572 Report on the Exlnhition and Trial of Implements 



Making Tile. 



Scraggs .. 

 Clayton . . 

 Whitehead 



Net weight 

 of Clay 

 screened. 



cwt. qrs. lbs. 

 6 24 

 6 22 

 G 1 2 



Time \ Time 

 filling \ actually- 

 Machine. ' at Work. 



Number 

 of good 

 Tiles 13i 

 in. long. 



227 

 193 

 236 



Total 

 units of 

 Power. 



33,550 

 35,540 

 30,700 



Units of 

 power to 

 make 

 100 feet 

 of Tile. 



13.157 

 16,378 

 11,541 



Length 

 of Tile 

 made per 

 minute 

 in feet. 



51* 



39-6 



56* 



The annexed trial of Mr. Clayton's brick machine with steam power, which 

 puotged the clay and made perfect bricks at the rate of 2500 j^er hour at a cost 

 in labour of about 20d. per 1000 , we consider an element in accomplishing an 

 object the Society has so much at heart, viz. " cheap dwellings for the poor," 

 a desideratum well worthy of every friend of civilized society. We have 

 awarded him a prize of 5Z., and must express a high opinion of the effective 

 manner in which his machine did its work ; at the same time that we point 

 out the great discrepancy between the actual power employed and that de- 

 scribed in the catalogue. 



Clayton's Steam Bkick Machine. 



Forty-two bricks per minute, 12-horse power, five men, four boys ; total cost 

 of making about 20d. per 1000. 



Chamberlain's brick machine we colild not put on trial, which we regretted. 

 By some means it got broken while in the j'ard. There was ample time to 

 replace the broken wheels, which Mr. Chamberlain showed no disposition to 

 do. This we considered somewhat extraordinary conduct, when so much has 

 been written and said of this machine. We must leave the public to draw 

 their own conclusions from it. 



The miscellaneous articles exhibited each year are always objects of pectiliar 

 interest, inasmuch as they are either appendages to assist in the working out 

 of a system incitrred by the employment of machinery for agricultural pur- 

 poses, or articles of utility by themselves, or they add to the comfort and con- 

 venience of domestic life. Taking the catalogue seriatim, our first attention 

 was attracted to the draining tools, for which and the hand tools generally 

 Burgess and Key stand pre-eminent in the show-yard for their handiness and 

 good workmanship. We beg to award them a prize of 3Z. for the set of drain- 

 ing tools. No. 44. — We next come to Mr. Biggs' sheep-dipping apparatus, but 

 must say that, if there is any profit in cradling the sheep, it is to the vendor of 

 the dipping-composition, &c. ; as the quantity of liquid the sheep carry away 

 in their coats, the loss of time in strapping and unstrapping, and the number of 

 times the animal has to be handled, would make a great charge on the fleece. 

 — The gutter tile spouting exhibited by Mr. Lawes is very good, were it not 

 for the high price put upon it. — The skin-fleeces shown by Barry Brothers, 

 to establish the efficacy of Long's dressing, only prove what nice wool might 

 be obtained with great care and attention, provided it would answer ; but as 

 there were no corresponding skins shown of sheep kept in the open field with 

 the ordinary care, &c., Ave can form no comparative opinion of its merits gene- 

 rally, but think we might recommend it to some of the exhibitors of prize sheep 

 in lieu of their own. On the other hand, from 1 lb. to 3 lbs. of wool will not 

 repay the cost of dipping every six weeks, as it certainly may be obtained by 

 dipping twice a year. — Mr. KeevePs patent cheesemaking tub, by Griffiths and 

 Co., is worthy the attention of daiiy farmers, as whatever tends to lessen ex- 



