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To Mossl's. GalTett, of Saxmuudliani, for their corn and turnip drill witli 
movable axle and swing; steerage. 
To Mr. Wood, of Stowniarket, for his barley roller. 
To Mr. L'rosskill, of lieverley, for his clod-criisliing roller, and liquid manure 
part. 
To Mr. Wedlake, for his com and stubble rake with balance weight. 
To Mr. llannam, of Dorchester, Oxfordshire, for his skeleton harvest cart. 
Messrs. liansome, of Ipswich, also appeared to the Judges to merit the com- 
mendation of the Society for their unrivalled collection of machinery of 
all descriptions ; a bank of tlieir ploughs (80 varieties) were arranged 
and elevated on planks to tlie height of at least twenty feet, and struck the 
eye of the beholder as he entered the yard, nor did a nearer inspection 
diminish his admiration. 
No steam-engine of any kind was shown either at Oxford or 
Cambridge. It is believed that the first poi'table steam-engine 
which was introduced to the notice of the agricultural world was 
that shown at Liverpool in 1841, and was thus referred to in 
the report upon the implements exhibited there : — 
" To Messrs. Ransome, of Ipswich, the Society is indebted for 
what may be termed the great novelty of the Meeting — viz. the 
exhibition of a portable steam-engine ' for the purposes of thresh- 
ing corn. The advantages of steam-power for working fixed 
threshing-mills have long been acknowledged in the northern 
parts of England and Scotland, but we believe that this is the first 
attempt to render it portable, so that it may be transported from 
one farm to another, or from one part of a farm to another, as easily 
and as expeditiously as the present machines with horse-works." 
The trial of this machine and of two hand-threshing machines 
formed the subject of a special report, and the Judges also spoke 
of the " vast stride in the mechanics of agriculture " in the two 
years since the Oxford Meeting, in words which are of interest 
at the present day as showing the great impetus given to agri- 
cultural implement-making by the Society's earlier Shows. 
"At Oxford," they said, "there were some examples of good machinery 
and workmanship, but many more of rude, cumbrous, and ill-executed imple- 
ments. At Liverpool many machines were exhibited not only of surpassing 
skill in contrivance and execution, but also having for their object the 
effecting of processes in tillage-hu.sbandry of the most refined nature and 
acknowledged importance, but hitherto considered of very dilHcult practical 
attainment. Some of these may already be considered as forming part of 
the necessary apparatus of every well-managed farm, and to be essential to 
its economy and profit. This vast stride in the mechanics of agriculture, 
made within so short a period, has doubtless arisen from the congregating 
together of agriculturists and mechanicians from all parts of the empire ; 
and a still higher perfection in machinery may be confidently anticipated 
from the opportunity ofiered, under the auspices of the Society, of periodi- 
cally contrasting and estimating the merits of varied implements used for 
similar purposes in difiereut localities and soils. It is apparent that the 
manufticturfj of even the pomnjoner instruments has already, to a great 
