nt the JVeiccastle-upon- Ti/ne Meeting, 184G. 691 
Hay-Roj^e MacJivie. — A very simple and effective machine for 
twisting hay-bands was produced by a poor working Welshman, 
Edward Pierce, of Llanassa, near Holywell, which did its work 
scientifically well, and was rewarded by a judges' premium of 2^ 
Price 5^ 
Whipple Trees. — The silver medal was accorded to Mr. Hard- 
ing, of Oldsprings, near Market Drayton, for his admirably simple, 
cheap, and strong dragging bars. These are articles which every 
farmer should possess. 
Weighing Machines, — The Society's prize of lOZ. was adjudged 
again to Mr. James, of 44, Fish Street Hill, London. It is pos- 
sible that the amount of portability which could be desired may 
be unattainable in machines of this kind, combined with the neces- 
sary accuracy, and to suit stock-weighing, carts, &c. &c. ; yet Mr. 
James well merits the decision of the judges, his machines being 
both in principle and practice accurately honest, and now adapted 
to a variety of farm uses. 
Chaff- Cutters. — The prize for this universally necessary ma- 
chine was again carried off by Mr. Cornes, and for the reasons 
given in the Report of the Shrewsbury Meeting; but the writer 
has received no account from the judges of the quantities cut in a 
given time, nor of the performance and relative properties of the 
competing engines. 
Linseed Crushers. — 
Steaming Apparatus. — 
Churns. — 
Threshing Machines. — 
Winnowing Mach incs. — 
Root Washers. — 
Steel Flour Mills.— 
One-Horse Carts. — 
Wheels and Axles. — The writer can give no further account of 
the perfection of the above enumerated implements than that in 
the opinion of the judges thereof they merited the prizes and awards 
accorded to them as the best of their kind in the show-yard ; nor 
is he able to state the extent and nature of the trial or competition 
to which they were subjected, the judges not having favoured him 
with any sufficient remarks on the subject, and he having taken no 
cognizance of the trials or results. He must direct attention to 
the foresroing list for the names of the exhibitors rewarded. 
Horse Hoes. — The judges of the field implements speak in the 
highest terms of the utility and safe action of Mr. Garrett's often- 
rewarded implement of this kind for general purposes, consider- 
ing that, with the steerage and management now adapted to it, 
and described in former reports, any fairly-skilled workman may 
be intrusted with it. 
