Miscellaneous Implements Exhibited at Plymouth. 629 
oth by hand above, and by foot and treadle, giving a vertical 
ressure from below, causing the butter instantly to take the 
)rm of the chamber or box in which it is placed, in much the 
ime way as pressed bricks are made. This table would be likely 
io find a place in factories and large dairies. 
Mr. T. B. Burns, North Cornwall "Works, Camelford, exhibited 
i Hurricane Lantern (Art. 666), for use by shepherds and stock- 
nen in warming milk for feeding lambs, &c. A tin bottle to 
lold the milk fits into a horizontal chamber in the top of the 
amp, and is thus kept warm without trouble or attention at a 
distance from the house. If found to answer this purpose, 
there are many farmers who would find it useful. 
Hie Aylesbury Dairy Co. showed " The Danish " Hand 
Separator (Art. 751), to separate thirty-five gallons of milk per 
i hour. The novelty claimed is the addition of a " cream regu- 
lator" to a hand separator, with the object of making thick or 
thin cream at pleasure, without altering the feed, or the speed, 
or the quality of the skim milk. On trial it worked up to the 
rate of nearly thirty-five gallons per hour, with a speed of 6,000 
revolutions, but analyses of two samples of skim milk, one taken 
while making thick, and the other while making thin cream, 
showed an appreciable difference in the percentage of butter fat. 
The Western Counties Agricultural Co-operative Association, 
Plymouth, exhibited (Art. 807) a Farm "Weigh-bridge. This 
is recommended to be allowed to enter p? a new implement next 
year, as it already holds out great promise of meeting an urgent 
need, viz. better facilities to farmers for weighing their stock 
and produce at home. At present a farmer is exceptionally 
fortunate if he is within reasonable reach of a weigh-bridge, 
whilst to have one on his own farm is almost out of the 
question, unless it is a very large occupation. 
Messrs. Allan Jones & Co., Gloucester, showed a Fowl House 
(Art. 952). The system of keeping poultry in movable houses 
is on the increase. In this one the whole floor tilts outwards, 
is easily cleaned, and is strong and well made. 
Messrs. W. & T. Avery, Digbeth, Birmingham. — Weighing 
Machine and Cart Combined f Art. 1292). It is difficult to see 
what is the object of this combination. Perhaps it is fortunate 
that both the weight of the machine, and of the money re- 
quired to buy it, put it quite out of the reach of any ordinary 
farmer. 
The same Exhibitors had a Weighing Machine and Waggon 
Combined (Art. 1293), to which the above remarks apply with 
greater force. The fact would appear to be altogether lost sight of 
that farm horses probably do more than half their carting "work 
