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country that they will be again referred to on a future occasion. 

 The superiority of English workmanship and style was at once 

 evident on approaching this stand, although the exhibits w<^re 

 Jiiany of them made in Vienna. Among implements especially 

 constructed with a view to the wants of Austro-Hungary may 

 be mentioned their Indian-corn sheller, adapted both for steam 

 and horses, with dressing and sacking apparatus ; and, in 

 addition to their former numei'ous implements, they have now 

 added a light drill to suit the country, and four and six-horse 

 power threshing-machines adapted for horse gears. 



Sigl, of Vienna, was an exhibitor in the Austrian agri- 

 cultural section. Sigl's works in Vienna are very extensive, 

 even when compared with the leading engineering works in 

 England. He exhibited engines and threshing machines on the 

 principle of Hornsby, of Grantham, and the whole of his work 

 showed first-rate skill. Carow, of Prague, also showed neat and 

 handsome agricultural machinery. 



French and German Departments. — MM. Albaret and Son, 

 successors to M. N. Duvoir, were the principal French exhibitors, 

 and showed a large assortment of implements from their works 

 at Liancourt-Rantigny, in the Department Oise (head office, 29, 

 Rue de Viarmes, Paris). Their portable engines and horse- 

 gears for threshing purposes, their threshing-machines, reapers, 

 chaff-cutters, root-pulpers, &c., were all essentially English in 

 design, although I have no wish to give the impression that 

 they were mere copies of any particular English machines. 



The collection of agricultural implements sent by M. Pernollet, 

 •of Paris, who is famous for corn-screens, and makes other agri- 

 cultural machinery, was also noticed. 



The German section was well filled by a large number of 

 stands representing many good firms. 



Here I cannot refrain from finding fault with the official 

 catalogues, which rendered it exceedingly difficult to follow 

 the order of the exhibits. Had there been an alphabetical or 

 numerical order, or, in fact, any sort of correspondence between 

 the catalogues and the objects exhibited, the task of reporting 

 would have been much simplified. Since there was none, it 

 became exceedingly difficult to construct order out of such a 

 disorganized medley. Many names of exhibitors did not appear 

 in the catalogue, and others were found with the greatest difficulty. 

 In the official general catalogue. Group XIII., now under con- 

 sideration, was entirely omitted, although it occupies fifty pages 

 <jf the separate German catalogue. 



Among the most interesting stands in this section was that 

 of Mr. J. D. Garrett, son of Mr. R. Garrett, of Leiston, Suffolk, 

 now well established, and making machines adapted for Conti- 



