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THE cant Al al GAZETTE. 
- the Hiiri rahi Brai 
tunity o 
“no Gs ih A ob 
resol the bed 0 siR of ine 
pared with which the amount of the prize awarde 
is insignificance itself. We do not lates 
we ban reason to know, that the priz 
pee ass ig rt but it is 
e who has s 
uae ratoaseng years, that on „effect of 
Society’s awar instane 
ciall 
all proportion to th 
We have not a doubt that mey one of these 
rival reapers is efficient, and d be in general 
operation ; and if on e differs 
mere 
or third in ite Eere without Pona 
d. Bo entirely wedd ed, however, doe 
iety seem, to its present arrangement, that 
wiki one of the. judges o on returning thanks at the 
ncil dinner was about 
es . 
on this an 
he was immediate si 
desired th i 
rn to appear in the official report, 
if previous An be any guide, we 
tmas pepe 
us not, however, pried greater length just 
now express the general complaint ” the gara s 
arrangements s an 
E 
B 
Eh 
all its essential | °° 
purposes and ends an ena a d success, 
a a a a 
of rea have 
in less pd w 
energetic 
Of the general prospects of the harvest we 
receive for the most part 
> 
unusually ‘a nd un 
an: fall of prices in the 
shown, a is the following letter 
writing from Holbrook Grange 
near ite on July 18, bys as follows :— Beis 
“Per erhaps the annexed extract from my farm 
some interest, The 
va a pe peas 
not heavy, have 
1854, | 1855. | 1856. | ass. 
-+ {20th J 23d June | 224 J 10th J 
eat ot ie 28th June + Hiart 
: une 27th June 128th une 
i 25th June June 30th Jun 
i: Au 13th Aug. | 7th 
18th Aug. Aug. hee 
‘Latin prens 14th Aug. 
8th Sept. | 6th Sept. 
Hi ye 
7 od 
GREAT 
i UARA 
oe vo AT SALISBURY 
F THE 
ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND. 
n; mia 21. nah on nin annual country 
our great tural Society com- 
s0 arak, the ae body of those interested in 
e the _ of steam plou 
nde ed for 
is alo 
plain any | an 
n all these reapers tried be 
e 
o ences j 
7 the competing mkenis which have ealled it [5 
for on on this occasion, have occupied the 
ariken tion of ight or nine ° gentlemen selected ee as 
a ety for sp ge e of agric 
te apron por to-da; 
Mr. Druce, of Eyn hers are occupied wi 
i ing proves mo = clearly the high opinion enter- 
tained of the Society's award than the great expense to 
which exhibitors submit in order to obtain it. Residence 
ten days in an reer town for a large number 
employés, and their conveyance to 
© exhibition at the Society’s sh 
ot doubt 
ficial awards or me of the agricultural 
ssibehine:harete we publie, who after he true 
es of their own interests walk of the merits of the 
ndeed fuller than 
paris the little ones— liane a 
are as many o 
whether in point 
of merit or of means, as have ever 
Local machine- 
esting — as their competition 
daa a achine = stea 
We e seian olin the 
ss and ‘Key wit h their M perbri cutter 
and spiral arrangement aai aral over their rivals 
rosskill’s Bell and Dea The 
s year e 
cultivator trials. 
of Messrs. Burgess 
y an opinion on 
; which, wh 
opted, will t valvas hands for employment Seed a 
S 
unex- 
of yielding well. Green crops have | (3,27 
nig welk woh 
e {29th June 18th June | 
whic 
trial | until the next 
| fair w 
ast. 
the part of the mise that the merits of r 
now so fully ascertained that the 
— years scare them to nmana ive trial. 
urse may be ret m% implying that the 
ascert 
may be the superiority which one. may by 
the $ Society’ judges be believed to exhibit aod others, 
on snag tee Frid 
had 
difficulty i in getting el eines to ahs ground, and it a ap 
us that in stu simplicity the nee 
with the ex- 
or two ces, per- 
d i ork in isfactory manner, and 
certainly i in “that field w wi ithout ioe the horses more 
than a reasonable amount o 
emi ba were removed 2 a piee 
crop, an 
simplicity, and appears to seve 
advantages over the previous systems of tooth wheels, 
ad also a eee 
me mistake sh not ont os the field 
Air work, spel i ther and stoppages than wa: 
The other chief featuré of the meeting was the trial 
essrs, ` 
h by so 
y Mr. Ciarko; of Long Baton, | 
ith 
competition | i 
mecess | course Ve 
e naera na cul 
BEER lengthwise of the gro 
eapers but, asi 
Society need mtr in 
This o 
n | find an economical su 
a | by Boydell’s 
M 
ncho: 
Se a Ste e r 
| lateral yon 
ance that i 
| section. of whie 
of steam ploughs ; for the two 
together. The implements ree igy 
economical substitute for the 
fram oge hna 
arra 
acting 
as. at 
e sli 
me rea throwing the ai Si 
going north a ane left when co 
engin 
arrangement—its own distine tive pe 
ployment of a small boiler with pre, at 300 
ome on the square ine iled to make rd 
Geli al | 
tremely awkward turning at t the = tae 
ran up the bank and wrenched it: 
ment oe so that it was inca nae for 
a P vok aie i 
The seu itself was a ve flinty shallow so 
hard after a July droug es ht, at alas 
awkward because the one ens of it —— 
mployed two 
in 
è 
ong and straight furrow 
furrow possible 
ii the breadth of the trial grind, 0 oa 
forced to be worked under in which it 
was not a b am: the engine at one eni hom te l 
engine at the 
t staia and — say the best 
world first ploughed a ridge 
ho 
rate of two acres to 10 hours, 
e several compe p wonk. as thn an 
told that it was such wo rk q 
Mr. Boydell drew “three sets of double ploughs behind 
= AES —each double 
n (unfort KAEA not a > ploughman), and thewokwas | 
iok well don somè and was 
ne. right i 
exceedingly well li worked by Coleman? s cata ar T 
upi ‘did much the best w work, enpa f 
ith at the nee 
ae r ' 
on this anchorage un ne capstan on on tothe 
es both being carried spe aiee s driving 
t the other end of the furrow. The wheel up 
as it is drawn along the si 
sustains w 
As to the implements epic go 
h only w 
for r 
and among 
the egm een of ‘the driver of Í 
position cutting 
