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and It lias a pair of sliafts for a pony on stiffer lands. A premium 
of 21. was adjudged to Messrs. Cottam and Hallen for this well- 
devised implement. 
Horse-Hoes. — The well-known horse-hoe of Messrs. R. Garrett 
and Son, rewarded both at Liverpool and Bristol, was exhibited 
with improvements, rendering it still more complete in its fittings 
and adaptation to follow the drill in the various forms of culture 
to which the latter implement is applied. The silver medal was 
awarded for these improvements. 
A silver medal was also given to Mr. Joseph C. Grant, of 
Stamford, for his new patent steerage-lever horse-hoe, which ap- 
peared to possess the requisite properties for cleaning drilled 
crops. It is provided with a very manageable and efficient steer- 
age, and a lever power for instantly and readily raising the hoes 
from the ground. 
For hoeing and scuffling between rows of turnips, potatoes, 
&c., the show-yard abounded with implements, most of them 
well known, and constructed, with more or less skill, in most parts 
of the kingdom. A premium of 3/. was given to Mr. Joseph 
Scurrch, of Crakehall, near Bedale, Yorkshire, for a turnip and 
potato horse-hoe, having a small but effective lever-rake attached 
to it, which collects the weeds as they are hoed down, and pre- 
vents them from growing again. The rake is in an instant freed 
of its collection by the action of the lever. It is a cheap and good 
implement. 
Some remarkably well-made tools of the scuffling kind were 
also exhibited by Mr. William Wood, of Knutsford, Cheshire. 
Haymaking Machines. — Mr. Wedlake, of Hornchurch, pro- 
duced a spreading or tedding machine, for which the silver medal 
was adjudged, as being the most complete of its kind yet exhi- 
bited. It has two separate cylinders, with a ready means of re- 
versing their motion, so as to scatter the grass in the usual way or 
leave it behind in rolls, on the plan of Mr. Lovell's machine, 
rewarded at Bristol. This faculty of reversing the motion is an 
advantage, as the wet heavy grass of the swath requires tossing 
and spreading evenly ; whereas, as it approaches in dryness to the 
state of hay, the more quiet action of turning it is considered to 
be preferable, less seed being shaken out. The Judges, how- 
ever, have ascertained, from several farmers using and highly- 
approving these machines, that there is still room for improve- 
ment in them. The journals are not yet sufficiently secured 
against clogging, and time is lost in freeing them from grass. An 
extensive and experienced hay-grower observes that, with one 
horse, and changing the horse every three or four hours, Mr. 
Wedlake's machine will strew more than 2 acres of newly- mown 
heavy grass per hour, in a manner far superior to the hand ; and 
