524 Report of the Trials of Ploughs, Harroivs, ^'c, at Hull. 
XXII. — Report of the Trials of Ploughs, Harrows, Sfc, at Hull. 
By John Coleman, of Escrick, York.* 
The growth of the Implement Trade has been so rapid of late 
years, and the competitors for the Society's prizes have so in- 
creased in number, that, notwithstanding subdivision and exten- 
sion of similar trials to greater periods of time, the entries have 
become well-nigh unmanageable ; and it is only by a combination 
of good management on the part of officials, and the untiring 
energy of Stewards and Judges, that the work is completed in 
the allotted time, which at Hull extended from Monday, July 
7th, to Saturday, July 12th, on the afternoon of which day 
all the awards were in the Secretary's hands. At Leicester, in 
1868, more than two-thirds of the Report was occupied with 
the trials of Steam Cultivating machinery, and yet, with this 
important element absent, over three hundred Implements were 
entered for trial at Hull, and four sets of Judges were found 
necessary. The introduction of a scale of points for Judging 
is a great improvement, and when the latter are properly 
arranged, the work will be simplified, and the decisions more 
satisfactory both to the Exhibitors and the Judges themselves. 
The following is a copy of one of the forms supplied. 
EoYAL Agricultural Society of England. 
SINGLE PLOUGns.-CLASs 
Observer's Name 
Date 
Catalogue number 
Name of exhibitor 
Length from point of share to end of breast 
Number of horses required 
Weight 
Price 
Number of field for trial with horses 
Area of plot ploughed with horses 
Time in ploughing plot with horses_ 
Remarks on trial with horses 
* The Editor desires to express his thanks to Messrs. Coleman and Koberts 
for having undertaken, at a moment's notice, to write the Eeports of the tiiuls 
at Hull, in consequence of the sudden indisposition of the gentleman to whom 
that duty had been entrusted. — Ed. 
