Conditions relating to Machinery. 
CONDITIONS KELATING TO MACHINERY. 
Steam Engines. 
All Engines must be fitted with a Steam-Tndicator, in addition to the 
ordinary Spring Balance, which Indicator must be proved by the Indicator of 
the Societj'. 
Steam Cultivation. 
1. The weight of the Engine shall be deemed to be exclusive of coal, water, 
and rope, but to include the weight of the drum or windlass. 
2. The Implements for Steam Cultivation must be tested by dynamometer, 
if possible, and such experiments made as will enable the Judges to ascertain 
the relative value in usefulness of such Implements. 
3. The Steam Boiler must be provided with a pipe or tube, the thread of 
which must be equal to the "half-inch gas-pipe thread," for the purpose 
(if attaching the forcing pump of the Society. The Exhibitor may declare to 
work the Engine at any pressure he thinks fit, if the Judges are satisfied the 
Boiler would bear safely three times that pressure. The Boiler shall then be 
tested by the forcing pump to twice the pressure before the Engine is set to 
work, and the declared pressure must not be exceeded by the Exhibitor while 
he is working before the Judges. 
4. Any Engine which is entered for competition, or for working in the 
the Yard of " Machinery-in-motion," which, from defect in construction or 
.luy other cause, is in the opinion of the Judges and Consulting Engineer, 
inisafe, shall not be allowed to work on the Society's premises : and further, 
tlie word unsafe shall be attached to the Engine during the remainder of 
the Exhibition. 
5. The trials of the Steam-Engines will be made with Llangennech coal. 
*^* Forms of Certificate for entry, as well as Prize-Sheets for the "Wolver- 
hampton Meeting, containing the whole of the conditions and regu- 
lations, may be obtained at the Ofiice of the Society, No. 12, Hanover 
Square, London, W. 
DATES OF ENTRY, 
Certificates for the entry of Implements for the Wolverhampton Meeting 
must be forwarded to the Secretary of the Society, No. 12, Hanover Square, 
London (W.), by the 1st of May, and Certificates for the entry of Live Stock 
by the 1st of .June. Certificates received after those respective dates will not 
be accepted, but returned to the persons by whom they have been sent. 
The Prizes of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, and all Prizes 
offered by the "Wolverhampton Local Committee, the Staffordshire Agri- 
cultural Society and private individuals, are open to general competition. 
