Report to tlie General Meeting. 
xlv 
The constantly increasing difficulty and expense of submitting 
to a thorough trial the whole range of agricultural implements 
in the course of five years has recently received the careful con- 
sideration of the Council. After obtaining the opinions of the 
leading manufacturers of agricultural implements, the Council 
have decided to divide the implements placed for trial in the last 
year of the existing quinquennial rotation into two groups, one to 
be tried in 1873 and the remainder in 1874. They have further 
arranged a rotation of implements for trial, to extend over nine 
years. By this means they believe they will maintain the high 
standard which the Society's trials now possess as a test of merit ; 
and the rule which enables the Stewards to submit to trial any 
implement whose principle is manifestly new, will insure that 
the comparatively long period of nine years between the trials of 
the same class of implements shall be no impediment to the 
introduction and use of valuable improvements in agricultural 
machinery. 
The following is the rotation of implements for trial in 1873 
and following years as at present arranged : — 
1873. — HoESE-POWER Machines and Implements used in Tillage. 
Ploughs. Harrows. 
Scarifiers. Cultivators. 
Boilers. Clodcrushers. 
Digging Machines. 
1874. — Machines and Implements used in the cultivation and carrying of 
crops. 
Drills. Horse-hoes. 
Eoot-thinners. Carts. 
Waggons. Manure-distributors. 
Liquid-manure carts. 
1875. — Machines and Impleme^its used in the harvesting of grass crops. 
Mowing Machines. Haymakers, 
Horse-rakes. Hay collectors. 
Hay elevators. 
1876. — Machines and Implements used in the harvesting of grain and root 
crops. 
Heaping Machines. Sheaf binders. 
Potato and Koot-raisers. Elevators for stacking corn. 
1877. — MACHrNES and Implements used in the preparation of food, and in the 
feeding of Stock. 
Mills. Oilcake-breakers. 
Chaff cutters. Turnip cutters. 
Root pulpers. Steaming apparatus. 
Feeding appliances. Horse gears. 
