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with greater ease, and by them he has the machine more per- 
fectly under control. The machine is now made by Messrs. 
Wimshurst, Hollick, and Co., of London. That shown at Derby 
was sold to a gentleman in Essex, and Lord Harries, a York- 
shire landowner, has purchased one of similar construction. 
A great novelty in the form of a Draining Machine was shown 
by the Victoria Foundry Company, of Newark-on-Trent. This 
was manufactured by Abbot and Co., under Robson and Hard- 
man's patent. The nature of the invention will be understood 
by the illustration (Fig. 17, p. 619), which gives a side view 
of the apparatus. 
The motive-power is a wire rope from an ordinary ploughing- 
engine fixed on the headland. The drain is excavated by a 
series of revolving buckets cutting to the required depth and 
fall. These buckets are sharp-edged and very strong, as they 
have to act as scoops to remove as well as carry the soil. They 
are driven from the hind travelling-wheel by a series of toothed 
wheels. Under the machine is a pipe-conductor, by means of 
which the pipes are laid in the drain in front of the shoots, 
which deliver the soil cut out of the drain and brought up by the 
elevators, so as to cover up the pipes and fill the drain. This 
is very ingenious, and, provided the proper fall can be ensured, 
which has always been a great difficulty with draining-ploughs, 
this machine may prove of great value. The lower elevator, 
which takes out the bottom of the drain, deposits the material 
first, thus replacing the soil in the same relative position as it is 
removed. This is not always or usually desirable, and, if 
necessary, the process can be reversed. The frame is composed 
of strong iron plates, to which flange-pieces are riveted. The 
motion is necessarily very slow. This machine was not in a 
sufficiently perfect state to admit of a trial, a matter of regret, 
as nothing in the way of mechanical aid to suffering agriculture 
at this juncture can be conceived as more valuable than a 
really efficient labour and money-saving drainage tool. With- 
out a very exhaustive trial, it is impossible to pronounce any 
opinion upon its present or possible future utility. The price 
in the Catalogue is 390/. 
Messrs. Hornshy and So7is, Limited, showed a novel Turnip- 
cutter, which actually cuts the last slice, and avoids a certain 
waste which has occurred hitherto, owing to the last portion 
passing into the basket — a large piece, all, or nearly all, rind, 
and which is in consequence refused by the sheep and wasted. 
The illustration (Fig. 18) will explain the novelty, viz. the 
addition of a perforated guard or shield, A, fixed underneath the 
barrel, so that any piece that may escape uncut from the front 
cutting-plate is prevented from falling into the basket with the 
