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.

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 According to the report of the Council, there was a under-bred animal placed over him. A horse more alt great increase of implement entries—at least over those Mr. Spooner's own heart was Mr. Pennington's three-made at Truro-while the shedding had also been extended. year-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.

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 portable 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, chat and root cutters, for hand and horse; horse gear and lawn

mower.

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 TUXFORD and Soxs, Boston. Eight horse power double plain countenances. Mr. Taylor, too, is going into South-cylinder portable steam engine, iron-housed and patent downs, as well as Suffolk horses and Devon cattle; but combined thrashing, straw shaking, riddling, winnowing, Jonas Webb would scarcely have recognised his old and barley horning machine, with Boby's patent screen, for finishing corn for market. 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

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 culti vation (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.

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 donble action oil cake mills, patent rotating harrows, and four horse power portable steam engine.

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

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 tined Bedfordshire scarifier; improved dynamometer; patent haymaking machines and horse rakes.

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

PARSONS, Martock.-Ten horse power portable steam engine, two and a half horse power steam engine, farm wag. gons 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

REEVES, R. and J., Bratton.-Six and four row patent plough, patent stubble parer, patent chaff and hopbine

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 found 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.

HARRIS, Wells,-Farmers' and millers' carts for common

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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.

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

First prize of £12 to John A. Smith, Bradford Peverell, Montgomery (Laura). Dorchester (Rachael).

First prize of £5 to J. Reeks Neate.

SOMERSET AND DORSET HORNS.
Yearling Rams.

First prize of £8 to F. Bond, Whitelackington, Ilminster (Somerset).

Second of £4 to W. Paull, Piddletown, Dorchester (Dorset).
Commended.-T. Danger, Huntatile, Bridgwater (Somerset).
Rams of any other age.

First prize of £5 to T. Danger.
Second of £3 to W. Paull.