Award of Medals, ^^c, at Kilhurn. 691 
3. The Judges are also empowered to make special awards of Medals for 
efficient modes of guarding or shielding machinery, especially when worked 
by steam, from contact with persons immediately engaged in attending to 
such machinery while at work. 
4. No Medal shall, in any case, be awarded to any Implement or Miscel- 
laneous Article capable of Trial until it has been subjected to such Trial as 
the Stewards may direct. 
The following were awarded Silver Medals : — 
No. in Catalogue. 
10,347 to 10,352. Messrs. A. Ransome and Co., for Machinery for making 
Butter Firkins. 
291. Messrs. Samuelson and Co., for Patent Hay Press. 
365. Messrs. McKenzie and Sons, for Gorse Masticator. 
Messrs. Carter and Co., High Holborn ; Messrs. Little and Ballantyne, 
Carlisle ; Messrs. Paul and Son, Cheshunt ; Messrs. W. Paul and 
Son, Waltham Cross ; and Messrs. W. Cutbush and Son, Highgate, 
for their efforts, under the unfavourable circumstances of the 
weather, to decorate the railway embankment projecting into the 
Exhibition grounds. 
The Aylesbury Dairy Company, for their exhibition of Dairy Appli- 
ances at work in the International Dairy. 
M. G. De Laval, for Swedish Cream Separator. 
Messrs. A. Ransome and Co., of Stanley Works, Chelsea, were 
awarded a Silver Medal for Machinery for making Butter-firkins, 
both on account of the great saving in cost over hand labour, 
and of the superior character of the work. Mr. AUender, the 
Managing Director of the Aylesbury Dairy Company, considers 
that the use of these casks over the ordinary Irish butter-tubs 
will result in the saving of at least 1 lb. of butter each journey, 
which wastes away between the staves, to say nothing of the 
better preservation of the butter when protected from dirt and 
oxidation. The five machines required for the process, together 
with a vertical engine and boiler, cost 345Z. : and Mr. Ransome 
states that with unskilled labour, principally boys, such a set of 
machines can turn out 1600 casks a week, at a cost of 2\d. each 
for labour, as against 9<f. by hand labour. The only work done 
by hand is the fitting in of the dowells, and the closing of the 
two portions which form the head, the fitting in of the heads 
and the hooping with split hazel-rods ; and it is a fact worth 
noticing, that these operations occupy more time than all the 
other series together. Any wood can be used ; oak and beech 
for preference. At Kilburn, white poplar staves were employed. 
It would be beyond the scope of my Report to enter into a 
detailed description of the admirable machinery that has been 
invented by Messrs. Rapsome to effect the object. Those who 
are desirous of further information will find a very clear and 
well illustrated report in the number of ' Engineering ' for 
June 27th, 1879. I may, however, just name the various ma- 
chines, with their respective uses. It should be understood that 
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