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THE FARMER'S MAGAZINE 



tubes will be allowed of less diameter thau 2| inches, nor 

 thinner thau No. 12 on the metal gauge. Also the leading 

 particulars of the engine he intends to exhibit ; such as — 



(«) The horse-power of the -engine. 



(6) The diameter of the cylinder. 



(c) The length of stroke. 



(d) The number of strokes per miuute. 



(e) The diameter of crank-shaft. 



(/) The diameter and weight of fly-wheel. 



Ig) The diameter of driving pulley (which should not be 

 less than 7 inches wide, nor travel less than 1,200 

 feet per minute). 



The greatest attention will be paid by the Mechanical 

 Judges to the drawings and specifications relating to 

 the builera of the Prize Fixed Engines. Such 

 drawings and specifications will remain the copyright 

 property of the Society ; and will be published in 

 the Journal of the Society for the purpose of guiding 

 its members in making their purchtiaes. 



4. The engine exhibited must be supplied with a governor, 

 and have a starting-cock to regulate the supply of steam, and 

 be fitted with a thread equal to the 2-iuch gas pipe. 



5. If the engine is worked on the expansive principle, a 

 simple means must be used for cutting off the steam. No 

 force-pump must be fitted with more than two valves, and 

 these must be easy of access. If a heater for water be used, 

 it must be so constructed that the engine will work either 

 with or without it. 



7. In adjudicating on the merits of the fixed engines, refer- 

 ence will be had to the price, simplicity of construction, pro- 

 bable durability of the whole and in detail, and tlie means 

 provided for easy access to the working parts, and to economy 

 of fuel. 



CONDITIONS OF FIXED STEAM BOILERS.— 

 "SPECIAL PRIZE." 



The boiler must possess an effective heating surface of 25 

 superfjciiil feet and three-fourths ol one foot superiicial of 

 effective fire-grate surfiice for each nominal horse-power. 

 Clear and concise drawings and specifications, with the 

 cost of forming the boiler-setting, with its flues and pas- 

 sages up to the entrance into a chimney, must be furnished 

 to the Society, for publication, should the Council think fit 

 to publish them. • 



If tubes are used, none less than 3 inches diameter and 1 

 inch apart will be allowed ; and no tube-plates shall be used 

 which are not made either of" Low Moor" or Bowling iron, 

 and bearing the ironmaster's trading mark, Thefittings which 

 the exhibitor supplies must be shown with the boiler, and a 

 guarantee given that he will supply the public with boilers 

 and fittings of a similar description, at the price named, for 

 twelve months certain after the prize has been awarded to 

 the exhibitor. 



CONDITIONS OF CHAFF-CUTTERS AND 

 MILLS. 



Chaff-cutters will be required to cut chaff three-eighths 

 of one inch in length, in the trial. The exhibitor may pro- 

 vide means for cutting various lengths, to show the useful- 

 ness of his production. The Judges will be instructed to 

 use thin slips of wood for determining the length of chaff 

 cut ; and if the deviation from the given length of three- 

 eighths of a'l inch is, in their judgment, too much departed 

 from, they may refrain from taking any notice of the ma- 

 chine in question ; and in estimating the weight of chaff 

 cut, allowance must be made and taken according to the 

 length of chaff cut. 



Grinding mills will be fairly set to work, and their pro- 

 duction compared with a sample which the Judges shall 

 cause to be produced by one mill, and which produce shall, 

 in their estimation, be adapted for the farmers' purposes 

 of feeding. The mill under trial shall be " .set" until it 

 produces like meal; and the time, power, a,ui qiiatitity of 

 work noted. 



Steel mills for grinding will not be expected to produce 

 softened meal, although any mill or combination, with 

 rollers or otherwise, which will do so, will receive consi- 

 deration from the Judges ; but mills of this class generally 

 ■will be tried and compared in the class as grinding mills 

 with stones are compared in their class. 



SPEED AND PRESSURE. 



All implements turned by the winch or hand-crank shall 

 not be worked, at any trial, beyond the following speed — 

 namely, 42 revolutions per minute for r2-inch crank, 37 

 revokftions for 14-inch crank, 32 revolutions for IC-inch 

 crank ; and, in addition to the winch-handle which must be 

 supplied with the machine, for the purpose of trial, a pulley 

 not less than 4 inches wide, of the same radius as the 

 winch, must be fitted to each machine. The machine, in 

 its trial, will be driven by the pulley of the testing ma- 

 chine, which pulley is 31 inches diameter, and will make 

 32^ revolutions per minute. 



Chaff-cutting and other small machines, worked usually 

 by horses and by steam power, will be worked, when under 

 trial, by pulleys not less than 5i inches wide, moving with 

 a velocity of, or about, 900 feet per minute. 



Ex'nibitors are requested to pay particular attention to 

 the instructions given for the speed and working of their 

 machines, as the Judges may refuse to try any machine not 

 fitted in accordance with the instructions. 



The working pressure of steam to be 451bs. per square 

 inch, which must not be exceeded. 



The Council adojited this report, and ordered that its 

 recomnQendations should be introduced into the imple- 

 Boent prize sheet for the Chester Meeting, now in the 

 press, and awaiting publication. 



Age of Huils. — On the motion of Mr. Torr, 

 seconded by Mr. Mil ward, it was decided that the age 

 at which the old Bulls might compete should be raised 

 from four to six years. 



PotJLTRY Sho\>. — Mr. Milward gave notice, that 

 at the Monthly Council, in February next, he should 

 move that after 1858 there shall be no exhibition of 

 Poultry at the country meetings of the Society. 



Entry Fees and Shedding. — The Expenses Com- 

 mittee having called the attention of the Council to the 

 contribution which, in Iheir opinion, the exhibitors of 

 stock (as in the case of those of implements) should 

 make toward the great expenses incurred for the ac- 

 commodation of their animals during the show, it was 

 resolved that exhibitors of stock should contribute to 

 the expenses of the yard. It was then, on the motion 

 of Mr. Torr, resolved, "That the charge for all stock 

 exhibited shall be 5s. for each entry, in addition to the 

 10s. paid by non-members." This resolution was 

 ordered to be added to the prize sheet, 



Showyard. — Lord Portman, as Chairman of the 

 General Chester Committee, read to the Council the 

 report of that committee, in which it was strongly re- 

 commended that the arrangements for the showyard 

 at Chester should be finally settled by February next ; 

 and with a view to enable the council to decide on the 

 arrangement to be adopted, the committee would be pre- 

 pared by that time to lay before them the plan which 

 the committee would recommend for adoption. 



Dinner. — On the motion of Sir Watkin Wynn, Bart., 

 M.P., seconded by Mr. Fisher Hobbs, the Council post- 

 poned until their monthly meeting in February the fur- 

 ther consideration of the question whether any dinner 

 should be ordered under the responsibility of the society, 

 Mr. Banks Stanhope, M.P., gave notice of the follow- 

 ing motion he should bring forward on that occasion : — 

 " That no dinner of the Royal Agricultural Society of 

 England shall for the future take place at the annual 

 country meeting, unless the locality shall guarantee a 

 sufficient number of tickets to defray the expense." 



Implement Judges. — The Council decided that it 

 shall be the duty of the Implement Committee, in each 

 year, to report to the Council the number of judges re- 

 quired for the implement department, previously to the 

 meeting of the committee for the selection of judges. 

 The Council resolved not to adopt the recommendation 

 of the Expenses' Committee on the question of the num- 

 ber of the judges of stock. 



