Report on Implements at Preston. G89 
The horse-power on our farms enormously exceeds the sum of 
the steam and the hand-power employed upon them ; if by im- 
provements in harness we can add in anv decree to the comfort 
and efficiency of our horses, we shall probably gain more in the 
aggregate than bv all those recent and valuable improvements 
that increase the duty and efficiency of our steam engines. Our 
American cousins have taught us many an agricultural lesson ; 
let us hope that some of them will exhibit their harness next year 
at Norwich, at the same time that other of their manufactures are 
shown on a large scale at the American Exhibition in London. 
The doctor who finds his first treatment produces no effect, 
either repeats the dose or increases its potency. Our Council 
may perhaps be congratulated on having found a corner of the 
agricultural field that greatly needs an artificial stimulus. If 
the prizes are offered again, it may be well to send a notice of 
them to some of the leading makers in country towns. The 
writer enquired of makers of farm-harness at Walsall, and in 
Surrey, Hampshire, and Sussex, including the chief makers in 
Brighton and Hove, and found that not one of them knew that 
these prizes had been offered. 
The Judges of Implements met the Stewards at 9 o'clock on 
Monday morning, and learned that of articles for competition 
there was not a single entry in any of the three classes for sets 
of harness ; seven exhibitors had made twenty-three entries in 
Classes IV., v., and VL, for Whippletrees. There was only one 
exhibitor in Class VII. of packages for salt butter, and three 
exhibitors with several entries for packages suitable to convey 
fresh butter by Parcels Post or rail. After a short conference, it 
was decided that we should in the first instance inspect all the 
implements in the lard that had been entered as new imple- 
ments, and select those which could be tried in the field in 
conjunction with the whippletrees. 
This inspection occupied us from 9 A. 31. till 7 P.M. on 
Monday and Tuesday. ^luch time was spent in carefully 
examining the claims of novelty, and in giving a brief trial, 
where it was practicable, on the spot. 
At the end of this inspection we selected the following imple- 
ments to be sent for trial on the land secured for the purpose, viz. : — 
Xo. 414. Daveij, Sleep and Co.'s Single Furrow Turnwrest 
Plough. 
No. 4131. Hornsby and Co.'s Two Furrow Digging Plough. 
No. 1423. Stanford and Buttons's Revolving Harrow. 
These three implements, requiring respectively two, three, and 
four horses to drive them, served for the trial of the three Classes 
of Whippletrees ; but as we had most entries in the Two-horse 
Whippletree Class, and it was necessary to get a fair amount of 
