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XXXV. — Report on the E.rhiMtion of Implements at the Derby 
Meeting in 1843. 
With a few preliminary remarks the Judges proceed to lay 
before the Council their award of premiums, and an analysis of 
the implements exhibited at Derby. 
Tliey have already stated, at the desire of the Council, the 
motives which induced them to withhold particular prizes offered 
by the Society ; advising, for certain specified implements, a more 
lengthened and accurate trial than circumstances permitted at the 
Meeting. The adoption of this advice by the Council, together 
with the new and improved rules already made known, or under 
consideration, for the management of trials at future shoAvs, spares 
the necessity of alluding further to the reasons which induced the 
Judges so to act ; borne out, too, as they were, by a previous 
resolution of the Council to that effect. 
The Judges have again the gratification of recording that, in 
number, variety, and perfection, this exhibition greatly excelled 
all that preceded it ; and their thanks are due to the Council for 
sanctioning their application of the pecuniary value of the with- 
held prizes to the rewarding of many useful and unexpected im- 
plements, which were not, and could not be classed by the Society 
as special objects for encouragement. Justice to the exhibitors, 
and the fulfilment of the intent of the Society, required this 
appropriation of the funds set apart for the furtherance of agri- 
cultural mechanism ; and, perhaps, a more substantive proof of 
the progress made in this great department of the Society's solici- 
tude cannot be adduced, than that the exhibitors annually outgrow 
enlarged show-yards, and entreat more stringent and exact trials 
of their implements. 
It is thought that the following analysis of the contents of the 
show-yard may not only serve to convey a just idea, but be a 
proper historical record, of the magnitude and variety of the 
collection ; and that it may tend to confirm the Council in their 
desire to render the catalogue of implements a peifect register of 
the exhibition. As such, the catalogue would become not merely 
a momentary guide, but a useful annual work for native and 
foreign purchasers to consult, after as well as during the show. 
With the appendage of an analytical index, the agriculturist, on 
entering the yard, would at once be enabled to direct his attention 
to the more particular objects of his search, and the document 
would thus contribute equally to the advantage of exhibitors and 
the public. The analysis now given, as prefatory to the award of 
premiums, and usual short account of some of the implements, 
presents a concise classification of the machinery employed in 
various departments of British husbandry ; and it may possibly 
