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The best waggoua we saw were those made by Milford auJ 

 Sons, Kiddle, Crosskill, Gifford, and James. The prices varied 

 from £17 to £28. Milford's, Crosskill's, and James' were 

 furnished with breaks and whole sheWings. They took the 

 first, third, and fifth prizes. Dray showed two very useful and 

 cheap light vans, but not for farm purposes. 



T. Milford and Son competed with three carts and two 

 waggons. A waggon took the first prize, two carts the first 

 and third, and the remaining cart a silver medal. 



George Milford exhibited two waggons and one cart. One 

 of the waggons received a prize, and the remaming waggon and 

 the cart a high commendation. This is a very honourable 

 testimony to the excellent workmanship both these firms dis- 

 play and deserves this simple notice. 



MACHINERY IN MOTION. 



In this busy and most interesting department of the 

 show, we counted no less than thirty steam-engines, 

 twenty-three combined thrashing machines, and three 

 fixed barn-works, in simultaneous operation ; besides 

 brick and tile machines, saw mills, and innumerable 

 chaflf cutters, cake breakers, crushers, &c. 



The following are a few of the more prominent objects 

 of interest : — 



Messrs. Barrett, Exall, and Andrewes showed both a 

 portable and fixed steam engine — the latter having a 

 horizontal cylinder — a combined thrashing-machine, a 

 set of fixed barn works, and, among other machines, 

 their beautiful endless-band saw, which is adapted for 

 circular, irregular, or angular work ; and wastes less 

 wood, cuts with greater rapidity, and requires at least 

 one-half less power to drive it than the circular saw. 



Messrs. Brown and May, of Devizes, showed their 

 excellent steam engines, and an exceedingly compact 

 thrashing, shaking, riddling, and winnowing machine. 

 Price £100. 



Mr. Burrell, of Thetford, exhibited his superior por- 

 table engines ; a patent cloverseed shelling machine, in- 

 vented by Constable, price £48 ; and his combined 

 thrashing machine, fitted with Goucher's patent beater, 

 with barley awner, a finishing dressing machine, and a 

 patent screen, which separates the thin corn from the 

 best, price ^^125. 



Cambridge's engines were at work, driving his com- 

 bined thrashing-machine, which finishes the corn for 

 market, being fitted with a superior dressing apparatus 

 on an entirely new principle. Price jfl20. 



Messrs. Garrett and Sons have introduced a revolving 

 screen, with Archimedian screw, into their thrashing 

 machine, together with an improved slat riddle, which 

 does not foul or require cleaning when at work. And 

 their engines are constructed with a very durable kind 

 of fire-box. 



Mr. Hayes, of Elton, Hunts, showed his straw- 

 elevator for carrying straw from a thrashing machine 

 up the straw-stack : the thrashing machine, too, has an 

 effective and simple shaker, constructed of only two 

 perforated boxes. 



In Messrs. Holmes and Sons' thrashing machine we 

 observed that the chaff, cavings, and straw are delivered 

 so far from each other, that they cannot possibly get 

 mixed ; and great attention has been given to the posi- 

 tion of the working bearings relatively to the straps, so 

 as to obtain the least amount of friction. Price ^'100. 



Messrs. Hornsby and Sons show their well-known 

 portable engines and combined thi'ashing machines, 

 which contain two winnowing machines, one blower, two 

 hummellers, and are fitted with the " button beater." 



Messrs. Humphries' first-class thrashing machine is 

 well known. It is light and compact, weighing only 

 24 cwt. ; the divided vibrating-trough prevents shocks, 

 and a white-coater or smut machine is added, with a 

 second dressing apparatus, which prepares the grain for 

 market. Price, with finishing dresser £95, without £S3. 



Oliver Maggs, of Wincanton, e-xhibited the portable 



engine with peculiar- shaped tubes rivetted to the end- 

 plates, in order to avoid the leakage to which round 

 tubes are so liable, which gained the prize at Newton as 

 the most practically useful engine. His thrashing 

 machine is very compact, the shaker consisting of 

 revolving spindles armed with fingers, after the prin- 

 ciple of Brinsmead's. Price, with finisher, £130. 



Messrs. Tuxford and Sons, of Boston, showed their 

 well known portable and fixed engines, the boilers having 

 flues and tubes, which construction secures the greatest 

 durability. Their thrashing machines have received a 

 recent improvement, the table-shaker being vibrated by 

 eccentrics working in straps of lignum vita, and the 

 trough or shoe being divided, so as to "break" the 

 course of the mingled corn and pulse, and facilitate its 

 separation by the riddle. There are only two riddles, 

 no " spoutings," and the chaff is blown out by a blast 

 below the riddles. The machine is very free from com- 

 plicated machinery. Price, with finisher, £^115. 



Messrs. Ransomes and Sims exhibited fixed and por- 

 table steam engines, combined thrashing machines, and 

 an admirable arrangement of chaff cutters, oat mills, 

 bean cutters, cake breakers, linseed bruisers, root 

 graters, &c. : driven by a single steam engine, by means 

 of intermediate universal motions and spindles. 



Clayton, Shuttleworth and Co. displayed their first- 

 class portable and fixed engines, their combined thrash- 

 ing machines, and fixed barn works. 



Boby, of Bury St. Edmunds, exhibited his ingenious 

 and admirable corn screens : one with a novel and sim- 

 ple contrivance for setting the wires coarser or fiaer. 

 An invaluable machine for giving an equal sample. 



R. Impey, of Street, Somerset, showed some excel- 

 lent dressing machines, in which winnowing is combined 

 with blowing ; and they are simple in construction, and, 

 unlike many others, comparatively easy to work. 



Nicholson, of Newark, had his very neat little two- 

 and-a-half-horse portable engine (price only £60) 

 driving cake breakers, &c. His rotary corn screen, in- 

 vented by Palmer, is very effective and expeditious in 

 its operation. 



Richmond and Chandler's chaff cutters and crushers ; 

 Messrs. Turners' two-horse portable engine (price £90), 

 and their first-class roller mills; Messrs. Wallis and 

 Haslam's (Basingstoke) corn-dressing machines ; and 

 Williamson Brothers' (Kendal) steam engines and 

 horse-power thrashing machines ; Tasker and Fowle's 

 (Andover) steam engines and thrashing machines; 

 Sawney's dressing machines, with diver or hariff screen ; 

 and Robey and Co.'s steam engines and thrashing 

 machines, were objects of much attention and interest. 



Sparke, of Norwich, exhibited both vertical and 

 circular-saw tables ; and Tuxford and Sons showed a 

 circular-saw table, with an admirable spring fence plate. 



Smith and Ashby, of Stamford, had their superior 

 safety chaff cutters, and their double-action oilcake 

 breakers, crushers, and pulpers : driven by one of 

 Nicholson's two-horse-power portable steam engines ; 

 very compact, and amazingly simple in its working parts ; 

 price only .£""57 10s. — a most useful and convenient 

 motive power for the farmer's homestead. 



One of the features of this division of the yard was 

 Clayton's clay-preparing and brick-making machinery, 

 an engine of three or four horse power being able to 

 produce from one machine a continuous stream of 

 bricks at the rate of 12,000 to 15,000 per day. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



We must now very rapidly name some of the more 

 interesting articles, implements, and machines, dis- 

 tributed through the nunieroua stands, and not included 

 in the foregoing notices. 



Samuelsou of Banbury : Gaixlner'b unsurpassed 



