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used only for turning. Motion is given to the screen by means 
of chain-wheels and gearing, driven from the main axle of the 
machine. 
Messrs. Robinson & Allen, of Water Street, Liverpool, showed 
as a new implement (Art. 913) one of the Fruit Evaporators 
made by the American JManufacturing Company, of Waynes- 
borough, Pennsylvania. This apparatus illustrates a process 
already in extensive and profitable use in the United States, 
which ought to be better known if not largely employed in this 
country. Our farmers, fruit and vegetable growers, often suffer 
loss, sometimes due to the weather, sometimes to over-supply, 
which the practice of fruit-evaporation would always mitigate, 
and sometimes abolish. Meanwhile, their American confreres 
supply the English markets annually with enormous quantities 
of evaporated fruit, chiefly apples, which sell here, throughout 
the winter, at prices varying from 45s. to 55s. per cwt. 
Rider's patent Evaporator is only one among many similar 
machines used by farmers in America, and may, or may not be, 
Fig. 12. — aider's Patent Evaporator. 
the best of its class. But it deserves consideration from the 
members of the Society, because, whatever its comparative merits, 
it points a finger in the direction of progress, and may furnish a 
most useful hint to English agriculturists. 
