270 The Development of Agricultural Machinery. 
minated with the introduction of the sheaf-binder and its re- 
peated trials at Birmingham, Liverpool, Bristol, Derby, and 
Shrewsbury, between 187G and 1884?. 
Such milder excitement as has been aroused by dairying, 
in later years, remains a feature of the present day, but the 
great storms of interest which were created by the action of 
the Society upon the introduction of drilling, steam-threshing, 
steam-ploughing, and machine-reaping, have passed away for 
ever. Battles rather than storms were those Berserker struggles 
which have raged successively around the subjects in question 
during the fifty years of the Society's life. "Who shall describe 
the shock with which the heroes met in the field, by the barn, 
or among the stubble ? Who shall count the slain in discarded 
machinery, and, it is to be feared, a few ruined men ? "Who 
shall appraise the spoils of the victors or, most important of 
all, measure the benefits which have resulted to agriculture ? 
It is not possible to pass away from the consideration of 
these men's works without wishing for at least a glance at the 
workers, and, especially, to recall some traits of the earlier 
artificers who lent the attraction of strong personality to the 
show-yard in days before this, together with its exhibitors, had 
become stereotyped, as they are to-day. 
All the world knows the modern implement-maker, whether, 
turning over half a million sterling per annum, he pays talent 
handsomely, employs hands by the thousand, writes M.P. or 
C.C. after his name, and both goes and fares sumptuously every 
day ; or whether he struggles in a small and stupid way with 
" the perils that environ 
The man that ineddleth with cold iron." 
But who, now, remembers Mr. Richard Garrett, of Leiston, in 
the hat -which Mr. Albert Pell has immortalised? "About this 
time (1843) the two wonders of the Show, to my youthful' mind, 
were the hats of Mr. Richard Garrett, of Leiston, and Mr. 
George Turner, of Barton. They have never been equalled. 
Something of the kind was attempted by my friend the late 
Lord Berners, and there is even now a well-known hat from near 
Aylesbury that graces our shows and affects the antique, but it 
is far behind the great originals, which literally awed me. I 
used to surmise what chance a skull under an ordinary beaver 
had against such commanding head-gear." Who, now, conceives 
how implement-maker and customer, .Mr. Garrett and Mr. Pell, 
did their business in those days ? " He came to Ely, on horse- 
back, assisted by his hat, if the wind was favourable. We and 
