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rieport on the Implemenis 
It is much to be regretted that other evaporators were not 
entered for the prizes, since, although the Judges satisfied them- 
selves that the machine tried could satisfactorily and well 
answer the purpose required, still nothing brings out the best 
points of any machine like a thoroughly methodical competitive 
trial. In many parts of the country, at some period or other, 
fruit and vegetable growers, either from an over-abundant crop 
or from unsuitable weather, are not able to make the best of 
their products. Jam factories have already been successfully 
established to dispose of such surplus fruit as is suitable for the 
purpose ; and although the special conditions which promote 
fruit evaporation in America are not present here, there is no 
reason why it may not become an independent and successful 
business in this country. The English farmer is very careful 
before he embarks on any new enterprise, but if once a system 
of fruit-evaporating were practically brought before him, it would 
soon gain ground, as other American " notions " have done 
before. The whole apparatus is extremely simple, and not 
costly ; and a movable machine which could, at a reasonable 
outlay, convert any surplus fruit or vegetables from wasted 
products into wholesome food, capable of being stored and 
disposed of by degrees, would be a great benefit to the producer. 
It is true it requires considerable skill properly to dry the fruit 
or vegetables, but experience would soon teach this. The de- 
mand for the evaporated fruits and vegetables is certainly 
increasing ; they have been tried, and are thoroughly appreciated, 
and are now to be seen in the shops in every town. Surely the 
growers in this counti'y will not continue to waste what is being 
utilised in America and brought to their own doors for sale, 
under the system so fully described in the Journal, Vol. XXIV. 
p. 48G, by Mr. Pidgeon. 
The difficulty of obtaining fruit of different kinds in suffipient 
quantities, at the time of the Windsor Show, prevented the 
Judges from giving the machine a trial sufficiently exhaustive to 
enable them to speak with certainty as to the economic advan- 
tages of the system. It is probable that it would not answer to 
evaporate the best kinds of keeping fruits, or indeed any kind 
for which there is a good demand ready at hand ; but there can 
be no question that much excellent and valuable food may be 
joroduced by the aid of these machines from fruit and vegetables 
which are at times allowed from one cause or other to rot upon 
the ground. 
The Ooodell Cnmpany^ Antrim, New Hampshire, U.S.A. 
( Arts. No. 1 120-2 1). — This firm exhibited a collection of paring, 
blicing, uud. coring machines of various sizes and designs, moat 
