at the Shrewsbury Meeting, 1845. 
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The private trials by the judges were conducted both in the 
field and in the enclosure attached to the show-yard at Shrews- 
bury, with satisfaction to themselves, and to the exhibitors. This 
arrangement was first essayed at Southampton, and its advantages, 
as stated in the Report of that meeting, were fully confirmed at 
Shrewsburv. This mode of conducting implement-trials may 
now be considered as incorporated with the system of manage- 
ment to be pursued by the Society at future shows. It was wisely 
planned, and has been successfullv carried out; and with one 
day added to the terra allotted to the judges for inspection and 
trial, it will rarely occur that any trial need be deferred to a later, 
or to any other, period of the vear than that chosen by the Society 
for its annual countrv meeting. Delay in giving judgment is 
alike injurious to the interests of the exhibitors and of the 
Society, and it is at the express desire of all the judges that the 
writer declares their sentiments to the Council in this Report. 
Ploughs. — A large number of ploughs were set to work at 
Shrewsbury on the splendid pieces of land assigned for the trial- 
grounds by Mr. Isaac Taylor, of Monkmoor. The soil was in 
admirable temper for the occasion, and the judges had little diffi- 
culty in selecting the implements which they deemed most worthy 
of being submitted to the final trial subsequently made at Pusey. 
These consisted of 
Swing ploughs — By David Harkes, of Mere, near Knutsford; 
bv William Wood, of Knutsford. 
Two-wheel ploughs — By Messrs. Howard and Co., of Bed- 
ford ; by ^Messrs. Mapplebeck and Lowe, of Birmingham (manu- 
factured by Messrs. Ransome) ; by Messrs. Sanders, Williams, 
and Taylor, of Bedford ; by Edward Hammond Bentall, of 
Heybridge, near Maldon, Essex. 
The light land at Pusey was precisely of the quality answering 
to that designation, and after a series of trials of all the ploughs, 
three ot them were culled for the finishing combat. These were 
respectively made by Messrs. Howard and Co., Messrs. Sanders, 
W illiams, and Taylor, and Messrs. Ransome ; and it is worthy 
of remark that the implements of these three manufacturers had 
before frequently come into close competition at the Society's 
shows with varying success. These three excellent ploughs, each 
being held by the maker's own chosen ploughman, were finally 
set to work by the stewards, in the judges' absence, to complete a 
land each. Their performance was then inspected by the judges, 
and the prize for the light-land plough was awarded to Messrs. 
Howard and Co. The dynamometers of Mr. Clvburn and of 
Mr. Bentall were applied, and it appeared from both of them 
that Messrs. Howard's implement touk the least draught, as well 
as made the best work — a result quite consistent mih the experi- 
