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Report on the Exhibition of Implements 



reception of tlie seed : they would therefore sugo^est to the Coun- 

 cil to offer one prize at the next meeting for the best harrow for 

 preparing the land for the drill, and another for that calculated 

 most effectually to cover the seed after the drill. By such altera- 

 tions in the premiums some improvement in all probability will 

 be effected, so as to enable those implements to break up the 

 land considerably deeper with the same labour to the horses as at 

 present. 



Messrs. Sanders, Williams, and Taylor's harrows were a set of 

 patent four-beam diagonal iron ones, invented by Mr. Samuel 

 Taylor, of Cotton End, improved and manufactured by the exhi- 

 bitors. These harrows obtained a prize of 5Z. at the Derby meet- 

 ing, 1843 ; also at the Southampton meeting, 1844, and at Shrews- 

 bury, 1845. Their form is diagonal, and the set consists of three, 

 and are drawn by two horses ; the teeth are so constructed that 

 each cuts a separate track. The draught being from the centre 

 gives them an advantage over any other mode, and is so arranged 

 that, if one horse moves more forward than the other, the harrow 

 is not put out of its working lines by it. Prize 41. Ids. Iron 

 draught-bar, per set, iO^. extra. 



The best Skim or Paring Plough. — This prize was awarded to 

 an implement which the Judges consider will be found very 

 valuable ; invented by Mr. Thomas Glover, of Thrussington ; im- 

 proved and manufactured by Thomas Johnson, of Leicester. 

 It was placed in competition with two others over a piece of un- 

 even ground, in one place falling 10 inches, and again rising 2 

 feet, in a distance not exceeding 5 feet in length. The other 

 ploughs on entering the hollow part came to the surface, whilst 

 Johnson's preserved the same depth through the hollow as over the 

 ridge. The Judges were of opinion that this Implement is cal- 

 culated to supersede the hand-spade in paring old grass-land. 

 The quantity of land a man and pair of horses can get over in a 

 day without being at all distressed they consider may be about 

 two acres, where no material obstructions occur ; it is also adapted 

 to pare stubbles, and is calculated to plough a common furrow 

 when required. Price 5/. 10^. 



Subsoil Pulverizer. — The prize was again awarded to an im- 

 plement invented and manufactured by the late Mr. J. Read, of 

 Regent Circus, London. Ten implements were selected for trial. 

 The ground was exactly In that state in which it is generally re- 

 commended that a subsoil-plough should be used. Most of these 

 ploughs worked well, but were rather difficult to hold. The 

 Judges were glad to observe so much improvement in this class 

 of implements, which are daily coming into more general use, and 

 will as their value becomes better known. The second best was 

 made by Mr. James Comins, Southmolton, Devon. 



