at the Lewes Meeti.Kj^ lS5"i. 



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also think it desirable that it should register the inequalities of the draught of 

 ploughs as well as the average draught. 



The judges noticed the following useful articles : — St. 29, Art. 3 : Brown's 

 four-bushel sacks, price 2.s. each, an excellent article. — St. 1, Art. 33 : Cross- 

 kill's root-washer; also Art. 21 : farm railway. — St. 4, Art. 2 : M. Neill and 

 Co.'s stone-ware pillars for rickstands ; it would be advisable to make these 

 pillars thicker at the bottom and top. — St. 32 : Read's collection of watering- 

 machines ; also we wish to call especial attention to his injecting instrument, 

 Art. 5.— St. 23, Art. 5: Cooch's sack-holder.— St. 33, Art. 18: Nicholson's 

 cottage stove. — St. 35, Art. 38 : Cottam and H.dlen's odometer. — St. 44, 

 Art. 43 : Deane and Dray's mangle. —Art. 73 : Daane and Dray's flax- 

 seeding machine. — St. 57, Art. 15 : Smith's gravel-screening machine. — ■ 

 St. 77, Art. 162 : Thompson's hames, price 45. — St. 20, Art. 65 : Barnard's 

 iron window-frames, 3 feet by 2 feet 6 inches, price 12s., glazed Vis., cheap 

 and good. — ^St. 74, Art. 7 : Harwood's specimens of ventilating windows.— 

 St. 91, Art. 4: Young and Co.'s iron hurdles, cheap, but the end standards 

 are too weak where the foot-plates are welded to them. — Hill and Co., St. 59, 

 Art. 64 : a good moveable hurdle for sheep. 



William Lister. 

 James Hall Nalder, 



N.B. — Mr. Hawkins was substituted for Mr. Lister as a judge of carts ; the 

 latter gentleman having given his friendly and valuable assistance to Mr. 

 Busby in constructing his carts on correct mechanical principles. — (Ed. Imple- 

 ment Report.) 



Carts. — The cart exhibited by Busby received the prize. It is unnecessary 

 to comment on this implement, the maker having previously received a prize 

 from this Society for one of a similar construction, and no other having been 

 brought out which we consider its equal. Messrs. Crosskill exhibited a cart, 

 which we cannot omit to mention, which was very similar in construction to 

 Mr. Busby's. 



James Hall Naldee. 

 Thomas Hawkins. 



Co>suLTiifG Engineer's REroRT. 



Although the Lewes Show may not have been so numerously attended by 

 visitors as on some former occasions, it was not because the implement-makers 

 did not do their best to render it as useful and attractive as any of its prede- 

 cessors. The productions of most of the exhibitors being truly specimens of 

 their skill, divested the show-yard of that bazaar-like appearance it has assumed 

 at some of the Meetings. 



The public had some new implements of an important character introduced 

 to their notice, and from the particulars given in the following statement it 

 will be seen that this Meeting deserved to be ranked higher than that at 

 Exeter in 1850 : — 





Lewes. 



Exeter. 



Value of ditto (exclusive of Roots, 

 Seeds, &c.), as near as can be 

 ascertained, amounted to , . . 



1722 



£19,121 5 8 

 103 



1197 



£12,182 10 7 

 118 



z 2 



