520 Report on the Exhibition and Trial of Implements 
MiSCELLANEOUB ARTICLES. 
The show of maduncs, implements, and other articles of a miscellaneous 
character in the yard, both useful and ornamental, was, as usual, extensive 
and various. The Meeting at Carlisle was most successful in this dejiartment, 
and will most likely show a favourable comparison with the Meetings held 
at Lincoln and (iloucester. And there can be no doubt that the character of 
the articles exhibited has been greatly improved the last few years. Many that 
were useless in practice have disappeared altogether, while others have been so 
changed as scarcely to be recognised. This is as it should be. The exhibitors 
themselves are the first to benefit by attending the Society's Meetings, where 
they compare their implements and machines with others of rival manufac- 
ture. Jt would be nearly impossible for the Judges to notice in their Report 
the multitude of things exhibited for which no premiums are offered ; but 
they endeavoured, as far as time permitted, to examine everything that came 
before them as to their economy and usefulness, and their general adaptatioa 
to agricultural affairs. 
The machines that came on first for trial were the turnip cutting and 
pulping machines. In the former very little change is made, excepting some 
improvement in the working jiarts. 
The loUowing is the tabular statement : — 
Root-gutters for Sheep. 
Weight 
Reyistered 
Names of Exliibitors. 
Stand. 
Art. 
Price. 
of 
Power 
required 
to do it. 
Revo- 
lutions. 
Awards. 
Turnips 
in lbs. 
Carsons (Moody) . 
25 
3 
£. s. 
4 10 
40 
5,750 
34i 
Highly CommendeJ. 
Fowler and Fry 
35 
7 
4 0 
40 
10,5U0 
53 
103 
3 
6 6 
40 
7,445 
52 
Samuelson CCompound 
i(;4 
2 
5 10 
40 
2,8i;5 
22i 
Ox-cutter. ") The 
Machine) .... 
(64 
2 
5 10 
40 
4,446 
30 
Sheep-cutter. 5 Premium. 
Forshaw and Co. (Com- 
9 
5 15 
40 
5,7S0 
34t 
Sheep-cutter. 
pound Maciiine . 
9 
5 15 
40 
3,495 
191 
Ox cutter. 
Kichmond andCliandler 
1 
14 
4 10 
40 
9,490 
62 
Ilansome ^; Sims (Com- 
(95 
39 
5 10 
40 
6,500 
37i 
Sheep-cutler. 
pound Machine) . 
\ii 
39 
5 )U 
40 
4,240 
30 
Ox-cutter. 
Bernhard and Bishop . 
4S 
75 
4 10 
40 
6.860 
3Ci 
Commendeil. 
The prize was given to Samuelson, whose machine worked very easy and 
maintained its reputation. It required less power, but cut the pieces larger, 
than the others. Both Carsons' and Bernliard's machine did their work in a 
very jiroper manner, cutting the turnips into thin slices, so that chaffer meal 
might be incorporated, and possessing in some degi'ee the rare merit of sepa- 
rating the dirt. 
Hand-pulping Machines for Beasts or Sheep. 
It is a question what degree of pulp is intended, and whether a i)erfect pulp 
is desirable. 
The nutritious properties of a turnip arc not increased by either cutting or 
pulping. But the latter process enables the turnip to be incorporated with 
other material, as before mentioned. In this case the more nearly the turnip 
is reduced to a pulp, the more ]ierfectly that result will be attained. But in < 
this highly-reduced pulp there is a partial separation of the liquid and solid 
portions of the turnij). Should any of the saccharine of the turnip be carried 
away in the liquid and lost, which would be the case without great care, this 
new process might be attended with disadvantages. It may be ol)jected, too, 
that sheep can jmlp the turnip themselves with the teeth nature has 2)rovided 
