Ueport on the Imptements 
to BO purpose. In the report of the implements exhibited at 
the Bristol Meeting of the Royal Agricultural Society in 1842, 
an implement having for its object the destruction of the fly is 
described thus : — 
The ingenuity of Mr. Huckvale, of Over Norton, has also been ex- 
ercised in the construction of an implement for depositing or sprinkling 
liquid manure. It consists of two water-tight cases for carrying the fluid, 
fitted into the manure hoxes of his turnip-drilling machine. The fluid is 
conveyed through a pipe into a second reservoir, in vyhich works a wheel 
with cups. These collect and throw out the liquid in the desired quantity 
on the turnip ridges. He applies the same machine to pass along the ridges 
to sprinkle the young plants with a fluid which he represents as destructive 
to the fly. A premium of 31. was adjudged to the inventor for his me- 
chanical skill in bringing about these ends, of which the precise effect and 
value can however only be ascertained by a practical trial and experience. 
(Journal, Vol. III. [1842] page 34.3.) 
AW this points to the great need that there is of a machine 
of this kind. I should mention that there is trustworthy evi- 
dence of successful work on two badly infested fields upon 
which it has been used, and particulars of which are given in the 
appendix to the " Twelfth Report on Farm Pests," lately issued 
by Miss Ormerod, the Consulting Entomologist of the Royal 
Agricultural Society. If the same result should be generally 
attained, we may safely hail this machine as one of the most 
important additions to the implements of the farm. Judging 
from the trials which the Judges carried out, they would seem 
to show that, apart fi'om the special interest which attaches to 
the machine as a means of freeing the turnip plant from a 
great pest, there is also every reason to think that practical ex- 
perience and use will show that for the further purposes for 
which it is intended it is an efficient implement. The large 
acreage which can be covered in a day, the perfect distribution, 
and, more especially, the ability to deal with small quantities 
of nitrates or other substances, either in a solid or liquid state, 
stamp this machine as one worthy of the Jubilee year of the 
Society. 
Messrs. W. & T. Avery , of Birmitigliam, received a Silver 
IVfedal for their Steelj'ard registering gross and tare. This is a 
simple arrangement (readily adapted to any platform machine) 
by which both the gross and tare weight can be clearly recorded 
upon a ticket inserted in a small slot on the side. A number of 
raised figures of hardened steel are fixed on the underside of the 
steelyard, corresponding with the various divisions or notches. 
When the articles to be weighed are placed upon the platform, 
the slide is moved along until it reaches the nearest division, 
when the small bar which slides through this slide, and has figures 
