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neither note or comment, and it only remains to mention that, 
during the interval which elapsed between the private, or judges' 
trial, and that to which the public were admitted, the ploughs were 
as usual left in the trial-field, which afforded an opportunity to 
some mischievous or malicious person to break off the head of one 
of the adjusting screws of Mr. Busby's prize plough. In justice 
to the owner of the plough, as well as to the judges who assigned it 
the first place, it should be generally known that the very indif- 
ferent work made by this plough at the public trial was entirely 
due to this cause. 
Drills for General Purposes (Judges' Report). — "This prize 
was awarded to Mr. Hornsby for his ten-coulter corn, seed, and 
manure drill. It did its work in a very efficient manner, deliver- 
ing the manure with great regularity, and though tried in rough 
ground, the clods did not accumulate between the coulters and 
carry the soil before the drill, which was the case with many that 
were exhibited. It was fitted with two stirrers in the manure- 
box, either of which could be stopped or put in motion as the drill 
was going on. The judges commended Mr. Garrett's drill shown 
for the same prize, which, though equal to Mr. Hornsby's in many 
respects, did not work so well on the rough ground, as the manure- 
pipes were occasionally stopped by the clods, and it carried them 
before the coulters, if not kept clear by the man attending it." 
Turnip-Drills on the Flat (Judges' Report). — " The only 
drills that came into close competition for this prize were those of 
Mr. Garrett and Mr. Hornsby, and their working merits in the 
field were so nearly equal that the judges could not decide which 
was entitled to it. In this dilemma they obtained the opinion of 
the consulting engineer as to their mechanism and workmanship, 
and he, thinking some parts of Mr. Garrett's more highly finished 
than that of Mr. Hornsby's, the prize was awarded to Mr. Garrett. 
Mr. Hensman, of Woburn, exhibited a well made steerage- drill 
for this prize, which possessed some good contrivances for raising 
up or pressing down the coulters when required, but it was inferior 
to the above in distributing the manure." 
Turnip-Drills on the Ridge (Judges' Report). — ''This prize 
was awarded to Mr. Hornsby's drill, as there was a most striking 
superiority in the appearance of the ridges drilled by it over those 
of anv other ; this was owing to an improvement introduced by 
Mr. Hornsby, in putting the manure-coulters before the concave 
rollers, so that the ridges were brought again into proper form, 
although very much flattened by the large manure-coulters having 
passed up them." 
Hand Drilling -machines. — " Only one implement was exhibited 
in this class, and as that was thought to possess but little merit, 
the prize was withheld." 
The judges commended a steerage corn drill exhibited by Mr. 
