350 Rej)ort on the Exhibition of Implements 



disposition, modified to suit farming purposes^ well merits the 

 attention of agriculturists, as it would greatly ease the toil of the 

 labourer. Of Mr. Hannam's (of Burcot) unequalled one-horse 

 harv^est-cart, described in vol. ii. of the Journal of the Society, more 

 need not be said than that it cannot be exhibited too often, and 

 that it ought to be found on every farm. To Mr. Robert Law, of 

 Shettleston, near Glasgow, a prize of 3/. was awarded for his 

 Scotch one-horse tipping-cart with a spring catch to retain it on 

 the shafts. This simple little contrivance is much preferable to 

 pins and cotters, which are apt to shake out, or to be neglected 

 in the fastening, by which the load is not unfrequently let fall. 



Self-acting Brakes. — A reward of 5/. was given to Messrs. 

 C. and T. Thatcher, of Midsomer Norton, near Bath, for their 

 cart with patent self-acting and self-regulating brakes. Two light 

 chains are attached to the breech- band of the horse, one on each 

 side, which pass round a pulley on the respective shafts, and are 

 thence brought back to the cart, where they are hooked to levers 

 which act with clips against friction-hoops staked on the inside 

 of each wheel-nave. When the horse backs on going down a 

 declivity, he causes the clips to press against the hoops with suf- 

 ficient force to stop or regulate the velocity of a loaded cart de- 

 scending the steepest hill. This contrivance promises to be a 

 highly useful appendage to carts in hilly districts. It is also 

 applied to waggons and pole- carriages. 



The judges regret that the show-yard did not furnish a single 

 specimen of a waggon or one-horse cart on springs, so much 

 used and approved by the manufacturers of Lancashire and York- 

 shire, and so well adapted, as they would be found, for the eco- 

 nomical and speedy conveyance of farm-produce to market. 



Portable Forge. — Amongst the miscellaneous items in the col- 

 lection of the Earl of Ducie, a light portable smith's forge was 

 exhibited, the invention of Mr. Richard Clyburn, which deserves 

 notice and commendation, as useful to the owners of extensive 

 estates and farms lying distant from a forge or town. The whole 

 weighs about 8 cwt., is compact, and of easy transport. It is 

 specially remiirkable for the adaptation of a small fan, instead of 

 bellows, turned by a boy, and affording a blast sufiicient for weld- 

 ing a 3-inch bar. The substitution of a fan remedies the great 

 evil hitherto attaching to portable out- door forges, from the rapid 

 decay of bellows. This implement is admirably suited to the 

 wants of the emigrant and of settlers on waste lands. 



Draining -tools and Tile-machine. — There was no collection of 

 draining-toois answering to the terms of the Society's offered pre- 

 mium. A tile-making machine of m.uch merit, the invention of 

 Mr. Wm. Irving, of Lambeth, was exhibited by Mr. Ford, of Nine 

 Elms, Vauxhall. This implement was overlooked by the judges 



