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hole pprpentliculaily into an overlicatin<j liay-rick or barley- 
stack, has been ingeniously carried into practice by the inventor. 
The contrivance consists of a kind of auger which opens its road 
with a screwed point, and withdraws a core of hay. Sec, leaving a 
circular hole of 7 inches in diameter. By repeating this operation 
a hole is quickly pierced to nearly the bottom, but not quite 
through the rick. The Judges have been informed that the holes 
thus made remain firm and open, and that the anticipations in- 
dulged in the show-yard of the effectiveness of the invention have 
])een fully verified in practice. 
A silver medal was also awarded to Mr. George Parsons, of 
West Lambrook, Somerset, for a mode of raising and depressing 
a roof over a rick. The roof is constructed of light timber on 
the truss principle, and covered with some species of impermeable 
cloth. The rick is made around a post or pillar, having a coarse 
threaded screw of cast-iron fixed upon it. The centre of the roof 
is furnished with a nut, so that by turning the roof round it ascends 
or descends upon the pillar. Much constructive ingenuity was 
evinced by the author of this contrivance, which is superior in 
many respects to the common Dutch barn, though it may be 
found too costly as a fixture in stack-yards. 
The Society's offered prize of 20/. for the best and cheapest 
stack- covering was not adjudged. 
Field-sundries. — Extensive assortments of iron-fencing, gates, 
seats, &c., were exhibited. The silver medal was well merited by 
Mr. Hill, of Brierley Hill Iron- Works, near Dudley, for his 
wrought-iron farmer s field gates with cast-iron posts, manufac- 
tured and sold by him at the low price of 28^. These were 
selected as more especially deserving the notice of agriculturists 
(in addition to the cow and sheep cribs before mentioned) on 
account of their remarkable lightness and stiffness, which give 
assurance of durability. Many other field articles by the same 
maker, such as hurdles, deer and cattle fencing, &c., were con- 
structed with equal attention to strength and moderate cost. 
A silver medal was awarded to Mr. C. R. Colvile, M.P., of 
Lullington, near Burton-on-Trent, for his invention of a useful 
wrought-iron wheelbarrow, arranged with a furnace and melting- 
pot, to transport gas-tar for paying over palings, &c. 
Mr. Joseph Hall, of Cambridge, produced a new tool called a 
weed and bush extractor, which is an ingenious combination of the 
lever with a gripper for drawing out tap-rooted weeds, or stocking 
uji fences. The implement is handy in use, and adapted both in 
strength and price to the object for which it may be required. 
The silver medal was given to Mr. Hall for this invention. 
Wm/gons, Carts, S^-c. — Four premiums were adjudged to ex- 
hibitors in this department, and though the show-yard contained 
