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strong and complete implement, which separates, if wanted, the 

 dust for calves, breaks the cake large for beasts or small for sheep, 

 and powders it for manure. 



Corn-dean'mg Machines. — Corn-cleaning or dressing machines 

 seemed to have exercised the ingenuity of several well-established 

 makers, and the workmanship bestowed on them may be pro- 

 nounced to be of an improved order ; but no very particular supe- 

 rioritv being discernible among these implements, the Society's prize 

 was not awarded. The Earl of Ducie exhibited a barley hum- 

 meller, fitted with a fan-blast, an addition which may be found to 

 give greater efficiency to these recently introduced and useful 

 appendages to barn-machinery. Mr. Cartmell's (of Liverpool) 

 corn-kibbling machine, rewarded at the last Meeting, merits notice 

 and commendation for its excellent workmanship, and for the 

 method of regulating the distance between the rollers, by which 

 they are set closer or wider, and always kept parallel with each 

 other; instead of being ill-adjusted, as they commonly are, by 

 a screw at each end. 



Turnip -cutters. — A variety of turnip-cutters Vvas produced, and 

 the premium was awarded for an implement constructed by Messrs. 

 Sanders and Williams, of Bedford. It was not, however, without 

 much doubt and hesitation that the judges determined on assign- 

 ing this prize to any one of the competing makers. They feel that 

 the turnip-slicer is a machine of such consequence to agricul- 

 turists, that a marked preference — of which a premium is the 

 index — should only be accorded after a trial of the most satis- 

 factory nature ; and this cannot be instituted in the month of July, 

 nor in the show-yard of the Meeting. The only proper site for de- 

 termining the fjualifications of these implements is the field, and 

 during a winter's season. It would then infallibly appear which 

 among rival machines was preferable, on a trial with roots in a 

 soft and a frozen state, and under the circumstances of great 

 Cjuantities being required for daily use. The machine which 

 worked v/ith the least labour, made the least waste, <Scc., would 

 then manifest its equalities, and a safe judgment could be pro- 

 nounced. 



To Messrs. II. and T. Proctor, of Bristol, a prize of 3/. was 

 awarded for a turnip and chaff cutter combined,* so as to produce, 

 at a single operation, a mixture of the two kinds of food, or each 

 could be worked separately. 



Churns. — No churns were exhibited. 



Cheese-pressers. — The premium of 51. was awarded to Mr. W. 

 J. Gingell, of Bristol, for his cheese-presser, as it appeared to 

 possess, in a superior degree, the properties of simplicity, and of 

 adaptation to the capacity of the dairy-maid. The force is de- 

 rived from a single lever, with moveable weights. The action on 



