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XXXI. — General Report on the Exhibition of Imj)lements at the 

 Phjmoxith Meeting. By JoHN Coleman and F. A. Paget, C.E. 



The reports of Judges on the different classes of implements, 

 for which prizes were offered at this meeting, may well be 

 accompanied by a few general remarks, for the information of 

 those who were not present. The Show-yard, enclosing 35 acres 

 30 poles, was situated at Pennycomequick, on a site close to, 

 ai^d on the right of the Saltash-road, and about one mile 

 fr^m the railway stations of Plymouth and Devonport. The 

 situation was not only commodious and convenient, but com- 

 manded an exquisite panorama of the town and bay. Mount 

 Edgecumbe, and the undulating country around. The ground 

 occupied by the ShoAV-yard was originally in six fields ; but 

 the hedges had been carefully grubbed and levelled, and 

 a broad road, 200 yards long, so laid down as to secure an 

 entrance in the centre of the southern boundary. A siding from 

 the Cornwall Railway, constructed for the occasion, landed 

 visitors, stock, and implements, within a few yards of the 

 entrances. The visitor, after passing the Post-office, the Secretary's 

 office, and other official buildings, found himself in a large open 

 space of gently-rising green sward, commanding a view on the 

 right of the machinery in motion — not so large a display as it will 

 be next year, but still presenting a respectable appearance, whilst 

 to the left his eye would range over a succession of implement- 

 sheds ; and if he walked forward he found a broad avenue with, 

 first, implement-sheds on either hand, then departments for 

 stock, and at the extreme end the extensive ring, surrounded 

 on three sides by horse-boxes. If the eye became dazed, and 

 the head distressed with the multitude and variety of the objects 

 close at hand, he had but to turn and gaze upon a landscape 

 which can find few rivals, and has perhaps never been equalled 

 at a previous gathering of the Royal Agricultural Society. 



In accordance with the programme of the Society, the same 

 classes of implements that competed at Leeds came round for 

 trial at Plymouth. These were drills, manure -distributors, 

 horse-hoes, mowing and reaping machines, hay-machines, and 

 horse-rakes, and carts and waggons. The land selected for the 

 trials comprised about 70 acres, part of the Woodford Farm, 

 belonging to the Earl of Morley, and tenanted by Mr. Cork, 

 situated on the road to Plympton, about 3 J miles from the Show- 

 yard. It was approached by road and rail, a temporary station 

 having been erected at Marsh Mills, on the Plymouth and 

 Tavistock line, within sight of the grounds, which consisted of 

 three arable fields and one meadow. The largest, 20 acres in 



