at the Plymouth Meeting. 



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Of Turnip-Drills on the ridge we tried eight implements, and found this 

 a useful class, but with great variation in price, viz., from 211. 10s. down to 51. 



We had only three Water-Drills. All worked tolerably well. We gave 

 each a prize in proportion to its merits. 



Of Drills for small seeds we tried four, of which three were very efficient 

 implements. 



Of Drill-Pressers four were set to work, but the soil was not in a proper 

 state for the trial of these implements, being merely a loose fallow fresh 

 ploughed. The test was, nevertheless, equally fair for all. 



Of Distributors for dry manure we tried eight. This we found a very good 

 and efficient class. We considered that Mr. Chambers's barrel delivered the 

 manure in the best and most regular manner. Mr. Sainty has improved liis 

 implement by the introduction of a barrel of mixed metal, manufactured by 

 Messrs. Garrett and Sons, which is not liable to rust and corrode. 



In the class of Horse-Hoes for general purposes we tried nine implements on 

 the growing rye, and six of them on turnips. This we also found a very good 

 class. Some of them hoed the turnips very well, but the trials were not so 

 satisfactory among the corn, as it was badly drilled. 



Eighteen single-row Horse-Hoes were tried, and the operation being so very 

 simpte, we found considerable difficulty in selecting the best from so large 

 a number ; but considering that, as in the work, so in the implement, sim- 

 plicity, combined with strength, good workmanship, and cost, were the merits 

 to be desired, we have awarded the prizes to those implements that appeared 

 to us to combine these qualities in the highest degree. 



Of single-roAV Grubbers we tried nine, finding some of them really very 

 good and efficient implements. The remarks on single-row horse-hoes apply 

 equally to this class. 



AVe had only one Horse-Hoe for thinning turnips brought to tiie trial-field — 

 that exhibited by Messrs. Eaton and Sons ; there being no competition, we 

 awarded to it half the amount placed at our disposal. 



Of Hay-making Machines we tried sixteen on hay or grass in the same 

 state in which it was left by the mowing-machines. Their mode of working 

 was very varied, but, on the whole, this class has been much improved since 

 the trial at Leeds, particularly by the introduction, by some of the manu- 

 facturers, of smaller, lighter implements, at considerably lower prices, which 

 are very useful, and work without any material diminution of the breadth of 

 ground taken. After having tried the whole of this class, we selected four of 

 the best machines, giving as much ground as we could to each ; we then changed 

 their positions and worked them side by side rmtil the field was finished, when 

 we divided the amount at our disposal according to their respective merits. 



Of Horse-Eakes we tried eighteen, on the same land where we tried the 

 hay-makers, and so thoroughly satisfied were we Avith one trial, that we had 

 no difficulty in deciding which were the best implements. 



General Purpose Drills. 



Name of E.xhibitor. 



Priest and Woolnough 

 Hornsby and Sons.. 



James Coultas, junior 



Priest and Woolnough 

 James Coultas, junior 

 R. and J. Reeves . . 



Price. 



£. s. d. 



41 10 



38 15 



39 10 



27 10 



27 10 



37 5 



Award. 



£. s. 



10 



8 



7 



Highly Commended. 

 Commended. 

 Commended. 



* Drill. 



t Steerage. 



