32—1848. ] THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
MISCELLANEOUS oo gan xicarions.—Mr, Hamonp gave | W. 
notice of his intention of calling the attention of the 
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and seed, but th at once 
8 arth, and m the seed.—The Rev 
T. J. Powell, of Cani fered suggestions for the 
gular payment of subscriptions, 
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The Council then 2 over the autumn recess, 
to Tuesday, the 7th of Nov 
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Tun Meerine at Ebixnunan: Aug. 1. 
bein 
the last annual meeting of thif Society (its meetings 
henceforth d 
there has been — — 7 but a small attendance 
to-day, it is expected that to-morrow a greater cro 
ö — eele wep ha sea appoarod at any former show, 
Edinburgh is now the terminal point of numerous rail- | e 
to 
way lines, the thees are ail & be lowered during 
the show, there is every prospect of a large meeting, 
especially as the weather has become very fine. | can 
Taan Ai — 2 Pia one — 
arm, a few to -west of the | an 
Dean B e r prodno wore | on 
judged y, and the live stock are to be jud to- 
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ith regard to the show of implements, it m 
confessed that it ear — . meagre in cs 
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of number and variety compared with the exhibition of ted 
the Ro al A — Society ol * awry lately held 
at Yor ; but it must also be essed, at the. same 
ime, in t of eneslleney of * workmanship, sim- 
plicity of construction, and ptation to 
cipal purposes of agriculture, it will stand a very 
le comparison any exhibition 
United Kingdom. seem to require 
er variety of implements than their 
neigh harrows, a few varieties of grub- 
bers, not generally in repute, and one-horse turn- 
win n so ge 5 
waggle in Seo and the disfavour in which 
iling and dibbling corn-machines are held, have 
operated as checks to the oe of the implement | Gedd 
such machi 
makers in the construction 
oes ; 
1 as - 
yet probably this conservatism in regard to a lon 
Sanctioned practice, ited 
d practical man 
bee, 3 = show-yard at Edinb 
of satisfaction. 
what er wants, and is willing to 
pay for, it ee not be wondered implement 
re anxious 1 — hich 
— — 
ering what 
The total amount of entries of ce EORR including | M 
pon nia of small articles not specially or inti- 
connected wi mmo! — was s0 
there is undoubtedly considera 
22 meet the intensive system of farming now | three 
cpg | we should err in in recom- 
of the drill in 
i j ped the 
approbation. The number of implement exhibitors | con 
— a all to s of ‘which 76 were Scotch, 13 
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of Lisbera. — the order of the e catalogue 
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t of the 
Sl. 18s. 6d. ; one made and — by Robert 
Willan Raton, 10s. 5 one made and exhibited by corn 
engle, M fre 
ul og: “A and two trom Ireland, made and 
tman, 
machines the ground for broadcast sowing, and 
as of the seed falls into the 
bottom of the drills, t is easily covered by the barrows, 
and when above ground appears in regular rows. This 
method, it will be seen, is but a clumsy way of sowing 
com with a good drill, which forms the 
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exhibited, all of which were excelient, both as regards 
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out, are 8 hord regan the 
whe too full and too empty, hey now re — with 
intermediate degrees of thickness and thinness according. 
ap- 
on ine * 
r * Horse Raker. an: hese only one 
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efficiency, 
The delivery as 2 A of the Had in in the — 
is b de with this corroded relict — L. — ; the one looked» 
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nstead of coulters, to make the ruts for the seed, When 
long i or yer ah 
ery apt to tear it out, but when w are employed 
it The exhibition of Turnip-sow 
hines was best in the yard, and one 
0 an ordinary the f 
if he pride himself in department of his — 
always particularly proud vine he succeeds in 
a good rni 
well b some 
is both dear and | form, there were few but would make excellent work 
rryp eet — on 
thw 
suppose + Wilkie’s modern 
highly polished * 2 be uffer by comparison 
* — spirit of the age, the other like the 
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hend, Sapeotfields, Hinckley, Leicester, and it was pro- 
th nounced by the judge to be tho best ia the jard, 
A committee ice meeting was held at 2 o'clock, his Gra 
the Duke of B chair, The meeting — 
wo | occupied in 3 u — 2 the live — of which 
laxw ll, 
great 
crowds ex 1 in A the country by the 
different m 3 on Thurs as there are six gates of 
by gin two of egre 
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great dinner takes * on Thursday evening, 
