1853-08-01 RASE Meeting Gloucester - Edward Hill

THE FARMER'S MAGAZINE.

AUGUST, 1853.   MEETING AT  GLOUCESTER.

CATALOGUE OF IMPLEMENTS, &c., EXHIBITED AT THE SHOW.

EDWARD HILL and Company, of Brierley Hill Iron Works, near Dudley, and 53, Watling-street, City, London.

A set of improved cast iron stable furniture; a set of samples of cast iron rain water pipes for farm and other buildings; a wrought iron barrow with apparatus for heating gas tar, &c., and a wrought iron garden barrow for general purposes, all invented and manufactured by the exhibiters; a specimen of patent black varnish; a specimen of game proof wire netting, consisting of six rolls, galvanized and ungalvanized; several specimens of a game proof garden hurdle of wrought iron; a wrought iron sheep hurdle; ox hurdle; cattle hurdle; a wrought iron flower stand, circular, with revolving stages; a cast iron table flower stand; an ornamental cast iron flower stand; an ornamental cast iron garden seat; several lengths of premium continuous sheep and other fence, with game proof netting attached, 24ft. high (this obtained the silver medal of the Royal Agricultural Society at the Southampton meeting, and also at the Shrewsbury meeting); a circular flower stand with ornamental wire work; an ornamental cast iron table; an ornamental wrought iron garden seat with foot-stage; two specimens of cast iron hall chairs; a length of invisible strained wire ox fence; an improved wrought iron sheep feeding hurdle (this hurdle has obtained the prize of the Royal Agricultural Improvement Society of Ireland for the best moveable hurdle for feeding sheep, besides prizes from the Yorkshire and other societies) several improved wrought iron sheep, cattle, and other hurdles, and a wrought iron ornamental hand gate, and posts of cast iron, all invented and manufactured by the exhibiters; a patent mowing or cutting machine, for lawns, pleasure grounds, bowling greens, &c., invented by Mr. Budding, manufactured by Messrs. Ferrabee, of Stroud; several wrought iron gates, some hung to wooden posts, some to iron posts; and a premium wrought iron field gate and wrought iron posts, invented and manufactured by the exhibiters (the silver medal of the Royal Agricultural Society was awarded to this gate and posts at the Derby meeting, and the Royal Agricultural Improvement Society of Ireland awarded it the prize they offered for "the best and most economical field gate of any material"); a pair of wrought iron entrance gates; a wrought iron sheep trough on wheels; a wrought iron garden seat, and a registered wrought iron expanding horse hue, in- vented and manufactured by the exhibiters (the silver medal of the Royal Agricultural Society was awarded to this implement at the Exeter meeting, and it also obtained a silver medal from the Yorkshire Agricultural Society at their meeting at Thirsk); two wrought iron skim or pair horse scarifiers (this implement obtained the first prize of its class at the Derby meeting); a registered wrought iron expanding horse hoe, it vented, improved, and manufactured by the exhibiters; two wrought iron horse hoes; (new implement) a wrought iron pair horse scarifier or skim, and two wrought iron sheep racks on four wheels with roof, invented and manufactured by the exhibiters (at the Derby meeting of the Royal Agricultural Society a silver medal was obtained by this implement); an improved patent horse rake for hay, corn, stubble, scutch, &c., invented and manufactured by Smith, of Stamford (it was highly com mended by the judges of the Royal Agricultural Society at Norwich, 1849; obtained the prize of the North Lincolnshire Society, 1850; the first prize of the Royal North Lancashire Society, 1850; again the first prize of the Royal Irish Agri- cultural Society, 1850; the first prize of the Royal Highland Society of Scotland, 1850; and the prize medal of the Great Exhibition of 1851; a patent Northumberland clod crusher invented by Gibson, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, and manufactured by John Richardson, of Newcastle-on-Tyne (this implement was first introduced to the public at the Great Exhibition in 1851, and was tried at Pusey, at the trial of the exhibition implements, where the judges awarded it the prize medal; and it has since obtained many other premiums from provincial agricultural societies); a wrought iron rick stand, on cast iron pillars, 16 feet diameter and 11 pillars, improved and manufactured by the exhibiters; an improved chaff cutting machine and a corn crusher (No. 2), invented and manufactured by Richmond and Chandler, of Manchester; a set of patent four beam diagonal wrought iron harrows, with trussed whippletree, invented by Samuel Taylor, of Cotton End, and manufactured by the exhibiters (these harrows obtained a prize at the meeting of the Royal Agricultural Society at Derby, 1843; at Southampton, 1844; at Shrewsbury, 1845; at Northampton, 1847; at Norwich, 1849; at Exeter, 1850; the prize medal was also awarded for these harrows at the Great Exhibition of 1851); a patent three cwt, and a five cwt. weighing machine, with frame for sheep, invented and manufactured by Day and Co., of Birmingham; a portable forge or smith's hearth; wrought iron cow crib with roof of iron, and an oblong rick stand on cast iron pillars with wood top, invented and manufactured by the exhibiters.