686 Report on Implements at Preston. 
On Saturday and Monday, and at night, rain fell heavily, 
which prevented many paying their shillings, and turning parts 
of the Showyard where traffic was heaviest into a sea of mud, 
recalling to one's mind the Kilburn Show. 
In resigning my Stewardship, I take this opportunity of 
thanking m}^ brother Stewards, and also the Secretary, Mr. Jen- 
kins, and his able StafT, for the valuable assistance I have at all 
times received from them. 
XXXI. — Report on Implements at Preston. By Charles Gat 
Roberts, of Collards, Haslemere. 
Judges. 
J. W. KiMBER, Fyfield Wick, Abins^don, Berks. 
Joseph Maktin, Highfield House, Littleport, Isle of Ely. 
C. Gr. Egberts, Collards, Haslemere, Surrey. 
The number of Implement stands at Preston was less by seven 
than those at Shrewsbury last year, but the number of imple- 
ments exhibited was slightly in excess. Although the duplicates 
that once swelled the number of entries are now banished, and the 
stands are arranged so as to bring similar implements as much 
as possible to the same part of the Yard, yet five miles of 
shedding, filled with more than five thousand articles, are too 
much for any one to examine thoroughly in a week. Every 
additional aid afforded them in the inspection of so vast a 
collection of machinery is doubly welcome, not only to the 
Judges of Miscellaneous Implements, but to that large class of 
visitors who wish in the limited time at their disposal to form 
some estimate of the progress revealed each year in agricultural 
mechanics. It was noticed last year that the words " New 
Implement " had been frequently appended by Exhibitors to the 
number of an entry in the Catalogue, when the article to which 
attention was thus specially directed had not the most remote 
claim to any such designation. 
This year the following new clause was introduced in the 
General Regulations for Exhibitors : — 
" In order to prevent the xvrongful entry of exhibits as ' New 
Implement,' a fee of 1/. will be charged for every implement 
entered as a 'New Implement,' the fee to be returned if the 
Judges report to the Stewards that the implement is new, or 
such an improvement as in their opinion warrants the designa- 
tion ' New Implement.' " The beneficial effect of this new 
regulation may to some extent be judged by the fact that the 
number of entries of New Implements was 319 at Shrewsbury 
