26 Report on Miscellaneous Implements at Shrewsbury, 8fc. 
An assortment of Patent Belt Fasteners was also exhibited, 
which is well adapted for leather, cotton, or rubber belts. The 
fastener will allow the belt to work freely on flange pulleys and 
through the guide forks for fast and loose pulleys, as it has 
very little projection in the surface and none at the side of the 
belt. It is strongly recommended for its strength and safety. 
The lock-pin cannot come out when the belt is working. 
Price from 4c?. to Is. 
Messrs. Carson and Toone, of Warminster, Wilts, exhibited a 
collection of Implements for Saving Grain Crops in Wet Seasons. 
This collection at least proved how much the exhibitors were in 
sympathy with arable farmers during the late trying seasons. 
It consisted of shelterer, decapitator, barley-lifter, seed and ear 
storer, &c. The Judges were unable to obtain any information 
as to the cost of saving an acre of wheat by this process. Until 
it has been subjected to a field trial they must withhold their 
opinion. The same firm showed a new Horizontal Water- 
Wheel, of which the following is a description : — 
Carson and Toon^s New Horizontal Water-wheel, with Automatically 
Opening and Closing Floats.- — The above is entirely self-contained, and fitted 
■with a driving pulley, 16 inches hy 2h inches ; it is so constructed that it can 
be dropped into the bed of a stream, and ready for work with a trifling cost of 
-a few shillings only. 
The floats are so arranged that they open and close automatically with the 
revolutions of the wheel and the flow of the water, offering when on one side 
of the wheel no resistance whatever, but when on the other side gathering in 
the maximum of power. 
The design is simple, and it is labour-saving in various ways ; by utilising 
the flow of ordinary streams of a few inches in depth, it can be easily 
applied to such work as chaS-cutting, pulping, pumping, &c. Price Ql. 10s. 
The above size measures 3 feet in diameter by 2 feet high, but it can be 
increased at a trifling cost to suit dift'erent requirements. 
Messrs. Tliomas Christy and Co., of 155, Fenchurch Street, 
London, exhibited numerous Machines for Hatching and Rear- 
ing Chicken and Ducklings. " The Thermostatic Incubator " 
was clearly outside the possibility of trial by the Judges. On 
some farms there is occasionally great difficulty in obtaining 
*' sitting hens" for hatching early spring chicken. These 
foster-mothers may in such cases be of service, if they receive 
the necessary attention. 
Description and Working Instructions. — This improved incubator consists 
■of an iron water-tank, acted upon and kept hot by a miniature boiler, con- 
nected with it by two copper pipes ii. By the lower of these pipes the water - 
escapes from the tank into the boiler, whence, after being subjected to the 
heat from a lamp below, it passes by the upper pipe back again into the 
main tank, and radiates its heat downwards upon the eggs, kept in a drawer 
below it. 
To ensure tlie necessary regularity of temiieraturc in the egg-drawer, the 
