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Report 071 the Exhibition of Implements 



at four different meetings of the Royal English Agricultural So- 

 ciety. It is formed for the purpose of hoeing between the crops 

 of wheat, barley, turnips, or mangold-wurzel, not drilled less than 

 7 or 8 inches apart ; and at the proper season will perform its 

 work in a more effectual manner and at less expense than can be 

 done by hand. 



Clod Crushers- — Amongst these implements there was nothing 

 new ; it was, therefore, considered unnecessary to take Mr. Cros- 

 kilFs crusher from the yard, as its merits are everywhere so well 

 known and appreciated. 



Drills for general purposes. — These implements were this year 

 of a very extraordinary description, which entitle the makers to no 

 small commendation ; those of Mr. Hornsby were of superior 

 workmanship, and were the only ones in the least approaching the 

 prize-drills of Garrett. In the private trials the manure was of a 

 coarser description than that used at the public exhibition, which 

 accounts for the little difference then observed by the Stewards in 

 the working of the drills. In Garrett's drill there is an internal 

 arrangement so constructed as not to require the careful prepara- 

 tion of the manure, as it actually tears the manure in pieces 

 before leaving the box, rendering it almost impossible for it to 

 choke. Such is the account given by the Judges ; but the writer 

 of this, who has been accustomed for three or four years to inspect 

 the filling of the manure-boxes before trial (a most essential office 

 in a Steward — as, in the enthusiasm caused by the anticipation of 

 the trial, the mxachinist's men, unless closely observed, will de- 

 ceive the most wary in managing to introduce into their manure- 

 boxes that particular description of manure, and no other, which 

 their drill is most competent to deliver), happened at this particu- 

 lar moment to be absent ; and he was informed that Garrett's drill 

 was already filled when one of his brother Stewards arrived with, 

 of course nominally, the coarser description of manure, with which 

 Hornsby's drill, under the eye of the Steward, was charged. 

 The difference of the delivery at the private trial was certainly 

 extraordinary; Garrett's drill performing its delivery, and that 

 well, in a much shorter time than Hornsby's. The private trial, 

 however, was not, from the circumstances detailed, satisfactory to 

 the Stewards, and occasioned some little murmuring amongst the 

 implement-makers ; the Stewards, therefore, determined to give 

 these two drills a perfectly fair trial under their particular inspec- 

 tion on the day appointed for the public exhibition. They were 

 tried, then, both with a fine and a coarser description of compost, 

 the latter mixed under the Stewards' direction, Avhilst each party 

 exhibiting inspected the operation of the other. Precisely the 

 same weight and the same description of manure was placed in 

 each manure- box; and the result of the trial was, in the opinion 



