at the Plymouth Meeting. 



405 



No. of 

 Art. 



Description of Implement. 



Price. 



734 

 879 

 38 

 637 



883 



1957 



1151 



22G8 



2840 



143 



2654 



2796 



A. W. Gower and Son . 



Francis Mellard . < 



J. G. Avery .... 



Ransomes and Sims < 



(West of England Coker 

 ( Canvas Company 



W. S. Underhill . J 



Alfred E. Pierce 

 Holmes and Sons 

 White and Co. . 

 Ashby and Jeffery 



George P. Dodge 



Webb and Sous 



Broadcast Seed Distributor . . 

 " Pngh's" Patent Cheese-making) 



Machine 3 



" Jebb's " Tubular Chum . . . 

 "Edmunds's" Semicircular Po-) 



meltrees 5 



Flax-brealdng and Scutching ) 



Machine i 



" Sketch ley 's " combined Sawing, j 



Planing, Moulding, and Bormg > 



Machine J 



Improved Cattle-troughs . . . 



Rotary Harrow 



Earth Closet Apparatus . . . 

 Steel Crank Shield .... 

 India-rubber Vulcanised Driving-') 



bands j 



Leather Machine-hands . . . 



£ s. ( 

 5 15 



13 15 



4 4 



12 



63 



Silver Medal. 

 Ditto. 

 Ditto. 

 Ditto. 



Ditto. 



Ditto. 



Ditto. 



Ditto. 



Highly Commended. 



Commended. 



Ditto. 



Ditto. 



Jacob Wilson. 

 John Colemak. 



The Judges desire to take this opportunity of expressing their 

 acknowledgments to the Council lor the liberal arrangements 

 made for their comfort and convenience during the Show, This 

 Report would be incomplete if we omitted to notice the great, 

 and, upon the whole, successful exertions of the Railway Com- 

 panies, and especially the South Devon Line, to facilitate and 

 carry out the arrangements of the Society. The transit of Imple- 

 ments and Stock to the Show was well and punctually effected, 

 and, considering the capabilities of the line, we believe that 

 the passenger-traffic was well arranged. 



The exertions of Mr. Elphick, Field-manager, and of the 

 Messrs. Moon, in carrying out the details of the field-trials, 

 merit acknowledgment, as they enabled the Judges to make the 

 best of the scanty means at command. 



It is to be hoped that when these important classes of imple- 

 ments again come before the Society in competition, such 

 arrangements may be possible as will ensure a trial on a more 

 extended scale. It would have been more satisfactory in the 

 present case if, in the decisive trials (we speak now only of the 

 Mowing and Reaping Classes), each machine could have been 

 put to do a fair day's work ; the driver drawing his lot and set- 

 ting to work with his pair of horses, just as he would on a farm, 

 and cutting down his plot the best way he could, but without 

 any assistance. It is true that for this purpose a larger area, 

 unavoidably attended with increased expense, would be neces- 

 sary. But so great are the interests at stake — from the influence 

 of the awards both on exhibitors and the public — that it becomes 

 of the utmost importance that the trials should be thoroughly 

 exhaustive and conclusive. 



