Trials of Implements at Carlisle. 
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visitors ; but how far the change may affect the general public 
and the Society's finances, experience must determine. 
There was a large show of milling appliances, some of which 
seemed to point to a growing tendency to replace the old mill- 
stones by rollers of various sorts, which is reported to be done 
to a large extent in Hungary, where the best and finest Hour 
is made. 
There were many improvements in sheaf-binders. Several 
looked most promising ; and if each year they improve as fast as 
they have done in the last two years, it will not be long before 
English farmers will find themselves supplied with machines 
well suited to their wants ; but in the face of the recommendation 
of the Judges, that there should be next year a trial of sheaf- 
binders using any other system than wire, I will pass by these 
machines, which no doubt will then appear in a still more 
perfect shape. 
Six Silver Medals were awarded at Carlisle to exhibits which 
I will describe according to their Catalogue numbers. 
No, 290. G. W. Murray and Co., Banff Foundry, Banff— a. 
Silver Medal for their Two-row Potato-planter, price 18Z. 10^., 
Fig. 1. — Section of 3Icssrs. Miirrai) and Co.'s Potato-planter. 
which when tested by the Judges on the grass in the Yard, gave 
every satisfaction ; the potatoes were deposited at perfectly 
equal distances, and in a length of 56 yards there was only one 
miss in each row, which probably would not have happened 
