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plough. — or, better still, the steam-drawn cultivator — a passing’ 
glimpse of the contents of this matter-of-fact section cannot 
fail to afford satisfaction. 
About 140 manufacturers of agricultural implements have 
taken advantage of the opportunities here afforded to them 
for the display of their goods. All the principal firms are 
represented, some by a few main articles, others by a complete 
exhibition of everything’ made in then’ workshops. Here we 
perceive barrows, boilers, and bone-mills ; carts, chaff-cutters, 
and churns ; fire-engines, flower-stands, and forks ; garden- 
tools, grinding-mills, and grubbers ; haymakers, horse-rakes, 
and hurdles ; mangers, mangles, and millstones ; pails, ploughs, 
and pumps ; rakes, reaping-machines, and rollers ; scythes, 
spades, and steam-engines; thrashing-machines, tree-guards, 
and turnip-cutters ; waggons, washing-machines, and water- 
carts ; indeed, more than can be well enumerated. 
But it is not our intention to follow this alliterative category. 
Were we to attempt it, there would be no great difficulty in show- 
ing that Progress is as well represented in the Eastern Annexe 
as in other departments of this World’s Fair. A walk through 
this section will convince the visitor that its contents are not ex- 
celled elsewhere either in contrivance or workmanship, and those 
who remember the Agricultural Implements in 1851 will perceive 
surprising advances in several directions. Interest, for such 
reasons, may gather around the thrashing-machines, reaping- 
machines, the machines used in the preparation of food, engines, 
and the like, but it fairly culminates in the Steam Plough. It 
is doubtful whether any other section of the Exhibition can 
point to such an achievement as this. In 1851 there was no 
steam plough ; there were drawings of impossible machines 
bearing that name in the Patent-office, and in 1855 scarcely a 
furrow in the country had been turned by this mechanical 
surprise ; but now what crops of wheat and mangolds are send- 
ing down their roots and luxuriating in the deep steam-stirred 
subsoil ! And all this accomplished in seven years ! Think for 
a moment of the indomitable perseverance of the Bucking- 
hamshire tenant-farmer Smith ; of the courageous and inventive 
Fowler; of the sanguine Canadian Romaine ; of Boydell, and 
Usher, and Williams, and the brothers Howard; of patents 
obtained and abandoned ; of trials innumerable, public and 
private, and we have here such a story as the previous forty 
years could not tell, granting always that the progress of 
that period had much to do with the development of this. 
In 1851 our progressive farmers were only beginning to think 
of the advantages of autumn fallowing , of the clearing of land 
during August and September, of its preparation for the 
early sowing of the root-crop, and had just discovered how 
