at the Norwich Meeting, 1849. 



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different, but they are of opinion that many of the ploughs selected 

 for trial, which were of excellent construction and first-rate work- 

 manship, would, under more favourable circumstances, have made 

 very different work.'' 



Plough for General Purposes. — " The prize for this plough was 

 awarded to Mr. W. Ball, for his ' criterion ' plough. On both 

 the light and heavy land it came into very close competition with 

 the winning ploughs ; and for all farms of mixed soils the judges 

 consider this an excellent implement, and one that will render 

 two descriptions of ploughs on the same farm quite unneces- 

 sary." 



Paring Plough. — " This prize was awarded to Mr. G. Kilby ,, 

 for a plough invented by Thomas Glover. This plough, for 

 paring old turf, stands unrivalled ; and though there are others 

 that answer well on stubble, this, for all purposes, was decidedly 

 the best exhibited." 



Draining Ploughs. — " The ploughs exhibited for this prize 

 were either bad in principle, or so hastily and imperfectly 

 constructed as to be entire failures, and the prize was not 

 awarded. That invented and exhibited by Mr. Joseph Paul,* 

 was, on a trial subsequent to the public one, by far the most ef- 

 fective, though it fell far short of a perfect implement. Whether 

 it will ever be made to answer all the purposes for which it is 

 intended it is impossible to say, but the judges are of opinion 

 that Mr. Paul well deserves the thanks of the landlords and his 

 brother farmers for having expended so much time, money, 

 and ingenuity on an implement which, if perfected, will be of 

 such great national utility." 



Subsoil Pulverizer. — " This prize was awarded to Mr. Comins,, 

 for an implement which performed its w r ork in a very excellent 

 manner ; not only doing more execution than any other by fairly 

 entering the soil and thoroughly breaking it up, but it passed 

 through its trial without being in any way broken or injured." 



" The judges commended and awarded a medal to a universal 

 plough, exhibited by Messrs. Ransome, which is applicable to 

 all the purposes of a ridge plough, a moulding-up plough, a 

 horse- hoe on the rid^e and on the flat, and a broad-share." 



"The judges also commended and awarded a medal to a 

 plough for general purposes, with subsoil plough attached, ex- 

 hibited by Mr. Richard Down's. There is nothing new in the 

 principle of this implement, but it was more successfully 



* I attended very closely to the working of this implement, and, although it is at 

 present very far from perfect, it is in my opinion the first step in the right direction 

 towards obtaining an implement of sufficient power to cut a deep drain at once. — 

 C. B. Challoner. 



