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durability to the rick-cloth than is obtainable under the old 
plan of eyelet holes. 
The Standard Mamifaciaring Comj)amj, of Derby, exhibited 
a number of tree-pruning implements (Arts. ICSG el se//.), already 
well known under the fanciful name of " Myticuttah." Among 
these was a new form of the tool in question, capable of sever- 
ing branches 1^ inch in diameter. The cutting blades of an 
ordinary " Myticuttah " are mounted on an end of a long light 
spar of wood, and are actuated by a hand lever placed at the 
lower end of such spar. The arrangement enables a man to 
prune and trim up to considerable heights without the aid of a 
ladder, while branches of considerable size can be lopped off 
with only a small expenditure of energy. The drawing (Fig. 18), 
shows one of the smaller pruning implements. 
Fig. 18.—" The Myticuttah." 
The best acknowledgments of the Judges of Miscellaneous 
Implements are due, and are hereby tendered, to the Stewards 
of the Society and their Engineer for much valuable assistance 
promptly and courteously rendered. 
V. — Notes on the Thoroughbred Stallions Exhibited at the Spring 
Show of Horses held at tJie Royal Agricultural Hall in 
February 1889. By the Earl of Coventry. 
The policy inaugurated by the Royal Agricultural Society in 
1887, and continued on a larger scale in 1888 and again in the 
present year by the Royal Commission on Horse-Breeding, of 
offering substantial premiums to the owners of thoroughbred 
stallions on condition that a certain number of half-bred mares 
are served at low fees, has been so favourably regarded by the 
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