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the bad fuel and bad water of the country, and are fitted with 

 patent self-acting expansive governors, which act upon the slide 

 with cut off ranging from ^ to J of stroke, thus effecting a 

 saving of fuel. The engine rests on a wrought-iron carriage, 

 securing strength and lightness, and travels on an impx'oved 

 travelling wheel with cast-ii-on nave, chilled bush, hollow 

 wrought-iron spokes, felloes, and wrought-iron tire. 



Messrs. Marshall, Sons and Co. also appeared as exhibitors of 

 threshing machines with Roby's iron frame, and lined Avith iron. 

 Also a compensating and regulating contrivance to counteract 

 contraction and expansion of the boiler. 



Messrs. Ruston and Proctor (Lincoln) brace their threshing- 

 machine with iron, and employ a cast sill for the drum. They also 

 send out a straw-bruiser upon a similar general principle to that 

 of Alessrs. Ransome, Sims, and Head. This they informed me 

 was useful in South Russia, but was not asked for in Hungary. 

 There was no protection for labourers around the mouth of the 

 threshing-machine, a precaution which should on no account be 

 omitted in machines for these countries, as accidents are fearfully 

 common every season. Messrs. Ruston and Proctor were, 

 however, not peculiar in this omission, for the same fq,ult was 

 noticeable in many other machines. Hornsby's Anglo-American 

 plough inay be noticed as likely to suit Hungarian agriculture, 

 as will also their simple and efficient horse-hoe. The reaper 

 with seat projecting from the bearings of the driving wheel is 

 also to be commended. All reapers for Austro-Hungary should 

 be provided with a seat. Mr. J. Coultas (Grantham) exhibited, 

 among other things, a beetroot drill, with manure distributor on 

 Chambers' principle, and apparatus for dropping the seed at 

 intervals. The Reading Iron Works Company exhibited 

 portable engines, threshing machines, horse gearing, vScc, con- 

 structed in several cases with a view to the wants of the East of 

 Europe. These requirements have already been noticed. This 

 company showed several specialities, but it scarcely falls within 

 our province to describe them. jNIessrs. Wallis and Steevens 

 (Basingstoke) showed a horse gear and threshing-machine 

 mounted on one truck for easy transport. 



Messrs. R. Garrett and Sons (Leiston) showed an engine for 

 burning straw instead of coal on a principle different from that 

 formerly noticed. The Leiston firm have been manufacturing 

 these engines " on a large scale for the last two jears, and can 

 give reference to at least fifty farmers who are using them suc- 

 cessfully." (Letter received October 14th, 1873, from Messrs. 

 Richard Garrett and Sons). Tlie following account is taken from 

 'The Engineer' of August 22nd, and the Figures 26 and 27 are 

 reduced from illustrations which appeared in the same number : 



