The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-06-05 00:00:00

THE DORSET COUNTY EXPRESS AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, TUESDAY, JUNE 5, 1866

these, exhibit, as we have formerly stated
they would, a portable steam engine and
thrashing machine; a large collection of
machines for the preparation of food, embrac-
ing Biddell's well-known bean and oat mills,
root pulpers, &c. A patent corn screen,
unequalled for its ingenious construction and
oerfeet action ; horse rakes at unusually low
prices (see advertisement); harrows, horse
gears, lawn mowers, ttc. Our agricultural
friends cannot omit a careful visit of inspec-
tion to the stand of Alessrs. Itansomes.

Messrs. E. R. and F. Turner, of St. Peter's
Iron Works, Ipswich, are celebrated, not only
for their portable steam engines and portable
thrashing machines, figured in our advertise-
ment columns, but for their road locomotive
or traction engines. Their horizontal station-
ary engines range from four to twenty-six
horse power and have been erected in numer-
ous corn mills and for other purposes in
various parts of England as well as on the
continent of Europe. But they are probably
even better known as the makers of the cele-
brated corn and seed crushing mills grinding
mills, oilcake breakers, and other in-door
agricultural machinery, besides hydraulic
rams, nil mill machinery, flax seeding and wet
rolls, circular sawing machinery, and mortar
mills, all which will be found shown by them
in great variety.
Messrs. Richmond and Chandler, of Salford,
Manchester, stand unrivalled in (haft' cuttin
and corn crushing machines, into which they
have of recent years introduced a series of
the most simple and beautiful yet ingenious
improvements, until they stand as they pro-
claim "second to none " in this department.'
of these along with horse gear works, new
patent bread kneading machines, root
washers, improved steaming apparatus, sack-
holders, lie., they exhibit at this meeting a
large and elegant selection.
Messrs. Tuxford and Sons, of the Boston
and Skirbeck Iron Works, are the First
Prize-of-all-England exhibitors of steam
thrashing and ploughing engines; for at the
Worcester trials of 1863 the latest made by
the Royal Agricultural Society of England,
they were (and not for the first time) again
successful over all other competitors, and
their eight home power engine surpassed all
other comrting engines of every power in
economy and effectiveness. For eleven years
in fact they claim to have maintained the first
position at the Royal Agricultural Society's
very stringently conducted trial. Their first
class combined thrashing machines are of
single, double, and treble blast, and their
newly patented straw elevators, steam culti-
vating apparatus, grinding mills, sawing
machinery, centrifugal pumps, &.c., never fail
to attract vast crowds of astonished admirers
at every show.
Messrs. Ruston, Proctor, and Co., the
farmers' Lincoln engineers, come out with
improved portable engines, combined thrash-
ing machines, and circular sawing benches
ef an admirable character, as also do the large
house of

Messrs. Clayton, Shuttleworth, and Co., of
the same place. Indeed we shall feel surprised
if Messrs. Clayton, Shuttleworth, and Co.'.
exhibition of traction and portable engines
which is perfectly unrivalled on all occasions,
can be eclipsed even on this, especially when
arrayed alongside their astounding thrashing
machines and straw elevators. 21evertheless
these great "Lincoln" houses are fairly chal-
lenged to competition and couparison by
our lo:al firm of

Messrs. Ingram and Phillips, the well-
known engineers of Stuckton Iron Works,
Fordingbndge, Hants, who illustrate our
columns with a beautiful figure of their eight
horse power portable steam engine, and head
the attraction with the challenge " Local
engines versus Lincoln engines." Their
stea i engine is of entirely new design and
construction, cumbining to the fullest extent
simplieity,economy, and efficiency—important
elements not to be obtained in engines of the
ordinary type. Another local firm, that of
Messrs. Brown and May, of Devizes, we
venture to say exhibit, u they profess with
that outspoken Rnglish-like downright
honesty and sincerity, which is characteristic
of the men, "the best and most er.onomical
engines out." Their series of engines at the
Salisbury show ranges from 21 to 10 horse
power.

Messrs. Robert and John Reeves, of the
Bretton Iron Works, Westbury, Wilts,
another local implement house, are too well
known for their marvellous prize drills, to
which have b..en awarded eighty-two prizes,
medals, and commendations, sonic of them so
lately as the Royal Agricultural Show at
Plymouth in 1865, to require us almost so
much as to direct attention to their manu-
factures, which comprise Chandler's patent
liquid manure drills, Reeves's patent
economical manure and seed drills (the same
with which Mr. Ruston obtained extraor-
dinary results as detailed in the Royal
Agricultural Journal), improved general
purpose m.:nure and seed drills, lever corn
drills for large and small occupiers, broad-
cast manure distributors, portable barrow
pumps, Richards' patent water carts, Stk.., Jr.c.,
na short every conceivable means of applying
manure directly to the plant according to the
most advanced notions in drill husbandry.
Messrs. E. Cambridge and Co, a most
excellent Bristol firm, St. Philip's Iron
Works, are distinguished for their chain
harrows, tbeir patent prize combined press.
wheel roller and clod crusher (one of the
most remarkable implements indeed in the
yard), their prize horse rakes, land pressers,
washing machines, and every descrip-
tion of agricultural impleinents—for they
make or repair even steam engines and
thrashing machines to order.
Messrs. Priest and Woolnough, the enter-
prising Kingston-on-Thames firm, exhibit
drills the results of competitions out of which
they have emerged with unprecedented
success. At Plymouth, last July, eight drillb
and two horse hoes which they exhibited
gained them nine prizes, the highest prize for
any drill having been awarded to their best
drills fur general purposes. Besides this,
however, they exhibit corn drills on the
established principle of levers and weights,
turnip and manure drills both on the flat and
the ridge, drills for clover and grass seeds,
distributors for dry and damp manure, horse
hoes for corn and roots on the lever and
weight principle, and general purpose drills
for small occupations.

Mr. William Smith, of the Royal Iron
Works, Kettering, Northamptonshire, shows
his Plymouth Prize Horse Hoe for general
purp..ses, and his new patent steerage horse
hoe (figured amongst our illustrated adver-
tisements) to which the jurors of the Inter-
national Exhibition of 1862 awarded the
prize medal.
Messrs. Hornsby and Sons, of Grantham,
(as we mentioned weeks ago) exhibit a very
large show of goods and improvements in
reapsrs and mowers.
Messrs. Coleman and Morton, another
highly respectable firm, of the Leaden Reed
Iron Works' Chelmdord, it will be observed
have also been announcing through our
columns the exhibition of an assortment of
their celebrated prize cultivators, which have
won more than seventy first prizes, also
Hanson's patent potato diner, wrought iron
water cart, horse gears with intermediate
motion, self adjusting rope porters for steam
cultivation, itc.
Messrs. Turner and Bishop, of Linslade
Works, Leighton Buzzard, publish with us
and exhibit in the yard their celebrated
Bedfordshire corn, seed, and manure drills,
besides a good assortment, of Turner's patent
cultivators, patent corn-grinding mills, horse
Park thrasliing miehines, oil cake mills,
circular saw benches, &e.

Mr. W. N. Nicholson. of the Trent Iron
Works, Newark, is mainly represented by his
far-famed hay makers, and at the Salisbury
show exhibits a new haymaker. hay
machines are here to be seen in all their
variety and simplicity, lightness and dura-
bility. from Nicholson's original prize hay-
maker, and the extra strong machine for
water meadows, to the excellent double-action
implement (No. lilt, and the sinele motion
' only, either forward or reverse (Nos. eight
or iliac) and Nichokon's patent horse rake
with its tubular shaft t, the favourite perhaps
being Nicholson's new and cheap double
action haymaker (No. 12) which may be had
for eleven guineas. This is the machine
which was last year designed for small occu-
pations and carefully tested. It combines
the advantages ot fewness of working parts,
absence of complication, and excellence of
workmanship and material.

Messrs. C. 11 &S. Perman, our next door
neighbours at Salisbury, Ive are happy to say,
occupy stand No. 172 of the open shed 21
with an elegant assortment of garden seats
and chairs, rollers, mowing machines, garden
engines and syringes, flower stands, prize
medal kitcheners, open fire ranges, knife
cleaning machines, mincing machines, weigh-
ing machines, chaff machines, cheese presses,
dairy utensils, cattle, sheep and pig troughs,
galvanised game netting, digging forks,
spades, &c., a most interesting collection.
Mr. E. Hoe, of Queenstreet, Salisbury, our
ally in the printing department has also an
exhibition of all the objects of literary and
stationary interest known in the trade.

The seed department, which conspicuously
confronts the visitor not far from the entrance to
the show ground is always to us one of the most
pleasant ranges in the show. On this occasion
Messrs. Sutton and Sons of the Royal Berk-
shire Seed Establishment, Reading, for the
supply of Sutton's genuine home-grown seeds to
all parts of the United Kingdom, occupy the
magnificent range of stand No. 179 with their
usual collection of one thousand separate and
distinct kinds of seeds :

A collection of natural greases grown by
themselves in the Reading trial grounds.
A collection of agricultural seeds of various
kinds in canvass bags.
A collection of grapes. ec., in pots, showing
their respective habits of growth.
Some specimens of the new forage Plant,
brornus sc.hraederii, and of their improved
varieties of mangel wurzel.

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Messrs J. C. Wheeler and Bons, of
Gloucester, seeesmen to the Gloucestershire
Agricultural society, always produce one
of the most elegant and brilliant displays
in the shor-yard--valuable, however, not
merely from the gorgeous yet tasteful style
in which it is got up, but as an exposition and
scientific arrangement of the grasses according to
their famous" Little Book ;" and as an exhibition
of roots and tubers including all the most cele-
brated improved symmetrical kinds in growth,
from their own imperial swede to their Prince of
Wales, and Patterson's Dundee potatoes.
Messrs. James Carter .11 Co., of London, we
notice also occupy an extensive range in the seed
department.

Messrs. Tooker and Sons, of A ndover,are the largest
exhibitors of agricultural machinery and implements.
They occupy the whole of the eight rands of shed
No. 1, 300 feet in length, besides which they have
a very extensive exhibition of steam machinery in
motion, and also stand 59 in shed No. 3. Mews.
Carson and Toone, of Warminster; Messrs. Wallis,
theism, and Stevens, of Basingstoke; Messrs.
Samuelson and Co., of Banbury; Hears. Woods
and Cocksedge, of Stowmarket ; kleesra Garrett
and Sons; Messrs. Gibbons, of Wantage, Mr. J.
Rowland, of Salisbury • Messrs. J. and F. Howard,
of Bedford, the Hooding Iron Works Company
(limited), Messrs. J. B. Brown and Co.; Mews.
J. E. Wolfe and Co., Mews. Bradford and Co., Hr.
W. Parham, Mr. Hamilton, and a long list of other
manufacturers of agricultural machines, implements,
, from all parts of the United Kingdom, exhibit
a great variety of their principal manufactures in
addition to those stated.
Mesas. Roberts and Sons, of the West of England
Carriage Works at Bridgwater, campy 200 feet of
space in shed No. 12 with specimens of different
kinds of carriages; and the Bristol Waggon Works
Company, and Mr. Riddle, of Ludw-ell, show a
number of carte and waggons for agricultural work.

Amongst the local exii-i-bitore in the other depart-
manta are Mews. James Wilton and Sons, general
ironmorgers, of Salisbury, who exhibit • specimen of
the London pattern kitchen range, • hot plate, and
• very large collection of misoellaneous goods, in-
cluding obsess praises, garden sesta, bronze flower-
elands, In the Arta manufacture. department, ,
Meters. Wilton also exhibit several very elegant and
ocethr mantelpieoe•
In the Arta Manufacture. Department Mears.
Bennett and Clench, silversmiths, of Salisbury, have
erected • large glass case, in which they exhibit •
choice collection of jewellery; Messrs. Brown and
Co., booksellers, also of Salisbury have fitted up •
large stall, where they exhibit • miscellaneous
0°110:Ilion of fumy articles, stationery, pictures, to.
Mr. Bosch exhibits, as usual, in this department,
his case of Salisbury cutlery.

The Picture Gallery contains • very large collection
of paintings, engravings, tan, and. aa the work of •
local artist, we may direct attention to two most
admirable unonlonred photographs, life.sim local
portraits, by Mr. Treble, of High-street. Mr. W.
F. Tiffin exhibits some original paintings, as also
Mr. Targett, of the Blue Boar.row.

The arrangements of every department of the ex-
hibition appear to be most complete, and are calcu-
lated to give the utmost satisfaction both to exhibi-
tors and to the general public. Tbe numerous mar-
quees on the ground are erected by Messrs. Piggott,
of Bishopegate-otreet Without, London.

The exhibition opened on Monday morning, when
the horses and poultry were openly jedged at 10. at
which hour the implement and arts department was,
also thrown open. The horticultural department '
was opon at two o'clock in the afternoon, when the
band of the Royal Marines played. On Tuesday,
the departments for homes, poultry implements,
arts, and horticulture opens at 9 a.m. On this day
there will also be a dog-show. Field implements of
various kinds will work at intervals from ten
to three o'clock. Tbe hand of the Royal
Marines will 0001111011011 to play at eleven
o'clock. On Wednesday, the venous departments
of exhibition will all be opened at nine o'clock.
There will be shoeing of horses at portable
forges at 10 e.m., and field implements will
be worked at intervals from ten to three. The band
of the Royal Marines will 001001011C11 10 play at I
o'clock, and at half-peat three o'clock contorted
pieces will he played by the bends of the Grenadier
Guards and the Royal Marines. The annual meeting
of the members of the society will be held at noon,
in the council tent erected on the ground. On
Thursday and Friday, the whole of the exhibition
will open at nine, and the band of the Grenadier
Guards will commence to play at 11 o'clock. Each
day, except Friday, the exhibition will rennin open
until six o'clock in the evening. On Friday the
yard will be closed at live o'clock, but the poultry
end dogs may all he removed at three, and the
horses at four o'clock.

The following is s list of !be officers of tin) society:

PIIIIIDENT

The Right Honour.-11l.hr tis-irl of Portsmouth.
!STEWARDS OF DEPARTMENTS:
Roress—C. Gordo. sod R. A. F. LattrelL

Yard Implements—John Gray mid—ii../r:Otide.
Field implements H. P. i(111•4 and J. K Knollya
Poultry—R. Brent, W. D. , and B. H. Bush.
Dogs—T. Pain, B. Pitman, and J. Hole.
Horticulture sad Moan, -Jonathan Gray and Rev. T.
Pb II potia.
Arts Department— Obairman, R. 8. Dream,'
Chairman, T. D. A Gland, oar. Steward., W. R.
Scott, Pb. D.; J. Di., J. W. Sillifant, and W. R.
Hicks; Honorary Seeremyy, H.
Finance sod Elbow Yard Receipts —C. Bmh, Chairman;
T. Huswy, G. S. Poole, and H. Wi,liann.
Plans and General Arrangements—John Gray Jonathan
Gray, J. R. Badly', H. G. Moysey, and Herbert
Williams.
Official Buperintenient—Renry BpaMtinan.
Honorary Socretary—Henry St jobs Moak.
General —Mr. Josiah Goodwin.

Spec.Wl arrangements have been made by the polioe
for tbe -.xenon, the city const.bulary bating been con-
siderably augmented by county constalmiary, who will
be under the direetion of Superintendent Steelton. of
Marl=h, assisted by Superintendent Matthews, of
this C Meredith. the shied constable for
the county, besG.l. takes up quarter, in the city, and
will, no doubt, personally superintend the police
=rminis. The city polies will be under the dime.
fleperhstiendent Caldow, who has made special
nts for watching the movements of any of the
lii=sered gentry who may feel isoliord to visit Salis-
bury on this invasion ; and it will be astiefactory to the
public; to learn that experieneed detectives from London
end Bristol .ill be on duty at the railway stations
and other placing.

Taz IIuAL FILLDII.

Tim land appropriated for the trial of implements has
It+ appeewanoe of being well adapted for the purposes
LA view, aud is situated in the immediate vicinity of the
show yard, • road only parting the greater portioo of
the land front the exhibitilas. About 14 acres of hash
mown °lover ley have be.. est apart for lb. sew of
ploughs sad sultimitors, sad as it is almost got and a
air -medium sod without large dela the 'twain milfri•
vsnoramill have every *hues, and we base little doubt
task working will ba serried on sager !avowable in-
tense& Tiro sad a WM mow ea Mae fll aad two

and a bolt on the dot, where the turnips now appear an
I,s,w plant in broad leaf, will afford & espial trial
ground for turnip Imes ; and the only (Ault we have to
find is that all will go too .mooth to test the qualifies-
tiors of the impl. turnte, the land being clean and in
good friable onwitlon, with the turnip roes straight Rod
•iih thick plant. The same may be said of the dec
sons of rye where the leafing made. a will be tried.
I The corn is upetanding and only moderately thick on
, the land ; hut we must recollect it no early it, the season
for the trial of reaper., and if the crop were thick and
101 l while green, the implements could not be expected
to do their Trotk well. We until r ate a good trial of
mowing maellirms in Om crop of trifoltom provided for
them ; and elk-lg.-tier it ilipests more than probable
that the trial of Mipleineuts will prove one of the most
interviting features of the week.

The Council Boume in the mouth.esat opener of the

!Ms7rietVira.ce—WU-b-u-dt-in 1786:-a—t
the ex—pense of the
late Earl of Radnor.
The Market liouw, at the west end, was ereeted by •
joint stock company, and opened May 24, 1869. It
foimes • Pun exchange. Front 73 fret, 168 feet long.
In front of the Council Chamber., on • pedeetal of
. . . _

peli-sl;ed--&-rnis.b—gra-r-iite, is a bronsedstatue rri—tti—e late
Lord Herbert of Lea, by Baron hlarocbetti.
The Poultry cross, an open hexagon, with nix arches
and a central pillar, was erected before 1335 by Lord
llontacute or Lawreaos de St. Martin, by way of
penance.

•
The-B.lle of John Halle, at the back of the china
shop of Ile. Wation, on the New canal, to that of •
wealthy woolot.ai,lerot Saliabury, who douriahed in the
reign. of Henry VI. and Edward IV., now used as •
chow-room for the display of china. Built, 1470; re.
stored, 104, by Pugin.
A house in the High..treet, known by the name of
poi.e of a "TheGeolirceigeteil ry oncori. l rim.
'iiliPPndlet.oisithianyu.tbsee"CaedthttodhersPluirn.
Soni.n Catholic times. In Brown atecet, at tb• beak of
the Kings Arm., "The Barr.cle.," contains 1 handsome
car•ed atone chimney piece, of the style of Henry VI.
In St. Ann's.streeL the Joiners' Hall, the front of which
still retains its antique character. displays mune groteeque
wood corning of the putiod of James L The Tailors'
Hall, siiu.ted at the end of a narrow pump leading
out if kfiltord.street, haa little shields inscribed with
initials of the members, and the date of their admisaion ;
16th oent!!ry.
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The Sahel:m:7 rand South Wilts Museum), St Ann-
street, I. open to the public (gratis) Monday even-
ing, from eight to nine; Tuesday, from twelve (noon) to
' four p.m.; other days (Saturday excepted) by tickets to
be obtained, gratis, at the principals hotels, and of
Messrs. Brown and Co., stationer's the Canal. The
mammalian remains from the brick-earth of the nMgh•
bourhood are of considerable scientific importance ;
among these are bones and teeth of the mammoth,
rhinoceros, cave lion, hyena, reindeer, bison, km, ILO.
A series of atone and flint implements is displayed, the
majority of which were obtained from the drift-panel
at Idemerton and Milford-bill, near Salisbury. A se
of stone.hatchets, and other °Wangs. from the site of
one of the ancient late •illeges of Switzerland, is wall
' worth attention. A collection of mediaeval objects,
secured during the ezcavetions made for drainage pur-
-1 poses in Saliabury, is of great interest A small but
good series of pottery and porcelain is shown, and
there is a fine collection of British birds. Catalogues
may be obtained at the Museum.
rho College near St. Edmund's Church, the seat of
Me. J. H. E. Wyndham, occupies the site of an
ancient ennyentual house.

The Infirmary, • lerge brick pile at Fliberloa, was
opened for the reception of patient., 171._
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'Wilton, "Ranted 'about three mile. from Salisbury, on
the junction of the rivers Wiley and Plodder, is of
erect antiquity, and as the capital of the Analo:Bazon
Kingdom of Wessex, gave the name to Wißehire.
Wilton House, the seat of the Earls of Pembroke,
etands on the site of an ancient nunnery, founded far
back in the Saxon times. The garden front of Wilton
House was built by Inigo Jones; a beautiful porch, by
Hans Ilo'beta, contains statues and baits. The house
may be sees on Wednesdays and Fridays. There is
rich collect on nt peintia and marbles. The Byzantine
church, erected by the late Lord Herbert, and most
richly ornamented, is one of the aighta of the county.
In • vault beneath the chancel the founder lies buried.
The visitor to Wilton will be amply repaid by 1111 inspect.
tion of the carpet factory of Masers. Lapworth.
Lorriford Castle, the seat of Lord Folkestone,
situated in an extensive perk, on the left band aide of
the road to Downron and Fordingbridge, may be seen
on Tueolay, and Fridays, Or by tr•vellers and
foreigners, with Lord Folkestone's permission. on any
we, k day. It ii, of curious construction, and celebrated
for its picture gallery, one of the finest in the onantry,
and p.rticularly rich in paintings by Albert Durer,
Undo, Ruben., Claude, Velanques, Sebastian del
Piourbo, Correggio, Carlo Dl.-, Nicholas Fermin,
Oliver Poussin, Titian, Vandyke, Sir Joshua Rey-
nolds. Gairisborocuir, and other eminent masters. In
the grand gallery, stands a wonderful and probably
unique specimen of sculpture in metal, • steel chair,
preeented to Emperor Rudolph 11. by the city of
tm.burg, where it was made by one Thomas Rutter, in
1574. It ill covered by 130 gx.ops of Ilgaree in relief,
representing event, in the hiatiry of the Bowan
Empire, from Nebuchadnesztr's dream of the mammal
image, end from the landing of -EOM. in Italy, down to '
Rudolph's own time. It au carried off from Prague
by the Swede+.
A mai portion of wall overgrown with ivy, within
two miles of Salisbury, is all that remains of the Royal
Pelson of Clarendon, so famous as the place where the
"Conetitutions of Clarendon" as the firet barrier against
the clarets of secular jurisdiction in this thland by the
see of Rome, were devised.

Tire visil'or to Stonehenge is recommended, in going
and returning, to iwss through the valley of the Avon.
Returning t rough Little Amesbury to Lake Douse, •
fine old English mansion of the time of James 1., the
residence, of the Rev. K Duke. On the same side of
the river below Luke Healer 'louse, where Charles 11.
was secreted for some days in his &At aftcr the but le
of Worcester. Following the windings of the •alley
Lower Woodford, and cram the Avon by the bridge to
Little Danford, the road conducts to Salisbury.
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Ward.iur Castle, aiati en mile; uth.west of Solis,
bury, is the seat of Gird ArundelL The modern mansion
and the chapel are rich in treasures of art; but p rh•p•
the most interesting feature in the piano is the Old
Castle. • venerable and ptcturesque ruin. Lady Blanche
Arundel, with 23 men, &leaded it against an army
of 1.500 soldiers of the Parliament, in 1143. Adjoining
Wardour is Foothill, once so fainno• as Foothill Abbey,
the seat of William Betkford, the author of ••Vatbek,"
now bel..naing to the Marquis of Westminster. Tb•
other portion is the property of Mr. Alfred Morrison.
The above is compiled from Ilies.ra. Brown & Co.'s,
(booksellers, on the (lanai), useful and intimating hind-
LJoks.