Eeporf on the Exhibition and Trials of ImplemeMs at Leeds. 45;} 
New Implomcnts or those capable of Improvement ; but every 
well-wisher to the Society, who in July last watched with anxiety 
the heavy clouds which so frecjuontly hang; over our most popu- 
lous districts in the north-west, will have felt on what small 
fluctuations of climate the successful issue of the Meeting de- 
pended, where the outlay was large and inevitable, but the 
return highly precarious in respect both of profit and enjoyment. 
We have much reason to be thankful for the happy result, and 
we may hope for, but not reckon on, similar success hereafter. 
The town itself, though not dressed up as gaily as some other 
places which the Society has visited, was distinguished by its 
successful endeavours to assist all the officials ; the Local Com- 
mittee were assiduous in paying us every "attention, both in the 
Field and the Yard ; the excellent arrangements for the dinner in 
the magnificent Town Hall also call for special notice. 
In fact, so much might be said on this Meeting — the crowning 
point of the "good working" of this great Society — that I sin- 
cerelv wish that the task had fallen into hands more able than 
mine to do it full justice. But the Meeting has spoken for itself; 
and I can assure all the members, with many of whom I have 
worked for several years, that I am most happy to have been an 
Acting Steward on such an occasion. To the Hon. A. Vernon, 
who worked hard for nearly three weeks in superintending the 
Steam Trials, the thanks of our Society are especially due ; as 
also to the Judges of Steam-Cultivators, Messrs. Owen, Owen 
Wallis, and C. Sewell Read. 
That the Society may continue to flourish, through both bad 
report and good report, and that it may find gentlemen as willing 
to work for it as heretofore, is the ardent and sincere wish of its 
retiring Steward. 
Lachham House, Chippenham, Wilts. 
Beioori of the Judges on Drills, Manure-Distributors, and Horse-Hoes. 
Deills fob General Purposes. 
Tlic machines exhibited in this clas.s were vor}' numerous, and comprised all 
the varieties which have marked the exhibitions of former years. Neither in 
the general principles of construction nor application of details is there any 
striking; novelty to notice ; the few alterations observable are merely slight 
variations in form, involviuo; no substantial change. This fixity of type, 
which has existed for the last seven years, is not, however, a matter of 
reproach, for it is scarcely possible to specify any object attainable hy drilling 
which is not accurately attained by one or other of the machines which have 
been tested and have received the prizes of the Society for the present yeax. 
It is the more gratifying to the Judges to be able to speak so favourably of 
the excellence of this year's exhibition, as some inferiority might reasonably 
have been apprehended from tlie fact that two or three eminent makers, 
who have gained great distinction and generally carried off the Society's prizes 
in former years, did not exhibit on this occasion. 
