at the York Meeting, 1818. 
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and wire fencing, &c., which have <;ained for him the prizes and 
commendations of this Society on former occasions. 
Mr. Alibey, of Dunninfrton, had a combined chicory waslier 
and cutter, a very clever and complete machine of its kind, hut it 
was not deemed to be of such general necessity as to entitle it to 
a prize. 
Several articles and models of importance arrived too late for 
admission into tlie Show-yard, and consequently did not come 
under the inspection of the Judges. 
In conclusion, the writer wishes to express his conviction that 
the trials to which the implements were subjected at York were, 
on the whole, more complete and decisive as tests of merit than 
at any former Show, which he partly attributes to the regulations 
adopted by the Council, at the suggestion of Colonel Clialloner, 
establishing a fixed proportion between the length of crank 
and the number of revolutions per minute in all hand ma- 
chinerv, and also to the use of a machine for testing the working- 
power of steam-engines and the amount of draught of thraihing- 
machines, chafF-cutiers, &c. The use of this instrument, and 
the enforcement of the regulations alluded to have both assisted 
in placing the machines under trial in precisehj similar circum- 
stances, and consequently in rendering the decision of the Judges 
both more easy and more conclusive. The advantage of these 
methods having once been established, an attempt will probably 
be made to extend their application wherever it shall be found 
practicable, and these arrangements cannot be in better hands 
than in those of the S iclety's able and zealous Consulting Enginper, 
Mr. Amos. Whilst enumerating, however, the causes which have 
led to an efficient trial of implements at the meetings of the Royal 
Agricultural Society, it would be the height of ingratitude to pass 
without remark the services rendered by the Stewanls of Imple- 
ments who retired by rotation in IS47 and 1848. Those gentle- 
men had acted as sole managers of this department for several 
preceding years, and the writer is able to speak the more deci- 
dedly respecting the improvements they elfected, from having 
acted as an assistant-steward at Derby when Mr. Shelley first 
commenced his stewardshij). At that tune the increasing extent 
and importance of the exhibitions of implements were be- 
ginning to be felt, but as yet there was such a want of system, 
especially in the trial of those machines which took place out of 
the Show-yard, that the public, the exhibitors, and even the Judges 
were at a loss to know where to go, or what was expected Irom 
them. It is by no means intended in these remarks to throw 
blame on any parlies concerned ; on the contrary, the greatest 
anxiety was shown on all sides to carry out the objects of the 
Society, but it almost necessarily arose from the rapid develop- 
