Report on Miscellaneous Implement Atoards at Derhi/. G03 
on the spouts and running the drills along a level road. At 
Pliiladelpiila the experiments were extended by running the 
drills in different positions, representing severe gradients on hill- 
sides and equal ascents and declines. In the report published in 
the 13th volume of this 'Journal,' in 1877, tables of results are 
given. A comparison of the best English and American drills, 
working on the level, shows that whilst Coultas's first-prize 
drill varied as to different coulters 7 lbs. 6 ounces per acre, 
the McSherry drill, sowing the same quantity of seed, only 
showed a range of 10 ounces. If such was the difference on 
the level, where the English seed-cups would discharge with 
their greatest regularity, I leave my readers to imagine what 
would have been the results if the English drill had been 
worked at an angle of 30 degrees to represent a hill-side ; 
how much of the seed would have fallen outside the receiver 
altogether, and how great must have been the irregularity of 
discharge from the different coulters. Yet in the best American 
drills the variation was practically unappreciable. Thus, in the 
McSherry drill, when the right-hand side of the drill was 
elevated, the variation per acre between the minimum and 
maximum discharge was exactly the same as on the level, viz. 
10 ounces per acre ; and when worked in the opposite direction, 
i.e. with the left-hand side elevated, the difference was only 
fiactionally greater, viz. 12 ounces per acre. In one other drill, 
made by the Farmer's Friend Manufacturing Company/, the 
results were even more remarkable when compared with the 
discharge on the level, though the latter represented a variation 
of 16 ounces per acre ; the total difference per acre in seed sown 
was only 4 ounces in one case and 2 ounces in the other, 
results that are marvellously accurate. I have alluded to this 
subject because it is probable that these remarkable facts have 
hardly obtained such attention as their importance deserves. 
Why should we continue to use an implement that is so mani- 
festly defective when we can so easily obtain that which is 
superior ? 
The chief objects of interest at Derby were the exhibits in 
the W orking Dairy, and especially the separators, of which an 
exhaustive report is made by Mr. H. J. Little, and the novelties 
for binding corn with string, of which a description will appear 
in the report of the trials to be published in the next volume. 
Beyond these exhibits there was so little of meritorious novelty 
available for notice under the new regulations, that after a 
careful inspection the Judges only made two recommendations 
for Silver Medals. These were awarded by the Stewards to 
Article 5420, Perpetual Baling Press, exhibited and manu- 
factured by John H. Ladd and Co., of 116, Queen Victoria 
