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Implement Shoio at Leicester. 
We venture to make the following remarks on some of tlie articles to 
■which we awarded Medals, viz. : — 
(222). The Patent Turntable is a great improvement to heavy rollers^ 
because all strain is taken from tlie horse in turning on the headlands, and 
the wheat or barley or any seed sown is nowhere likely to be twisted up. 
(244). The Hay-stacking Machine, also applicable for stacking straw (when 
threshing with steam), is an excellent invention. For hay-stacking it enables 
the farmer to carry bis stacks to a great height, and the raising the elevation 
gives room for a horse to work under it. By carrying up a stack to this great 
height, both straw and labour are saved in thatching, and the more pressure 
hay receives the better its quality, if ]iroperly put together. 
(394). The Diamond Millstone Dresser is very clever, and where a regular 
stone-dresser cannot be had nuist be of service. 
(3548). Patent Tube-Well and Pump. On this we say but little; it 
answered perfectly, and was highly appreciated by every individual who 
saw it. 
(3569). Screw Ventilators — recommended for the cure of down draught in 
chimneys, and also for ventilating stables and warehouses — ought to be 
effective. 
(5471). The Revolving Liquid Manure and Drop Drill, exhibited by Messrs. 
Clayton and Shuttleworth, is very clever and simple, and must, we think, 
answer well. We wished for a trial but were prevented by the shortness of 
our time, as well as owing to the fact of the article being shown out of its 
right year. Thanks to triennial trials ! 
(5742). The " easy going " Stone Breaker speaks for itself. 
(1289). The Patent Steam Boiler of Messrs. Howard is well worthy of the 
attention of engineers and others who use fixed engines. 
The articles " Commended " were considered well worthy of being noticed, 
and we recommend them to the attention of agriculturists. 
Taking a retrospective view of the Showyard, we call to mind several stands 
well worthy of notice in addition to those we have dotted down. And first 
wc must remark on the two sheds occupied solely by the goods of Messrs. 
Hunt and Pickering, of Leicester, and numbering 403 articles, amongst them 
being a set of Draining Tools, for which we awarded the Silver Medal. We 
know not of such an effort having been before made to meet the Society in 
any town which they have visited, and hope that Messrs. Hunt and Pickering's 
example may be followed at many future meetings. 
The Special Steam Pump of Messrs. Tangye Brothers and Holman (5537) 
appears well adapted for the purposes named in the Catalogue, being remark- 
able for strength and simplicity ; but as we had not time properly to inspect 
it, we refer our readers to the Judges' Report of last year. 
The Oil Tester of Messrs. Norton (3587) seems really to test the lubricating 
properties of oil most satisfactorilj'. 
After rushing past about forty-five sets of ploughs and harrows in Stand 
174 (Messrs. Ransome and Sims), which articles had been under the inspec- 
tion of competent men in the " baked " uj) fields, we found " The Star " Hay- 
maker, a newly-improved implement (why so called, having first arisen in the 
"West," we know not), and we recommend it to the notice of farmers at the 
next trials of such machines. We, of course, could not undertake to try it; 
but if it be really a good thing, as it appears to be, whether the makers or the 
farmers are the greater losers we leave to others to decide. While, however, 
upon the subject of hay-makers, we may mention that among the horse-rakes we 
had many improvements pointed out, especially one by Mr. R. Boby (324), for 
a new Patent Semi-self-acting Horse-Rake ; but how it will act in practice we 
