The Express.
London, England, 1852-08-05 00:00:00

THE GREATYORRSHMEAORICULTURAL

SHOW, AT SHEFFIELD.

The fourteenth annual show of the Great York-
shire Agricultural twists commenced its manifold proceed-
ings at 13.hcfBeld, SO A high degree of interest
has been elicited by thla east amongst its vast urban popa-
hitioa it has eypeesed *ably attention, in fset, all the
week, to the exclaim Si shorn every other topic.
The centre of the greksty's operations is • gram field,
situated about a mile hem the centre of the town, known
as the Royd's cricket-posed. All things wandered, a
better site could not lave bees Ames. The field is se
level as • bowling- ern midst me dioadvaatime in
respect of draining. Ile has been Mad very con-
venient. The Mammal armagemsale of the thew
were admirable, sad such es wiriSeeted pest of
multifarious requirements.
The entries exceed them both of the Think end Brid-
lington meetings, the some over the letter being of nearly
100 entries. A Rio sable exhibitors, who are more
numerous then usual. NIP the Duke of Devonshire, Earl
Fitswilliam, Lord Farnham. and Lord Wenlock. There
are about GO iv:Whiten of Implements, and 400 entries in
this department. Them ha large entry of stock, the num-
ber being pretty seedy NO.
The trial of the hwisuisate began on Monday morning.
The arena for the operarnes of the ground implements was
two adjacent gelds situated at Atterelife, on the amain of
the SheSeld and RNlelse Railway. The trial of the
other imple rents. Wadi. thesehing machines, brick-
making machine, as, we seaducted in the show yard.
When it is ora la mind that this is the first
exhibition of reaping machines within many miles of Shef-
field, it will be readily believed that those new wonders
mottopolised the attention of the spectators. The show yard
was in fact almost deserted, while the trial of the reaping
machines was witnessed by several hundred eager observers.
We never saw a public exhibition of any kind that ab-
sorbed more completely the attention of the spectators.
The machines were three in amber, namely, M'Cor-
, rank's, manufactured by Burgess and Key (price 281.)
Hussey's, manufactured bJ treeddll (prim 2111 ; and
Hussy's, manufactured by W. Dray salt* (pies 181.).
The machine that first °occluded- Its prfermana wee
ld'Conniek's—about one o'clock, having narked about an
hoar sad • half. The irresistible mainelois at which
every careful observer use lave .11,51 was that of the
three mediae' this dyl__llo nook St Ile art rub.
beam mairar. comme sedan SWIM eons 90
mistime after lt•Cormiek's. The eine maehine (Dray's)
wee lee fortunate in its carer *ea either of its com-
petitors. It sustained • fracture just &beat half-put one
o'cloch, which for the thin disabled it, and beast state it was
removed from the grand. la the aUelment assigned to
Dray's machine then sow remained a masidetable breadth
uncut. Crosslare machine began and maenad upon a
portion of the reliant, and it was neighed by X.Cormick's
implement, which Ma la very geed style a rood in eight
minutes. It may net he eat et plain Me to state, by way
of recapitulation. that the *Bias of many practical men
who have beim doe eteuvele et this experiment, is, that
the prudent homer will be disposed to wait awhile till the
reaping machines have bees meted to a greater extent than
there has yet bees time he.
Of the trial et pleeshaose mead net my more than that
peat podia el the werkeemild. tees of a quality by no
mime seggeethe woke implements.
The aged of plink pelts se elemplotod will be read et
die mail itsme WWI lekee pine this (Wednesday)
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