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to be shown in. The principal machinery, however, was 

 exhibited in a large space of ground immediately adjoining 

 the building, and boarded round for the purpose. The great 

 bulk of the oxen were in this space, but they had the ad- 

 vantage of covered sheds, while the implements were ex- 

 posed to the open air. As the weather during the whole 

 exhibition was remarkably fine, though occasionally exces- 

 sively hot, there was little inconvenience experienced by the 

 exhibitors from that circumstance. The horses, few in 

 number, were stalled in the yard attached to the Kiiztelek, 

 the sheep were mostly penned in the same place ; while the 

 raw products, the grain, the wines, and the wool were 

 ranged round the upper rooms of the main building. Alto- 

 gether, the arrangements were excellent, the urbanity of the 

 officials exceedingly marked, and the uniform attention 

 paid to the requests of the English exhibitors extremely 

 flattering. 



The opening was characterized by the same quietude as 

 that of Vienna. Archduke Albert, the Governor of Hun- 

 gary, attended by the leading magnates and prelates, all in 

 state uniform, and accompanied by Counts Andrapy, Ka- 

 roly, Zichy, Winkheim, Esterhazj', and Nako, besides 

 other notabilities belonging to Hungary, quietly entered the 

 show-yard, and immediately began, in a business-like man- 

 ner, a tour of inspection — first of the raw products upstairs, 

 next the sheep and horses, then the cattle, and afterwards 

 finished up with the machinery and implements. Being a 

 farmer himself upon a large scale, the Archduke minutely 

 examined each object of importance, especially in the En- 

 glish departments, and made many pertinent and judicious 

 remarks upon the points ot practical excellence in the dif- 

 ferent objects exhibited. His Highness was also a large 

 exhibitor of cattle, grain, and flour, most of which took a 

 high position in each department of production. 



The exhibition of English machinery and implements 

 was exceedingly good. We shall simply enumerate the 

 leading exhibitors and objects, as they are all well known 

 and do not call for particular notice at our hands. Clayton 

 and Shuttleworth exhibited thrashing machines and en- 

 gines ; Ransomes, thrashing machines, engine, crushing 

 mills, chaff cutters, ploughs, and harrows ; Garrett, thrash- 

 ing machine, drills, and horse-hoes ; Howards, ploughs, 

 harrows, horse-rakes, and horse-hoes ; W. Dray and Co., 

 crushing mills, cart, corn dresser, chaff cutters, rakes, and 

 steam-cooking apparatus ; Coleman, cultivator ; Barrett, 

 Exall, and Co., thrashing machine and engine ; Smyth and 

 Son, drills; Davy, Brothers, engine and thrashing machine ; 

 Burgess and Key, improved M'Cormick's reaper; and 

 Hornsby and Sons, thrashing machine, drill, and engine. 



The jury paid great attention to the several essays (trials) 

 made by the machinery and implements. The thrashing 

 machines all did their work well, the difference between 

 them we have endeavoured to indicate in our preceding re- 

 marks. There were two circumstances, however, connected 

 with the trials, which are deserving of special observation, 

 as they stand out so prominently from the general proceed- 

 ings, and certainly each, in its way, excited a very large 

 amount of interest. The trial of Howard's ploughs was 

 one, to which we have already alluded, therefore we shall 

 not attempt to describe the excitement and interest which 

 they awakened throughout the duration of the show ; and 

 the trial of the reapers was the other, which we shall now 

 more specially refer to. 



Next to the plough there is certainly no machine or im- 

 plement that is more required in Hungary than the reaper. 

 The scarcity of labour on the one hand, and the impossibi- 



lity of gathering in the corn on the other, large quantities 

 of which are annually lost on the plains in the south of 

 Hungary, has imparted an extra interest to the practical 

 powers of the reaper ; therefore it may be imagined that 

 the trial, to which we now briefly allude, must have excited 

 great attention and would be watched with the most intense 

 anxiety by the Hungarian proprietors. 



The trial took place in a field of rye, about four miles from Pest. 

 So great was the interest excited, that the Archduke Albert 

 and several of the leading fuuctiouaries of State attended, to 

 watch the proceedings aud report the results. The field, it 

 is almost unnecessary to remark, w as crowded by the leading 

 lauded proprietors aud farmers, who had bought largely of 

 machinery for agricultural purposes, aud who paid great atten^ 

 tiou to the respective operations of the reapers. 



There were only three reapers ou the ground : one by Baron 

 Ward ; a second by M. Szabo, of Pest; and the third. Burgess 

 aud Key's Improved M'Cormick. Sometimes the reapers 

 were drawn by oxen, and sometimes by horses, in order to test 

 their working power under different circumstances. M. Szabo'a 

 macliine very quickly got choked, and had to retire from the 

 field ; and we have some recollection of having seen one of 

 similar construction, exhibited by Wray and Son, at Gains- 

 borough, in 1852. The delivery is by endless bands, moving 

 horizontally ; but the Pest machine did its work in so clumsy a 

 manner, aud required such a heavy draught, that it was at once 

 pronounced a failure. Baron Ward's machine, which we have 

 already described in our notice of the trial at Flinsdorf, did ita 

 work very fairly ; but, independent of being heavy in draught* 

 aud frequently leaping right over the corn, and leaving large 

 patches not cut, but trampled down, requires two men to rake 

 off what it cuts ; aud such is the severity of labour, that no two 

 men of ordinary strength could last a couple of hours at such 

 work. The Archduke pithily remarked, that it would not be 

 a bad machine if the Baron could only manage to do without 

 his two men. There were four horses required to draw Baron 

 Ward's reaper round the first cut, although the crop was by no 

 means of a heavy kind, and four oxen the second and third j 

 but, after every effort to make it succeed on the part of all who 

 saw it, it came out but middlingly from the trial. The interest, 

 therefore, was naturally concentrated upon Burgess and Key's 

 M'Cormick, and, as it had not worked at the Vienna show, great 

 anxiety was felt as to the results of its operations. It is also just 

 to remark, that great regret was expressed by several gentlemen, 

 who had a deep interest in the question, that W. Dray and Co.'s 

 reaper was not in the field, as it worked so much to the satisfac- 

 tion of those who saw it at Flinsdorf. It appears, however, that 

 it only arrived one day after the fair, by mistake or by unavoid- 

 able delay. Burgess and Key's M'Cormick, it is, however, but 

 just to state, not only came up to what was expected of it, but 

 went far beyond that point. After making one round with a 

 couple of horses only (the horses are light in Hungary), the 

 approvalof its working capacity was so marked, that there was 

 not even the shadow of a doubt in any one mind in the field, as to 

 its marked superiority over the others, and of its apparently 

 answering the various requirements of such a machine iu Hun- 

 gary. This reaper did its work clean, easy, and in comparatively 

 quick time, besides requiring much less draught, not so many 

 men to attend it, and doing no injury to the corn. The Arch- 

 duke, after seeing the reaper tried, first by horses and then by 

 oxen, and quietly following it along the field, congratulated the 

 representative of Burgess aud Key, and emphatically remarked, 

 that it was immeasurably the best machine there, and that it fully 

 answered all the requirements that he could conceive of such an 

 implement, Oa this declaration the whole company took off 

 their hats and gave a hearty cheer, at being honoured by English 



