524 Miscellaneous Implements Exhibited at Wancich. 
has been made since the last Meeting, what new thing there is 
that science has to show them, and to judge how far they can 
utilise it, and associate it with practice at home. 
Many of the best known large manufacturing firms are so 
fully occupied in producing the machinery and implements for 
which they are specially noted, that it is not to be wondered at 
if they do not devote very much of their time to producing 
novelties or new implements. There are, however, other equally 
well-known exhibitors, who are always eager to follow the signs 
of the times, and to take up anything that shows a prospect of 
future development. 
Some implements would seem to be so effective and complete 
as not to require improvement ; others, again, though effective, 
seem capable of much simplification, and there are some (of 
which we meet with a stray exhibit or two at every Show) 
which (although they would be of great use and benefit to 
agriculturists) are not yet practically enough developed. As 
each year comes round, it brings forth new designs, new ideas, 
and new requirements, and thus inventors have always before 
them a wide range for the. exercise of their time and ingenuity. 
It is to encourage progress in this direction that the Eoyal 
Agricultural Society offers Silver Medals to “ new implements 
for agricultural or estate purposes, or to new improvements in 
such implements,” and we have only to look back through the 
volumes of the Journal to see how successful this system has been 
in stimulating inventors and exhibitors. 
Take the recent case of the Oil engines. At Nottingham, in 
1888, Messrs. Priestman Brothers were awarded a Silver ]\Iedal 
for a horizontal petroleum engine, and at the Jubilee Show at 
Windsor the following year, the Judges emphatically showed their 
approbation by again awarding a Silver Medal to the same firm 
for their portable oil engine. 
It must be a subject of congratulation to the Society, which 
has thus fi’om the first recognised the special advantages the oil 
engine may offer to agriculturists, and the possible future before 
it, to find that the encouragement given has resulted in bringing 
out the splendid collection of oil engines which was to be seen 
at Warwick — certainly one of the special features of the Show, 
and reflecting the greatest credit upon the manufacturers. In 
the case of the “ Hay-Kickers ” also, the award of a Silver IMedal 
at Windsor stimulated makers so much that an increased number 
were exhibited at Warwick, six of them under the head of “ new 
implements.” The Judges (Mr. Thomas II. Thursfield, Barrow, 
Broseley, Salop ; and Mr. Robert Wallace, Auchenbrain, by 
Mauchline, N.B.) felt some difficulty in dealing with these two 
