at the Southampton Meeting, 1844. 
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their use, at first, from an uncertainty as to the powers of Mr. 
Clayton's preparing process as a substitute. 
Since the meeting Mr. Clayton has devised an apparatus of a 
very simple and cheap nature, by which drain pipes and tiles are 
brought to an exactly uniform length before setting them in the 
kiln, and another for socketing pipes for house-drains. 
JOSIAH PaRKES. 
Judges. 
T. P. Outhwaite, Bainesse, Catterick, York- "j Ploughs, subsoil-pulverizers, 
shire I clod-crushers, scarifiers, 
William Heseltine, Worlaby House, Barton, I harrows, horse-hoes, drill- 
Lincolnshire J pressers. 
Chas. Clark, Aisthorpe, near Lincoln j Barn-machinery of all kinds, 
Bryan Millington, Asgaiby, near Sleaford, > dairy implements, miscel- 
Lincolnshire J laneous. 
Isaac Everett, Capel St. Mary's, near Ips- 1 Drills, carts and waggons, 
wich \ hay-making machines, tile- 
CharJes Bumess, Park Farm, Woburn j machines. 
XIX. — On the Allotment System. By Sir Henry E. Bunbury, 
Bart. 
To Ph. Pusey, Esq. 
Sir, — 1 FEEL myself honoured by the request that I should 
communicate, for the information of the Royal Agricultural 
Society of England, the results of my practice in letting small 
portions of land to farm-labourers. 
I began about 28 years ago in a little way, having at that time 
but little land at my disposal. My earliest trials, with mere 
gardens, soon show ed me that, while the condition of the cotta- 
gers' families was in some degree improved, the men, to w hom 
these patches of ground were allotted, became more domestic and 
moral in their habits. 
Encouraged by these essays, I enlarged my plans gradually as 
my means of disposing of land for this purpose became more 
ample. And a long experience and earnest attention to the 
subject have fully satisfied me that the letting of land to labourers 
on fair terms, and under proper regulations and superintendence, 
is productive of the most beneficial effects. I do not speak of its 
effects on the physical condition of the labourers only, but at the 
same time of the benefits resulting to the landowners, the farm- 
tenant, and the community at large. 
1 must beg leave to guard myself against being suspected of 
believing an allotment to be a panacea for all the ills and diffi- 
