766 The Trials of Cider-makivg Plant at Glastonbury. 
"Zummerzet" of to-day thinks and speaks, in the hearing of 
all men, of the winning machines and their sweating attendants. 
" This b'aint zider-makin', I tell 'ee ; this here be tur'ble haard 
wurk." Alas for the change from the " good old times," before 
the tyrant Industrialism was crowned King of England ! The 
devil takes the hindmost everywhere now except — does one hope, 
or dream ? — in the dear old West Country, where " it is always 
afternoon," and where, fit or unfit, the delicious " easy all " of 
later monkish days, thank God, survives. But it is time to turn 
from monasteries and monks to the business of the Royal 
Agricultural Society, from dreaming to doing. 
Four out of the five sets of cider-making plant entered for 
trial at Plymouth put in an appearance at Glastonbury, and if 
the fifth — Ladd's Mill and Press — were absent, this was bo 
exclusively designed for private use that the competition lost 
nothing in practical interest by its absence. 
Conditions of Trial. 
The subjoined points of merit were determined by the Stew- 
ard and Judges in consultation before the trials commenced. 
Mill Press 
1. Power absorbed per unit of work performed .20 15 
2. Time occupied „ „ „ . 10 10 
3. Efficiency 20 25 
4. Mechanical construction 10 10 
5. Attendance required 10 10 
6. Price 10 10 
Total .... 80 80 
The judges appointed by the Council were : — 
F. J. Hayes, The Elms, West Pennard, Glastonbury. 
Dan. Pidgeon, C.E., Walsingham House, Piccadilly. 
The following machines competed, and their trials will, for 
convenience sake, be described in the order given below instead 
of in their actual sequence. 
Description 
Makers' names and addresses 
Catalogue 
number 
Thick 
Mill 
Press 
Power Plant 
Hand Plant. 
Dening & Co., Crimchard 
Works, Chard 
Workman & Sons, SHm- 
bridge, Gloucestershire . 
Workman & Sons, Slim- 
bridge, Gloucestershire . 
Joseph Bamber, Saul 
Street, Preston 
23C9-70 
2361 
23G3 
2364 
£ j. <l. 
17 10 0 
19 0 0 
110 0 
110 0 
£ t. d. 
38 0 0 
19 10 0 
15 0 0 
14 0 0 
