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easily fixed, and is so simple in construction that it can be 
readily cleaned. The novelty and ingenuity of the apparatus, 
considered in connection with the successful results of the trial, 
fully justified the award of a Silver JNIedal. 
Foreign Implements. 
The Stewards of Implements, desirous of marking their 
appreciation of the enterprise of those foreign exhibitors who 
at much trouble and expense visited our country, and being 
precluded from more substantial awards by the fact that the 
Miscellaneous Judges had not recommended any foreign ma- 
chinery for Silver Medals, selected the principal collections of 
implements for Honourable Mention, and in this sense I may 
be allowed to very briefly allude to those exhibits which are not 
otherwise mentioned. 
Honourable Mention for Foreign Collections of Implements. 
Messrs. H. F. Eckert and Co. (Limited;, Berlin, Germany. 
Le Comte de Beaurepaire, Grivesnes (Somme), France. 
M. Alfred Clert, Niort (Deiix-Sevres), France. 
Mr. Eduard Ahlbom, Hildesheim, Germany. 
M. Odile Martin, Jardin d'Acclimatation, Paris. 
MM. Rouillier and Amoult, of Gambais, Versailles (Seine-et-Oise), France, 
M. Voitellier, Mantes (Seine-et-Oise), France. 
The Marquis of Riscal, Estremadura, Spain. 
M. Simond Legrand, of Bersee, par Pont a Marcq, Nord, France. 
M. A. Engstrdm, 13, Faubourg Poissonniere, Paris. 
The post of honour in this classification has properly been 
awarded to Blessrs. H. F. Eckert and Co. (Limited), of Berlin, 
for their admirable collection of general agricultural machinery, 
including a novel threshing machine for horse-power, with a 
5-foot drum. The special features are the way in which the 
concave is adjusted by a central lever, acting on both the hind 
and fore portion at once, saving time and insuring accurate ad- 
justment, and the arrangement for driving the drum by a double 
cross belt, which insures equal pressure on the pulley and tends 
to equalise the wear on the brasses. The straps are kept tight 
by the use of a regulating tension to which they can be adjusted 
with the greatest ease. This is a great advance over the ordi- 
nary spur-wheel pinion by which horse-power machines are so 
frequently driven. A large collection of well-made and reasonably 
priced single- and double-furrow ploughs, and seed and paring 
ploughs, three and four furrows, well braced and light, drills, 
broadcast machines, grinding mill, »Scc., completed the entry. 
The Comte de Beaurepaire, of Grivesnes (Somme) France, 
contributed a very useful machine for washing roots, easy to 
