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wei'e spiked rollers, others were Nor\vep:ian harrows, constructed 
on the original principle ; but none of them made such good 
work as Mr. Crosskill's, and we accordingly awarded it a medal. 
We feel confident that this will be found a very useful implement 
on stiff clays, to prepare the land for sowing either with corn or 
small seeds. 
Ilorsc-rakes (Judges' Report). — Twelve of these were selected 
for trial, and were first tested as stubble-rakes, straw being strewed 
about the show-yard for them to collect ; after which they were 
tried as hay-rakes, straw being spread as thickly on the ground 
as a good crop of hay. The one exhibited by Messrs. Hensman, 
of Wiiburn, we considered to be the best, and awarded it a medal ; 
it collected the largest quantity in the cleanest manner, and had 
the best mode of delivery. Many of the others were, however, 
very little inferior to it ; those especially of Messrs. Howard, 
Busby, and Grant. 
Grass-land Cultivators (Judges' Report). — The only one tried 
was exhibited by Mr. Busby, of Newton-le-VV'illows. It ap- 
peared to answer the jiuipose for which it is designed, and to 
clear off the moss and old grass roots in good style. It also by 
the same operation collects it into rows ready for carting off. All 
other grass-land cultivators that we have seen, leave the moss, &c. 
that they tear up, spread over the surface. W here an implement 
of this kind is required, we think this will prove very efficient. 
We gave it a medal. 
Haymaking -machines (Judges' Report). — Out of fifteen that 
were exhibited, three were selected for trial, and after setting them 
to spread grass in the swath, and afterwards reversing the action 
and trving how they could turn that already spread, we were of opi- 
nion that Messrs. Smith and Son's, of Stamford, was the best, and 
awarded them a medal. The particular advantage possessed by 
his machine over the other two, was in having two steel springs 
instead of one, to support each of the bars which carry the teeth; 
the alterations of adjustment were also more readily made in 
Smith's than in the other two, which were exhibited by Messrs. 
Grant, of Stamford, and Messrs. Barrett, Exall, and Co., of 
Reading. The two latter made very good work ; but the former 
appeared to us more simple, and therefore less likely to get out 
of order. 
Chaff-cutters (Judges' Report). — The chaff-cutters were first 
tried by hand, all being set to the same length of cut, viz. 3-8ths of 
an inch. They were allowed to make 80 revolutions each. The 
quantity of chaff cut by each is given in the tabular statement. 
Two of them, C<n-nes's and Smith's, were tried as litter-cutters, 
the number of revolutions being noted which each machine made 
in cutting 20 lbs. of chaff. The large cutters were next tried by 
