6'J2 Report on the Exhibition of Implements 
As i eo:ards turnip-hoes, the judges still consider that produced 
by Mr. Harkes, of Mere, Cheshire, rewarded both at Southampton 
and Shrewsbury, to be the best implement of the kind. 
Horse Works. — The prize offered for engines of this ^der was 
not adjudged, as, although many excellent articles were in the 
show-yard, no one of them presented sufficient superiority to 
merit exclusive reward. 
Steam- Engine. — The above remarks apply also to the steam- 
engine, Mr. Cambridge having produced the only one, and this 
had previously received a prize. 
Draining- Tools. — The show-yard was deficient of any articles 
worthy of notice on this head, and the Society's prize was re- 
served. 
Drain- Tile or Pipe-3Iachines. — The council would consider it 
out of place for the writer to give his own opinions on the several 
ingenious machines for the important purpose of manufacturing 
drain-tiles and pipes, &c., unassisted bv any record or communi' 
cation of the trials made to him by the judges of that department. 
He can, therefore, only express his entire agreement in the be- 
stowal of the prize of 20^. on Mr. Scragg, of Calvelcv, near Tar- 
porley, Cheshire, whose machine also took the prize at Shrews- 
burv, in the report of which meeting an account of it appeared. 
It was considerably improved at N ewcastle, and so were several 
of the competing machines ; but no one of them, certainly, would 
be found equal in practical use to Mr. Scragg's. 
Mr. Garrett received a judges' award of 5/. for a machine in- 
vented by Mr. Weller, of Capel, Surrey, which possesses some good 
properties, and is capable of turning out some very large objects. 
The following additional inl'ormation (m the history of the 
employment of small drain-pipes may not prove uninteresting. 
The writer had heard from one of his workmen — an old Lincoln- 
shire drainer — that in his voulh his father had laid pip^s in Sir 
Thomas Whichcote's grounds of Aswarby, near Sleaford. The 
story has been confirmed by Sir Thomas Whichcote, who ob- 
serves — " It is about 40 years since the pipe-tiles were laid in the 
park here, and up to the present time the drains act well. I am 
not aware of any of them having stopped or given way, although 
the land is very flat, and in many places the fall not good. The 
pipes were made by hand, and tapering, so that one end entered 
the other, having a clear water-course of two inches in diameter 
at the small end." 
The epoch of the application of pipes to land drainage in 
Lincolnshire would seem, therefore, to have been nearly con- 
current with lliat by Mr. John Read, at I lorsomonden, in Kent. 
Mr. Robert llervey, of Epping, states, that he patented a ma- 
chine in 1817 for making pipes by vertical pressure, " and in 
