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remark that this swing-plough had a particiiLirly fine and easy entrance 

 — a share somewhat broader than the slice cut — and a longer mould- 

 board than usual. 



The Judges regret that the delays incident to the presence of so large 

 an assemblage of spectators, and to the numerous implements requiring 

 their attention, did not permit them to pursue these experiments, so as 

 to evolve more important results, aud, particularly, as regarded the 

 draught of several excellent double-furrow ploughs which were on the 

 ground, but not brought into working trim early enough for satisfactory 

 trial. 



Amongst the miscellaneous implements a turnip-cutter, attached to a 

 cart, was exhibited by jNIr. G. Townsend, of Hinckley, Leicestershire, for 

 cutting and spreading turnips for sheep and cattle upon grass leys. It 

 consists of a cutting apparatus upon the disc principle, worked horizon- 

 tally underneath the hind part of a cart. Motion is obtained from a 

 toothed wheel clamped to the spokes of the cart wheel. On trial, the 

 turnips were expeditiously cut, and evenly spread on the surface of the 

 grass. From the simplicity of the apparatus, and its being readily 

 fixed to any cart, the Judges considered that it might prove of valuable 

 assistance to the consumers of turnips upon grass lands. 



The lever horse drag-rake, contrived by Mr. Grant of Stamford, 

 appeared to attract great attention on the day of trial. Its advantages 

 over the common horse-rake arise from the application of a lever to raise 

 all the teeth at once when filled, without the necessity of stopping the 

 horse, and from each tooth depending separately from the common axis, 

 like the mechanical road-scraper, so that the inequalities of the land 

 cannot escape its action. 



The patent wrought-iron harrows made and exhibited by Mr. Howard 

 of Bedford, are a valuable addition to this class of implements. The 

 improvement consists in the tines or teeth being so arranged that each 

 cuts a separate furrow, and is kept in the line or furrow by a central 

 draught from the swingletree, so that if the horses draw ever so irregularly 

 the tines cannot be thrown out of their direct line. 



The chain-brush or web-harrow, the invention of Mr. Smith of Dean- 

 stone, is ingeniously calculated to answer all the purposes for which the 

 hurdle drawn with thorns is now^ applied. Upon light sandy soils, where 

 the wheat crops are infested by the "red poppy," a free appHcation of 

 this implement may, possibly, prove of great service in eradicating this 

 destructive weed during its early growth. 



The dairy department of husbandry is indebted to Mr. Blurton of 

 Field-Hall, near Uttoxeter, for the introduction of a very simple con- 

 trivance, by which fifty cheeses are turned over at once. The cheeses 

 are arranged on shelves in a frame, suspended on centres to two side- 

 posts, forming part of the machine, so that a half revolution reverses the 

 whole at once, thus economising the labour of the domestic, and the 

 space of the cheese room. To this frame, and to two churns of merit, by 

 Mr. Lea of Liverpool, and Mr. Parkinson of Knowsley, prizes were con- 

 sidered to be due. 



To Messrs. Drummond and Son of Stirling a prize was awarded for 

 a single-row^ed dropping-drill for depositing turnip-seed and manure, 



