1026 THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, [Novemper 17, 1860, 
on Thursday, the Sth of the ro month. Thejpart of the exhibitors of imple ments, or the! contrary ti mon sen to suppose that ¢ t any man 
plaintiff, a respectable farmer in Be rosie sued | existence of any animus against the Royal Agri- | could get his living oe making each machinery 
the defendent, who is a se ot an, for damages | cultur = ‘a ty of England; their protest was | and ae bs chop improving it 
which he had sustained in the loss of crop from | against the growing evil of imperfect trials which of Cambridge, spoke strongly on 
the admixture of a quantity of Burnet in the that Society a meaa he agricultural mind bebalf be pre hepa Biol ety. He contended 
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from the evidence of the plaintiff and his|and aun could be quote ed of pri piem ents | error. It might be very inconvenient, and doubt- 
men that they were totally unacquainted with | being recalled by th r than | Jess was, to keep up competition, and they had to 
the Burnet until it was introduced into the! suffe red to remain out and damage eka ee pay individually a heavy penalty for their own 
parish in the Sainfoin seed; and in reference} of the eee wa had manufactured them, and to popularity, still the community reaped the benefit 
to crop in ml it was shown by Prof.| whom the had been awarded. Implement | And he would contend that the proceedings of the 
Buckman that the Burnet, with some varieties of | trials verry ah conducted during the season | Royal Society, ever since its establishment, had 
Bromus aaar, called Lop) — eo ger ony proper for the use of eac class of imple- | by` encouraging competition effected immense 
about a q for it|ments. One season was not fit for all, and} benefit to the country, and was making British 
was es stimat =y bet A as muc as 10 as regards jra ploughing trials of the Society, agriculture the envy and admiration of sur- 
per cent, pha which had come up regularly in | not only hey unseasonable, but they rounding nations. No one bie Tejoice more 
the drills, and was of the true agrarian or u are entirely unnecessary and us seless, « After T | tha n imself to. see any improvement effected in 
vated form, much larger and more ra its | 10 years of , among the the merits of different imple- 
mode of growth than the wild e ines Me jaca im rival prize takers i in this ptalan » will ments ; ; “buat let well alone, and he begged them 
which, in as far as he could ester did not form y farmer tell me,” said Mr. Ransome, ‘if a f to encourage the spirit of 
a part of the native flora of the district. beatin A the extent of 5s, per annum can be emulation among all classes of the agricultural 
i obtained by the use of any one of them over the | comm unity. 
e n tonm ploughs, testing manhinies pe Apatina Mr, Sacret of Reading spoke on the one hand 
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judgment, the case could not be sustained. This|to similar criticism, and Mr. Ransome cl seg name appanage hs euetirines bad he Agia hie 
plea, however, was not only denied by the pla aintiff, that those inglencs nts which are in familiar u 
who deposed to paying an extra price for ee d, sho 5 uld net out of the ining th of im ne 
in order to get the very best, but it was overruled by | to ake so tha confi triala to nee anes : 
d c st i g by sample required | new the less ¢ Bee only u sone nes, tim who “koew wo mare of ploughing, Score wy 
that the sample shown should be taken by the pur- should be abtainad ‘ie the leisurely pir toast : 
chaser to be compared with the bulk, which was amin nation whic opi all machines require. He 
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ni 5 ELSON of est believed that 
Gang eo and, if so, to assess its amount; and Ka fori crowned the dene Rib niu sie of mocha the te jas TER the Agrisaltaral Sooiety hbk 
understand the nature a the ae as their knowles on ability, had each spent hundreds | been Pires ai dina great, Dengiit in two 
Wages was for the defendant. of pounds in endeavouring to ie a good im- | Ways ; by d andl the attention of that 
in reference to this subject it may be a | plement, the fact that if they competed for a prize, section of the "gvieultural Boal who required 
‘pater ‘of inter est to learn that though the different one of them would be sent ap Ae the seventh | Such _ assistan of improv 
were exhibited in Court wy that. both t ion: wilo hethar het machinery for y Sarih purpoens raed secondly, by 
counsel and his Honour confessed to a grea af diffi be sect tags wale takai. disinoline them to| ringing before the agric tural communi 
culty in distinguishing them ; Geaa indeed, exhibit at all. Tesults ynamometrical and 
Ts; r. Howarp, of Bedford, agreed with Mr. | °° aA ; 
still, howeve er, Seri are not only well ‘known. m. by Hozss in the view which je ad taken of the | the same time he did think that ri awards whi 
the seedsmen, eo sour separated, sn there- | implement trials before the Agricultural Society. | followed these tests frequently partook wa the 
fore Sainfoin seed cannot be sold as genuine | eke the Royal Agricultural societies had, | haranter, of a non sequitur. é a 
when it contains t of “this utile and | partially succeeded in the object they had in view, [Judges might be relied on as a conscientious state- 
ght ment of. facts, but the opinions based upon them 
the evil Shine out of such a sale se who they had also porgeal age eat many mistakes, ail not be o , Aaker F ue; and pe that, if 
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confessedly know nothing of the that arias the case; every imple- those who we diss ĵi ird chy h ie abilit 
and further who cannot comprehend ane elm ent ici on looking back at the awards made | none yo rao harged t ee ner erpen y 
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nature of the dimas itself or the means by whic a various agi could a to numerous mis elven to. the, mallee reporia a: fain leaving 
it has been inflicted. We are led to make this takes s on the art of the judges. He remembered h 
observation because there seemed to be d trial which took place at Mr. Honss’s | farmers to form their ould opinions as to what im 
f the reaping machines. Although that trial | ¢#¢h par rticular case would best meet the require- 
a larger plant than the sehen ae threo f it| was an extended one, hay from the Chelms- | pa ei individuals, sans ete would comman 
could hardly be mischievous ; when, in truth, this | ford meeting, it was by no means a satisfactory unt of respect and attention, which was not 
is the ground of its ae : for = Burnet | one, nor was the award ir which ought to aes [gi T E aner 
is a plant of bad feeding quality, and yet grows | guided the farmers of this country, The first Souter 
so rampant as to smother out the Sainfoin, which | prize was awarded for a reaping machine which he| Mr. Writson, of Essex, charged eat Peery 
is a desirable plant, from its extremely nutritious | happened to buy—being present at We. trial—and | makers present with having spoken acted fo: 
character. In this case it is no argument to say, | which no doubt did its work best under the cir- | self aggrandisement at the expense of “the "Sooiety, 
as was gem that Burnet seed is. dearer in|cumstances. He took.it home, and it did its work | for which Mr. ALLEN Ransome called him to order. 
the seed market Key a seed itself, as it |in a most efficient manner upon the land on which What had been said there that evening, he de- 
was scarcely su that the Burnet had been | he tried it—that was to say t 
purposely introduced oa but the complaint was that | befo edip butimmediately hetriedit on land which | the judge ngly, i it app eare 
it had not been separated, and as we now cpe most | had a rise of ae more ips an 1 foot in 7, Ri proved him that t eho system, en not the Society, was at. 
y foul, perfectly useless. A number of Ee R ought | fault. Who appointed the judges he did not 
hines fashi he same model, | know. But he believed the Society had — 
pagan yh the real mss) as it is just and t they were equally disappointed A the result, | distributed a large amount of money in priz 
for is skill and the loss in uence, | He thought that there should be much fuller and | founda large field for the exhibition of i aplententh, 
that they are cam by the farmer a considerable more elaborate zopirfa with regard to the various | as well as a large field where those implements 
advance upon th tested. Atpre esent the judges could be tried; and if the pian were tested 
indeed to make the | business of a f at ba an improper dynamometer or incompetent 
great d respec a a circumstance | n pooh Paty: be for pos Nag all the w d | judges, the way to solve that was, not to bicker 
atiy r to the Eai about it. But that was not rot tte best er bd ae ty, but at once arraign the decision 
a num Duis chen beet of proceeding. gato ught to be published im- | of t 
believe that t | mediately of the actual "performance of the Me. aiiin of Baydon alluded. to the 
| machines, apart OE casein em culture trials as insufficie ma 
these without | judges as to whi large space and longer r time than 
— Telore the aablie ia to Mr. BRADSHAW, of or ete’ d, quoted instances | to them at the annual gatherings of the ‘Booka 
egg pat followin heat P ig ng | of a similar kind to esti tate Mr, Howarp had = Frere was familiar with the competitive 
y g up j pin we haye been referred to. Prize ¢ foe ie and prize m bef atO rra co 
earnest in exposing for e time past, and | ploughs had all b = Pa a b a syst ore examiners at Cambri AORE ind ad 
ae h he has failed in whining that redress|P Oe e aa n A iscarde y kta ouch. for it that with occasional individual 
he has sought, to the evident surprise of a r. CRosk as of Beverley, cutoni be in ustice as its fruit, there was a i balance of 
pen: By Court, Aon t gratify him to know that prizes were not such an incentive to effort vantage arising out of it, and this mu: 
he is legally correct, pa that his right to reser public competition, As to to seventeen at i the result of a prize system however regulated, 
will be admitted when the case can be rightly their lts of trials at agricul- | and whether tage towards educational objects 
ocr ta ey epe shows, he e was paei that that was a state |or towards the improvement of agricultural 
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belie t resolution was arrived at by the Club— 
AT the debate which followed rt i beter capable as any other. bod of men of forming and the discussion is left to exert what weight 
Hosss s paper read last week before udgment as to their own business and | belongs to the several remarks that were made. 
Farmers’ Club, the “dispute or quasi 62 what- | interests, They did not want engineers or amateurs | It is to be hopal that a conference of all parties 
ever it might be termed” between the English |in mechanical science to be judges for them as to | interested in the subjec cok. ei will lead the committee 
eh, ety and the exhibitors at its! what aa oa a ne ae red for their farming | which has er appointed by the Kinoni e of the 
z ag hani mediately brought under | operations econd reason urged for r the one on on t rae a hk eee > 
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E Aae Rao ESA any quarrel on PREM ba sero b in riper iotboes, it was | Exhibition, 
