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namely, J. Coultas, Reeves and Son, and Holmes and Son ; the 

 two former gained the honours. 



No. 2795. James Coultas, of Grantham. — The dry manure is placed in a 

 manure-box, which may be cleaned out from the front ; from this it is deposited 

 by a notched roller with spring scrapers, in a similar manner to that described 

 in Coultas's Dry Manure Distributor in Class XIX., through chain-cups into 

 six coulters. The seed is placed in an upper seed-box, from which it falls 

 into the lower seed-box, its flow being regulated by movable slides. This 

 lower seed-box has a bolster between each of the discs, so that the seed is kept 

 in regular and close contact with the disc and cups. The seed is raised 

 by the cups and thrown into hoppers, passing through india-rubber seed 

 pipes — already described — into the coulters. The manure coulter-levers 

 laave their fulcrum on the coulter stay-bar, while the seed coulter-levers have 

 their fulcrum on a bracket fixed to, and below, the manure coulter-levers, upon 

 which the point of attachment may be placed either higher or lower. Thus 

 the seed coulter-lever is in no way controlled by the manure coulter-lever, 

 and the manure and seed may respectively be deposited at any depth ; this 

 arrangement seems a little complicated, but is good, and in this respect the 

 drill 250ssesses a great advantage over the second-prize drill, where the seed 

 and manure coulter-levers are fixed to each other. The coulter-levers are 

 raised and pressed by a roller and chains, acted on by a bevel gearing and 

 crank-handle behind. 



This is a well-constructed drill, and made good work during the trial. Its 

 price is 251. 



No. 1587. B. and J. Reeves and Son, of Bratton, Westbury. — The manure 

 is distributed from the manure-box by a revolving barrel with projecting blades 

 on it, thi-ough a false bottom regulated by a slide at the bottom of the 

 manure-box, in the same manner as described in Eeeves's Dry Manure Distri- 

 butor, Class XIX. ; passing through chain-cups into five coulters. The seed 

 is placed in an upper seed-box and passes from this into a lower one, from 

 which it is delivered by the ordinary cups attached to a revolving disc ; being 

 thrown into hoppers and thus passing through chain-cups into the coulters. 

 The seed and manure coulters are both fixed to one lever, which has its ful- 

 crum on the coulter-lever stay-bar in front ; this is certainly a simpler 

 arrangement than in the last-described drill, but it cannot be so effective in 

 putting in the seed regularly ; for if the manure coulter receives a jerk from 

 any obstacle, the seed coulter is also thrown up, which is not the case in the 

 first-prize drill. 



The price of this drill is 19Z. ; it is well-constructed, although the principle 

 upon which the manure is distributed is not so good as that of Chambers's 

 notched barrel. 



First Prize of 101. to J. Coultas (2795), of Grantham. 



Second Prize of bl. to Pi. & J. Reeves and Son (1587), of Bratton, Westbury, 



'. For Table VI., Drills for Turnips, &c. see opposite page. 



Class VI. Drills for Turnips and other Roots on the Ridge. — 

 There were eleven entries on the list; of these, five were tried on 

 ridged-up land in the field which had been prepared for turnips. 

 The two machines which gained the distinctions were entered 

 by Coultas and Reeves ; the mode of distributing both m^anure 

 and seed is similar to that in the machines by these makers, 

 described in the last class ; only, being for ridges, they were 

 provided with two concave rollers and a back roller for covering 



