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wisely in determining to ensure as much as lay in their power 

 the manufacture of machinery adapted to reduce the cost of pro- 

 duction, by increasing their premium given to this class of imple- 

 ments to 50/. ; no fewer than seven portable engines, together with 

 one stationary, were entered for competition : and when we take 

 into consideration the number of useful engines produced, we 

 cannot but congratulate the Council upon the success which has 

 attended this their first attempt to give a stimulus to the exer- 

 tions of machinists, by holding out for competition a premium 

 worthy of their acceptance. Unfortunately the way in which the 

 premium was worded led to grievous disappointment as regarded 

 one exhibitor, Mr. R. Broadbent, who produced a stationary en- 

 gine before them, and which, it being impossible to test, had no 

 chance whatever in the competition, the Stewards recommend 

 that henceforward the wording of the premium should be altered 

 so as to exclude entirely stationary engines, the working of which 

 at an annual show it will be impossible for the Judges to inspect; 

 should they not all be of a piece, which many are, to which 

 class competition should be restricted. 



Connected with this subject, and well worthy of attention, is 

 the adoption hereafter of forms, to be filled up by the machinists, 

 relative to the power at which their respective implements are 

 formed to work. A proposition of this description was brought 

 before the Council too late for adoption, or indeed even for con- 

 sideration, this year. The Stewards were anxious, however, to 

 prove how far the system was feasible, and therefore gave instruc- 

 tions to the Judges to earry out as far as possible the plan pro- 

 posed by Colonel Challoner, drawing out a tabular form for the 

 Judges of steam-engines and thrashing-machines, and begging the 

 others to keep in mind, during their inspection and trial of the 

 respective implements, the plan proposed for their consideration. 



In the resolution formally submitted to the Council, the fol- 

 lowing was the information required to be given to the Judges 

 previously to the trial of their respective implements : — 



That instructions be given to the Judges of the Northampton Meeting 

 to ascertain from the makers of the machines, previous to trying or 

 examining them (if hand-machines), the number of turns of the 

 handle they have calculated that it ought to make, and the power in 

 lbs. weight they require to be applied; and that, in trying the 

 quantity of work the machine will do, no greater speed be allowed 

 to be given to it. 



That no horse-machine be allowed to compete that is calculated for 

 a greater speed than 30 turns per minute, and a o-reater power than 

 24 lbs. 



In machinery driven by horse-power the Judges to obtain from the 



