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Report on the Worcester Shoio-yard. 503 
Maunder's Potato Separator mav be thus described : — It consists 
of a riddle on an inclined plane, divided into two compartments 
floored with wooden laths (resting on rollers), which are placed at 
smaller intervals in the upper than in the lower portion. The 
smallest potatoes and the dirt fall through the first set of laths, 
and the dirt again drops through a screen-bottom in the lower 
chamber ; the seed-potatoes fall through the floor in the second 
chamber ; the large ones are carried to the end. Motion is given 
by a crank to the rollers, which make the laths vibrate sufficiently 
to keep the potatoes in motion ; a wooden floor is necessary, that 
the potatoes may not be bruised. If this kind of screen were 
used for sorting stones for roads, iron-bars would probably be 
substituted for the wooden laths. 
The novelty in the Patent Steerage exhibited by Wallis and 
Co. consists in its having but one wheel, so that a long lever- 
power is applied to but one fulcrum : the drill consequently 
answers the helm more quickly and easily. 
Clarke and Sons' adjustable Scythe is neat and strong. A gar- 
dener will probablv appreciate its merits, and so perhaps would 
a farm-labourer, if he were well-educated and careful. 
Gower and Son in their combined Corn-distributor endeavour 
to dispense with the wheels and cups to regulate the feed. In 
their drill an eccentric gives a lateral motion to a bar placed 
in a trough (in which the corn is placed), having apertures at 
regular intervals in the bottom. The eccentric can be so adjusted 
as to vary the stroke of the bar, and therefore the amount of the 
feed. If grains were equal and symmetrical, we might anticipate 
uniformity of action ; as it is, we must await a trial before 
arriving at any conclusion. 
The' merit of Bruckshaw's Cheese-press, as exhibited by 
Underbill, turns on its simplicity, whereby it occupies little 
room, and dispenses with weights, wheels, and levers. 
The Excelsior Steel Whipple-trees carrv their recommendation 
in the "steel," which is everywhere displacing wood, though, 
perhaps, with more marked advantage in other instances than 
in this. 
Homsby's Root-pulper will commend itself to the practical 
farmer by the character of its knives, or rather grinders, which 
are easily drawn (being stopped with wooden pegs), easily sharp- 
ened and reset, cheap and durable. Would that man's "denti- 
tion " was as effectual and accommodatins ! The root is w^ell 
cleansed from dirt, and the last slice effectually disposed of. 
