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the teacliinof of tlie various Agricultural Societies and Farmers' 
Clubs to lead him in the newer times in which he has had to 
cope with hitherto unknown liindi-auces. He has had to keep 
abreast with the age, and the successive Shows have helped 
him to do this by bringing him into direct contact with the 
agricultural engineers, who may fairly lay claim to having 
helped very considerably the advancement of agriculture. With 
agriculture, necessity is the mother of progress and reform. To 
realise this fully, one has only to turn to the earlier numbers 
of the Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society. " Take the first 
Meeting of the Society (or rather of the English Agricultural 
Society, as it was then termed) held at Oxford on Wednesday, 
July 13, 1839, when the follo-wing were the only implements 
exhibited : — 
Mr. J. Le Boutillier, of St. Mary's, Isle of Jersey, a small one-liorse plough, 
for setting potatoes, and a paddle plough for tilling the ground. 
Mr. AV. J. Ilannam, of Burcott, Oxon., a Wilkie (of Udington) expanding 
horse-hoe and harrow. 
Mr. W. J. Ilannam, of Burcott, Oxon., a ridging and moulding plough. 
Messrs. W, & G. King, of Southmore, Berks, a narrow-wheeled Berkshire 
wagon, with iron axle-tree. 
Mr. J. Springall, of Ipswich, Suffolk, patent wrought-iron corn-stack stand. 
Mr. James Gardner, ironmonger, of Banbury, patent turnip-cutting 
machine. 
Mr. J. Gibbs, of Elsfield, a di-aining plough. 
Mr. II. J. Ilannam, of Burcott, Oxon., a one-horse harvest cart. 
Messrs. Jones and Draper, of Charlburj', a •' scorcher" machine. 
Mr. J. Adams, of Great Te^Y, Oxon., a wrought-iron plough, with monld- 
boards, &c. 
Mr. AV. J. Ilannam, of Burcott, Oxon., a one-horse heavy roll. 
Mr. Samuel King, of Buckland, Faringdon, a swing plough and other im- 
plements. 
Mr. AV. J. Ilaunam, of Burcott, Oxon., a Perry and Barnett's (of Reading) 
light plough for a single horse. 
Mr. T. AVbite, Goundou, near Goventry, anew subsoil plough. 
Mr. C. Hart, of Wantage, a four-horse portable thrashing machine, a swin"* 
plough for two horses, a wheel ditto for three ditto, and a 14-wheel land 
presser. 
Mr. T. Salter, of Great Ilallingbury Hall, an improved corn-dressin^ 
machine. " 
Mr. T. Grounsell, of Louth, a newly-invented drill, to deposit seed and 
manure at the same time. 
Mr. AV. J. Haunam, of Burcott, Oxon., a Cumberland one-horse cart, with 
a spring key or tilting stick. 
Mr. AV. Armstrong, Ilawnes, Beds, newly-invented harrow. 
Mr. E.. Edmunds, of Banbury, two improved turnip machines. 
Mr. J. Russell, of Kenilworth, AVarwickshire, a subsoil plouo-h. 
Mr. P. (^ox, of Stow, Gloucestershire, a dynamometer, &c. ° 
Mr. E. J. Lance, Barossa Cottage, near Bagshot, machines for sowinn- 
manure and seeds ^t the same time. ° 
Messrs. Ransome, of Ipswich, Suffolk, ploughs, chaff-cutters, thrashing- 
machine, &c., &c. 
