at the Shreicsbury Meeting, 1845. 
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A Com and Manure Drill for general purposes, by Mr. Hornsby, of 
Grantham. 
Ditto uicto by Mr. Garrett, of 
Leiston 
(being the drill which obtained the prize at Soutliampton). 
A Turnip and Manure Drill for flat work ... by Mr. Hornsby. 
Ditto for ridge work ditto. 
Ditto ditto by Mr. Garrett. 
Ditto for ridge or flat work by Mr. James 
Sm\th of Peasen- 
hali. 
These were severally and carefully worked both with dry and 
moist manures, and the Society's prize for each class of drill was 
adjudged to Mr. Hornsby, the judges' opinion being that his 
drdls were more open and simple, and more completely accom- 
plished the desired purposes than those produced by any other 
exhibitor. 
The drill may now be esteemed to be capable of putting into 
the ground with certainty and despatch a much greater quantity of 
manure than can be required for any given crop, and of well 
covering it before the seed is deposited : but, though surpassing 
in power of delivery the amount of manure which a good farmer 
may at any time have occasion to employ, it will be understood 
that the apparatus of the manure-box is adjustable to the dis- 
charge of the smallest desired quantity, and of whatever nature 
the manure may be. The same means also which have gradually 
been adopted by drillmakers to secure the delivery of an extreme 
quantity of rough and damp manures, prevent the necessity of so 
carefully screening out stones as was requisite presnously to the 
improved forms of boxes and stirrers. There are points m drills, 
however, which the judges still regard as short of perfection, and 
to which they desire to call the attention of their constructors, 
viz. the form of rollers best adapted for turnip ridge-work on soils 
of difiFerent texture, and the arrangement of the self-acting lateral 
motion given both to the rollers and coulters. 
A premium of 10/. was awarded to Mr. William Edward 
Vingoe, of Penzance, Cornwall, for an implement entered as a 
seed-depositing, or planting machine, but which may be properly 
treated under the class of drills. This implement, then a recent 
invention, was first brought to the notice of the Society at South- 
ampton, reappearing at Shrewsbury with several important addi- 
tions and improvements. It there enlisted the judges' earnest 
attention, and received their unqualified admiration fiom the sim- 
plicity of its acting parts, the accuracy of its deposition of seed, 
and the mechanically good adaptation of means to ends. Although 
simple, it is difficult to describe. It travels on three wheels, the 
