at the Canterbury Meetiiu/, 1800. 
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.attention to the subject, I have been led by my experience to see 
its importance to those who wish to get well through their 
liarvest ; and I consider that any man acting as a Steward of the 
Royal Agricultural Society, if he has formed a deliberate opinion 
on a matter within his department, should not shrink from 
stating it. 
1 am decidedly of opinion that too much time and attention 
are devoted to the Miscellaneous Department, and that the 
Report of the numerous articles it contains occupies too much 
space in the Journal. I also hope that the Council will decide 
what articles are, for the future, to be included in the Miscel- 
laneous Department. 
I beg leave to express my best thanks to all the officials for 
their repeated acts of kindness, and for the readiness with which, 
throughout my term of office, they have tendered their assistance 
and support. On this head my own personal acknowledgments 
are especially due. 
I will now conclude this Report (a duty which has devolved 
upon me one year before the proper time) by again saying how 
sorry I am that I was unable to be at my post during all the trials 
of the Implements, and that my account of the Meeting is so poor 
and tncomplete. 
LacJcham House, Chippenham. 
lleport of the Judges for Steam Ploughs. 
There were five competitors entered for the prize offered " for the class of 
applications of steam-power to the cultivation of the soil," who describe their 
entries in the following terms. 
No. 1. Coleman and Sons, Chelmsford, Essex. — Patent double 5-prong cul- 
and manufactured by exhibitors. Constructed on the principle of the exhi- 
tivator for steam-power ; invented by R. Coleman, of Chelmsford ; improved 
bitors' original cultivator, but, by a novel and simple movement, is made to 
pass sideways into new work when the implement arrives at the laud's end, so 
as to render turning unnecessary. Price 42Z. 
No. 2. Robey and Co., of Lincoln. — Complete set of patent steam-ploughing 
tackle ; invented and improved by Cliandler and Oliver, of Bow ; and manu- 
factured by the exhibitors. Consists of 10-horse-power portable double- 
cylinder engine, with the exhibitors' patent steel fire-box. The cylinders are 
placed on top of boiler. It has Chandler and Oliver's patent drum-ploughing 
windlass, which revolves on engine's hind travelling-axle, and driven by 
gearing from fly-wheel shaft; is fitted with governors, link-motion, reversing- 
gear, and is self-propelling, with one horse steering in front. Water-tank is 
fixed underneath the boiler to carry a supply of water while travelling by 
steam ; tender to carry engine-driver and fuel, stoking-tools, spanners, &c. ; 
waterproof cover, strong wood travelling-wheels, snatch-blocks, anchors, rope- 
porters, and 1200 yards of steel-wire rope. Price, inclusive of ploughs, 545?., 
subject to 25 per cent, discoirnt for cash. 
Patent 3-furrow balance-plough and cultivator combined ; invented and im- 
\oh. xxr. 2 L, 
