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iion, and had sent from various quarters of the country such a 

 selection of implements as, beyond controversy, were never be- 

 fore collected in one show-yard, the judges desire to particularise 

 others also, which, although on this occasion they were unre- 

 , warded, yet are not the less entitled to notice. 



At the conclusion of last year's Report a hope is expressed 

 that upon a future occasion a still better exhibition may be made 

 than on that their first attempt. That this hope has been realised 

 no one who has had an opportunity of comparing the two can 

 doubt: thus proving that one great object of the Society is in 

 the progress of fulfilment — namely, the producing competition 

 among machinists, and the consequent improvement of agricul- 

 tural implements. 



Before proceeding to comment upon the variety of implements 

 which passed under their inspection, the judges beg leave to no- 

 tice the very great difference that was observable in their work- 

 manship ; nor can they forbear expressing an opinion that in 

 general the attention of implement-makers has been more di- 

 rected to novelty and ingenuity of design than to skill in execu- 

 tion. Messrs. Ransome, of Ipswich, however, appeared to them 

 to merit the commendation of the Society, as well for their un- 

 rivalled collection of machinery of all descriptions as for the 

 superiority which these machines exhibited in the above-noticed 

 particular. A bank of their ploughs (86 varieties) were arranged 

 and elevated on planks to the height of at least 20 feet, and 

 struck the eye of the beholder as he entered the yard ; nor did a 

 nearer inspection of them diminish his admiration. 



There were three Gorse-Crushers, but none of them seemed to 

 come within the conditions of the Society's premium of 20 sove- 

 reigns, and therefore it was not awarded. Messrs. White and 

 Leith, of Worksop, showed one which might be efficient ; but its 

 price would put it beyond the reach of the small farmer. Mr. 

 Dell, of Dudswell, Hertfordshire, exhibited one which seemed to 

 possess the merit of simplicity, being worked by the power of an 

 ass, and the gorse bruised by means of a heavy cast-iron grooved 

 roller, passing, in a rotatory direction, ofer a grooved cast-iron 



