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to this inipleraeiit at tha Paris Exposition 1855), all invented, 

 improved, and manufactured by the exliibiter. 



John Cartwrigiit, of Shrewsbury, Salop. 

 (New implement) a patent self-relieving chain harrow, two- 

 horse power, price ^5 10s ; and a ditto, one-horse power, price 

 ,i'3 15s., invented, improved, and manutactured by the exliibiter. 



George Milford, of Ti orverton, near Collumpton, 

 Devon. 



(New implement) a two-horse wagt^on, price £il (received 

 the prize of the Path and West of Enghind Society at Yeovil, 

 1850); (new iini. lenient) another lighter kind, price £il ; an i 

 (new implement) a one-hois» cart, price ^13, invented, im- 

 proved, and manufactuied by the exliibiter. 



Thomas Gibbs and Co., the Seedsmen to the Royal 

 Agricultural Society of England, of Halfmoon-street, 

 Piccadilly, London. 



A coUeclion of dried specimens of permanent grasses, con- 

 taining all the most useful and valuable varieties for laying 

 down land to permanent meadows and pastures; a collection of 

 specimens of wheats, barleys, oats, &c , &c., in the ear, in- 

 oludin? all the varieties in general cultivation in England ; a 

 collection of general agricultural and other seeds, including 

 carrots, parsnips, raangel-wurzels, sw(des, hybrids, and other 

 turnips, clovers, sainfoin, lucerne, peas, beans, and other seeds; 

 and a collection of roots of Orange Globe and other inangel- 

 wurzels, includina Yellow or Orange Globe, Long Red, Red 

 Globe, and Long Yellow. 



Henry Bridges, of 406, Oxford-street, London, W. 



A case containing a variety of rew patterns of butter prints, 

 &c., for dairy use, cut in a superior manner, and varying in 

 price (rora 6d. to 2s. Gd. each ; also patterns of the same cut in 

 box wood, and including crests, .Sec, from ^s. to 4s. 6d. each. 



Peter Lawson and Son, of Edinburgh and London. 



Seeds, roots, &c., &c. 



Henry John Hall, of Woolwich Common, Kent. 



An artificial manure, price, exclusive of sacks, £5, invented 

 by Horatio Beaumont Binns, and manufactured by Hall and 

 Co., of Copenhagen Wharf, Limehouse. 



James Tree, of 22, Charlotte-street, Blackfriars- 

 road, Surrey. 

 A cattle gauge and key to the weighing machine, price 7s. 

 6d.to ICs. 6d. each, and a cattle gauge, adapted for any market. 



price, with book of instruction, from 8s. 6d. to £1 Is. each, in- 

 vented by John Ewart, Esq., of Newcastle-on-Tyne, and manu- 

 factured by the exhibiler ; a farmer's slide-rule and cattle gauge, 

 price from 12s. 6d. to £1 5s. each, invented by John Ew»rt, 

 Esq., of Newcastle-on-Tyne; a circular catile gauge, price £1 

 5s., invented by John Ewart, Esq,, of Newcaslle-on-Tyne, and 

 manufactured by the exliibiter; a beam draining level, price 

 .£4 Ids, invented by W. B. Webster, of Southampton, and ma- 

 nufactured by the exhibiter. 



William Bullock Webster, of Grove Castle, near 

 Neath, Glamorganshire. 

 Models, showing that the most useful and economical mode o^ 

 erecting farm buildings is by adopting, as a principle, sheds 

 eigliteen feet wide, ant such length as may be required: the 

 models show that these sheds are convertible into any buildings that 

 may be required in carrying out an improved system of agriculture. 



James Austin, of Millisle, near Donaghadu, County 

 Down. 



(New implement) a model of Austin's patent locomotive 

 steam plough, price £itO, invented by the exliibiter, and manu- 

 factured by Alex. Chaplin and Co., of Glasgow. 



Lancashire Manure Company, Widnes Bone 

 Works, Warrington, Lancashire. 

 Samples of manures, &c. 



Isaac Wr-ight, of Great Bentley, near Colchester, 



Essex. 

 Specimens of grass seeds and agricultural roots. 



W. C. Spoon ER, for Spooner and Bailey, of Eling, 

 near Southampton. 

 Samples of oilcakes of various countries, guano, and other 

 manures, both in the raw and manufactured state. 



Joseph Thouley, of 77, Newgate- street, London, and 

 115, High-street, Hull, Yorkshire. 

 A case containing 468 packages of food for cattle, each 

 package one feed, price £3 16s., invented and manufactured 

 by the exhibiter. 



Noah West, of 104, East-street, Manchester-square, 

 London. 



(New implement) a model of a reaping machine, price, 3 feet cut 

 £ .0, 5 feet cut £i5, invented and manufactured by the exhibiter. 



THE MESSRS. HARDY, AND THICK AND THIN SEEDING. 



Sir, — I have thought pcrliaps yourself and the readers 

 of your widely circulated journal would have no objection 

 to hear something of the Messrs. Hardy and of the progress 

 they and others arc making in thin seeding ; and, there- 

 fore, as I myself also am a thin seeder, and consequently in- 

 quire into the doings of most others who are so likewise, I 

 now bit down purposely to pen you a letter, for v?hich I 

 hope you will find a corner. 



I state in limine that I myself am a thin seeder, in order 

 that the readers of your journal, who may read what I 

 write, may the more closely striitinize it ; and in doing 

 this, should they in any matter discover that I am a too 

 partial advocate, I hope they will call me to order in a 

 letter, also, for your journal. 



But first, it may be asked, what are the advantages of 

 thin seeding.' And, again, are not the present race of 

 farmers, with all their extensive erudition, their chemical 

 and mechanical knowledge, as perfect in their profession as 

 it is possible for men to be ? And is it not highly pre- 

 sumptuous in a couple of gardeners at Maldon, the parson 

 of Wix, and half a .score more — such as a sheriiT of London, 

 and Mr. Piper, of Colne Eugaine, and others, to call in 

 question the wisdom of the thousands of what Mr. Professor 

 .Johnston used rather jocularly to designate as intelligent 

 farmers, many of whom cultivate their thousands of acres, 

 and learnt the art of farming from their learned and 

 scientific fathers and grandfathers, and they again from 

 theirs, until they get back to the enlightened period 

 described in chroiiological tables by the figures 1100, or 

 two ones and two noughts ? 1 grant there ia some pre- 



sumption in this ; and if the perfection of an art depends 

 upon the numbers who practise it, and the time it has 

 existed, and of a conventional adherence to the customs of 

 those who follow in the track of their forefathers only, I 

 should consider that agriculturists in general, in this 

 country and throughout Europe, must have reached the 

 acme of perfection, .and that it is presumptuous to call the 

 practice into question, and more so to attempt to improve 

 upon or especially to overturn it. 



But, Mr. Editor, we thin-seeders have not the more faith 

 in modern fanning because it ia in the same state as to 

 principle it was in when the anno domini was described bj' 

 the two ones and the two noughts ; but we believe i;hat 

 modern chemical and mechanical science, modern capital, 

 and modern improved agricultural implements ought, long 

 before this time, to have overturned the system of boasted 

 perfectability practised in those remote ages, as they have 

 overturned the mode of travelling by land and by water, 

 the mode of facturing all kinds of cloth, namely, woollens, 

 silk.s, and cottons, and, in fact, every kind of factures and 

 manufactures now made in this or any other European 

 country. 



Believing this, we advocates of thin-seeding, or proper 

 seeding, do not consider the husbandry of our country to 

 be any the more perfect because it is the same nearly as to 

 principle that it was upwards of 700 year . back, and" not in 

 near so good a state that it was in in some other countries 

 more than three times 700 years back ; nay, more, we 

 believe and know that it is not in half so perfect a state as 

 it is in at this day in the most ancient and numerously 



