The Farmstead.

Southern Cross, Volume 8, Issue 32, 1 December 1900, Page 6

The Farmstead.

HONOURS AT THE JUBILEE SHOW. The Jubilee Shew recently held at Christchurch was the largest and most important in all respects that has .ever taken place there, and perhaps nothing at the show attracted more attention than the machinery exhibits, which were really first-class. Any implement or machine which claims to improve the existing conditions of agriculture is always the cynosure of scientific and up-to-date farmers ; therefore implement makers and agents were assiduous in their endeavours to produce something ingenious in construction and simple and economic in application in order to secure the coveted awards of the A. and P. Society. It came, therefore, as a surprise to some when it was announced that the New .Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., had won the gold medal for the Farmers’ Favourite Drill, and the silver medal for the Walter A. Wood Eeaper and Binder. These were the only medals presented for drills and binders. The Bristow patent turnip feed attached to the Farmers’ Favourite Drill is perhaps the most ingenious mechanical contrivance ever fitted to a drill, one seed at a time being deposited as evenly and regularly as if by clockwork. The Walter A. Wood Company being no doubt impressed with the agricultural possibilities of this country, has now built a machine entirely suited to its requirements. binder is so strongly built, and the speed of the knife is so great, that it will go through the heaviest crops with ease —in fact it is as near perfection as possible.