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nental requireinents, at Buckau, near Magdeburg. Among the 

 implements which have been modified to suit the habits of 

 the people and other altered conditions, was a simple and light 

 horse-hoe, fitted with a pole, and exceedingly easy to manage. 

 The drill is also fitted with a pole, as being more suitable lor 

 bullock labour. Portable engines and threshing-machines were 

 very similar to those usually seen in England. 



Siedersleben and Co., which firm, like that of Garrett, is not 

 named in the catalogue, showed a monster drill with twenty-nine ' 

 coulters on a 14-feet frame, and with glass in front of the cups ; 

 also a drop-drill, which acts by the revolution of a wheel 

 furnished with projections. These projections press down a 

 lever, which again returns into position by means of a simple 

 spring. The alternate rise and fall of the lever opens and shuts 

 a valve in the coulter which arrests or drops the seeds as the 

 implement moves on. 



Drop-drills are in great favour abroad among the growers of 

 sugar-beet, and one of similar construction to the last was 

 observed at Zimmermann's stand, representing works at Halle, 

 This manufacturer deserves a word of praise for the good con- 

 struction and finish of his implements. 



The brothers Eberhardt showed some good strong ploughs, 

 and one with three turn-furrows and no coulter, furnished with 

 apparatus for lifting it out of the ground. 



Eckert, of Berlin, showed some ploughs of peculiar con- 

 struction, with abrupt mould-boards, fixed shares, and cranked 

 axles to the wheels for altering depth. Frowe showed a plough 

 with projecting knives from the face of the mould-board to 

 further cut and pulverize the furrow. Mackean and Co., of 

 Breslau, also deserve notice for their excellent drill. 



Englisli and American Departments. — It was not the wish of 

 the Journal Committee that implements should occupy much 

 space in this report. They considered that a detailed account of 

 the departments devoted to agricultural implements would be 

 unnecessary, when the same implements are yearly seen, and 

 reported upon, in the agricultural show-yards and press of this 

 country. I cannot, however, pass without notice the magni- 

 ficent display of English agricultural implements which occu- 

 pied a great part of the Western Agricultural Hall at Vienna. 

 It was a sight of which any Englishman might be proud, 

 for here he might see the excellence of English engineering 

 skill, in its application to agriculture, in strong relief against 

 the distinctly poorer class of work contributed by Continental 

 makers. 



America appeared, but almost solely as an exhibitor of reapers 

 and mowers — a department in which she has always been dis- 



