking. Also a 

 combined sack lifting and weighing machine, so arranged 

 that the sack of corn when weighed can be immediately 

 lifted by means of a revolving handle, and removed by 

 the same man employed in weighing the corn. 



Woods, Stowmarket, Suffolk. — Mincer, for steam, 

 water, or horse power; hand root mincer or pulper; 

 grinding and crushing mill, for horse or steam power ; 

 crushing roller mills ; horse power gear ; poppy and 

 weed extirpator ; portable asphalting apparatus ; and a 

 new kind of cabinet mangle, made to close and represent 

 a piece of furniture. 



OXFORD AND BANBURY AMALGAMATED AGRI- 

 CULTURAL ASSOCIATION.— The third meeting of this 

 now enlarged society took place at Oxford on Wednesday, June 

 10, when the show of stock was prououuced to be the largeit and 

 best ever seen in the county since the opening meeting of the 

 Royal Agricultural Society of Eng!aud. Tlie prize list em- 

 braced cattle, sheep, horses, and pigs, the successful exhibitors 

 being Mr. Laugston, M.P., Colouel North, M.P., and Mefsrs. 

 S. Druce, J. Hutt, T. R. B. Cartwright, ^Y. Miller, H. Mid- 

 dleton, J. K. Tombs, W. Ilobbs, W. Smith, W. Cotlier, J. 

 Rowland, W. Gillelt, and liis Grace the Duke of Marlborough. 

 There was also a good show of impleaients, and a dinner well 

 supported by both town and county. The ciuef speakers here 

 were the Rij^ht Iloaourable J. W. Ileulej', M.P., the president, 

 the Rev. Mr, Cluttciback, Mr. Cother, Mr. Alderman Sadler,' 

 Colonel North, Mr. Lingstou, and Mr. Thomson, chairman cf 

 the Oxford Farmers' Club. lu speaking to the toast of the 

 meeting Mr. Cother said : — Some years ago he suggested the 

 amalgamation of the two societies, and was glad to End that 

 it had been carried out, and that the result had proved so satis- 

 factory. At the same time, he thought they were only in an 

 infant state, aud that they ought to follow the course adopted 

 by the Bath and West of England Society, and the Great 

 Northern Society, and have one comprehensive society, to be 

 called the Great Midland Central Society. They mi_-ht hold 

 their meetings at Oxford, Banbury, Birmingham, and Vv'ar- 

 wick, and allow all breeders in the kingdom to join the society j 

 for they wanted to see the best stock that could be produced, 

 aud to have it brought as it were to their o^u doors; which 

 was not only important to the breeder, bat also to the con- 

 sumer ; for it was not every one who could find it convenient, 

 or could afford to go to the great exhibitions. He wis!;ed to 

 see the society put ou a broader footing ; that it should be 

 thrown open to all, so that they might aid them with their 

 subscriptions, aud assist in producing the greatest quantity of 

 meat from a given quantity of food. There was no lioubt that 

 great improvements might still be eff^cted, and it was 

 the duty of every man, not only to assist himself, but also his 

 fellow-man. This society, with such help, was capable of 

 doing great things, aud he hoped that people would expand 

 their ideas, extend the area of corapetiiiou and operation, ar.d 

 bring about a large association, and a more successful one. He 

 was a winner of more prizes last year tlian ou this cccaaiou, Lut 

 he begged to remind them that he had lost a quantity of stock, 

 and some of his best ; he had, however, obtained one prize, 

 and would endeavour another year to gain wore. There liad 

 been an eating match at Paris ; and he was happy to find that 

 the epicures who had tested the prize mutton and beef by par- 

 taking of it, had decided that the Cotswold mutton was the 

 best (laughter). Mr. Cother concluded by offering to give a 

 prize of £5 for the best shearling got by his rams, and hoped 

 that other breeders would do the same, and the society give a 

 champion prizefor the lot to contend for, 



