506 Report on the Exhihition and Trial of Implements 
Picksley and Sims exhibited a small but useful mill for a farmer, as it 
would grind about 2 tons per day in a very efficient manner, requiring only 
2-horse power to work it. That exhibited by Messrs. Rankin made very 
inferior work as compared with the others ; it ground the bones indifferently, 
and the screen to separate the ground bones worked so badly that it made 
scarcely any separation, and was completely choked up before the time for 
working had expired. 
In concluding our Report we may be perhaps allowed to add, that the 
absence of two very efficient Stewards, Messrs. Caldwell and Pope, caused 
much regret. The former was taken ill when on his way to Canterbury ; the 
latter, from an unforeseen cause, was compelled to return home ; so that the 
whole superintendence of the trials devolved upon Lord Leigh the remaining 
Steward, 
We can speak with satisfaction of the manner in which the Foremen and 
Yardmen generally performed their duties, and of the ready assistance which 
they afforded us whenever we required it. 
JoHK HiCKEN, Bourton-on-Dunsmore, near Rugby. 
George Matthias Hipwell, Cheam, Surrey. 
Report of the Judges of the Miscellaneous Department. 
The Judges of the miscellaneous implements have great pleasure in pre- 
senting their Report on the implements and machinery which it fell to their lot 
to inspect at the Canterbury Meeting. 
A cursory view of the show of implements at once made us sensible of a 
falling off' in the exhibition as compared with the Warwick, Chester, and 
other previous meetings. This was owing to the absence of the well-known 
stands of many of our leading implement-makers, which we could not do 
otherwise than deplore. The laudable exertions of other exhibitors, great as 
they were, failed to supply the deficiency. 
The Warwick Catalogue contained 412 pages, descriptive of 245 stands; the 
Canterbury Catalogue contains but 296 pages, descriptive of 212 stands — thus 
sliowing a great reduction of the number of exhibitors„but a still greater reduc- 
tion in the number of articles shown. 
The Miscellaneous Judges have constantly to reply as they best can to 
remarks and objections made, and also to entertain suggestions offered by 
exhibitors in passing round upon their duties. One complains that no prize is 
ever offered lor articles of his class of manufactin-e ; another, exhibiting the 
most general collection, asserts they are all of agricultural character ; another 
asserts that his fire-engine is an agricultural pumj) ; another argues that his 
ranf^e-grate must pass on account of the steam-apparatus attached ; another, 
that his blasting-apparatus is certainly entitled to pass as an agricultural 
appliance ; another that his school-desks must pass — " they are for paro- 
chial schools." Then we have the whole class of washing-machines, besides 
many articles and machinery exhibited under the following heads, i.e. — 
filters, fiower-stands, garden-archways, garden-seats, and implements ; pedestals, 
vases, syringes, &c., for garden uses, and alarum-bells for tenders of corn, 
seeds, &e. ; then cucumber-slices, barometers, bedsteads, carpet-sweepers, 
office-mills, chairs and tables, copying-machines, cork-drawers, counting- 
machines, dish-covers, door-frames, door-mats, fire-bars, fishing-rods, foun- 
tain-designs, fruit-plates, gas-apparatus, grafting-tools, butchers' knives, 
lanterns, lightning-conductors, meat-covers, microscopes, photographs, quoits, 
road-scrapers, roasting-machincs, sausage-machines, sewing-machines, sign- 
paintings, t«nts, union-jack flags, urns, varnish, &c., &c., &c., in gi-eat 
abundance and variety. We name these to show that Judges in this class 
