634 Report on the Trials of Combined Stacking-MacMnes 
the week allotted to the judging of implements. The trials of 
Single-furrow Ploughs ended on Thursday evening. The award 
of medals for miscellaneous articles, not included in the quin- 
quennial rotation, was therefore made after the plough trials 
were ended, by Messrs. J. Hicken, J. D. Ogilvie, and T. P. 
Outhwaite, who in this class took the places of those who had 
previously been appointed to judge the miscellaneous articles 
as well as the elevators. 
Of the ten silver medals placed at their disposal, the Judges 
awarded seven to the following exhibitors : — 
178. Barford and Perkius, Peterborough, for their Patent Hand-Lifting Gear 
for Traction Engines. 
1242. James Coultas, Grantham, for his Potato Planter. 
1704. George Gheavin, Boston, Lincchishire, for his Patent Rapid Water 
Filter for Agricultural Purposes. 
1975. Samuel Wilkerson, jun., Bassinghourn, Eoyston, for his Machine for 
Shooting Corn from one Sack to another. 
4007. Kimball and Morton, of Glasgow and Dundee, for their Sack-Sewing 
Machine. 
4788. Head, Wrightson, and Co., of Teesdale Ironworks, Stockton-on- 
Tees, for Moore's Patent Pulley Block. 
5041. Davey, Paxman, and Co., of Standard Ironworks, Colchester, for 
their Apparatus for Heating Water in the Tank of Traction Engines by the 
Exhaust Steam. 
Fig. 11. — Messrs. Barford and Perkins's Patent Hand-lifting Gear for 
Traction Engines, No. 178. 
The first contrivance on this list is the invention of Mr. F. Savage, but 
exhibited by Messrs. Barford and Perkins ; it is not intended for frequent use, 
but will be found of great service in starting an engine out of a hole or rut 
into which it may have sunk. When a misfortune of this kind occurs, much 
