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Report on Cream- Separators and 
There is a contrivance for throwing the two outside brushes out 
of gear, and by attaching a small circular brush to the end of 
the remaining brush, the lids are cleaned. The Judges be- 
smeared two tankards with a mixture of paint and grease, well 
Fig. 4. — View nf PococFs Patent Milk-can Washer. 
rubbed into the corners, and in the short space of a minute the 
can was perfectly clean. This machine would be useful for large 
dairymen, or for farmers to combine and have fixed up at some 
station or depot, where their cans could be cleaned at a nominal 
cost, instead of, as at present, getting them returned in a foul 
condition. Price 38/. 
Mr. Geo. Hathaway, of Chippenham, obtained the Society's 
Silver Medal for a Double Oscillating Churn. Its simplicity of 
construction and absence of any kind of dasher, together with 
the facility with which it can be cleaned, and its general 
efficiency, are justly claimed as advantages over most churns ; 
its motion is most novel and effective. As a trial, Mr. Hatha- 
way was supplied with 18 lbs. of cream, and in thirty-eight 
minutes the butter, of excellent quality, was ready Avashed in a 
solid lump, and placed direct under a butter-worker, without it 
losing any appreciable weight. The churn itself, as will be seen 
from the accompanying engraving, is an oblong box very much 
like the American swing churn ; with this difference, that it is 
