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horfemen, and others on foot, of ihe firft refpeclsbllity, wlien they 

 proreeded to the New Farm-Yard. 



Nine South Down two (hears, and one hree (hear, were exhi- 

 bited in the Exhibition Room, and were examined by the hirers of 

 the tups. 



Two remarkable fine and fat cows, which had been fatted by 

 poor feed, under certain mana'jement, the property of Mr Maxay 

 of Knotting, in this country, were exhibited. 



A machine for dressinff corn in nn expeditious way, was ex- 

 hibited in the yard, for which Mr Cooche of Malfton, in North- 

 amptonfhire, has lately obtained a patent. 



As soon as the infpeftion of the rams, and exhibitions were over, 

 the company, headed by the Duke, proceeded to a fallow field, 

 near Birchmore-houfe, where experiments were tried by five dif- 

 ferent ploughs, namely, a Northumberland, a Surry, or Duckats, a 

 Eedford(hire, a Norfolk, and a Scotifh one, on which experiments 

 were made in fowing turnips, by making the harrows wide apart. 

 The manure was then regularly diftributed in them 5 after which, 

 a roller was drawn by an ox, and to the roller was attached a 

 drilling machine, fo contrived for the roller to cover the manure 

 >9ith the ridges of earth, and the feeds to fall on the earth which 

 had fallen on the manure ; and the machine was fo contrived as to 

 cover the feed with earth , fo that the feed lay as on a hot-bed. 

 After the infpeftion of the ploughs, the company proceeded to 

 Ridgemond-fields, where experiments were made with Mr Leicef- 

 ter's fcuffling harrows j for the improvement of which he has late- 

 ly obtained a patent. Experiments were alfo made on Mr Potts* 

 improved harrows. 



Thefe expeviments were made in confequence of his Grace (with, 

 that truly laudable zeal for which he is fo eminently diftinguifhed 

 in the encouragement and improvement of agricultural purfuits) 

 having offered a premium of twenty guineas to the perfon who 

 ihould produce, at. this (heep-fhearing, the bell and mofl newly in- 

 vented implement in agriculture. It is left to a Committee |to de- 

 cide, which implenaent produced ought to have the preference ; 

 whether any of them merit the reputation that the acquificion of a 

 premium would confer •, and which will be made known by the 

 CommTttee on Thurfday. About three o'clock, his Grace enter- 

 tained about two hundred gentlemen with an elegant dinner at the 

 Abbey, at which his Grace prefided. 



A challenge was made by fome Hereford gentlemen, to produce 

 better cattle than any county in England, which was taken up by 

 Sir Thomas Carr, High SheriiF for the co^jnty of Suffex, who un- 

 dertook to produce as fine from SuSex. 



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