580 The Trials of Light Portable Motors at Plymouth. 
the Suffolk horses, the Kerry cattle, the Shropshire sheep, and 
black pigs other than Berkshires. The last-named were of high 
local interest, as the groups of visitors around their pens served 
to show ; the same may be said of the South Devon cattle and 
sheep. The Poultry tent came in for an extensive share of 
patronage, especially on the days of popular prices, whilst the 
Dairy attracted at times inconvenient crowds. Not less was 
this the case with the Bee Department, which was resorted 
to by many who wished to learn. One other section — a very 
important one — demands a word, and that is the Trial Yard. 
It was to be found behind the shedding on the right of the 
entrance, and here the Judges of Implements were for many 
days engaged in the difficult and dusty work of deciding upon 
the relative merits of portable motors, of grist mills, and of 
disintegrators . 
Bemote as Plymouth is from many of the great centres of 
population, none who visited the South Devon coast in June will 
have carried away other than an agreeable recollection of a 
successful gathering. The Meeting was throughout both har- 
monious and pleasant — qualities that are in themselves in no 
small degree conducive to success. By fixing its Country Meet- 
ing for an earlier period than was the case previous to last year, the 
Society would seem to have struck a vein of fine weather, which 
all its well-wishers will hope may prove inexhaustible. 
THE TRIALS OF LIGHT PORTABLE 
MOTORS AT PLYMOUTH. 
These trials were arranged to afford data for the award of prizes 
offered by the Society for Light Portable Motors, as follows : — 
Light portable motors, steam or other, up to five brake-horse-power: — 
(«) Motors using solid fuel (including steam engines and hot air engines). 
First Prize, 30/. Second Prize, 201. 
(b) Motors using liquid or gaseous fuel. First Prize, 30/. Second 
Prize, 20/. 
Judges. 
Dan. Pidgeon, C.E., Walsingham House, Piccadilly, W. 
Prof. Unwin, F.K.S., 7 Palace Gate Mansions, Kensington, W. 
The following is a list of the competing engines, together 
with the conditions of trial : — 
