772 The Trials of Cider-making Plant at Glastonbury. 
The question of cleanliness, involved in the use of pressing 
cloths, must, probably, be resolved in favour of reed-straw as 
against canvas, since washing is dispensed with in the former 
case, while it is a necessary part of Workman's system. There 
is also the question of comparative cost, reed-straw being, of 
course, cheaper than the cloths, but neither consideration weighs 
much against the solid advantages which the Gloucestershire men 
appeared to the Judges to have established for their system. This 
plant, comprising mill and press, was awarded the First Prize. 
Hand-power Plant. 
Workman's Hand-power Plant consists of a mill and press, 
similar in construction to, but smaller in size than, his power 
plant, the mill, however, being furnished with a different feed. 
This consists of a wooden roller closely set with wrought-iron 
studs, which pass at every revolution through a horizontal row 
of similar studs forming a fixed portion of the mill. There is no 
plunger, as in the power-mill feed, the apples falling from the 
hopper through an adjustable slide direct to the feed roll, which 
first breaks and then delivers them to the crushing rolls. This 
arrangement is not quite so effective as the "plunger" feed 
already described, but was much superior to that of any other 
mill. 
The machine received 900 lb. of apples at 1.4 p.m., and 
finished grinding in 17 minutes, or at the rate of l'SS minutes 
per 100 lb. of fruit, while the press was started at 2-7 and 
completed its work in 16 minutes. The total quantity of juice 
produced was 55 gallons, equal to 6T gallons expressed in P77 
minutes from each 100 lb. of apples. This plant, comprising 
mill and press, was awarded the Second Prize. 
Bambers Hand-power Plant departed rather widely in 
method from the common practice of cider-pressing, and was 
consequently regarded with a good deal of interest by the prac- 
tical cider-makers present at the competition. 
His mill received 900 lb. of apples, and started grinding at 
11.58 a.m., the work being finished in 47 minutes, or at the rate 
of 5-22 minutes for every 100 lb. of apples. ' This apparently 
slow rate of grinding resulted from the method employed, which, 
for the sake of cl ?arness, must next be described. So far as grinding 
is concerned, Bamber makes his pulp much like other people, but 
instead of building a " cheese," like Dening, or pressing between 
cloths, like Workman, he hangs a sack under his mill rolls, and, 
when this is full, removes it, with the aid of the man employed 
