2 Report on Miscellaneous Implements at Shrewsbury, Sfc, 
be converted into Silage, were a new feature, and evoked the 
liveliest interest amongst stockowners and the public generally. 
In the Catalogue of Implements, the words (iVeu? Implement) 
in brackets, not unfrequently follow the number of the article 
in the Catalogue. Articles so marked were each the subject of 
special and careful inspection by the Judges. 
In the printed regulations for the exhibition and trial of 
agricultural implements, machinery, &c., appeared the following 
notice : — 
Sn.VEK Medaxs. — For New Inventions. There are ten Siver Medals, the 
award of which the Judges appointed by the Council have the power of 
recommending in cases of sufficient merit in new implements exhibited at 
the Shrewsbury Show. 
These Medals cannot in any case be awarded to any implement unless the 
principle of the implement or the improvement of it be entirely new. 
Much indignation was felt, and in some cases expressed, by 
both the Stewards and Judges at the number of articles desig- 
nated as " new implements " which had not the most remote claim 
to any such appellation. The general reply by the exhibitor 
in such case to enquiries for the new implement, was a shrug of 
the shoulder, and possibly a remark that it was new to them. 
It has doubtless been the subject of frequent remarks amongst 
both exhibitors and visitors that, out of that vast and truly magni- 
ficent display of implements only two articles, and these very 
simple ones, should have been held worthy to receive the Silver 
Medal of the Society. The Judges, however, had to be guided by 
the " Regulations " from which quotation has already been made, 
and which further states that " No medal shall in any case be 
awarded to any implement or miscellaneous article capable of 
trial until it has been subjected to such trial as the Stewards 
may direct." Of this regulation the Judges highly approved. 
It is obvious that only a limited number of implements, and 
those necessarily of a simple character, could conveniently be 
subjected to trials in the Showyard. Several of these imple- 
ments so tested did not maintain the high character for practical 
work which their exhibitors claimed for them. There were 
a large number of machines for which new attachments and 
great improvements were claimed : amongst these were Bone- 
mills, Stone-breakers, Threshing-machines, Corn-mills, Spring 
Engines, Sec. 6cc. ; but the Judges felt they were not warranted 
in recommending the Medal of the Society to be awarded to such 
articles, unless they were proved to be efficient by exhaustive trials, 
for which neither time nor opportunity could conveniently be had. 
Nothing short of competitive classified trials would justify the 
stamp of honour of the Royal Society being affixed to such 
