Afjricultural Exldbition at Aarlains (^Denmarh'u 545 



Machines and Implements. 



The various objects comprised in this department were divided 

 into sixteen different classes; and there were 182 exhibitors. 

 Several of. our own firms were creditably represented, though 

 their contributions were not on the same scale as at the Vienna 

 meeting', probably because the limited nature of any possible 

 demand for their manufactures in Denmark more than counter- 

 balanced the greater facilities of transport to Aarhuus. 



Experimental trials in the field were condu(;ted during the 

 week preceding the Exhibition, under the personal superintend- 

 ence of Prof. Jorgensen, of Copenhagen (to whom 1 am greatly 

 indebted for the facilities and information he afforded me during 

 my visit), and a special jury ; and opportunities were afforded 

 each morning of the Exhibition of seeing some of the principal 

 machines, such as reapers, cScc, in operation, close to the show 

 ground. These appeared to attract attention and give general 

 satisfaction. 



The following prizes were awarded to the English exhi- 

 bitors : — 



Silver Medals — to Clayton and Shuttleworth, for steam-engine 

 and compound threshing-machines with straw elevator ; Hornsby 

 and Sons, for steam-engine and threshing-machine, and for 

 reaping-machine ; John Baker, for corn dressing-machine ; J. 

 and F. Howard, for ploughs and harrows ; Spear and Jackson, 

 for hand implements. 



Bronze Medals — to W. S. Underbill, for turnip-sowing machine ; 

 R. and R. Hunt, for horse-hoes. 



The " Butter and Cheese " department was, as might be ex- 

 pected, upon a much larger scale than we are accustomed to at 

 ordinary agricultural meetings. Both the larger and the smaller 

 class of dairies were well represented ; and the samples of their 

 respective produce, in butter and in cheese, were so numerous as 

 not only to occupy much time, but to give the judges consider- 

 able difhculty in making their awards. 



In the third department, " Agricultural and Forest Seeds," 

 the samples exhibited were too limited in quantity to admit of 

 any fair comparisons or judgment of what their quality would 

 be in bulk. They were generally very neatly and creditably 

 arranged, but on a scale more suitable for a museum collection 

 than a great agricultural exhibition. 



The " Fish and Fishing appliances " exhibited were also of a 

 very meagre description ; certainly not equal to what a seagirt 

 country like Denmark was capable of furnishing. This branch 

 of our food-producing industries appears to have been lately 

 exciting more attention in different countries than it formerly 



