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Rcjport on the Exhibition of Implements 
Corn and Meal Mills. — A large assortment of domestic hand- 
mills was exhibited by Mr. Alexander Dean, of Birmingham, the 
grinding parts of which were composed of metallic, French-burr, 
and grey-stone materials. Mr. Dean's attention to this subject 
and his good workmanship deserve the encouragement of agri- 
culturists. Several of his mills were applied to the force of small 
steam-engines as well as horse-power. The Judges were unable 
to determine between the respective merits of Mr. Dean's metallic 
and French burr mills, and of a metallic mill recently invented 
by Mr. Luke Herbert of Dover, exhibited by Messrs. Ransome 
and other manufacturers. Mr. Graburn has undertaken, at the 
request of the Council, to submit a specimen of these mills to a 
lengthened trial in his household, and to report on their respective 
(jualities and performance. 
Corn Weif/hers and Meters. — The silver medal was adjudged 
to the Earl of Ducie for a self-registering corn-meter invented by 
Mr. Richard Clyburn. This is a well-contrived and useful in- 
strument, and will be appreciated by feeders of stock, &c., as 
conducing to exactness of measure, diminishing the chance of 
robbery, and obviating mistakes of count, as the quantity ab- 
stracted from the granary must pass through the machine and be 
registered on the dials, which are calculated to denote 80 bushels 
in measures of a quarter of a peck each. 
A simple corn-weighing machine was exhibited and invented 
by Mr. Colvile, M.P., but as it was not furnished with a self- 
registering apparatus, its utility is bounded as compared with the 
foregoing. Nevertheless, when it is wished to give small deter- 
minate weights of grain to animals, in preference to measure, and 
without regard to a mechanical record of them, this little instru- 
ment will be found to answer the purpose. 
Turnip Cutters. — A number of these implements appeared in 
the show-yard, the best of which seemed to partake more or less of 
the well-known principle introduced by Mr. Gardner. A prize of 
21. was awarded to Mr. Thomas Wedlake, of Hornchurch, for a 
machine provided with extremely simple means for cutting two 
sizes of slice for beasts and sheep, which is effected by reversing 
the motion of the cutting-cylinder, and turning over a plate in the 
feed-box, which directs the roots to one or other side so as to 
subject them to the action of the different knives fixed on the 
cylinder. 
Root Graters. — Two machines were exhibited for grating tur- 
nips and other bulbous roots to a pulp or very small particles, by 
Mr. E. Moody, of Maiden Bradley, Wilts, and Mr. John Green, 
jun., of Newtown, Worcester. It is urged by these gentlemen 
that there is considerable economy in sq reducing mangold- 
wurzel, carrots, and turnips as to mix them more intimately with 
hay and straw chaff; they assert that cattle eat the mixture more 
