450 
Implement Show at Leicester. 
more thoroughly worked ; or at least a man will be able to 
choose between these two alternatives. 
The changes which have been made in the organisation of the 
implement department worked extremely well. The work was 
better apportioned, and the addition to the number of the judges 
M'as a manifest advantage. There was, however, a slight mistake 
in the miscellaneous department, which in future years may be 
easily avoided. 
I cannot allow this opportunity to pass without adding my 
testimony to the indefatigable way in which the judges each day 
carried on their work. The circumstances were very arduous 
and trying. The heat was such as is seldom known in England, 
and the number of implements exhibited, as well as the close- 
ness of the competition, such as has never been known at any of 
the Royal Society's shows. 
Some of the judges, in order to get their work finished, were 
compelled to carry on their investigations by night as well a s 
day, and their awards gave general and complete satisfaction. 
I am sure we owe them our best thanks. 
For my own part, too, I should not like to close these remarks 
without expressing the deep obligations I am under to my fellow 
stewards for their very energetic, able, and efficient assistance all 
through the show. In retiring from a place in the administration 
of the implement department, 1 have the satisfaction to know 
that it is left in thoroughly competent hands. 
Holme Pierrepont. 
B,eport of the Judges on Horse Ploughs, dx. 
The prizes offered by the Eoyal Agricultural Society in this department 
were as follows, viz. : — 
£. 
For the Class of Wheel Ploughs 30 
„ „ Smng Ploughs 20 
„ „ Subsoil Ploughs 10 
„ „ Paring Ploughs 10 
After meeting the Stewards and receiving instructions, we resolved that, 
as had formerly, and very properly, been done, a subdivision of the Class of 
Wheel Ploughs should be an-anged ; and we decided that the Wheel Ploughs 
should be divided into three Classes, viz. General Purpose Ploughs, Light 
Land Ploughs, and Deep Land Ploughs. We next visited the various Stands 
in the yard, and took down the numbers of the implements considered suitable 
for trial, and selected sixty-one implements variously constructed, some of 
which were soon on their way to the field for competition. Of three fields 
shown by the Stewards we selected two, which we considered most suitable 
for the effectually carrying out, as far as possible, a perfect test of the 
implements. 
