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The Judges regret that it was not possible to try these 

 machines, as a comparison of the draught required by each, as 

 well as a test of their actual capacity for doing the work 

 claimed for them, would have been very instructive. 



No. 3719, Stand 293.— Conical Turnip Cutter. Exhibited 

 by Messrs. Blackstoue.& Co., Stamford. Price 4/. 10s. — The 

 usual barrel, instead of being horizontal, works in a vertical 

 position and is conical, it being driven by bevel gear. There 

 are three sets of knives and three hoppers, which, however, 

 cannot contain any large quantity of turnips. The last piece 

 of the turnip is cut into strips by a knife fixed in the casing 

 of the machine so that no fiat pieces are delivered in the feed. 



Fig. 3— Potato Digger. 



No. 3832, stand 297. — Chaffcuiter Knife Sharijerier. Ex- 

 hibited by Messrs. E. H. Bentall & Co., Heybridge, Maldon, 

 Essex. — It will be known that the sharpening of chaff cutter 

 knives is not a rapid nor easy operation. In this firm's chaff- 

 cutter, as shown, the fly-wheel carrying the knives can be cast 

 loose by undoing a couple of nuts at the hub, the shaft then 

 revolving without a wheel. To each of the arms carrying 

 the knives a small lug with a hole bored in it is cast, into 

 which is inserted the pivot of an arm carrying a small emery 

 wheel which is driven by a round leather belt from the now 

 freely revolving shaft. The emery wheel is tilted to the proper 



