272 Tlie Agricultural Features of the Paris Exhibition. 
operated upon by a band from that machine. " As the grain 
passes from the winnower it is taken up by a series of cups, and 
delivered into the hopper of the elevator, and, passing through 
the spout, fills the bag which sits on the weighing-machine. 
The weight required is placed on the back of the weighing- 
machine, and when sufficient has fallen into the bag, the descent 
of the weighing-machine disengages the catch (connected to the 
machine by a cord), and the supply is instantly cut off, not a 
grain being wasted." The combination is happy, useful, and 
simple, and elicited much admiration both from foreign and 
English visitors. The construction is so perfect, that it is very 
easy work for one man to drive the machine ; and all the other 
manual labour required is one person to put the grain into the 
winnower, and to remove the bags when full. His Royal 
Highness the Prince of Wales closely inspected the combination, 
and tested the motive-power it required when in full operation, 
remarking, we were informed, as he left it, that a child might 
turn it. This firm, very justly, enjoys a good name for the 
manufacture of winnowers ; and in those exhibited at Paris 
there were some further improvements worthy of notice. One 
is an arrangement whereby the same motion is secured at both 
ends of the riddle. The riddle rests in front on a sliding bar, 
and hangs on chains behind ; and is driven at the centre by a 
crank-wheel connected to a fan-spindle by bevel gear. Small as 
this change is, its importance will be easily conceived, espe- 
cially in the dressing of damp or inferior grain. In addition to 
this, a brush has been attached beneath the bottom-oscillating 
screen, which greatly facilitates the cleaning of the meshes, 
Messrs. Davey, Paxman and Co.'s steam corn-dryer, well known 
to the readers of this Journal, was much admired. 
Of smaller implements, such as chaff-cutters, corn-crushers, 
root-pulpers, cake-breakers, &c., there was almost an endless 
variety ; but though they exhibited improvement there was no 
radical change. In the fine collection shown by Messrs. Rich- 
mond and Chandler, of Salford, was a chaff-cutter provided with 
a lever for reversing the movement of the rollers, both the rollers 
and the feeding web being instantaneously reversed 'by one 
movement of the lever. Thus, as soon as the feed is run back 
the web carries it away from the rollers, rendering it impossible 
for them to catch it on their points or carry it round with them. 
Messrs. Riches and Watts, of Norwich, exliibitcd several of their 
celebrated ' Felton ' and ' Eureka' grist mills ; one of the former 
was shown on a strong four-wheel carriage, with wrought-iron 
axles, and wrought-iron spoke road wheels, upon which a 
chaff-cutter was also fixed. The two machines may be worked 
together or separately, and when fitted with a chaff-cutting 
