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lieport on the Mhcetlaneous tyrfptements 
I. Silver Medals. 
As in former years, the Society offered ten silver medals, 
the award of which Judges could recommend only "in cases of 
sufficient merit in new implements for agricultural or estate 
purposes."' 
It is a pity that some implement makers persuade them- 
selves that unimportant changes in matters of detail constitute 
novelty such as that which the Society seeks to encourage by 
its silver medals. To put a \" bolt, so to speak, where a f" 
bolt has been used before may, without unfairness, be said to 
constitute what some of these gentlemen consider a novelty. 
A little more consideration as to what the Society really intends 
by its offers of medals would save Judges much trouble, and 
these exhibitors disappointment. 
The Nottingham Show was, however, characterised by the 
appearance of several real novelties, not, perhaps, very closely 
allied to, but still touching indirectly, the interests of agriculture. 
Of these, two received silver medals ; a third, had it been more 
strictly agricultural in character, would have deserved similar 
recognition ; while the fourth, a dairy implement, received a 
silver medal. 
The three medals were awarded as follows : — 
Thyss, Lockyer, & Co., of 371 Euston Road, London, N.W., 
for their " Jersey Creamer" (Art. 917). 
Priestman Brothers, of Hull, for their Petroleum Engine, 
4-horse power (Art. 3G03). 
WiiiTMORE & BiNYOX, of Wickham Market, for their Mid- 
dlings Purifier, Weis's Patent (Art. 3885). 
The ^'Jersey Creamer" (Art. 917), exhibited by Messrs. 
Thyss, LocJii/er, & Co., was described and figured in the last 
number of the Journal, and was recommended on that occasion 
for further trial at Nottingham. 
The creamer consists of a group of four shallow tin vessels, each sur- 
rounded by a jacket, also of tin, and provided with japanned tin ventilating 
covers to prevent the access of dust. After the pans are filled with milk, 
warm water is allowed to flow through the jackets, until the milk has 
reached a temperature of 110° Fahr. The hot water is then shut ofl", and 
a circulation of cold water takes its place. By this means a quickly-falling 
temperature is produced, under which, as is well known, cream will rise 
more rapidly than is the case with the ordinary way of setting. Each pan 
is fitted with a tube whose lower end is closed by fine wire gauze, through 
which the skim-milk alone passes on withdrawal of a plug carried on a wire, 
leaving the cream in the pan, whence it is removed by tilting the creamer. 
The implement was charged on Wednesday evening, July 11, 
with thirty-eight quarts of new milk, freshly drawn from cows 
