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Report on the Exhibition of Implements, ^-c. 
motion to take place between each pair, and among the whole 
series of rings or discs. 
Mr. Crosskill's square-axle toothed roller first made its ap- 
pearance in the Society's show-yard at Cambridge in 1840 — the 
round-axled patented machine at Derby in 1843 — a premium of 
20/. was awarded for it by the judges at Southampton in 1844 — 
and it gained the Society's prize of lOZ. at Shrewsbury in 1845, 
having on all occasions of trial at the Society's shows greatly 
excelled the peiformance of every other roller brought into com- 
petition with it. Journal, vol. iv. p. 560, contains a large col- 
lection of instances of its utility in arresting the ravages of the 
wire-worm — an effect owing probably to the forcible bite of the 
teeth on the ground — in the pulverization of stiff, and compres- 
sion of light soils, together with the opinions of numerous agri- 
culturists upon its value as a roller of various crops in a state of 
young growth. Its application to the latter purpose has greatly 
extended since that period, and the writer may bear his testimony 
to the success attending its employment on pasture land in de- 
stroying the white slug, curing mossyness, and especially in con- 
solidating soft grass-land after drainage. For these latter uses 
the effect of the implement is greatly enhanced by weighting it 
to the full extent of the power of the team which can be com- 
manded. 
Judges. 
William Hesseltine, Worlaby House, Barton, Lincolnsliire. 
Thomas P. Oiithwaite, Baiiiessee, Catterick, Yorkshire. 
Henry Higgins, Brinsop Court, Hereford. 
Bryan Millington, Asgarby, Sleaford, Lincolnshire. 
•John Oakley, Uarlund, Chatham, Kent. 
Nathaniel Blake, Stanton Harcourt, near Enshnm, Oxon. 
JOSIAH PaRKES. 
N.B. The readers of the Joui nal are informed that tlie names and full 
addresses of the successful exhibitors of implements are always given in 
the List of Awards embodied in the Report, which the writer states to 
save himself endless and vexatious inquiry. — J. P. 
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