266 The Agricultural Features of the Paris Exhibition. 
tion of the sheaf-binder, there has been no very material addition 
to the list of labour-saving machinery. Xot that the inventive 
genius at the command of agricultural implement makers has 
been unemployed or inactive ; but it would seem that for the 
time attention has been devoted more to the perfecting of pre- 
viously invented implements than to the introduction of new 
ones. It must not be imagined that the time thus spent has 
been lost or misused. Indeed, at the Paris Exhibition there 
was abundance of proof that it has not been so, for while 
we saw no implements of great importance that could be 
called altogether new, we observed many minor inventions 
newly attached to old machines, which must be regarded as real 
improvements. 
A very lengthy report on the agricultural implement de- 
partment of the Exhibition would onlv bring the readers of 
this Journal over ground already familiar to them. By more 
competent pens the subject has been fully treated of from time 
to time in the ' Journal ;' and in this number there will appear a 
valuable contribution from another source. Brief reference to 
the more prominent features of the various collections at Paris 
will therefore snflBce. 
Bpjtish Implements. 
England's superiority in the manufacture of agricultural imple- 
ments has often been clearly demonstrated, and was once more 
placed bevond doubt. As might have been expected, considering 
the cost of transit, the British collection was not large ; but it 
was very select, and included consignments from almost all the 
better known English makers. There was perhaps less brilliancy 
of polish than in ihe American annexe, but the English display 
presented a fineness of execution and finish, combined with 
substantiality, which could not be found in the same degree in 
that from any other nation. Every Englishman who visited the 
English annexe felt proud of the production of his country, 
while all impartial foreigners acknowledged its superiority-. And 
in the collection there was a good deal to interest the foreigner, 
for, in addition to a varied assortment adapted to home use, it 
contained many implements specially constructed for the agri- 
culture of foreign countries. Several English makers have 
recently been devoting considerable attention to the production 
of implements for foreign use, and have met with gratilying 
success. 
Commencing with implements for the cultivation of the soil, 
we may state that among the English exhibitors of these Viere | 
Messrs. J. and F. Howard, Bedford ; Messrs. John Fowler and ' 
