RASE Gloucester - William Dray

THE FARMER'S MAGAZINE.     AUGUST, 1858.

R.A.S.E.   MEETING  AT GLOUCESTER

The west of England, or, to speak as we travel, the Western line, has so far had quite its fair share of attention from the Royal Agricultural Society. Celebrating their opening day at Oxford in 1839, the Council came on to Bristol in 1842, proceeded still further down, to Exeter in 1850, and now again return to Gloucester in 1853. Acting, then, on the principle that each district should in turn have the advantages of a visit from this eminent in  stituation, it is a question whether Worcester had not in reality a call over the more favoured Gloucester. At each of the three other cities we have named as the scenes of different celebrations- Oxford, Bristol, or even Exeter-the county of Gloucester had ample opportunity for either exhibiting at, or merely attending the meetings. Worcester would have been something more like breaking fresh ground; whereas, in Gloucester and its vicinity we are already well known, and the visit comes more like the re-appearance of an old friend, than the first introduction of a comparative stranger. The city of Gloucester, however, did not, in this instance, rest its claim exactly on its own merits. Independently of what it could offer in the way of site and general convenience, it had the more weighty recommendation of forming something like a connecting link between the object of the Royal Agricultural Society and the farming of South Wales. This, of course, was only effected by its railway accommodation, and this, we believe, mainly

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. 

CATALOGUE OF IMPLEMENTS, &c.,

EXHIBITED AT THE SHOW.

WILLIAM DRAY and Co, Swan-lane, London. A six-horse power patent portable steam engine, invented by Messrs. Waut and Vernum, and improved and manufactured by the exhibiters; asix-horse power fixed steam engine, invented and manufactured by the exhibiters; an eight-horse power patent fixed steam engine, invented by Want and Vernam, and manufactured by the exhibiters; two winnowing and blowing machines combined, and a winnowing machine, invented, im- proved, and manufactured by the exhibiters; a reaping machine, invented by Obed Hussey, of Baltimore, improved and manufactured by the exhibiters; (new implement) a draining plough, invented by the Earl of Dundonald, and manufactured by the exhibiters; a registered machine for riddling, blowing, and seed-separating, invented by J. Cornes, jun., and maoufactured by the exhibiters; a one-row drill for turnips with manure; three registered chaff and litter cutters, and a registered chaff engine, invented, improved, and manufactured by the exhibiters; a chaff engine, invented and manufactured by the exhibiters; three specimens of a chail engine, invented, improved, and manufactured by Richmond and Chandler, of Salford; (new implement) an oilcake breaker and bone mill, and (new implements) two corn bruisers or oat mills, in- vented and manufactured by the exhibiters; two sizes of a corn bruiser, invented and manufactured by Richmond and Chandler, of Salford; (new implement) a combined thrashing

and winnowing machine, portable, invented and manufactured by the exhibiters; a portable two-horse thrashing machine and horse gear, invented and manufactured by Barrett, Exall, and Andrews; a patent Vandyke hand thrashing machine, invented and manufactured by Heusman and Son; a flax seeding ma- chine, invented and manufactured by R. Robinson; (new implement) a churn, invented and manufactured by A. Willard; two specimens of a chura, invented by C. J. Authony, of Pitts- burgh, U. S., and manufactured by Burgess and Co. (this machine obtained the prize of the Royal Agricultural Society at Exeter in 1850, and the prize medal at the Great Exhibition in 1851;) a patent churn, invented by J. Dalphin, United States, America, and manufactured by the exhibiters; two Sussex churns, and a compound lever cheese press, manufactured by the exhibiters; a compound lever cheese press, invented and manufactured by the exhibiters; a set of three milk pans, manufactured by the exhibiters; a circular saw table, and (new implement) a machine for cutting and bruising gorse, invented and manufactured by the exhibiters; three American ploughs, manufactured by the exhibiters; a screw lifting jack, a grind- stone with treadle, invented and manufactured by the exhibiters; three specimens of a patent iron plough with two wheels, invented and manufactured by J. and F. Howard, of Bedford; two sets of weighing machines, invented and manufactured by R. Forshaw and Co., of Liverpool; garden seats, and a wrought iron liquid manure pump, invented and manufactured by the exhibiters; two patent iron ploughs, with two wheels, invented and manufactured by Ransome and Co., of Ipswich; a patent force and suction pump, invented by Mr. Kase, United States, America, and manufactured by Samuelson, of Banbury; a set of draining tools, manufactured by the exhibiters; a Budding's patent lawn mowing machine, invented by Budding, manufactured by the exhibiters; a mangle for public use; two circular pig troughs; a long pig trough, and a washing machine, in- vented and manufactured by the exhibiters; an enamelled cast iron manger and water trough with rack, invented and manufactured by Cottam and Hallen, of London; an enamelled cast iron manger and water trough with rack, manufactured by the exhibiters; a portable engine for farm or garden- ing purposes, invented and manufactured by the exhibiters; a manger; a rack; and a trough manufactured of cast iron, manufactured by the exhibiters; six sets of Boyd's patent double action self-adjusting scythe, invented by J. Boyd, of London, and manufactured by the exhibiters; six sets of digging forks, manufactured by W. Lyndon; (new implement) several bundles of strong wire fencing, invented and manufactured by Mus- grave and Co.; two bundles of galvanized wire netting for fencing, manufactured by the exhibiters; a bundle of steel spades, manufactured by W. A. Lyndon; three cast iron stack pillars, and a self-acting gate, invented and manufactured by the exhibiters; two Norfolk pig troughs, invented and manufactured by Barnard and Co.; a small grindstone, invented and manufactured by the exhibiters; and a galvanized iron pail, manufactured by the exhibiters.