Report of the Senior Steward of Implements. 
Karslake lias said, let tliom be as distinguished and as useful as 
may be, as soon as they find they have done a man a wronfj^ 
they ouijht to come forward and say so, and that they have done. 
You will therefore give a nominal verdict for the plaintiff in this 
case, and 1 will give the necessary certificate for costs. 
Mr. Henry James : It is a special jury. 
Mr. IxVRON Bramwell : Forty shillings. 
Mr. Henry James : Five guineas, it is a special jury. 
Mr. Baron BramaVELL: Then it will be a verdict for five 
guineas. 
The Jury returned a verdict accordingly. 
XXV. — Report on the Trials of Implements at Wolverhampton and 
Stafford. By Lieutenant-Colonel Fuller Maitland Wilsox, 
Senior Steward. 
The trials of 1871 have been in some respects the most important 
that the Society has ever undertaken, inasmuch as they have been 
extended to a greater length of time and over a larger area of land 
than on any former occasion, and have been marked by the new 
feature of a most searching trial of Traction-Engines. The addi- 
tional time did not prove to be more than was necessary to 
enable the Judges to give in their awards before the commence- 
ment of the Show, and the thanks of the Society are due to those 
gentlemen for the care and patience with which they performed 
their arduous duties. 
Provision having been made by the Council for a full report 
of the trials being prepared for the ' Journal,' there remains little 
for the Stewards to add but a few general remarks as to the cir- 
cumstances under which they were carried out. 
In compliance with a resolution passed by the Council, that 
one of the Stewards should attend at Wolverhampton on the 
Friday previous to the commencement of the trials, the Steward- 
Elect attended on that day ; and on the following day, in concert 
with Mr. Anderson, one of the Consulting Engineers, he mea- 
sured 'and marked out some of the trial-fields, in order to enable 
the Judges to commence on Monday. On their arrival, however, 
they were of opinion that a different arrangement of plots M-ould 
be more satisfactory to them, so that the labour of the Steward 
and Engineer was of no service. It appears desirable that on 
future occasions there should be some previous consultation 
between the Stewards and Judges as to the system on which the 
trials shall be carried out, suggestions for which have been 
entered in the Steward's Book. 
