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apparatus, they form a handy combination for farmers. A new 
turnip-cutter, arranged so as to cut the roots into three different 
sizes, was exhibited on the stand of Messrs. Woods, Cock- 
sedge and Co., Suffolk, while Messrs. Penny and Co., of Lincoln, 
showed a potato digger and a potato separator, both of which 
should work well. Messrs. W. Smith and Son, of Kettering, 
Northamptonshire, exhibited a rotatory turnip-thinner for two 
rows, which was inspected with interest. No mechanical 
contrivance, however, has ever yet satisfactorily accomplished 
this somewhat difficult operation. On the same stand were 
to be seen two well-constructed horse-hoes, one of which is a 
new design. An improved turnip-thinner was also shown by 
Messrs. Holmes and Sons, of Norwich. Messrs. Picksley, Sims 
and Co.'s display of chaff-cutters, cake-mills, grain-bruisers, 
root-cutters, &c., attracted the attention of visitors, as also did 
the stand of Messrs. Carson and Toone, of Warminster, 
Wiltshire, on which were three superior horse-hoes, easily con- 
vertible into grubbers. Ornamental and plain entrance and 
field gates, various kinds of wire-netting, garden and field 
rollers, and similar articles, were exhibited by Messrs. Hill and 
Smith, of Brierley Hill, Dudley ; Messrs. Brown and Co., of 
Cannon Street, London ; Messrs. Barford and Perkins, of Peter- 
borough, and others, while some excellent liquid-manure carts, 
with distributor and pump, were shown by Messrs. W. Ball 
and Son, of Rothwell, Northamptonshire. 
As was to have been expected, portable, traction, and fixed 
steam engines adapted for agricultural purposes formed a 
j prominent feature of the British display. Among the exhibitors 
of these not already mentioned were Messrs. Robey and Co. ; 
Messrs. Ruston, Proctor and Co. ; Messrs. Aveling and Porter ; 
Messrs. Ransomes, Sims and Head ; Messrs. Clayton and 
Shuttleworth ; Messrs. Marshall, Sons and Co. ; Messrs. J. and 
H. McLaren, Leeds ; Messrs. Turner, Ipswich ; Messrs. Tuxford 
and Sons, Boston, Lincolnshire ; Messrs. Davey, Paxman 
and Co. ; Messrs. Barrows and Stewart, Banbury, Oxford ; 
Mr. Hindley, Bourton, Dorsetshire. On the stand of Messrs. 
Ransomes, Sims and Head, the well known engine patented by 
Head and Schemioth for burning straw, cotton, maize-stalks, 
and other vegetable fuel, as well as wood and coal, occupied a 
I prominent position. This engine, if we mistake not, made its 
I first public appearance at the Vienna Exhibition in 1873 ; and 
its construction was fully reported upon in this Journal by 
Professor Wrightson (second series, vol. x. part 1, p. 71). 
Since that time many hundreds of these engines have been 
I introduced into Russia, Hungary, Egypt, India, and many of 
' the Colonies, where ordinary engines can hardly be used for 
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