at  the  Exeter  Meeting,  1850. 
453 
Abiding  by  this  wise  decision  of  the  Council,  the  writer  will 
confine  his  observations  to  those  trials  which  he  attended  to  in 
his  own  department  in  the  trial  yard,  as  it  is  quite  impossible  for 
any  steward,  while  attending  closely  to  the  duties  which  devolve 
upon  him  in  his  own  department,  to  report  (of  his  own  knowledge) 
as  to  the  merit  or  demerit  of  any  implement  on  trial  in  another 
place. 
Mr.  Thompson,  in  his  very  able  reports  on  the  Exhibition  and 
Trial  of  Implements  both  at  York  and  Norwich,  has  so  fully 
gone  into  every  subject  connected  not  only  with  the  objects  of 
the  Society  in  promoting  these  trials,  but  has  so  well  shown  the 
gradual  advancement  in  each  succeeding  year,  both  before  and 
from  the  period,  that  Mr.  Miles,  as  Senior  Steward  of  Implements 
at  Northampton,  gave  directions  to  the  judges  to  bear  in  mind 
certain  rules  for  more  accurately  testing  steam-engines,  threshing- 
machines,  and  other  crank  implements  quite  up  to  the  more  per- 
fect and  satisfactory  tests  as  exhibited  at  York  and  Norwich,  that 
it  would  be  extending  this  report  to  an  unnecessary  length  to 
repeat  any  of  those  observations  so  carefully  and  judiciously  drawn 
up  in  the  reports  alluded  to,  further  than  by  recording  the  writer’s 
full  concurrence  in  them,  and  by  referring  the  readers  of  this 
report  to  those  of  York  and  Norwich  for  all  those  particulars 
which  the  experience  of  another  year  (with  very  few  exceptions) 
substantially  confirms. 
The  following  Report  of  the  Judges  of  the  Field  Implements  was 
forwarded  to  the  Senior  Steward  by  the  Honourable  Dudley 
Pelham , who  acted  as  Steicard  of  the  Field  Department : — 
Report  on  the  Exhibition  of  Field  Implements. 
The  land  was  altogether  in  very  good  condition,  and  much 
better  adapted  for  the  trial  of  Field  Implements  than  is  usually  the 
case  at  the  season  in  which  the  Society’s  Exhibition  takes  place. 
Plough  best  adapted  for  general  purposes. — Of  this  class  a great 
variety  were  exhibited,  and  the  judges  selected  a good  many  in 
order  to  allow  a fair  test  of  the  different  shaped,  as  well  as  dif- 
ferent sized  mould  boards ; the  land  on  which  they  were  tried 
wras  of  a sandy  loam,  yet  a little  brittle  from  want  of  rain.  A 
furrow  of  5 inches  was  first  ordered  to  be  turned,  going  six  times 
up  and  down  the  field  ; afterwards  at  the  depth  of  7 inches  ; and 
in  the  event  of  the  work  being  shallower  than  that,  the  plough  to 
be  disqualified  or  passed  unnoticed,  those  two  depths  being  con- 
sidered to  include  “general  purposes.”  The  “ Criterion  plough,” 
invented  by  the  exhibitor,  Mr.  Ball  of  Kettering,  cut  out  the 
furrow  slice  in  an  admirable  manner,  and  turned  it  properly, 
i.  e.  in  leaving  it  at  an  angle  nearly  approaching  45  degrees, 
which  is  important,  inasmuch  as  in  that  position  the  soil  is  better 
