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Report on the Exhibition of Implemejits 



seeds being mixed, viz. the clover-seed settling to the bottom of 

 box. Price 6Z. iOs. 



Messrs. Wedlake and Thompson, for the best oil- cake breaker, 

 on a neic construction : it will break the thick American or other 

 foreign or English cake into pieces. It is fitted with a double set 

 of rollers, and is easily regulated to break to any size. Price 6/. lOs. 



Mr. Read_, for the best fire-engine. Price 60Z. 



Mr. Grant, for the best horse- drag -rake. It carried off a prize 

 at Newcastle, and has since been much improved and strengthened 

 in construction. Price, at Stamford, 7h \0s. 



Messrs. Mapplebeck and Lowe^ for the best Gardner^ s turnip- 

 cutter. Price 4Z. 155. 



Messrs. Garrett, for the best horse-hoe, patent, and the same 

 that has received prizes at Liverpool, Bristol, Derby, and South- 

 ampton. Price 18/. 



Mr. W. N. Nicholson, jfor a very strong machine for breaking 

 oil-cake for beasts and sheep ; the principal advantage of which 

 consists in a simple and effectual arrangement for varying the dis- 

 tance between the rollers, by which they are always kept parallel, 

 the alteration being performed almost instantly, without the 

 least possibility of getting out of order : and also in a novel mode 

 of connecting: the breaking-'rollers. It is calculated to break 

 almost every description of thick foreign cake. Price 6/. 65. 



Such is the Report vv'hich the Stewards have now to submit to 

 the Council of the exhibition and trial of implements at North- 

 ampton ; and they cannot but congratulate the Society upon the 

 rapid progress of mechanical science as applicable to agricultural 

 implements which has taken place since the Oxford exhibition. 

 The attendance at the yard and the respective trial-grounds this 

 year evince no flagging of public attention, whilst the orders 

 given to the different manufacturers prove that, in those districts 

 of country in which the appliances of agricultural skill have been 

 supposed to be most deficient, a spirit of inquiry and a determi- 

 nation to improve have been engendered likely to lead to the 

 happiest results, both as regards the cultivation of the soil and 

 the public at large. 



P.S. — The following protest w^as made on the part of the 

 subscribing machinists against the decision of the judges as re- 

 garded Mr. Cambridge's portable steam-engine, to which they 

 had awarded the 50/. premium : — 



At a Meeting of the Exhibitors of Steam Engines at the Royal Agricul- 

 tural Society's Meeting at Northampton, held this Wednesday, 2 1st 

 clay of July, 1847. Present, 



Mr. Ogg, Jun., of Northampton, in the Chair ; 

 Messrs. Barrett, Ashton& Co., of Hull; Mr. Bloxsom, of Gillmorton ; 



Messrs. Ryland & Dean, of Birmingham ; Mr. Thos. Johnson, for Self 



and W. Sharman, and W. P. Stanley; 



