Report on the Trials of Implements at Taunton. 
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Silver Medals. 
1. The Judges are requested to observe, that in addition to the specified 
Prizes, there are Ten Silver Medals, which they have the power of awarding 
in case of sufficient merit. ° 
2. These Medals cannot in avy case be awarded to any implement included 
in the ordinary rotation, imless (1) it belongs to the classes for which prizes 
are oflered at this Meeting, or (2) the principle on which the implement is 
constructed be entirely new, and the implement never before exhibited at any 
of the Society's Shows. 
3. These Medals are specially intended as a mark of approval of any new 
principles of construction which the Judges may consider as essential improve- 
ments ; subject always to the restriction contained in Rule 2. 
4. The Judges are also empowered to make special awai'ds of Medals for 
efficient modes of guarding or shielding Machinery, especially when worked 
by steam, from contact with persons immediately engaged in attending to it 
while at work. 
5. No Medal shall in any case be awarded to anj' implement or miscel- 
laneous article capable of trial until it has been subjected to such trial as 
the Stewards may direct. 
6. No Medal shall be awarded by the Judges without the consent of the 
Stewards, and no Commendation of miscellaneous articles shall be made by 
the Judges. 
Only a very few articles or implements were found worthy, 
in the opinion of the Judges, of a recommendation for these 
medals. The Miscellaneous Judges spent a long time in trying^ 
Page and Girling's Drop Drill, No. 2029, an implement 
requiring special attention. The great fault of this machine 
was that the dropping of the seed was not sufficiently regular. 
When the drill was doing close work, and going at a fair pace, 
the seed was so scattered as almost to fo"m a continuous stream. 
The Judges were, however, fully aware of several valuable parts 
in the machine, especially that of the double-action coulter, 
although the trial was not sufficiently successful to justify them 
in recommending a medal. 
The Miscellaneous Judges tried Messrs. Barford and Perkins' 
Campain's Anchor, No. 21, with Savage's recently patented 
improvements ; they thought highly of it, and recommended a 
Silver Medal to be given to it. 
A drawing of this implement in its original state was given 
in this Journal for 1871, page 515, so that the recent improve- 
ments only require our attention. 
The rope is supposed to be travelling in the direction of the 
arrow. A A (Fig. 48) represents the main pulley, working upon a 
pin firmly fixed to the frame of the anchor. B is a ball of wood 
through which the rope passes, and which is prevented from going 
nearer to the plough or drag by a moveable clip, C, being fixed 
upon the rope at any required distance in advance of the 
plough. D represents a strong cast-iron shoe ; and when tlie ball 
jams up against it, it acts upon the lever E, setting at liberty the 
