Report on Miscellaneous Impleme^its at Newcastle. 197 
days, for whose return the implement-maker and implement- 
user alike wait. 
Prize Implements. 
Prizes were offered at Newcastle to eight different classes of 
machinery, viz. : — 
CiAss 1. — Compound Portable Agricultural Steam Engines, self-moving 
or otherwise. 
Class 2. — Simple ditto ditto ditto. 
Class 3. — ^T^'eighing Machines for Sheep and Pigs. 
Class 4. — Ditto ditto for Cattle. 
Class 5. — Potato Planters. 
Class 6. — Potato Raisers, price exceeding 5/. 
Class 7. — Ditto price not exceeding 5/. 
Class 8. — Manual Power Cream Separators. 
A special report published in the last number of the ' Journal ' 
describes the trials which took place, and the awards which 
were made in Classes 1 and 2. The trials of Classes 6 and 7, 
being necessarily postponed till autumn, are the subject of a 
separate paper in the present number by the highly competent 
Fig. 1. — David Hart & Co.'s Weighing Machine. 
[See p. 198.] 
pen of Mr. John Coleman, one of the Judges, whose recent death 
all agriculturists and readers of the ' Journal ' will deplore. In 
Class 5 the prize was withheld. 
In Classes 3 and 4 the Judges awarded the prize ot 20^. for 
a weighing machine for sheep and pigs, together with the prize 
gf 25^. for a weighing maghine for cattle (.^s. 2304 and 2305), 
