at the York Meethiff, 1848. 
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Hensman of Woburn, and awarded a silver medal to Lis self- 
actinp: hopper, on a new principle, by which the seed was sown at 
the same rate when goin<^ up or down hill as on the level. 
They also awarded a medal to a liquid manure drill exhibited 
by Mr. Chandler of Stockton, Wilts, which was both novel and 
in;;enious, and performed its work extremely well. 
The preceding classes of drills comprise some of the most im- 
portant implements used in agriculture ; and as they have now been 
brought to considerable perfection, the leading drill-makers would 
confer a great boon on the farmers of this country, if they were 
to apply the same persevering ingenuity to simplifying and cheap- 
ening ihem, which they have hitherto employed in making them 
effective. The outlay required for the purchase of a drill of all 
work (50/. to 60Z.) is an important matter even to large farmers 
who can afford to buy a first-rate implement, and who have an 
intelligent foreman capable of properly adjusting it for its various 
uses ; but to the great majority of farmers an implement of this 
value would be utterly disproportioned both to their means and to 
the extent of their holdings ; it is therefore highly desirable that 
the same improved principles which make the large drills so 
effective should be applied to a cheap and simple machine for one 
purpose only, requiring consequently little alteration or adjust- 
ment, and the demand for them would, in the opinion of the 
writer, be so extensive, that their manufacture might be remunera- 
tive, even though the profit on each were small. It is to the 
leading manufacturers that these remarks are principally addressed, 
as they have the means of supplying a large increase of demand, 
and those alone whose business is on a large scale, can afford to 
work at a low rate of profit. The attention of these parties is 
particularly directed to the fact that, in addition to the prize for 
drills for general purposes, the Society has announced a prize for 
the best corn-drill at the Norwich Meeting, and as there are many 
drills which deliver the seed with great regularity, it is probable 
that, in the absence of any marked superiority in this respect, the 
judges will attach great importance to simplicity of construction 
and lowness of price. 
Broadcast Manure- Distributor (Judges' Report). — "This prize 
was awarded to Mr. Hornsby, whose machine, in addition to the 
usual apparatus for delivering the manure from the box, was sup- 
plied with a square iron bar, which revolved with great rapidity as 
the manure fell upon it, and assisted very much in spreading it 
evenly over the ground. The next best was Mr. Garrett's; but 
from his machine the manure fell upon the ground in per- 
ceptible rows. Mr. Crosskill exhibited for this prize a machine 
which was well adapted to sow lime, soot, ashes, or any perfectly 
dry manure, but the grooves in the roller (by which the manure 
was thrown from the box) soon became filled up when any damp 
