THE FARMER'S MAGAZINE. 



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J. AND F. Howard, Bedford, showed their P P 

 iron ploughs, ridging phiugli, lever stei-1 tooth horse- 

 rake, iron zig-za^ harrows, spncimens of difierent forms 

 of shares for various soils and purposes, a model of a 

 patent plough with all its beautifully adapted fittings, 

 and a very simply-constructed draught dynamometer. 



Kington and Thiiowbrid(H5,— weighing machines 

 of a good but cheap character. 



Carson, Warminster, — Moody's turnip-cutters, 

 chafY-cutters, &c. 



Thomi-son, Lewes, — hay-maker with double prong 

 for reversed action. 



Pickering and Sims, Lancashire, — turnip-cutter, 

 corn bruisers, and chaff-cutters, exhibiting great ex- 

 cellence of workmanship. 



SowDON, Gloucester, — Woofe's patent paring plough 

 and patent licter-catter, which, cutting straw and hay 

 for food as well as for litter, seems a valuable machine. 



HENSMAN,Leighton Buzzard, — the Bedford steerage 

 drill that merits a more extensive reputation, and a 

 Howard's patent iron plough. 

 Powell, — " Sigma's" hand-dibble and hoe. 

 Kent, Holborn, — a very good quick churmn'„' 

 apparatus. 



Reeves, — liquid manure drills. 



Page, Bedford, — chaff-cutters, turnip-cutters, and 

 an iron plough on the ceebrated Bedford model. 



Beneath the gallery we find the engines and thrashing 

 machines, in their accustomed corner. 



Smith and Ashby, — a two-and-a-half horse-power 

 portable engine, weighing only 1 ton. Price ^^70. 



Brown and May, — a six-horse power portable 

 engine. Price i^l90. 



Barrett, Exall, and Andrewes, — a seven- 

 horse-power portable engine. Price £210. 



TuxFORD and Sons, — a seven-horse-power portable 

 engine, with inverted vertical cylinder inclosed within 

 a steam-tight jacket ; weight, 3i tons. Ticc £235. 



Wkdlake and Dendy, — a seveu-horse-po.ver 

 portable engine. Price £210. 



Ransomes and Sims, — a stven-horse-power port- 

 able engine ; weight, 2 tons 19:^ cwt. Price £210. 



Haywood, — a three-horse-pow-er portable engine; 

 weight, 24 cwt. Price £90. 



RusTON, Procter, and Co., — an eight-horse-power 

 portable engine, with 9f-inch cylinder. Price £225. 



RoBEY AND Co , — a portable twelve-horse-power 

 double-cylinder engine, with reversing gear and ash- 

 pan enclosed by water space. 



E. R. AND F. Turner, — a two-horse-power port- 

 able engine. Price £90. 



Garrett and Sons, — a six-horse-power portable 

 steam engine. 



Humphries, — a combined thrashing and finishing 

 dressing machine. 



F. R. Hunt,— a clover and trefoil shelling machine. 

 Price £45. 



Hart and Gibbons, — a combined thrashing and 

 finishing-dressing machine. 



Hornsby and Son, — a combined thrashing and 

 finishing- dressing machine. 



Holmes and Son, — a seed drawing or shelling and 

 dressing machine. 



Clayton and Shuttleworth, — a combined 

 thrashing and finishing-dressing machine. 



Ste.\m Cultivation is represented by Mr. Smith 

 <>f Woolston's stall of "great globe" mangolds, grown 

 on clay land, worked 14 inches deep with the steam- 

 grubber and siibsoiler, and (Mr. Smith says) without 

 any artificial manure, and with only twelve one-hurse 

 loads of farmyard manure per acre. 



Mr. Fowler's prize steam-plough could not of course 

 be present, but had its likeness hung upon the wall, 



showing the last new method of hauling by wire- rope 

 passing round an endless grooved drum attached by the 

 simplest of all possible arrangements beneath a portable 

 engine. 



Mr. Williams, of Baydon, had also a model of Mr. 

 Fowler's Chester machine, intended for engines of great 

 power. 



Mr. Halkett showed a model elucidating his extra- 

 ordinury method of cultivation by steam-machinery 

 traversing fields upon railways laid down all over a 

 farm with the ultra " broad gauge" ol 50 feet. There 

 were specimens, too, of different kinds of " guideway" 

 rails, to cost from £10 to £"20 peir acie. 



Mr. Cambridge exhibited a mahogany model of a 

 Boydell traction-engine. 



Mr. Romaine showed a beautiful model of his loco- 

 motive steam digging- machine, which works a revolving 

 tilling-cylinder behind; either for skimming and cleaning 

 or deep trenching land. 



Mr. Collinson Hall, had a model illustrating his 

 mode of working ploughs by an endless wire-rope 

 passed in a figure of 8 form round grooved drums. 



Any detailed description of these diflferent engines and 

 machines we must leave for some future occasion, as 

 well as reports of their working in the neighbourhood of 

 London during the week. 



Steam-culture, however, is evidently uppermost not 

 only in the minds of the farmeis, but also in the schem- 

 ings of implement makers. As you walk through 

 the galleries, one tells you ol' a new plan of affixing a 

 windlass to an engine, another gives you a peep at a 

 new form of winding apparatus, another communicates 

 a secret as to tin altogether new kind of cu!tive.tor, and 

 everybody is talking of experience with the steam- 

 plough, and wondering at the convincing evidence which 

 has lately been published. 



Great things will undoubtedly flow from this year's 

 " general muster, and throngs of chiefs" in agricultural 

 mechanics, to inspect, consult, advise, and sow and pick 

 up ideas. Our part as the farmer's remembrancer 

 will be to dwell more fully as occasion serves, upon the 

 special improvements that have been brought to light 

 during the show, 



GENERAL MEETING OF MEMBERS, 



Tuesday, December 7th. 



Lord Berners in the Chair. 



The President, "Vice-Presideuta, Trustees, and Honorary 

 Secretary for the ensuing year were re-elected. 



Mr. Henry Smith, of the Grove, Cropwell Butler, near 

 Bingham, Notts., and Mr. John Ford, of Rushton, near 

 Blandford, were elected Stewards in the room of Mr. Sanday 

 and Mr. Fookes, retiriug. 



Lord Feversham wns elected a Vice-President in the room 

 of the late Lord Spenetr. 



Ou the motion of Mr. Giblett, it was resolved—" That a 

 sub-committee be appointed to inquire into the practicabilit}'^ 

 of precutiiig a bttter aud more commodious place for the 

 Smithfield Club to hold their annual exhibitions, and report 

 the result of their inq\uries to the nexc general meeting— also 

 to consult with Mr. Bulnois relative to raising the price of 

 the admission on the first day of the show." 



Oil the motion of Mr. Sanday, it was resolced— " That in 

 cousequence of the great additional labour incidental to the 

 increase of the show, it is necessary that three more judges be 

 appointed, and that the departments of each be as follows, 

 viz.: — 



Three for cattle. 



Three (or long-woolled sheep and pigs. 



Three for short-woolle) sheep and cross-hrei sheep." 



Ou the motion of Mr. Jonas Webb, it was resolved — 

 "That in future all the pigs exhibited at the Smithfield 

 Club's shows shall have the slate of their dentition examined 

 by a competent authority, previously to the judges makins; 



