Report on the Exhibition of Implements at Liverpool. 577 
Particulars respecting the Entries of Machinery exhibited at the 
Royal Agricultural Society's Annual Meetings for the last 
Seven Years. 
l'lace of Meeting. 
Year. 
Number 
of 
Implements 
Exhibited. 
Ordinary 
Shedding. 
Feet. 
Machinery 
in Mulion. 
Feet. 
.Seeds and 
Models. 
Feet. 
Wolverhampton 
1871 
7G50 
10,612 
2114 
1263 
1872 
5S43 
9, 144 
1561 
lUil 
Hull 
1873 
5634 
9,150 
1788 
793 
1874 
5931 
11,402 
2585 
766 
1875 
4214 
8,118 
1557 
452 
Birmingham 
1876 
6414 
11,304 
2492 
886 
1877 
6930 
12,183 
2733 
880 
to British agriculturists, from the fact of several of its exhibits 
being developments in new directions for the purpose of dimin- 
ishing the necessity for manual labour. The exhibition was 
somewhat generally referred to by spectators as possessing no new 
features ; but it will be seen hereafter, from the Report of Mr. 
Hannam, that no accusation of dearth of inventive genius can be 
fairly upheld against the exhibitors of agricultural machinery. 
As an illustration of this view several novelties, all or almost 
all of which have been constructed with a view to their becoming 
labour-saving machines, may be mentioned ; but no special 
eulogium is intended to be conveyed by their enumeration, 
finality not having been reached in many instances. 
The Judges, Messrs. Kimber, Thompson, and Rowlandson, 
recommended silver medals to be awarded to Hodgkin, New- 
haus, and Co.'s New Patent Boiler Feeder, Catalogue No. 43G2 ; 
to W. H. Nicholson and Son's New Patent Grist Mill, Catalogue 
No. 5304 ; and to Clayton and Shuttleworth's Patent Self- 
Feeding and Threshing Machine, fitted with Wilder's Patent 
Combined Guard and Self-Feeder, Catalogue No. 5838, and the 
Stewards had much pleasure in endorsing their suggestion. 
Other novelties were : C. Loader's and Alfred Field and Co.'s 
Hay Loaders : Turnip-Topping and Tailing-Machine, by Thos. 
Hunter ; Sheaf-Band Cutters attached to threshing-machines, 
by W. Tasker and Sons, and Marshall, Sons and Co. ; Sheep- 
shearing Machine, by Turquand; and the Sheaf-binders more 
especially referred to hereafter. 
On Wednesday, July 11th, the Society's Exhibition was 
honoured with a visit from his Imperial Majesty the Emperor 
of Brazil. His Majesty evinced great interest in the Implement 
department, and, on leaving, expressed his satisfaction with the 
inspection. 
