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Report on the Trial of Dairy Implements 
a steam-engine, was fixed in the trial-shed for the purpose of 
supplying motive power. Several of the exhibitors had con- 
siderable difficultv in fixing their churns, so as not to cause 
the belts to slip. This entailed a loss of time. The shafting 
was driven at a speed of 81 revolutions per minute. ^lessrs. 
Follows and Bate's churn, No. 4022, a small barrel-churn, 
was constructed of thin cedar, and can be easily cleaned. 
Those belonging to J. Brown, Llewellyn and Son, Robinson 
and Richardson, and W. Waide, were all on the ordinary 
barrel principle. R. Tinkler's was a barrel-churn, with dia- 
gonal beaters and intermediate action. ^Ir. G. Hathaway's 
was an improved barrel-churn, with a metallic mouthpiece, and 
the dash-boards of which were readily removed for facility of 
cleaning. Mr. Ahlborn's differed materially from anything in use 
in this country, its outward appearance more nearly resembling 
the old Scotch plunge-churn of a bygone age ; it was a vertical 
Fig. 1.— ITr. Ahlborn's Prize Hohtein Chum (^No. 2116), in Class II. 
