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XLIII. — Beport on the Exhibition of Implevients at the Newcastle- 
upon-Tyne Mectinff, 1846. By Josiah ParkkSj Consulting 
Engineer to the Society. 
Thk show at Newcastle-upon-Tyne constituted the eighth anni- 
versary of the Society's country meetings ; and although it is true 
that so large a number of implements was not exhibited as on 
one or two former occasions, yet applications were made for 
seventeen more stands than at Shrewsbury, and more exhibitors 
appeared. The show-yard did not perhaps contain so many im- 
plements as at Shrewsbury ; but this was, doubtless, attributable 
in part to the great distance of the exhibition from those districts 
of England where the implement-makers chiefly reside, and was 
partly owing to the repeated expression of the judges' opinion that 
exhibitors would act rriore wisely in restricting the number of 
their specimens to a fair measure of variety in respect of manu- 
facture and cost, rather than in augmenting their expenses, and 
encumbering the show-yard with re])etitions of identical articles. 
A marked improvement was visible in the adaptation of several 
important implements to their uses, as will appear from the ob- 
servations of the judges. 
Prizes offered by the Society. 
For the Plough best adapted to heavy land . . Ten Sovereigns. 
For the Plough best adapted to light land . . Ten Sovereigns. 
For the best Skim or Paring Plough .... Five Sovereigns. 
For the best Subsoil Pulverizer Ten Sovereigns. 
For the best Scarifier ....... Ten Sovereigns. 
For the best Harrow Five Sovereigns. 
Fifteen Sovereigns. 
For the best Drill for general purposes, which 
shall possess the most approved method of 
distributing Compost or other Manures in a 
moist or dry state, quantity being especially 
considered 
N.B. — Other qualities being equal, the preference will be given to 
the Drill which may be best adapted to cover the manure with soil 
before the seed is deposited. 
For the best Turnip Drill on the flat, which shall! 
possess the most approved method of Distri-| 
baling Compost or other manures in a moist orS Ten Sovereigns, 
dry state, quantity being especially consi- 
dered 
