20 Report on Miscellaneous Implements at Shrewsbury, ^c. 
The Patent Self-feeding Safety Guard, attached to Messrs. 
Burlingham, Innes, and Co.'s Ensilage Cutter, has been already 
fully described in the notice of that machine in the Report of 
the trial of Ensilage Cutters and Elevators at page 10, and 
needs no further comment here. 
The only other Silver Medal awarded was given to 
Hornsby's New Patent Gripping Plough which is designed for surface-drain- 
ing, and is constracted with 2 knives rising from the sides of the shave, cutting 
the grip either V-shaped or with flat bottom, the sloping sides in either case 
keeping the ground from falling in. In advance of these knives, and in the 
centre of the grip, is fixed a skeith or wheel coulter dividing the slice into 
two parts, which are thrown out by the breasts, one on each side of the grip. 
It can be adjusted to cut a grip from 4 to 9 inches deep, from 9 to 11 inches 
wide across the top, and Ij to 2 inches wide at the bottom or V'Shaped as 
desired. 
The soil taken from the grip is placed on each side, about 6 inches from the 
grip, convenient for being either carted away, thrown on the laud, or left to 
be returned in the spring. 
It is light in draught, being within the power of two horses. 
The following illustrations show the two shapes of grips i^roduced : — 
Fig. 5. — View of Messrs. Hornsby's Gripping Plough. 
Fig. 6. — Section of Plough Furrows. 
This'grip is made with share marked L M 12 This grip is made with the share marked 
and v. slipe marked LM 14, bolted to the L M 9 for 11 in. bottom or share marked L M 10 
ordinary wrought iron slipe marked L M IG. for 2 in. bottom and wrought iron slipe marked 
L M 16. 
When the land is uneven or covered with rushes, the best work will bo 
done by using the plough as a swing-plough ; but when the l;iud is level, for 
convenience and ease of management, it may be used as a ouc-whcel plough. 
Its price as a swing-plougb, with steel breasts, skeith, and knives complete, 
is 3^. 15s. ; if fitted as a one-wheel plough, 5s. extra. This plough may bo 
