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Report on Implements at Preston. 
Messrs. J. H. Peck and Co. exhibited a stretcher for ambulance 
work, that excited much interest, especially among many local 
visitors not unacquainted with accidents that occur too often in 
manufacturing districts and in collieries. Although it was 
naturally observed that such an appliance is more likely to be 
wanted in factories than on farms, we had sad evidence before 
the week was out of its utility in the Showyard. During the 
parade of horses, and shortly before the arrival of the Prince of 
Wales, a young man, standing on one of the barriers, slipped 
and was very much injured by the post beneath him. The 
stretcher was sent for, and it enabled the wounded man to be 
carried off at once to the Royal Infirmary, where he died on 
Saturday, July 18th. 
The stretcher is made of steel and canvas, and has an adjust- 
able head-rest. The sufferer is in contact with the canvas only, 
and this can very readily be slipped off" and washed. Although 
fully large enough to carry a man, it can be wrapped up for 
storage into a parcel 5 feet 9 inches by 3 inches by 4 inches, 
weighing 30 lbs. Four side-straps with spiral springs are pro- 
vided, and by means of these the stretcher can be slung in any 
ordinary cart, and the patient is thus carried without jolting. 
Passing from this excellent provision for calamities, that 
happily are not frequent upon farms, another new implement 
presents itself, specially fitted for times of prosperity that of late 
years have been still more infrequent with our farmers. Mr. John 
Port, of Ancoats, 3Ianchester, exhibited his new Round Bolt 
Safe, of solid iron and steel, weighing upwards of 2 tons. The 
body and door are 2J inches thick. Upon turning the key a 
series of round bolts, each 1| inches diameter, are shot out on 
all sides. When we add that the price is 200^., it will be clear 
that in days of agricultural depression, when in every country 
town banks are found for the accommodation of the happy men 
who have cash to dispose of, this can hardly be called an agri- 
cultural implement, whatever it might have been in the piping 
times of Ready Money Jack. 
The use of peat moss for litter has rapidly increased since it 
was imported from Germany, conveniently broken down and 
packed in bales. The German litter was shown at Stand 
No. 181, and quoted at IZ. 12s. per ton in Hull ; when the cost 
of railway carriage is added to this, the price is too high for 
it to replace straw that may be sold off" a farm. There are eases, 
however, as with a horse that eats his bedding, when moss- 
litter might be useful even on a farm. Peat for litter is now 
prepared in Cheshire and in other places at a lower price than 
the foreign litter, but it is sent out in small cakes or turves 
that require to be broken before they can be used for the stable. 
