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turnips 8, 10, or 12 inches apart. A pair of sloping blades follow to 

 clean the sides ; children alone then suffice to separate the double plants 

 and complete the operation. 



The peculiarity of the parallel expanding horse-hoe exhibited by 

 Lord Ducie consists in an improvement of the expanding principle, the 

 suggestion of Mr. John Morton of Chester Hill. The wings or sup- 

 ports of the tines, in this ingenious implement, instead of opening and 

 closing upon a common centre — such as the vertex of an angle, as is 

 usually the case, which has the effect of causing the teeth or cutting 

 edges to cross the line of draught — move parallel with the beam and 

 with each other, on the principle of the parallel ruler : by these means 

 the teeth or cutting edges retain their primitive and true position. The 

 width between the tines is capable of being regulated from 12 to 27 

 inches. The regulation of the depth into the ground, and the steerage, 

 is also simply and conveniently accomplished. 



An excellent show of drills was produced by Messrs. Hornsby, 

 Garrett and Son, Smyth, and others. The drill exhibited by Mr. 

 Hornsby of Spittlegate, Grantham, to whom the prize of 25 sovs. was 

 awarded, is admirably calculated for depositing, either on hilly or level 

 ground, any description of pulverized manure, even in a damp state, 

 and in any quantity from 8 to 200 bushels per acre. The corn or seed 

 and manure may, at the will of the cultivator, be deposited at an uniform 

 depth ; or, if required, the manure may be buried deeply, and the corn 

 or seed placed by a separate coulter above the manure. Hitherto great 

 difficulty has been encountered in effecting a regular delivery of damp 

 manures, from their liability to form an arch in the box over the stirrer. 

 To obviate this imperfection Mr. Hornsby has ingeniously contrived, by 

 means of an endless screw, to give to his stirrer in the box a traversing 

 motion lengthwise, as well as a rotary motion, so that as the points re- 

 volve they change their position, the whole line of the box being tra- 

 versed, and a continuous train of manure deposited. The Judges highly 

 commend the workmanship and superior finish of Mr. Hornsby's drills. 



The Suffolk drills, exhibited by Messrs. Garrett and Son, and Smyth, 

 to whom prizes were also awarded, displayed great ingenuity and com- 

 pleteness in their construction, but neither were they so durable nor so 

 well adapted for the depositing of manures as the drills manufactured by 

 Mr. Hornsby. 



Numerous chaff-engines were exhibited of superior construction and 

 highly-finished workmanship. The Judges, however, did not discover 

 any improvement in the principle of working the well-known varieties. 



The Earl of Ducie and Messrs. Clyburn and Budding introduced a 

 patented chaff-cutter of their own invention, the principle of which 

 appeared to the judges quite novel; upon trial this implement performed 

 its work admirably. The cutters consist of two series of thin blades or 

 knives, with serrated edges, coiled spirally round a horizontal rotating 

 cyhnder, and presenting their edges at an angle to it. The one series is 

 coiled from left to right, and the other from right to left, meeting in the 

 middle of the cylinder ; an unbroken continuity of cutting action is thus 

 attained. A pair of feed-rollers is driven from the spindle of the cut- 



