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MISCELLANEOUS IMPLEMENTS 
EXHIBITED AT PLYMOUTH. 
In the Implement Catalogue of the Plymouth Meeting, pp. xx. 
to xxiii., it is seen that, out of upwards of ninety exhibits entered 
as " New Implements," competing for Silver Medals, ten are 
marked thus *, showing that they were also entered for com- 
petition in Classes 2, 3, and 4, for money prizes. As these 
competitions are the subject of special papers, entries so marked 
will not be noticed here. 
As it is not possible to give full details of mechanical construc- 
tion, or an exhaustive consideration of adaptability to agricultural 
requirements, all that will be attempted by the writer is to call 
attention to the more salient points of both in some of the more 
noteworthy exhibits, leaving it to the wisdom of an intending 
purchaser to satisfy himself, before buying, that the appliance is 
capable of doing its work efficiently. 
The entries which are the subject of this notice will be taken 
in their catalogue order, precedence being given, however, to 
those which were, on the recommendation of the Judges (Messrs. 
Thomas Stirton and James Edwards), awarded Silver Medals, viz., 
Articles 381, 710, 2539, 3333. 
Silver Medals. 
Messrs. T. Bradford & Co.'s " Arch Albany " Butter Worker 
(Art. 381) differs from the Workers now in ordinary use in 
three important particulars : — 
The table (see fig. 1) forms, instead of an inclined plane, an arch with 
a rise in the centre of something like 2i inches ; the roller, instead of being 
a fluted cylinder, takes the form of a wooden screw with threads of a some- 
what similar section to that of the flutings on the old roller ; and, thirdly, 
galvanised malleable iron grooves, arched to follow the line of the table, 
ensure the true working of the side guide rollers, and at the same time give 
great strength and rigidity' to the whole structure. 
This machine was tried in the Dairy, with some 9 lb. or 10 lb. 
of butter, by Miss Maidment in the presence of the Judges, 
and, though using it for the first time, she considered that the 
butter was thoroughly worked in one-third less time than would 
have been required by a worker of tho old type, and it is quite 
possible, as is claimed by the Exhibitor, that butter might be 
worked in half the usual time by any one accustomed to its use. 
This important saving of time is without doubt due to the 
arched table and the screw roller. The buttermilk escapes at 
