Implement Show at Manchester. 
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No doubt more judges than were selected for the Manchester 
Show should in future be appointed by the Society, and a 
smaller class of implements given to each set of Judges in the 
trial yard. 
The one-horse mowing machines were found too heavy ia 
draught for general use, and after this last trial they will pro«- 
bably be scarcely again manufactured in any great number ; 
the most willing horse failing, without frequent rest, to cut any 
breadth of grass, and the work evidently straining the animail 
beyond what it could bear for any length of time without injury. 
A most interested crowd of spectators followed the trials of the 
reaping and mowing machines, more so than had been seen in 
any previous trial-field. The horse-rakes and hay-collectors 
were placed in separate classes, by special arrangement of the 
Council, and the Stewards were therefore unable to allow the 
combined implements to be tested in the two classes, for which 
they might be equally well adapted. 
The trials of carts and waggons weighted with several tons of 
iron, and tested by the dynamometer, produced the closest com- 
petition. In the miscellaneous classes, the Judges may well ia 
their Report ask for more classification, where they have tO' 
wander through upwards of 7000 articles to select seven for medals. 
This class has gone beyond even the name it bears. It comprises 
the solid and useful implements of husbandry ; the small and 
ingenious contrivances which tend to economize labour and 
time ; new inventions requiring the encouragement of public 
notice, through the means of the Judges, to be brought to per- 
fection ; and thousands of appliances for comfort, most interest- 
ing to all, especially to the agriculturist or the resident in the 
country ; and it is impossible that one set of Judges should 
fully examine, or even fully understand, the merits of all these 
articles. 
At any rate the classification of these various products of our 
mechanical skill should be made more perfect, or much in the 
four or five miles of shedding, such as was this year to be seen 
in the Manchester Show-yard, must be passed over without 
attracting sufficient attention. 
In the report of such a meeting, which was, on the whole, 
undoubtedly a great success, it is the more necessary to suggest 
such improvement as may in future be made in the arrangement 
of the Show, 
The presidency of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales- 
contributed largely to the attendance on the two days when he 
visited the Show-yard, Indeed, the impetus given by his presence 
at the head of a Society which springs from, and is entirely main- 
