The Express.
London, England, 1858-07-20 00:00:00

IIOYAL AORICULTUR-dL SOCISTY OF

ALVG7 L 4ND.

;►llOll OVA ORM

CHISTIIR, JOLT 19.

his is the last day for the trill of machines, and
the trial yard kr bees a rather boner scene than heretofore.
The Utak Wide the exhibition yards will coattails
it ►tme days for legman, then is to be a trial of the cul-
tivators this day, bat the Lagenolty of a conjuror rolght bs
untwisted to discovering where, or at what dine ot the day, It
le to take piece. The geaeral impreseloa is that it will take
place this ereaksg, about six o'clock. The trial of reaping
emoklase le laid, weeding to rumour (dime is no better
entlierity sztaat) for Wednoiday. The trial of doable
threablag madam was completed this morales.
Then was four chimes entered, bat the society bare
tidal to prwkis the requisite maim, and the lest
day set apart for that wpm* baring arrived before
the ant clam bad been tested, It ha. been food
urea ary to maks a new arrangement, by which the
second deer only an to be included. The third sad
I orb dames an therefore) excluded from competition at
the !sat moment. Brea the test for the second clam, nettled
ot I,.nir extended to both wheat and barley, as intended, Is
to be .ontined to wheat only, which Is not a very complete
and Aatiedeotory tem. Tbere le some dissatisfaction expressed
with the Royal Agricultural Society on time and some other
paints. Them may be as mower to complainta of this kind,
end I therefore sea more willing ao state them, because the

swam they aie vontilmasi, whabar will or ill loaoded, the

bens,. Whilst it Is admitted that the society ts doing peg
meta to the agrioultarists sad to all ow:mooted with thaw,
It is rid lot to bare fulfilled the mesaure of useful-
nets Were it. Dissadsdaetita is expressed that its

urns is leo slow, and that there will be no report
•e six or eight meths as to the results of the competition,
when met► of the interest felt in it has gone by, whines
Owe would be maple time to publish it by the end of August
lithe prize essay' were left over. It is mid, on the present
esesion, and generally understood by the public, that the
3001. prize will be awarded to Mr. John Fowler, for steam
nitration, but la reality the fact will not be known for (oar
or five months, when It may turn out that the repotted deci-
sion of the judges at the time may be ravened. Them it is
,captained that the arrangements made br teeing ma-
chinery generally are not on a sufficiently liberal web. As
b the cue of thrashing machines, it bee be., evi-
dently unequal to the exigencies of the moment; en
Is some other cane it has failed. Some three
years ago there wu a combination of the Led*
manufacturer' of agricultural machines to obtain an Improve-
ment in this respect, and by means of their suggestions sad
ertruments they persuaded the society to separate the ma-
chines for competition into three chases, one clue to be liken
each year in rotation, and spread over three years. This b
the third year under this triennial arrangement, and wadi-
ices Ina issued which were to =ebb 10-boree fixed en-
gines to compete; but when the day of trial arrived it wee
boa that the society had only an old 8-horse boiler In the
yard to try them with. It is true the difficulty was
ove-
NEN by borrowing a small engine from one of the exhi-
bitors to supply the additional quantity of steam, hat the
arrangement wee a clumsy our, and attended with some
insonveniesce. Another instance may be mentioned of bee
ineeplete preparations for the trial. Thursday was fixed kw
the trial of root crushers and small =chines ; but on Thurs-
day evening, when the competition had goal on for some
*se, it wee clearly shown that the dynamometer with which
the tuts had been made wee out of order, and the conse-
quence wee that the trial had to begin again on Friday. The
morel to be drawn from these facts is that, after three yews'
experience, then is no better preparation for teeing thee
there was when they cornmemeed; or, in other words, that,
while the trade has been enormouoly developed within the
lest three yeah, and a greater member of machines are offered
for competition, the society has mot made similar progren,
and has been unprepared to meet the exigencies el the
OrCedA,ll. There is to doubt that the judeee appointed have
exerted themselves to the emcee, working early and late, and
their courteous and gentlemanly conduct is spoken of In high
terms on all hands, but they had issufficiest means placei at
their disposal, and the remit is one of disappointment.
Of the 32 portable steam engines mentioned on Thursday
es
having been entered for trial, only 15 have ultimately
hese submitted to the test. Some of them did not arrive in
twee, several ware disqualified by the manufacturers not
having compiled with some indispensable condition ea to
fitness of constructing, n retired by the widen, and several
without being actually disqualified have been withdrawn by
their owners, who have thought It prudent at the feat
moment to retire from the competition. Of the le
Raid stenos engines entered for competition, none have hem
withdrurn, and only four out of the number remained to be
tested this day. Perhaps, as a rule, it may be remarked
Yet the steam-engines are good ; bet there mew= marked
Inceptions (u hinted at in a tomer notii), amongst the
portable machines. SIAM of them ate both bad in work-
ulaneYp ►nd in design, the relative proportions of the
engines not having been well worked out. Of these the
greater portion are either by new makers, rat least by MAIM
who have not before offered to compete at the Rent Agri-
cultural Society's meetings. It is but jut to say that same
of the twines eatendfor competition are remarkable b► Ask
ezielknce in entry respire—toe good worionneship, proper-
ties vs parts, end adaptation to the week for which
they are latanded. Aut.iiirot Wee may be mese
timed those of Illesers. Hornsby and Scene, al Orsailisat ;
Me fie. Talked seed Sous, of Boston; Messrs. Clayton.,
Shattleworth, and Co., of Lincoln ; and a few others. One
of the portable =gime of Messrs. Hornsby and Sou,
eslectsi to work the t►reshing machines, is a Nautili
piece of mechanism sad workmanship, and has bees ad-
mired ty all who have sees it; and they had also in the
yard a sew line twelve-hone power portable engine, which
has a link motion for revering the action, so that it will
run either way, for the censer:oco of steam eultivatien.
Amongst the engines in the trial yard this morning was a
new one by Messrs. Clayton, Sbuttlevortli, and Co.. a
sevegehoree, single cylinder locomotive, on three wheels,
with a reversing lick clothe and gear-work for imparting
mod= to the two main travelling wheels, rendering Unif-
ier:melting. It is provided with a simple stump, which
beings it under the complete control of the steersman, who
its at a wheel In front. It carries its own water, and Is
sheet four tone in weight (without the water, and is
Wended to moo from place to rhos as may
be required, other marhinee, or loaded carriues,
my kind, op to wren or sight tons in weight, either in the
SOH or on comforts roads. It is on ordinary trinities
wheels., about eight inches brood and 4 fret 6 iv:bee in
diameter. It is capable of being moved up an iodine of lin
12. It was in constant motion during the day, drawing
bade *bent from one pat of the grounds to another, or
fichimg threshing meatus from the implement yard when
required for testing purposes. It travels at a rate of three to
bur miles per hour. The steersman was able to term it round
within a surprisingly lituited space, or move it in any (Wen-
ties, sad it is of °ours, a much simpler affair than the Boy-
dell brute* booming, but would be unequal to nearly such
steep Mellow, and its wheels render it tent fir soft ground.
With reference to the workunzeLip and c metrue!ioe amen
of the portable seem engines, I took ocesaien to say on Fri-
day that the snelety are measuring such of these machines as
are eo.ered foe competeion by a higher standard of excel-
lence it, in heretofore, and, from all I can learn, the testing
an pest occasions has been somewhat loose and slovenly. At
all evintr, it has sot been conducted on such highly scientific
prineelis as might have been expected, and hones some of
the s' 'b tors on the prevent occasion hove bees teams a
little by surprise by the Wrictoses with eltith the judges
appear to have Irked to certain requires] rats, on, h as the
rebitiv, pemortioa end amnion of the hen io-t surfaces as
cot 'pond with the actual results dote or chimed to be done.
Th. fixed engines, 'War led all been tested on Saturday,
are of 8-horse power, and those that remalced over ter trW
to-day were It hires. The quantity of fuel given out to the
8-horse engines has been one hundredweight. Time hes
been, through the rums of a dynamometer, a constant of
8-boric power against each elegise, and the twin teat has
been, with the fixed queutity of fuel, and the comettuat of
peesurn to determine which engine makoe the greatest
amber of revolution,.

Tbs trW of hand chaff-cutters trmmenorl early on Satur-
day morning, the judge, being Professor Wilson, who ocoo.
pies the chair of agrlealtur• at Rdiaburgh , Mr. Deuce, of
Hersham ; end Mr. fllckem of Morton. M. Kuhlmann,
prokesor in the Royal Polytechnic College, at Hanover, was
ohm smocietsd with these gentlemen in this lab ar. A can-
ildentlila number of chaff-cutters was offcri.d (about forty),
and • yrulitalnary trial led to • selectlon of seven, ono( the
wholo, for competition. The following are the mulls of the
244 W.I. The that tried wm Messrs. Richmond, Chandler,
and llortea'a beet hand chef-cutter at V., and the weight
is
a" mimata• wee 24 ; revolution meths] on ths
-•----••ww. 18400. &mond cutter, Mr. Tu•net's, whiff en Millie is flee misuser- 20,a060 1 ions bad on
ilwebearm,"n`ut 201°1147. :rhi_rd water , Mersrs. 7couit.h end aWAabby.B,
In nye echiutee dynamometer marking

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