The Trials of Grist Mitts and Disintegrators at Plymouth. G23 
machines are so great that no attempt will be made, as was 
done in the case of the mills, to attach relative figures of merit 
to these two competitors. They occupy each such different 
ground that any such attempt would be misleading. For the 
man who wants to disintegrate everything, the " Devil " stands 
ready ; for the agriculturist who only wants to grind bones and 
cake, Nicholson's machine furnishes all that he desires. 
Mr. W. H. Coward's Disintegrator (No. 3485) did not come 
to trial at all. The machine, instead of being in place, under 
Regulation 6, ten days before the Show, was not completely 
erected until after the disintegrator trials had ended, so that the 
Judges were compelled, very unwillingly, to pass it by. While, 
however, they regretted Mr. Coward's disappointment at missing 
a trial which, he naively confessed, would give himself valuable 
information, not yet in his possession, as to the capacities of his 
own machine, they are sure that nothing was lost to agriculture 
by the lapse in question. Mr. Coward's machine was quite 
unfitted — whether by its massiveness, its high price, or its con- 
fessed inability to deal either with bones or cake — for a farmer's 
use, and if it could have been set to work upon limestone chips, 
as the exhibitor desired, nothing of any value to agriculture 
could have been demonstrated. The case, indeed, is one where 
a fuller knowledge of what was really wanted would have saved 
the exhibitor much disappointment, and, it is to be feared, a 
heavy and useless expenditure of money. 
Table VI. 
Name of exhibitor 
Cata- 
logue 
No. 
Material 
Quan- 
tity of 
material 
Time 
occu- 
pied 
Total I Units of 
units of I power 
power ' required 
consumed! per cwt. 
Quan- 
tity per 
hour 
Mean 
horse- 
power 
Hardy Patent Tick Co. 
2539 | 
Bones 
Cotton-cake 
cwt. 
5-97 
5-40 
min. 
18 
6-75 
9,198,150 
2,230,000 
1,539,950 
412,963 
cwt. 
19-90 
48-0 
15-48 
10-0 
Nicholson & Song . . 
3331 1 
Bones 
Cotton-cake 
51 25 
5-82 
16 
16-5 
3,406,600 
1,339,000 
664,702 
230,171 
19-2 
21-1 
6-45 
245 
Harrison Carter . . . 
3403 | 
Bones 
Cotton-cake 
2-63 
4-06 
16 
12 
4,563,300 
3,263,500 
1,735,095 
803,817 
9-8 
20-3 
8-64 
824 
The thanks of the Judges are hereby tendered to the 
Stewards of Implements; to the Engineering Staff, for tech- 
nical assistance promptly and courteously rendered ; to Messrs. 
Dayey, Paxman & Co., for the loan of their excellent motors, 
which did yeoman's service ; and to Messrs. Avery & Co., for 
the use of weighing machinery. 
Dan. Pidgeox. 
