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uo doubt that it can make ivrcgular work straight, aud its advantages would 
be shown on still' and strong soils where jjloughs are constantly tilted out of 
work. 
Then comes the Double-Furrow Turn-wrest Plough of Messrs. Ransomes 
and Sims, most ingeniously contrived and easily used, and, we think, for 
hill-side countries a most useful article of husbandry; and as turn- wrest 
ploughs are for turning the soil down-hill, there must be a lighter draught 
for these ploughs in such a country Avith respect to the work got out of 
them. 
Next are the Double-Furrow Ploughs of Messrs. Howard, and also of 
Messrs. Hornsby, who are trying to make them lighter and handier for 
turning on the headlands, but while doing this they are making them lighter 
in draught, and losing the main qualification of the Pirie Ploughs, which is, 
the way in which they stick to their work. We think the slade of Messrs. 
Hornsby for the above-named turning very superior to a wheel, though 
it is, we suspect, a copy of the slade used years back on ploughs on the 
land-side. 
The Thatching Machine of Messrs. Woods and Cocksedge (Stand 7), invented 
by the Rev. 0. Reynolds, is recommended by its price, as compared with others 
shown before ; but of course the thatch should be seen on the stack, and 
tested by the rough blasts of wintry winds. We must say, however, that the 
machine is of most simple construction. 
In Stand 58 was a new attachment to the well known, and never yet 
beaten, Gardner's Turnip Cutter, for cutting the last piece of turnip, and it is 
a very simple and cheap addition. 
A Patent Hand Chaff-cutter, for cutting 3 lengths of chaff, was shown in 
Stand 36 (xMessrs. Southwell's) ; its work was very simply effected, 
Jn Stand 76 was the self-acting Corn Screen of Jlr. Robert Boby : the 
corn, being placed in the hopper, is allowed to run towards the screen in 
the common way of feeding, but an imitation breast water-wheel is turned 
by it, and the revolution of the said wheel works the screen, thereby dis- 
pensing with the man or boy who usually turns the crank. In Boby's 
machinery in motion (Stand 285, article 2248), is a Patent Combined Dressing 
Machine and screen for steam power, fitted with elevators for raising the 
grain to the hopper, and, when dressed, by another set of elevators into 
sacks, weighing it ready for market. It is an excellent contrivance for 
fixing in a barn, and making the corn really fit for market ; a matter 
too little thought of since fini&Mng threshing machines were brought to 
notice, which finish was never brought to perfection, and probably never will 
be, till the machines are fed through rollers ; and it must be remembered 
that the higher the corn is dressed the better is the price at which it is sold ; 
and the more tail-corn the more the i>igs get ; or at all events there is less 
outgoing for artificial food, or the taking with one hand and paying oiit with 
the otlier. 
Then we find the Bullock Stalls of Mr. Willacy. There economy is the 
order of the day ; and if one man and a boy, as he and his friends assert, can 
feed 100 bullocks on his system in 10 minutes, saving thereby what hardly 
one farmer in one thousand can calculate upon, his system must be good, for, 
though not entirely new, tlie cutting the roots and breaking the cake, and 
delivering them at the same time, is new. The railway and truck through 
the feeding-houses was in existence, and was shown at Lord Fortescue's, 
during the year that the Royal Agricultural Society of England held their 
meeting at Exeter ; and, while writing of Exeter, let us not forget that there 
the rope traction was brought out by John Fowler for the purpose of under- 
draining, and, though then used and worked by horse-power, it has been the 
