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General Report on the Exhibition of Implements 



Haymaking-Macuines. 



Horse-Rakes. 



J. and F. Howard 

 F-. Page and Co. 

 John Davey .. 

 Thomas Alcock 



6 

 4 

 Highly Commended. 

 Commended. 



Joiix IIlCKKN. 

 A. H. JoilN'SON. 



Francis Sherborn, 

 John Thompson. 

 Robert Dyson. 



As some further particulars respectin<2: the principal implements 

 that received the j)rizes may be interesting to the reader, we may 

 note that Mr. John Sainty, ot Burnham, Norfolk, bears off the honour 

 of novelty in drills as Messrs. Hornsby do in reapers. The 

 light and clever arrangement of springs, by which we get rid of 

 the heavy, inconvenient press-bar and weights, iScc, may be con- 

 sidered an important constructive detail. It has already been 

 adopted by several of the large farmers in Norfolk, and is capable 

 of being fitted to any ordinary corn-drill at a small cost. One 

 of the great advantages in this application is that if the coulters 

 are thrown up from any disturbing cause — a stone, hard ground, 

 &.C., — they settle to their proper depth again much more raj)idly 

 than if merely weighted. The springs act on each lever with a 

 pressure varying from 1 to 12 lbs. The drill is considerably 

 lightened, and the raising or lowering the coulters can be 

 effected more readily than by the old system. Messrs. Garrett 

 manufactured for ]Mr. Sainty, and accordingly the working parts 

 of these implements were excellent. 



The principal improvements in Priest and Woolnough's drills 

 and hoes, which have received nine prizes, may be shortlv noticed, 

 as consisting in the use of tin funnels of uniform diameter, 

 instead of the old tins and chains for conducting the seed, which 

 have a side-play by means of a novel ball-and-socket joint. In 

 order to obtain uniform pressure on each coulter the levers are 

 mounted on horizontal bars ; the front coulters being attached to 

 the foremost bar, and the back coulters to the hinder bar. The 



