ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XII, Issue 947, 12 November 1868, Page 2

ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND.

The Grand Annual Shovy of the above Society, which has been judiciously held this year at Leicester, may be considered as one of the most successful on record, 96,653 persons having paid £6,740 Is. sd. for admission. The field trials of tillage implements lasted a week, under scorching weather all the time, and watched by large numbers of agricultural and other spectators. The horse-drawn ploughs have been through the most severe ordeal that they have ever known. The judges .have taken the greatest possible care and pains, intently watching every furrow, measuring and testing the work vrtth rule, square, and level, clearing awaf the cut soil for an examination of the unmoved bottom, taking by draft dynamometer the motive-power required to draw each implement, and finally inspecting the parts and construction of each selected plough. And, moreover the condition of the ground has been such that no second-rate tool could possibly gloss over a piece of work that might be pleasing to the eye but wanting in soundness of execution. The result of the preliminary 7 , second, and final trials has been to give Messrs. James and Frederick Howard, of Bedford, the lion’s share of the honours ; Messrs. Ransom es and Sims, of Ipswich, a second place ; and Hornsby and Sons, of Grantham, a third place, but considerably lower down in the scale of awards; whilst other makers ' are commended or nowhere — Telegraph.