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behind like a plough ; and any man who can hold the stilts of a 

 plough for a straight furrow can steer this drill with a pair of 

 horses only and reins. Hence, too, its convenience ; for if you 

 wish to sow close up to the sheepfold, instead of ordering out a 

 drill and four, as it were in state, you merely keep back one 

 plough from the field. 



Hitherto we have been dealing with corn drills intended gene- 

 rally for seed only. In endeavouring to fill up the picture of the 

 point of development at which agricultural mechanism now stands, 

 we come next to turnip drills, in which manure is also distributed 

 as well as seed, generally bones or superphosphate. As is well 

 known, there are two ways of growing turnips, on the ridge and 

 on the flat. In the ridge or Northumberland method the ground 

 is thrown into ridges by a two-sided plough, '"a double Tom," 

 and, dung being laid in the intervals, the ridges are split, and the 

 new ridges enfold the dung. 



It is on these ridges that Mf. Hornsby's prize drill works, 

 depositing manure-dust and seed, and reducing the ridge, by 

 concave rollers, to a compact rounded form. 



The ridge system, however, is most at home under our cool 

 northern and moist western skies — in Northumberland and in 



drill covers the seed with fine earth as soon as it is dropped. There is no part of this 

 drill likely to be out of order; it can be worked with one horse; and there appears no 

 part of it that, in case of accident, could not be repaired by a common blacksmith. 

 Price lOZ. In consequence of its combined merits, simplicity and cheapness, we awarded 

 it a Medal. 



Liquid-manure Distributor. -^Mt. Reeves and Mr. J. Bratton, of Westbury, exhi- 

 bited a liquid-manure distributor, which did its work in an extraordinary manner^ 



distributing equally manure-water or the thickest sewerage in the most perfect manner. 

 From the construction of the machine it is impossible to clog in the delivery of the 

 thickest slush. It consists of a series of buckets or troughs that are attached to a metal 

 chain or band, and which works round two rollers as the cart goes on, the wheel giving 

 the motive power to the rollers. The price of this admirable water-cart complete is 

 1(>/. We awarded it Medal. — C. B. Challonet'. 



