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The trial fields presented far more room for consideration and 
argument, for here we came in contact with a great and influential 
society, which has’acted differently to the Royal Society of England, 
inasmuch as no prizes have ever been competed for under its 
auspices, although public trials have continually been made. These 
trials on this occasion took place at Testwood, about five miles from 
the showyard, and the machines which were this year publicly 
worked were reapers and mowers. But we cannot discuss the 
merits and demerits of those public trials on this occasion. They 
are, in our opinion, too important to gloss over without due consi- 
sideration, or to attempt to cram noticeable points into the space at 
our disposal. We may say, however, that nine firms sent one or 
more reapers and mowers or combined machines for doing both 
operations. These were Messrs. Howard, the Beverley Company, 
Mr. Walter Wood, Messrs. Samuelson, Messrs. Picksley and Sims, 
Mr. Kearsley, of Ripon; Messrs. Foster and Sons, and Mr. Page. 
Mr. Bamlett, of Thirsk, was shut out, from his inadvertently making 
an informal entry. 
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The work which most of the machines did was certainly of a most 
excellent character, according to what was required to be done by 
each individual machine. But it is on the general management and 
result of these trials that we may have a few words to say, for the 
makers are quite capable of taking care of themselves if they have 
given them a fair, open, and clear field and no favour. 
Messrs. Howard also worked a steam-plough and digger with one 
of their cross-boiler 12-horse traction engines, and they did 
some most excellent work, although this was pursuing a public 
exhibition under the greatest difficulties that we ever saw en¬ 
countered. 
Messrs. Tasker and Son had their excellent windlass at work in 
the roundabout system. The implement they worked was one of 
Messrs. Fowler and Co.’s four-furrow balance-ploughs. But the 
work done was not satisfactory at the ends, although it was fairly 
turned after the plough got to the work. 
Pirie’s remarkable three-wheeled double-furrow plough was 
also at work with three horses, and as good work was done with 
it at about six inches deep, with three horses, as any one need see.— 
Gardener’s Chronicle. 
LIVERPOOL VETERINARY MEDICAL 
ASSOCIATION. 
The twentieth quarterly meeting of the above Association was held 
at the Medical Institution, Hope Street, Liverpool, on the 14th of 
May, the President, Thomas Greaves, Esq., in the Chair. 
Present—Messrs. Heyes, Morgan, Wilson, Leather, Ackroyd 
and Davis, Liverpool; P. Taylor, W. H. Taylor, Nottage, Man- 
