at, and had the attendance of visitors been anything like equal to some former anniversaries, the arrangements for conveying them must have broken down. People who would attempt to feed a great meeting by single lines of railway should have been on the Heybridge and Wells branch on Thursday, where the trains were between three and four hours running under twenty miles, and with every possible requirement utterly unequal to the occasion. It was from the first a nice question with the Council whether they dare go to Wells, and the result of the week will tend considerably to tell against the policy of such a selection.

However, to get there you have to pass through some of the fine fat lands of Somerset-grazing grounds that will sell at a hundred pounds the acre, and let here and there at five or six pounds per annum. It is on these rich pastures that the sweet succulent North Devon expands and developes, until he comes to take a new title as "the Somerset Devon," and at Wells the Somersets were of course quite at home. Still their great supporter in these parts, Mr. Farthing, of Stowey, led off with one of the old original sort, Perfection, a commended ball only at Truro, and the best at Leeds; since when Mr. Farthing has purchased him of his breeder, Mr. Bodley. As already stated, there was only one entry against him, and in the next division the Stowey herd entered two against one other. The picked beast of the meeting, however, was in this trio, and he is now, alas! at two off, coming to rank more as a butcher's beast than anything else. This was the young Devon bull, Viscount, that made such a sensation at Truro and Leeds last year; since when he has been terribly overdone. He spent the greater part of his time at Wells on his side, but improved considerably when you could get him up; and will no doubt, despite this injudicious forcing, make his mark at Battersea. Mr. J. A. Smith's prize cow was a very sweet type of the sort, and his heifer in the next class, also bred by Lord Portman, quite as worthy of notice, though the judges passed her by in favour of others with nothing like her appearance or quality, and perhaps with not sufficient consideration for the calf at her side. The four younger beifers were all bred by Mr. Farthing, who would seem to have let a good customer like Mr. Perkins have the best of them, although common opinion was not all one way on this matter. Altogether, the show of Devons was not only short, but it was wanting, with an exception or so, in those fine thoroughbred characteristics that, with all our battle for useful points, we must still have to go on with.

generally commended. So even, indeed, were the twoyear-olds, that by some accident one of the worst of them was thought to have been placed first. This was a vulgar, leggy, flashy coloured heifer of Mr. Holland's, with really so little of the true type about her, that, without seeing them" out," the preference was inexplicable. Mr. Stratton's pretty Aurora, if hardly so forward as she should be, Mr. Hewer's neat, level one, or either of the Badminton brace, might have well changed places with their premier; but in the older lot the superiority of Mr. Lane's heifer was liable to no such discussion. With a good head and placid expression, a fine bosom and level line, she is only pinned in a bit behind; and even then, if we did go for choice, it would be the white bull or the white heifer for higher honours hereafter-not, though, that either have quite "form" enough for better company. Mr. Hewer had a thick, fleshy, very useful heifer in this class, again second to Allspice, as when they were running in pairs at Truro. The Judges not merely commended these two heifer classes generally, but also individually nearly everything shown; so that the prize list will speak for the entries.

Next to the Devon the district chiefly affects the Shorthorn, of which, however, the exhibition was by no means imposing. Mr. Stratton was not in his usual force, although the white bull Victor Emmanuel, still preserving his nice symmetrical proportions, was again the first of his own immediate order, and with higher aspirations up the line. The first prize in the older class was not so attractive an animal. Short in the hair, only middling in quality, and of a bad colour, there was little in either his make or shape to compensate for his other deficiencies. His son, however, the winner in the youngest class, said more for the sire-or dam -being of a far better quality, and with more style about him. Mr. Hewer played second fiddle to both Mr. Abbott's entries, but the Sevenhampton bulls are getting bad in that greatest of all points-their heads; and there was one, of true Booth descent be it whispered, with about the plainest frontispiece we ever remember to have encountered. There was neither the character of the male animal nor the Durham about it. The ladies were much better, though there was but one shorthorn cow-a very handsome blood-like one, of Mr. Kitching's-but with the two Classes of Heifers both

Curiously enough, if the least fancied in these parts, the Herefords made up the most even section of the meeting. It was, in fact, the only one in which there was any advance upon what there has been, and this without any great help from the Hereford breeders themselves. Prominent amongst those from a distance who did support the Society was Mr. Perry, who of course won with his Chelmsford, exhibited in capital condition, and making the most of his many fine points. Then Mr. Taylor had a good massive bull in the aged lot, and a remarkably clever two-year-old that beat quite a strong class, taken either for numbers or merits. Indeed, he was run very close by another neat one of Mr. Duckham's, so level and true, that to take them as they stood in the stall, it was an ever-recurring question as to which was the better? The same kind of discussion was going on over the prize cows, where the Leeds heroine, Laura, succumbed to a Dorset-bred one; both being very favourable specimens of their kind. Mr. Coate's cow was far superior before, but patchy and vulgar over her quarter; while the Welsh one had quite a well in her back, that of course counted against her. On the whole, the Judges' selection had the most points, being altogether the richer of the two. Mr. Loader's first-prize aged bull was also bred by one of the Dorsetshire Coates, but he was a plainish animal at best, and did not find so much favour as many of the younger bulls; while with the heifers, on the contrary, there was no competition beyond the simple choice for first or second.

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Our report must be read in some degree as going against authority, for at the dinner Mr. Spooner, who answered for THE JUDGES, gave a more than usually glowing description of the meeting. He went regularly through the different sections, where nearly everything was superlatively excellent, until he came to a climax in his own especial province over the entry of horses. But here his audience could scarcely refrain from smiling, indifferent as the West of England horse shows generally are, that at Wells was certainly no advance on the " has been." The two selected cart mares were large-framed and active to look at, and Mr. Jacob won with a promising two-year-old Clydesdale colt, and Mr. Cozens with a yet better filly by the same horse. The best hunter mare showed a deal of character, and would seem to have been well christened-USEFUL; but how the judges came to go on with their commendations is perhaps best known to themselves. four-year-old hunting filly by Rector was very handsome and flashy, and got up in famous flat-catching condition; while Mr. Hewer's second prize two-year

Mr. Kitching's

old by Loyola struck us as being the best "nag" of the lot. With a rare back and loin, good legs, a sensible but not handsome head, and showing a deal of blood, he should promise to grow on. A hundred was refused for him, and in a year or so, with luck, he must be worth five or six times as much as the hairy-heeled under-bred animal placed over him. A horse more after Mr. Spooner's own heart was Mr. Pennington's threeyear-old. A dark brown in colour, with great substance and immense bone, he has light corky action; and perhaps for a heavy weight over a country, or more "perhaps" as a very fine harness horse, the brown, who was the lion of his lot, must make money. Fortunately he is castrated, or, no doubt, being half-bred on both sides, we should have him going about the country "improving" our hacks and hunters. The pony class was a sheer failure, and Mr. Taylor, the new comer at Harptree, raised the spirits of Mr. Badham with a sight of a Suffolk or two. The yearling colt and filly class is to be divided hereafter, and a suggestion for offering premiums for stallions will probably be acted upon. It is a proposal which we ourselves made at one of these Meetings some years since, when it was met with the objection that at such a season there would be little promise of such a class filling. And this was a capital horse show! as it was a famous Shorthorn show! and if a small, a complete Devon show! In one respect we agree with Mr. Spooner, that the Herefords had "the cream of it"-if not perhaps the milk.

However, the Hereford men, like their friends in misfortune on the Cotswolds, have now only the great argument left them of continuing to make the best public shows they can, and so fairly shaming the powers that be into better treatment. The sheep-breeders hardly enforced this at Wells, where the long-wools were very thinly represented; though Mr. Garne headed them with a now famous old ram that he thinks of sending in all his native purity of appearance up to London. He had also a very good sheep amongst the yearlings, but Mr. Gillett's were more artistically got up, and the eye told more than the hand, not always quite a safe criterion with a show sheep. There were only three pens of Cotswold ewes; Mr. Beale Browne taking the second prize, but with not the same success amongst "the other long-wools, not qualified to compete as Leicesters or Cotswolds," where he also entered some animals. Is this a distinction without a difference? Or what is "another long-wool?" The Leicesters were far away behind the average of these meetings; the Somerset and Dorset horns, inferior even on their own ground to the stand they have made further a field, and "the other Downs" all entered as "Downs," by the bye-calling for little commendation. The Southdowns, as pure as Sir Robert Throckmorton can keep them, were the stronghold of the sheep classes; his two yearling rams showing a little more substance, with the ewes as beautiful as ever. Mr. Fooks and Mr. Harding have both Down flocks now of deserved repute, which was amply sustained at Wells; and Mr. Neville Grenville, the high-sheriff of Somerset, has also a rising name in this way, but some of his entries had terribly plain countenances. Mr. Taylor, too, is going into Southdowns, as well as Suffolk horses and Devon cattle; but Jonas Webb would scarcely have recognised his old friend "Young Salisbury," as they turned him out for inspection during last week.

The pig show was small, but remarkable for its almost general merit. In the large breeds the Berkshires were admirable, and they were all Berkshire; while black Essex and black Dorsets divided the honours of the other division, only one white pig catching the judges' eye. The authorities also pronounced the poultry show to be remarkably "even" in excellence; but the fair

damsels of the Cheddar did little for the cheeses, and quickly turned their backs on the half-filled tables, for the band of the Grenadiers, the gallery of the Fine Arts, the collection of curious plants, or the many mysteries of the machinery.

According to the report of the Council, there was a great increase of implement entries-at least over those made at Truro-while the shedding had also been extended. It struck us, however, that the show of machinery was not numerically a large one, and shedding now protects all sorts of things that have little or nothing to do with an agricultural meeting. Plainly, the direction is running riot over its collateral attractions, and the stewards of the several departments were very busy getting off tickets for a picture lottery, the prizes consisting chiefly of third or fourth rate performances that cannot do much in their influence for either arts or manufactures. The following list of exhibitors proper will tell how most of our leading firms were represented. But business, as usual, was terribly slack, and many of the Society's best friends are beginning to argue rather energetically that the interest of this department will never revive until the prize-sheet be re-issued. Some of "the trade,' however, were inclined to attribute their lack of custom to the small out-of-the-way place selected, and certainly on Tuesday, and even Wednesday, there was little more for them to do than mount the hill for another glance over the cathedral, and so on to the pleasant range of landscape where Glastonbury Pillar catches the eye as the point of sight. Of those who had this opportunity there were

FOWLER, from Cornhill, London.-Twelve horse power cultivating machine, steam cultivating windlass and tackle, to be worked by an ordinary portable engine; seventined balanced cultivator, and balance plough.

AVELING and PORTER, Rochester.-Ten horse power locomotive road engine, and double blast finishing machine, by Clayton and Shuttleworth.

RANSOMES and SIMS, Ipswich.-Five horse power portăble steam engine, portable combined double blast steam thrashing machine, universal mill, trussed and solid beam iron ploughs double mould board, and one way ploughs, trussed whippletrees, horse hoe, horse rakes, rotary corn screen, oat and bean mills, cake breaker, chaff and root cutters, for hand and horse; horse gear and lawn

mower.

CAMBRIDGE, Bristol,-Seven and five horse power portable steam engines, portable combined thrashing and winnowing machines, ten horse power double cylinder steam engine, steam windlass and set of tackle, for steam cultivation (Smith's), winnowing machines, double action press wheel rollers, and clod crushers, jointed self-expanding chain and four beam tine harrows, improved lever horse rake, and combined reaping and mowing machine (Wood's).

GIBBONS, Wantage.-Six horse power portable steam engine, combined double blower thrashing machine, and combined horse rake and seed distributor (new implement). This implement is intended to sow grass and turnip seeds, and to harrow them in at one operation. The distributor can be detached, leaving the rake for general purposes.

TUXFORD and Sons, Boston. Eight horse power double cylinder portable steam engine, iron-hensed and patent combined thrashing, straw shaking, riddling, winnowing, and barley horning machine, with Boby's patent screen, for finishing corn for market.

ASHBY and Co., Stamford.-Patent combined thrashing machine, patent double action and reverse motion haymaking machines, patent steel tooth horse, and patent wheel hand rakes; chaff cutters, for horse and hand power; single and double action oil cake mills, patent rotating harrows, and four horse power portable steam enginc.

BARRETT, EXALL, and ANDREWES, Reading,-Three horse machines, and patent lever horse rakes. power portable steam engines, combined portable thrashing

nine tined lever scufflers, leverage horse rake, patent diagonal and jointed iron harrows, varieties of chaff cutters, tubular, iron, equalising, and other harrows.

ROBEY and Co., Lincoln.--Ten horse power double cylinder endless chain traction engine, and portable combined thrashing, shaking, and dressing machine.

GARRETT and SONS, Leiston.-Improved portable steam engines, newly invented finishing, thrashing, and corn dressing machines, West of England and Suffolk lever corn drills, for large or small occupations; seed and manure drills, broadcast manure distributor and patent horse hoe.

BROWS and MAY, Devizes.-Three-and-a-half and twoand-a-half horse power portable steam engines, improved cheese making apparatus, ten horse power portable double cylinder steam engine, improved windlass, and set of pulleys and anchors, for steam cultivating, and improved scarifier (Smith's), for steam power.

NALDER and NALDER, Wantage.-Eight horse power portable steam engine, and patent double blast finishing and thrashing machine.

CLAYTON and SHUTTLEWORTH, Lincoln.-Ten; eight, and five horse power outside double and single cylinder portable steam engines, combined portable treble and double blower, portable finishing and thrashing machines,

TASKER and SONS, Andover.-Eight horse power steam engine, portable double blast finishing machine, patent grain elevator, eleven coulter corn drill, winnowing machine, patent iron plough and lever horse rake, and model of patent steam windlass and cultivator.

MAGGS and HINDLEY, Bourton.-Two-and-a-half horse power portable steam engine and thrashing machine, patent thatch-weaving machine, patent block chain harrows, chaff cutters, improved iron ploughs, oilcake breaker, double and single screw lever and other cheese presses, and assortments of wrought iron cider screws and wheel boxes.

TURNER, E. and R., Ipswich.-Three horse power portable steam engine, combined thrashing, shaking, riddling, winnowing, and barley avelling machine, combined mill, combined mills for crushing or bruising oats, linseed, malt, and barley, cilcake breakers, one horse gear work, and intermediate motion for horse gear.

RICHMOND and CHANDLER, Salford.-Chaff cutting machines, corn crushing mills, one horse driving gear, steaming apparatus, sack holder, turnip cutting machine, and root washer.

BIGs, Dover Road, London.-Improved sheep dipping apparatus on wheels, the same with iron bar drainer, ditto with wooden drainer.

GLIDDON, Williton.-Registered open fire kitchen ranges, cottage ranges, and washing, wringing, and mangling machines. WIGHTMAN and DENING, Chard.-Hay machines, root grater, iron ploughs, horse hoe, horse gears, iron harrows and drage, double cheese presses, field roller, and horse rake. CORNES, Barbridge.-Registered chaff cutting machines, cheese making apparatus, curd mill, cheese press, and cheese stool.

HUGHES and SON, Dover Road, London.-French runner millstones, bedstones for grinding wheat or barley, dressing and patent vertical smut machines, metal prover, leather mill bands, and millwrights' tools, sets of iron blocks, and assortment of machine brushes.

MILFORD and SON, Thorverton.-Improved two horse waggons, one horse carts, and improved iron lifting jacks.

COLEMAN and SONS, Chelmsford.-Patent cultivators and scarifiers, in different sizes and degrees of strength. MARTYN, Taunton.—Kitchen ranges varying in size, and patent screw ventilator.

SMITH BROTHERS, Thrapstone.-Patent double action independent tined hay maker, and improved steel tooth horte nke.

PAGE and Co., Bedford.-Patent draining pipe, tile, and brick making machines, heavy land, general purpose, medium, light land, and one horse iron beam ploughs, wrought iron

EDDY, Kenford. Assortment of two wheel iron ploughs for heavy, medium, and light land work, pony, turn-wrest and double breast ploughs, wrought iron horse hoe and scarifiers, three and four beam iron drags, sets of improved iron and chain harrows, improved horse rake, turnip slicer, and compound lever cheese press.

TREE, Blackfriars Road, London.-Cattle gauges for computing carcass weights, draining levels, horse standard, agricultural weather glasses, and garden microscope.

DAY, Mark.-Double roller apple mill, and double and single cheese presses.

BURROW and PAGE, Morchard Bishop. Two-horse reaping and improved hay machines, also winnowing machine. NICHOLSON, Newark.-Patent double action haymaking machines, with and without reverse motion; tubular iron shafted horserakes, oilcake breaking and winnowing and corn dressing machines, registered sack raising barrow, and patent hand garden roller.

PARHAM, Bath.-Strained wire field and deer fencing, iron hurdles and field gates, iron entrance wicket and garden gates, portable smith's forge and wrought iron heating barrow, assortment of lawn mowing machines and iron rose guard. PEARSON and Co., Leeds.-Machines for washing, wringing, and mangling, and lockstitch sewing machines.

BOBY, Bury St. Edmunds.-Improved patent corn screens, patent corn dressing machines with and without patent screens, patent corn screen with blower, also patent double action haymaking machines with wood wheels.

ROWSELL and SONS, Buckland St. Mary.-Tubular iron American horserakes, oak and iron farm gates. RADCLIFFE, T. and F., Pendlebury.-A variety of chaff cutters for horse and hand power, and patent hop press. COLTHURST, SYMONS, and Co., Bridgwater. Patent

eaves and ridge tiles for farm buildings. WOODLAND, Bridgwater.-Double lever cheese press, copper mill trunk, cheese tub, milk warmer, and milk pan, and other dairy utensils.

SNELGROVE, Wells.-Patent chaff engines by Richmond and Chandler and Ransomes and Sims, hand roller mill, corn crusher, turnip cutter, oilcake breaker, root pulpers, cheese presses, weighing machines, ploughs, horserakes, and miscellaneous implements by other makers,

FRY, A. and T., Bristol.-Farm waggons, improved farm and other carts, grass seed and manure drills, chain harrows, patent iron American horserakes, sheep rack, winnowing machines, ploughs, and horsehoes.

TRUSTEES of W. CROSSKILL, Beverley.-Three-horse reaping machine (new implement), to work up and down or all round a crop, without having a path prepared for it, cuts a width of 8 feet 3 inches, and delivers the corn on either side, in a regular swathe, made to cut from 20 to 30 acres per day; one-horse farm, also light spring carts; patent wheels and axle, liquid manure distributor, liquid manure pump, and pair-horse waggon.

BAKER, Wisbech.-Combined blowing and dressing machines. MILFORD, Thorverton.-Improved two-horse waggon, ditto

carts.

COULTAS, Jas., Jun., Grantham.-Six feet 6 inches twelverow general purpose drill, improved fore carriage steerage, 7 feet 6 inches fourteen-row corn, seed, and root drill, and general purpose horsehoe.

BROWN BROTHERS, Lyme Regis.-Improved steaming and cooking apparatus, ditto cooking stoves and ranges, and improved syphon ventilator.

CRISP, Lincoln.-Coils of patent India rubber and canvas strapping, ditto belting; an assortment of leather driving strapping for machines, &c.; gutta percha tubing, India rubber and canvas suction and delivery hose, India rubber drill tubing, and a variety of other articles of a like kind.

BICKFORD, Exeter.-Patent irrigation gutter ploughs. BULLED, Witheridge.-Three, two, and one horse waggons; and Huxtable's double action haymaking machine. HELLARD, Taunton.-Self acting side delivery two horse reaping machine, do, with double frame.

HUXHAMS and BROWN, Exeter.-Steam engine, self cleaning barley and wheat screen, and French barr mill

stones.

EASTWOOD, Blackburn.-Compound action churns, and egg whisks.

CUTHBERT and Co., Bedale.-One and two horse reaping machines.

CARSON and TOONE, Warminster.-Wrought iron one and two wheel ploughs; wrought iron horse hoes; registered cross cut wheel rollers, iron cylinder field rollers; three share grubber and scarifier; improved Moody's patent turnip cutters; chaff cutting eugines for horse, steam, and hand power; safety horse gear; single and double cheese presses; patent jointed self expanding chain harrow; bean and oat crusher; oilcake mill; and wood and iron sack trucks.

RICHARDS, Wincanton.-Registered circular cooking stoves, with steam boilers.

WILKINS and SONS, Calne.-Patent cheese making apparatus, and other articles for dairy use; galvanized wire netting, and iron roofing.

GRENVILLE, Butleigh.-Common light field gate. LOVELL, Glastonbury.-Haymaking machine; horse rake, and apple mill.

WALLIS and HASLAM, Basingstoke.-Two horse power portable thrashing machine; corn dressing, winnowing, and blowing machines; four and three beam patent harrows and whippletrees; iron drags and chain harrows; one and two wheel iron ploughs.

BURGESS and KEY, London.-Independent reaping and mowing machines, combined do., and mincers.

SUMMERSCALES and SON, Keighley.-Washing, wringing, and mangling machines, and chaff cutters.

FUSSELL, SON, and Co., Frome.-Grass scythes; hay and chaff knives; hewing, bagging, reaper, bushing, and bean hooks, and self adjusting scythe handles.

DODGE, Dowgate Hill, London.-Endless vulcanised India rubber driving bands, of various widths; India rubber garden and other hose; do. waterproof covers, and other India rubber articles used for agricultural purposes.

HOWARD, J. and F., Bedford.-Patent apparatus for cultivating land by steam; a collection of patent iron ploughs, suited to all kinds of field work; potato raising plough; three and four beam patent jointed, patent handled, also patent iron drag harrows; tubular iron whippletrees; expanding horse hoes; seven tíned Bedfordshire scarifier; improved dynamometer; patent haymaking machines and horse rakes.

CLAY, Wakefield.-Patent cultivator for horse and steam power, and patent horse hoe.

REEVES, R. and J., Bratton.-Six and four row patent liquid manure drills; manure distributors in rows or broadcast; Economical Wiltshire manure and seed drills; small occupation corn drill; two and one wheel ploughs; tubular iron whippletrees; patent thistle destroyers (new implement); and patent combined horse hoe and manure drill (new implement) the former is used as a common weeding paddle, which at the same time it is forced into the ground to cut off the weed, discharges a portion of salt on the bleeding root, and effectually destroys it; the latter as an ordinary horse hoe combined with a manure drill, and is constructed to deposit a small portion of manure and hoe the plant at one operation, thus stimulating the growth of roots in their last stages, and particularly so when fo und on poor soils.

COCKEY and SON, Frome.-Sack truck; root and chaff cutter; field rollers; double and single cheese presses, and mills; liquid manure cart; garden rollers and chairs; American hay collectors; sets of patent pulley blocks; ring roller, slip curd breaker; patent combined steam engine and chaff cutter; steam boiler and fittings; thrashing machine; patent combined oat and bean meal; patent root pulper; steaming apparatus for roots and chaff; patent cheese making apparatus, and set of heating pipes for cheese room.

use.

HARRIS, Wells.-Farmers' and millers' carts for common HANCOCK, Tipton Green.-Patent pulverizing ploughs; pa tent machines for cooling and purifying butter.

HORNSBY and SoNs, Grantham.-Seven horse power patent portable steam engine, improved patent combined thrashing, shaking, and finishing machine, a collection of improved patent iron ploughs, patent corn dressing machines, ten row patent corn and seed drill, improved patent portable washing, wringing, and mangling machines.

PARSONS, Martock.-Ten horse power portable steam engine, two and a half horse power steam engine, farm waggons and carts, and pairs of patent cart or waggon wheels and axles.

BRADFORD, Manchester.-Two and a half power portable steam engine, patent independent and combined washing, wringing, and mangling machines for hand or steam power, box mangles and linen presses, ten gallon boiler, box churns of various sizes, and laundry stoves.

TAPLIN and Co., Lincoln.-Twelve horse power patent double cylinder traction engine, double blower thrashing. and finishing machine, and improved circular-saw bench.

HUMPHRIES, Pershore.-Portable combined thrashing, shaking, riddling, and barley horning machines, patent riddle for combined machine, pair of cider press screws, and screw lifting jack.

HOLMES and Sons, Norwich.-Combined portable steam power thrashing machine, ditto with dressing apparatus, prize corn and seed drilling machines for small and large occupations, general purpose drill, prize manure distributor, four row lever and economical seed and manure drills for

ridge and flat, two row and single row hand barrow drill, and improved corn dressing or winnowing machines.

CRANSTON, King William Street, London.-Wood's grass mowing machine, also Wood's combined mowing and reaping machines.

SAWNEY, Beverley.--Patent winnowing and blowing machines with cliver apparatus and seed box, patent reaping machine, excelsior harrows, American horse rake and hay collectors, new patent riddling machines, universal churn, cottage washing machine and other articles for domestic use, and set of patent chain harrows.

MORTON and Co., Liverpool.-Patent galvanized selfacting, winding, straining pillars, indestructible wire cable fencing for park and farming purposes, entrance and field gates, galvanized netting, manure and garden pumps, and galvanized iron roofing.

WHITMEE and Co., Clerkenwell, London.-Bean mills, oat, linseed, and corn crushers, corn mills, locust bean pulper, and flour dressing machines.

JOHNSTON, Oxford Street, London.-Butter churns, patent mangle, table cloth presses, and butter prints.

TYE, Lincoln.-Fixed corn mill and improved crane for lifting millstones.

WEAVER, Wells.-Specimens of horse shoes.

PAYNE, Chard.-Six horse power fixed steam engine, endless band saws, screw augers, and circular-saw and boring benches.

SNOWDON, Longford.-Paring, ridging, and bouting plough, patent stubble parer, patent chaff and hopbine

cutters.

here again many were evidently in reserve for Battersea ; There were but few novelties on the show-ground, for and the attraction of the day centred on the steamengines in work-ranged to run upwards in something of this order: Cambridge, Gibbons, Tuxford, Smith and Ashby, Barrett, Exall, and Andrewes, Picksley and Sims, Robey, Nalder, Garrett and Sons, Brown and May, Clayton and Shuttleworth, Hornsby, Maggs and Hindley, Humphreys, Turner of Ipswich, George Parsons, and Cockey and Sons. Tuesday was a miserably wet day to be abroad, but the work in the field was proceeded with, and the horse-ploughs put on, when the Howards, the Hornsbys, Ransome and Sims, Page, Eddy, and Wallis and Haslam took their places, with Hancock's paring-plough also in exposition of its many merits. They were again "on" the following day, the already established character of the several ploughs being pretty equally sustained, but with a liking for Howard's work. Far more excitement, however, was evinced over the processes for steam cultivation by horse-power, which were illustrated by Fowler, the Howards, Cambridge, with Smith's tackle, and Brown and May, also on the Woolston principle. Fowler's ploughing was generally pronounced admirable, and his digging yet more appreciated, as it was certainly the sensation "afield." Mr. Smith, too, was in good hands, and gained friends; while the Bedford House had to rely more on their