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For the best scarifier— £3. to Mr. E. H. Beutall ; and £1, 

 to Mr. Selby Hand. 



For the best drill for general purposes — £5, to Mr. Jas. 

 Coultas, jun., Grantham ; and £2, to Mr. Wm. Watkinson. 



For the best ridge drill — £2, to Mr. Geo. Hunter, Ulceby ; 

 and £1, to Mr. Jas. Coultas, jun. 



For the best liquid-manure drill — £2, to Messrs. R. and J. 

 Reeves, Bratton, Wiltshire ; and £1, to Mr. Wm. Watkinson. 



For the best horse-hoe — £2, to Mr. Isaac Spight, Brigg; 

 and £1, to Messrs. Grant and Wright, Binbrook. 



For the best horse-hoe for turnips— £1, to Messrs. E. and 

 H. Beutall. 



For the best grubber — £2, to Mr. Wm. Torr, Ayleaby ; 

 and £1, to Mr. Jas. Robinson, Rothwell. 



lor the best set of harrows for heavy land — £2, to Mr. Thos. 

 Walker, Woottou ; and £1, to Mr. E. H, Beutall. 



For the best set of harrows for light land — £2, to Mr. Ben- 

 tall; and £1, to Mr. Thos. Walker. 



For the best wajgon for general purposes— £3, to Mr. W, 

 Torr; and £1, to Messrs. Hayes and Son, Stamford. 



For the best two-horse cart — £2, to Messrs. Hayes. 



For the best oae-horse cart — £2, to Mr. W. Gresham, 

 Ulceby. 



For the best clod-crusher — £2, to Mr. W. Watkinson. 



For the best roller for general purposes — £2, to Mr. Wat- 

 kinson. 



For the best dressing machine — £3, to Mr. Cartwright, 

 Louth ; aud £1, to Mr. C. Revill, Lincoln. 



For the best corn blower— £2, to Mr. John Holloway, 

 Louth. 



For the best chaff-cutter — £3, to Messrs. Smith aud Ashby, 

 Stamford; and £1 for second best. 



For the best tuinip-cutter — £2, to Mr. Salah Cartwright, 

 Louth. 



For the best cake- breaker — £1, to Mr. E. H. Beutall, Essex. 



For the best mill for crushing agricultural produce — £2, to 

 Mr. Selby Hand. 



For the best steaming apparatus — £2, to Mr. TLomas Sim- 

 son, Lincoln. 



IMPLEMENTS NOT ENUMERATED. 



For saddlery — lOs., to Mr. John Barton, Louth. 



For swathe rakes — 5s., to Mr. John Carratt, Louth. 



For a corn-screen, 10s. ; for steam pans, £1 ; and'for filter, 

 £1 — to Mr. Salah Cartwright, Louth. 



For four horse shoes — 28. 6d., to Mr. C. Coulbeck, Louth. 



For a reaper, £2 ; aud for a chain harrow, lOs. — to Mr. John 

 lies, Binbrook 



For a reaping machiue — £3, to Mr. Jesse Kemp, Thurlby 

 Grange. 



For a machine for weighing sheep alive, £1 ; aud for garden 

 utensils, £1 — to Mr. Robert Mason, Louth. 



For coal-gas apparatus — £1, to Mr. J. B. Porter, Lincoln. 



For saddlery — lOs., to Mr. Edw. Sandall. 



For haymaking machine, £1 ; for horse works, £1 ; and for 

 horserake, 10s. — to Messrs. Smith and Ashby, Stamford. 



For pair of Derbyshire millstones — £1, to Mr.Tye, Lincoln. 



For portable-gas apparatus — £1, to the Rev. A. Veitch, 

 Tetney. 



For American floating-ball washing machiu3— lOs., to Mr. 

 W. Watkiusou. 



For steam-cooking kitchen-grate — 10s., to Mr. C.Wilkin- 

 son, Louth. 



MR. SMITH'S MODE OF APPLYING STEAM- 

 POWER TO CULTIVATION. 



(prom a correspondent.) 



A second exhibition of Mr. Smith's mode of ap- 

 plying steam to the cultivation of the land came off on 

 Tuesday at Wooiston, in the presence of a large as- 

 semblage of farmers and others interested in the subject. 

 There were upwards of thirteen hundred people collected 

 to witness the performance. This large attendance of 

 farmers to the mere summons of an energetic mind, 

 which conceives that it has hit upon the true so- 

 lution of the problem of the appliance of steam- 

 power to the cultivation of the soil, clearly denotes 

 the deep interest which that subject has attained to. 



There is nothing new in the present appliances 

 of steam, as compared to what was practically work- 

 ing last year. On the contrary, the question seems 

 rather to be at a standstill, for neither Mr. Smith, Mr. 

 Boydell, Mr. Fowler, Mr. Williams, nor Mr. Collinson 

 Hall have done anything beyond their preceding opera- 

 tions — if we except here and there an economical adap- 

 tation or so, which may have simplified but has by no 

 means enlarged the working capacity of their several 

 schemes. 



Mr. Smith works precisely upon the same plan as 

 heretofore ; engine, windlass, snatch, blocks, rope, &c., 

 &c., varying scarcely in the slightest degree. The 

 engine is a seven-horse portable one ; the windlass, with 

 the slightest possible change, is composed of two drums, 

 which are put in and out of gear at will by the man who 

 attends it ; the rope, we believe, comprises the same 

 number of strands, is about 24 chains in length, and If 

 inch in circumference; there are four turn-tables to 

 keep the rope steady to its work, each of which requires 

 a man to attend it, and the alleged cost of the whole 

 plant is precisely the same as given in last year's 

 statement. 



Mr. Smith was stoutly and closely questioned as to 

 the details of this statement, to which he replied with 

 the utmost confidence, as though he was perfectly con- 

 vinced of the truthfulness of his conclusions. 



The implement (a scufHer) was tried upon a heavy 

 clover-ley, and certainly did ics work remarkably well. 

 But as we have no means of testing the cost of the work 

 done, we must content ourselves with leaving the figures 

 as they stand in Mr. Smith's statement, and our readers 

 to judge for themselves. 



YORKSHIRE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



MEETING AT YORK. 



In the short period of twenty years (since its forma- 

 tion), the Yorkshire Agricultural Society has gathered 

 strength enough to become something like a rival to the 

 Royal Agricultural Society of England in the magni- 

 tude and interest of its annual show. And no wonder : 

 for the three Ridings constitute almost a little Eng- 

 land ; the population of 1,800,000 embracing a great 

 diversity of classes — the manufacturers and mechanics 

 in the great factory towns, mountaineers on the fells 

 and moors, as well as enterprising agriculturists on the 

 wolds, and able (farmers and graziers in the vales and 



rich lowlands. Yorkshire is the very home of every 

 industry, and turns out its steam engines and farm 

 machinery, its clod-crushers and reapers, as well as its 

 unsurpassed shorthorns, its Leicester, long-wool, and 

 hill-country sheep, its magnificent hunters, and strong- 

 stepping cart-horses. Hence we are not surprised to 

 find the provincial Society's celebration well-nigh com- 

 peting for pre-eminence with that of the national show. 

 Why, at Rotherham last year, nearly ^800 of prizes and 

 a number of gold and silver medals were awarded. For 

 implements the prizes equalled £200. At Salisbury 



