480 Report on the Exhibition of Implements 
pies as adapted to agriculture — produced a well-contrived con- 
vertible corn and turnip drill, more especially remarkable for its 
possessing a peculiarly simple and efficient manure stirrer. It 
was rewarded with the silver medal. The axis of this stirrer, in- 
stead of being straight, and having tines, forks, or otherwise- formed 
limbs projecting from it, in order to agitate the manure and pre- 
vent its arching in the box, is fashioned of a continuous serpentine 
figure from end to end of the box. The simple change of figure 
adopted by Mr. Caborn is no inconsiderable improvement in the 
mechanism applied to effect manure delivery. 
A premium of 51. was awarded to Mr. James Smyth, of Pea- 
senhall, near Yoxford, for the adaptation of a nine-coulter corn 
drill to sowing hilly land. The purpose of the inventor is simply 
and ingeniously managed, as will be understood in few words by 
stating that the seed-box and delivering cups are always main- 
tained in a horizontal position whilst crossing a hill, so that, 
whether in going or returning, the seed is prevented from shifting 
to one end of the box. This is accomplished by suspending the 
box on levers, and giving motion to the cup-axis by wheelwork at 
both ends ; so that on raising either end of the box by the lever, 
in order to adjust it to a level line, one set of wheels is out of 
gear, whilst the other set gives rotation to the axis and effects the 
delivery of the seed. In other respects, too, the arrangements of 
this machine did much credit to Mr. Smyth. 
Mr. Crosskill's grass-land cultivator and manure depositor, re- 
warded at Bristol, was again considered, by reason of its utility, 
and the subsequent improvements made in it, to merit a silver 
medal. 
Mr. Huckvale's liquid-manure drill, mentioned in the Bristol 
report, and rewarded at that meeting, was produced in a more 
finished and. effective state. There can be no question as to this 
machine now possessing the requisite qualifications for applying 
any liquid dressing, and in any desired quantity, to plants in rows. 
The barrel of the one exhibited held 100 gallons, dimensions 
which may be increased. The inventor recommends it as a con- 
venient mode of distributing soluble or miscible manures, as salt- 
petre and guano, which may be deposited below the seed ; or as a 
surface-wateiing machine in a dry seedtime. The fluid is deli- 
vered by cups, or small scope-wheels, which revolve in a water- 
tight trough supplied from the cask or cistern. The quantity of 
fluid taken in and delivered by these scope-wheels is regulated 
by a metallic shroud or band, which passes over their face, and is 
adjustable so as to increase or diminish the size of the apertures. 
For dressing grass-land this machine has the advantage over 
common liquid-manure carts of depositing it with perfect uni- 
formity throughout the space passed over, as the discharging- 
