328 Rejjort on the Exhibition and Trial of Implements 



Draining Tools. — Mapplebeck and Lowe received the prize. 



Steaming Apparatus. — Stanley received this prize ; it was tried in com- 

 petition with Thompson's, and the result of the trial was decidedly in favour 

 of the former. 



Oil- Cake Crushers, — Hornsby's was the best ; the teeth on the rollers were 

 the best calculated to keep clean. Below are the performances of the three 

 tried — each being allowed to crush ten pounds of cake, both as food for cattle 

 ^nd as manure. 



Name. 



stand. 



Article. 



Price. 



Quantity 

 Crushed. 



Eevolutions. 



Weight on 

 Break. 



Comparative 

 Power. 





Hornsby . 

 Nicholson 

 Garrett . . . 



11 



33 

 54 



16 

 4 

 30 



£. 

 7 



5 



9 



lbs. 

 jlO 

 t 10 

 jlO 

 110 

 MO 

 1 10 



37 



33i 



60 



37 



51 



32 



7 

 6 

 7 



2i 

 7^ 

 31 



259 

 201 

 420 

 97 

 357 

 120 



For Manure. 

 „ Cattle. 

 „ Manure. 

 „ Cattle. 



Manure. 

 „ Cattle. 



Churns. — We commended Burgess and Key's American Churn. 



Steel Digging Forks. — The perfection to w hich the manufacturers of these 

 articles have attained deserves to be more generally known. With the consent 

 of the exhibitors of these forks we made experiments on the strength of the 

 prongs. We commenced by locking two five-tined forks into each other and 

 placing their backs downwards over a round piece of hard wood. We then 

 weighted the handles, so that the strain upon the five tines would be equal to 

 half a ton, but without breaking or permanently bending any of the tines. 

 We afterw^ards put 21 stone upon the end of one prong of each fork, in this 

 case also without injuring them. We awarded a medal to Burgess and Key 

 for their five-tined fork: weight 4 lb. 15 oz., length of prong 13^ inches^ 

 manufactured by Winton and Sons. 



Highly commended — Thompson's five-tined digging fork, and Mapplebeck 

 and Lowe's four-tined fork : weight 4 lb. 12 oz., length of prong 12| inches, 

 manufactured by Lyndon. 



Tussed Whippletrees. — The judges think It necessary to comment upon 

 the serious defect which they observed in the main or (what ought to be) the 

 equalizing whippletree — for this trussed main bar, instead of equalizing the 

 draught, will in all cases increase the weight upon the horse that goes m 

 advance, and proportionally take it off the other, so that this description of bar 

 might seriously injure a spirited quick-stepping horse without any danger 

 being suspected by the driver. Mr. Ransome exhibited the only set in the. 

 yard which had not the defect alluded to above ; but we hope he will improve 

 his main bar so that a farmer may proportion the load between a strong and a 

 weak horse, or between two horses on one side and one on the other. 



Gates. — Hill and Co. exhibited a gate, scientifically made, which we highly 

 commend ; price 1/. Also a trussed gate, w hich we should have highly com- 

 mended, but the truss was too long, which made it liable for horses or cattle 

 to get their legs between the diagonal bars and the gate. Thompson's hinge 

 for a heavy park-gate, Art. 243, deserves notice; also his iron stile. Art. 255. 



Dynamometer for taking draught of Ploughs. — Bentall exhibited one of 

 these instruments, to which we awarded the prize ; although we did so, we 

 cannot recommend it to the public as perfect. It at present has the defect of 

 registering the weight of its own carriage along with that of the plough. W e 



