676 Report on the Trials of Implements at Bedford. 



bolted to the cylinders instead of being cast together with them, and thus forming 

 part of them. The cylinder is driven off both driving-wheels by a cog-and- 

 pinion gearing, which equalizes the draught. A crank-handle may be fixed 

 to one end of the cylinder-shaft, in order to turn it and stir up the manure 

 before starting. The liquid manure is delivered by cups and hoppers into a 

 trough with partitions in it. The work of this machine in the trial was lair. 

 Its price is 201. 



i Prize of lOZ. to Reeves and Son (1591), of Westbury. 

 Highly Commended. — J. Coultas (2805), of Grantham. 



Table XVIII. — Distributors for Liquid Manure. (Class XVII I.) 



Name of Exhibitor . . 

 Catalogue number 

 Order of trial 

 Price 



Extreme effective width 

 Size of manure-box . . 

 Capacity of manure-box 



Points of Merit : — 



1. Soundness and quality of I 



materials and workmanship,) 

 and durability | 



2. Balance and construction of) 



carriage / 



3. Facilities for filling 



4. Adjustment and evenness ofj 



distribution, and general > 

 efficiency on trial . . . . ) 



Per- 

 fection 

 being 



5. Price 



200 



150 

 100 



450 



100 



Eeeves & Son. 



1591 



1 



2H. 

 G' 0" 

 4' 9" X 2' S" X 2' G" 



Coulfas, J. 

 2805 



8 



20/. 



G' 0" 



Total 



1000 



200 



150 

 90 



420 



100 



960 



200 



150 

 80 



400 



100 



930 



Class XIX. Distributors for Dry Manure. — In this class there 

 were ten entries, eight of which were presented and tried. 



They were, first of all, each supplied with one bushel of 

 fine ashes, and run along the grass on the side of the field 

 in order to notice evenness of delivery ; first sowing the 

 smallest possible quantity and increasing to the largest possible 

 quantity. After this first trial three machines were selected, — 

 T. Chambers's, J. Coultas's, and Reeves and Son's, and these were 

 again tried, each being supplied with one bushel of super- 

 phosphate. The only really good distributors were constructed 

 according to T. Chambers's patent, and consisted of a involving 

 notched barrel, with sloping laterally working stirrers. The 

 first-prize distributor was entered by T. Chambers, the inventor 



