at the Salisbury Meeting, 1857. 451 



established and appreciated that we thought an honorary notice superfluous. 

 Such were Messrs. Dray and Co.'s circular iron corn bins, and their strong 

 and cheap field gates. Other articles again seemed more calculated for a fine- 

 arts exhibition than an agricultural show ; prominent among such we Avoiild 

 name Mr. Johnson's elegant garden seats and ornamental flower stands. Then 

 there were one or two intricate and funny contrivances, the ins and outs of 

 which we could not understand ; it might be ignorance, but we thought their 

 ingenuity only surpassed by their uselessness. 



In concluding our remarks on this department we think it would facilitate 

 the operations of future Judges if lohat is a miscellaneous article was more, 

 clearly defined. We were told that anything not essentially an agricultural 

 implement was a miscellaneous article. If so, half the show wouhrbelong to 

 this class. It would have lightened our responsibilities and lessened our labours 

 if the Society had published some definite instructions on this point. 



Wm. Chalcraft, 

 Clare Sewell Eead. 



XVII. — On Road-mending. By the Hon. W. G. Cavendish, M.P. 



[The following letter and plan, sent to me by Mr. Cavendish, 

 on the subject of mending roads, need no apology for their 

 insertion. The system is excellent. It is already to some extent 

 adopted in the neighbourhood of London, but rarely in country 

 or on farm roads. It is a very simple, and, as far as I know, the 

 only preservative against the immediate formation of fresh ruts 

 on roads newly stoned. — C. W. H.] 



I SEND you one of the plans of road-making that I spoke to 

 you about. Mr. Robert Arkwright, of Sutton, gave it to me, and, t 

 think, from seeing some miles of road that he has had repaired 

 about his house in Derbyshire, the principle is a good one, and 

 I should be glad if it were more generally adopted. If you 

 should think it worth a place in the Journal, it is much at your 

 service. 



When I was last in Derbyshire I had some conversation with 

 Mr. Arkwright upon the method. He introduced, and has now 

 adopted it for some years with the greatest success upon all the 

 roads in his neighbourhood. It was not without much trouble 

 at first that he succeeded in persuading the surveyor or mender 

 of the roads that it was better to lay the stones ]>artiaUy over 

 the road, instead of the old system of covering the whole of the 

 road with them, in which case they were sure to be worn into 

 ruts. 



If the surveyor, or mender, of roads has a little common sense, 

 a quick eye, and is anxious to improve the very imperfect method 

 now adopted in repairing roads, very few hints will suffice to 



