716 Report on Implements at Preston. 
milking pails are made of various shapes and sizes, but all of 
them have a projecting spout covered by a lid ; inside the pail 
a large piece of wire gauze covers the entrance to the spout. 
The fixed strainer is cleaned with a brush ; it prevents waste 
from spilling, and is more convenient than the separate strainer 
and ordinary bucket. 
Messrs. Baldwin and Amies exhibited a new variety of their 
Steel Railway Milk Cans. A ring of vulcanized india-rubber 
let into the churn forms an air-tight seating for the lid, fastened 
down upon it by screws. At the Dairy Show held last autumn 
in London, railway churns were tested, to try if milk could be 
spilt out of them, by putting water in them and then rolling 
them along the ground. If it is really desirable to make churns 
air-tight, this is probably one of the best ways of doing it. The 
new churn is strengthened at the bottom, as shown in Fig. 21, 
Fig. 21. — View of Messrs. Baldwin and Amies Itailway Churn, No. 3709. 
by iron bars across it riveted on to the rim. These irons cost 
2s. 6rf., and can be fitted to old cans, adding greatly to the 
strength of the part that usually is the first to give way. 
Another air-tight Railway Churn was exhibited by the AyleS' 
bury Dairy Comparii/ (Xo. 3911), manufactured by Kleiner of 
Austria. The top of the can and the lid are slightly tapered to 
fit closely into one another ; a bead on the lid fits into a slightly 
inclined groove in the can, so that when the lid is turned round 
it is tightly pressed into the top of the can. An air-tight metal 
fitting of this sort is perhaps better for cleaning than one of 
