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turnip-cutter; Moody's root-grater; anew combined 

 machine, by which chafF is cut, roots grated, and the 

 food mixed at one operation — price for hand power 

 ^6 10s. Also a very improved form of lawn-mower, 

 and the cheap, effectual American floating-ball washing 

 machine. 



Griffith's and Co., Birmingham : Keevil's admirable 

 invention for cheese-making, wliich is adapted not only 

 for effecting a great saving in the dairy, but for teach- 

 ing farmers how to improve upon the old methods and 

 make better cheese. This is the contrivance of a 

 thoroughly practical man, and has been largely tested 

 and found to be one of the most valuable improvements 

 ever introduced to the farmer's notice ; and its excellent 

 and effective curd-cutting, draining, and curd-pressing 

 and drying, are equalled in merit by the extreme 

 simplicity, neatness, and cheapness of its mode of 

 construction. 



T. R. and R. Hunt, of Earl's Colne : The clover hull- 

 ing machine, with dressing apparatus of this firm, we 

 believe to be not only the best yet made, but requiring 

 much less driving power than any other. 



Burgess and Key : We admired the very neat little 

 rotary force-pump on this Stand. The American 

 platform beehive received very great attention : the bees 

 are transferred as often as necessary, and the honey 

 removed without injury to the bees, and they are fed in 

 the hive during v/inter and spring. Tiie new horse- 

 power, in which a horse walks up an endless revolving 

 platform, is very simple, and may be of considerable 

 advantage to small farmers, and for purposes requiring 

 only a slight motive-power ; but we should much prefer 

 one of the two-horse portable steam-engines before 

 referred to. 



Cockey and Sons, Frome Selward : A single cheese- 

 making apparatus ; a patent tub, with hollow chamber 

 beneath the bottom, for hot or cold water ; boiler, &c., 

 cheese-prisses, curd-mills, &c. 



J. and F. Howard, of Bedford : Their prize ploughs, 

 one-horse carts, jointed harrows, tubular whippletrees, 

 &c. Au improvement of the coulter, by making the 

 shank oval, received a silver medal. 



Crosskill, of Beverley : Self-cleansing clodcrushers; 

 bone-mill for grinding half inch bones to dust; portable 

 farm-railway, &c. 



R. Impey, of Street: Combined winnowing and 

 blowing machines. 



Porreaux and Co., of Mark-Lane : A most simple, 

 ingenious, durable pump-valve, made of vulcanized 

 India-rubber. The cheapness and the effective action 

 of this valve, and its small liability to derangement or 

 wear, obtained for it the judges' approval. 



Barnard and Bishop, of Norwich : A large collection 

 of wire-netting, garden cliairs, &c., troughs, hay-racks, 

 and their patent root grater, 



Barrett, Exall, and Andrewes, of Reading : Oilcake 

 breakers, chaff-cutters, grain-mills, ploughs, and a 

 very efficient clod-crusher. 



Burrell, of Thetford : A cloverseed- shelling machine, 

 gaw-benches, &c. 



Nicholson, of Newark : Oilcake breakers, corn- 

 dressing machine, a patent rotary corn-screen and 

 riddle, washing, wringing, and mangling machines, 

 cottage cooking-grates, &c. 



Richmond and Chandler, of Salford : Their chaff- 

 cutters, crushers, &c. 



Smith, of Kettering: His steerage horse-hoe, with 

 improvement, and double-blasted winnowing machines. 



Smith and Ashby, of Stamford : Their patent safety 

 chaff-cutters for hand and for steam power, double- 

 action oilcake breakers, corn-crushers, root-pulpers, &c. 



Ball, of Kettering : His well-known ploughs, win- 

 nowing and weighing machines, grubbers, &c. 



Busby, of Newton-le-Willows, near Bedale : His 

 famous carts, ploughs, horse-hoes, and an implement 

 for topping and tailing turnips. 



Cambridge, of Bristol : His new patent double-blast 

 minnowing machines, press-wheel rollers, self-relieving 

 chain harrows, &c. 



Dray and Co. : A large assortment of their first-class 

 agricultural machines for all purposes. 



Hill and Smith, of Brierley Hill, near Dudley : His 

 broadshares, scarifiers, wrought-iron troughs, harrows, 

 rick stands, wire fencing, &c. 



Maggs, of Bourton, near Wincanton : Horse-powers, 

 chaff-cutters, bean and oat mills, &c. 



Ransomes and Sims : His celebrated ploughs, the 

 light " pony plough," Cotgreave's trenching plough, 

 scarifiers, mills, horse-power thrashing machines, 

 stable fittings, &c. 



Boby, of Bury St. Edmund's: His admirable corn- 

 screen and dressing machines. 



Coleman, of Chelmsford ; Expanding harrows, cul- 

 tivators, the revolving potato-digger, which with two 

 horses will raise three to four acres per day, price ^18, 



Forshaw and Co., of Liverpool : Cattle and sack 

 weighing machines, straw- cuttei", bone-mill, flour- 

 dressing machines, &c. 



Bentall, of Maldon : His unequalled broadshare and 

 subsoiler, in all its various forms for different purposes, 

 his double-angle iron cheap harrows, and his root- 

 pulper. 



B. Fowler, of Fleet-street : His cast-iron bored 

 pumps, force-pump, &c. 



Stanley, of Peterborough : His roller mills, and ex- 

 cellent steam-cooking apparatus. 



The stands appropriated to seeds, models, &c, were well 

 occupied, the more noticeable and interesting being the 

 grand collections of seeds, and specimens of grains, roots, 

 grasses, &c.,of Mr. Lawson, of Edinburgh, andThos. 

 Gibbs and Co., of Half Moon-street, Piccadilly, seedsmen 

 to the Royal Agricultural Society ; and also a novelty in 

 the form of food for cattle, comprising " feeds" in se- 

 parate packets, of an economical mixed farinaceous 

 nutriment, exhibited bv J. Thorley, of Newgate-street. 



"ON THE MANAGEMENT OF WATER MEADOWS, AND THEIR BEARING 

 UPON THE GENERAL AGRICULTURE OF SOUTH WILTS." 



A Lecture by Mb. E. SauARRY, of Odstock, delivered during the Meeting of the Royal 

 Agricultural Society, at Salisbury. 



[Mr. SauARRY has favoured us with the following corrected report of this important paper.] 



Mr, SauARRY commenced by observing that the 

 streams, which, under careful management, become the 

 scources of so much usefulness and fertility in the valleys 

 of South Wilts, with scarcely an exception, take their 



rise at the base of the chalk hills, and in the green sand 

 formation, which in the neighbourhood of Salisbury 

 everywhere underlies the chalk. For the most part 

 these streams are not immediately affected by long 



