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Society. They, however, strongly recommended that a Silver Medal be 
awarded to Walter A. Wood as a recognition of Progress, and that high com- 
mendation be bestowed on the binding mechanism emjiloyed by D. M. 
Osborne and Co. 
" Believing in the great importance of this invention, when made practically 
efficient, they are glad to know that the Society propose to continue their 
ofifer of a Gold Medal for an efficient Self-binder." 
The recommendation of the Judges was adopted by the 
Stewards. 
On this occasion the management of the arrangements de- 
volved upon Mr. Bowen Jones and Mr. George Henry Sanday, 
Stewards of the Society, and Mr. H. M. Jenkins, the Secretary 
of the Society, whose exertions were repaid by the entire success 
of the proceedings, there being not a single hitch during either 
day in any important matter to mar the progress of business, 
if we except the showers on the first day. The exceptionally 
fine weather on the second day, the total absence of mist and 
the presence of sunshine, by no means common attributes of 
the weather in the neighbourhood of Liverpool, were some com- 
pensation to all engaged in the field for the inconvenience 
sustained on the previous day. 
The efforts of the Judges to complete the trials in the space 
of two days were noticeable, and it was only through the favour- 
able change in the weather that they were enabled to accomplish 
this object. 
The Silvek Medals. 
Following the awards, the first implement to notice is W. N. 
Nicholson's Patent Grist Mill for power, price 12Z. 10s., and 
called by them " A New Vertical Grinding Mill and Kibbling 
Mill, for beans, peas, oats, barley, maize, linseed, &c., with 
adjustable feed and concave safety appliances for passing stones 
without injury to the grinding surfaces," In this mill VV. N, 
Nicholson and Son claim to have invented what has long been 
looked for, viz. a comparatively cheap mill with few anH easily 
replaced wearing parts, and one which, run at no excessive speed 
and with no excessive power, will yet get quickly through a 
large amount of work, and produce withal an excellent sample. 
The following statistics were given by the exhibitor as evi- 
dence of its practical success : — Run at a speed of 400 to 500 
revolutions per minute, with an actual 3-horse power indicated, 
the results were briefly, per hour, 60 bushels maize kibbled, or 
10 bushels ditto finely ground from the whole corn ; 40 bushels 
beans kibbled, or 14 bushels finely ground ; 12 bushels barley 
finely ground, and a similar quantity of oats. 
The mill may be shortly described as follows : — the top of a vertical 
spindle, A, supported in a tripod frame, and carrying the driving-pulley, is 
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