RASE Gloucester - William Vanse Feast

THE FARMER'S MAGAZINE.

AUGUST, 1858.      R.A.S.E.    MEETING  AT  GLOUCESTER.

determined the selection of the Society. We see no reason to quarrel with the choice, although we fear the expectations upon which it was arrived at have been scarcely realized. We shall have to penetrate more into the heart of Wales itself before the influence of the Agricultural Society can be reckoned upon accomplishing much general good there. It is the small poor farmer, above all others, that you must visit in his own home, and it is with such as him that South Wales abounds. Candidly speaking, they were but badly represented at the Gloucester Meeting. The premiums offered for their especial competition brought together but a poor display, while the people themselves furnished by no means a striking feature in the character of the company. In a few years from this-certainly by the time "the turn" comes once more round- the railways will be extended to Hereford, and most probably to Monmouth. We may by then arrange a meeting that will come much more legitimately into "the South Wales" district.

Putting thus for the present those for whose especial benefit the scene of action was decided on almost entirely out of the question-regarding the Meeting only as one of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, it cannot be recorded but as eminently successful. Those facilities of tran- sit which some of the more neighbouring quarters so lamentably neglected were fortunately open to other districts; and we are happy to add, that

CATALOGUE OF IMPLEMENTS, &c.,

EXHIBITED AT THE SHOW.

WILLIAM VANSE FEAST, of 14, Islington-square, Salford, Manchester, Lancashire.

(New implement) a mowing machine for cutting grass, &c, thirty inches in breadth, invented by Alexander Shanks, jun of Arbroath, Scotland, and manufactured by Alexander Shanks and Son, of Arbroath, Scotland (awarded a silver medal at the last meeting of the Highland Agricultural Society at Perth last year); three different sizes of a patent press-wheel roller and clod-crusher, invented and improved by Wm. Cambridge, of Bristol, and manufactured by John Cartwright, of Shrews bury, sole licensed agent for Salop and North Wales (awarded a prize of £5 at the Royal North Lancashire meeting at Pres ton; also prizes at Exminster, Edinburgh, North Lincolnshire meeting, &c., &c), a specimen of bright varnish; a specimen of black japan varnish; a specimen of anti-friction grease; a specimen of engine oil, and a black japan varnish, invented and manufactured by Messrs. Denton and Jutsum, of Bow-common London.