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performed by it, as being cleaner cut, producing less waste 

 or shake, and laying the swathe with a regularity better 

 suited for binding in sheaves than when laid off in unequal 

 bundles ; (3rd) for being less liable to choke, and to the 

 consequent stoppages ; (4th) for being mechanically adapted 

 to deposit the grain in rows, performing the operation in a 

 superior manner, and saving, in the opinion of the judges, 

 the labour of two men, as compared with Hussey's ; (5th) 

 for the advantages arising from its having the means of 

 laying off the grain to the right side or the left, this feature, 

 combined with that of being propelled, instead of being 

 drawn, enabling it to enter on either side, or into the centre 

 of a field, without any previous clearing, and to continue 

 the cutting without interruption while the cut portion of 

 the crop was lying on the ground ; (6th) for greater effi- 

 ciency when operating on a crop partially lodged.' 



The sum drawn for admission was £84.1 8s. 5d., and 

 for catalogues, ^^84 i8s. 6d. ; together, ^^926 6s. iid. — 

 nearly four times the sum taken in 1836. The sum for 

 admission does not represent the full attendance, as at this 

 show, for the first time, members received free tickets to 

 the showyard, a privilege ever since enjoyed. 



The dinner took place in the City Hall — the Duke of 

 Roxburghe, President of the Society, in the chair ; the 

 Duke of Athole being croupier. Among those present 

 were the Marquis of Breadalbane, Lord Kinnaird, the Earl 

 of Mansfield, Lord Panmure, Lord Strathallan, Lord 

 Stormont, Lord Blantyre, Mr Stirling of Keir, the Hon. 

 T. C. Bruce. Lord Panmure proposed the tenantry of 

 Scotland, to which Mr Watson, Keillor, replied. Mr Wilson, 

 Edington Mains, returned thanks for the successful com- 

 petitors. 



