on Arjricultural Implements. 



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spread widely, and the advantage must be reg;arded as doubtful, 

 excepting; as regards the steaming of potatoes for pigs ; but even 

 diseased potatoes, if not too far gone, by being thus treated may 

 be rendered good victuals and be stored up for months. It seems 

 hardly worth while to set up expensive fixtures for this purpose 

 only, especially as we have an excellent apparatus, Mr. Stanley's, 

 which, like Soyer's magic stove, may be used when and where it 

 is wanted. When tried* at York it heated 126 gallons of water 

 while another heated but 70, little more than half, with the same 

 allowance of fuel ; yet this inferior one had been the best two 

 years before. 



VI. Cpiurns. 



The pace of the churn was first accelerated by the Americans, 

 who sent us over a churn within the last few years that produced 

 butter after ten minutes' work. It is not quite clear, however, 

 whether this speed be compatible with the finest quality, for the 

 New York Agricultural Society was not saUsfied with the butter 

 so rapidly made. The time in the present trials was reduced 

 to two minutes, and even to one minute, but in the latter case 

 with cream which, having come from Jersey, had been already 

 half churned by the steam-packet. 



Thhteen churns were tried in the first trial, with ordinary cream of good 

 quality; the annexed tabular form will give the results. As will be seen, 

 many of the churns worked equally well, and some of them which did not 

 do so well would perhaps have shown a different result in an atmosphere 

 more congenial to the making of butter. However, in both trials, the 

 small family churn of Lavoisie did its work so well that we awarded it a 

 Medal. Those of Wilkinson, and Burgess and Key, also proved them- 

 selves to be excellent churns; and there was awarded to each a Medal. 

 The Belgian churn of Duchene, though not quite perfect in every part, 

 we consider entitled, as among the foreign churns, to a Medal. 



First Trial of Churns. 



Exhibitors. 



Cream 



Time. 



I^utter. 



Residue. 



Quality. 



Form of 

 Churn. 



Thermometer 





quarts 



min. sec. 



lbs. ozs. 









Air, 



Cream 





4 



11 0 



3 8 





Best. 



Wood. 







Tytherchief .... 



10 



18 0 



9 2 





Soft. 



Tin. 



70 



69 







Ifi 0 



3 12 





Soft. 













I I 0 



8 12 





Soft. 











10 



20 0 



9 4 





Soft. 









Burgess and K ey . . 



4 



10 0 



3 12 





2nd best. 



l^arrel. 







Drummond, American 



fi 



0 0 







Not made. 



Wood. 



72 



71 





2 



2 0 



1 13 





3rd best. 



Tin. 









G 



8 (> 



0 0 





Soft. 











(> 



7 30 



4 2 





Soft. 







74 



De Pourquet .... 



3 



9 0 



-2 6 





Soft. 











19 



9 0 



7 9 





Not all made 











5 



22 0 



4 10 





Indirterent. 



Centrifugal. 







* The trial of Mr. Stanley's apparatus was overlooked accidentally, because a trial 

 was thought unnecessary, there being no moveable apparatus in competition ; but 

 the jury having decided that no prize should be awarded without trial, the over- 



