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good. The Judges, however, still consider that a greater degree 
of portability is desirable than has yet been accomplished by Mr. 
James, or other makers, in order to realize all that is wished for 
by the Society and farmers generally. 
The Judges awarded a premium of 2Z. to Mrs. Mary Cartmell, 
of Liverpool, for a simple, cheap, and true machine for weighing 
sacks and light objects, which is worthy of confidence, and deserves 
commendation 
Churns. — Mr. Richmond, of Salford, received the Society's 
prize for a very effective, upright, double-piston churn, which has 
the further recommendation of being easily worked. 
Drain-Tiles or Pipe- Machines. — Eleven different makers com- 
peted at Shrewsbury in this class, exhibiting 14 machines of 
various contrivance. The business of the Judges being to select 
those for subsequent trial which they might deem to possess the 
greatest merit, each machine underwent the necessary examination 
and tests, with clay furnished by the Stewards, and many of them 
with clay as prepared by the exhibitor. The selection fell on 
machines respectively made and exhibited by Mr. Clayton, of 
London; Mr. Beart, of Godmanchester ; and Mr. Scragg, of 
Calveley, Cheshire. The final trial of these was made at Pusey, 
and the Society's prize then adjudged to Mr. Scragg. 
There is so great an interest and importance attached at the 
present time to machinery for preparing the materials of drainage, 
that little less than a volume would suffice to satisfy the public 
a])petite for knowledge on the subject. But neither treatise nor 
manual can make a pipe or tile manufacturer ; nor can this Re- 
port be extended beyond an explanation of the principal reasons 
which guided the judges, appointed by the Society, in the appli- 
cation of the prizes placed at their disposal ; with the mention of 
such matter as may be incidental to the particular subject. 
JNIr. Beart's machine was found to be inferior to both the others 
■ — first, in the faculty of freeing the clay from stones ; secondly, 
in the quantily of work done in a given time. 
Both Mr. Clayton's and Mr. Scragg's are excellent machines, 
and they are both practically adapted for the sei-vice of the ^tile- 
yard. They are, however, constructed on entirely different plans. 
Mr. Clayton's is a perpendicular and fixed, Mr. Scragg's a hori- 
zontal and locomotive, machine. The judges preferred the latter 
principle, as more convenient, as economising labour, and as 
saving valuable space in the management of the goods in the 
drying-shed. The method of cutting off the pipes or tiles to de- 
terminate lengths is im])erfect in Mr. Clayton's; it is mathe- 
matically correct in Mr. Scragg's machine ; and this is a matter - 
of no alight importance in stacking the pipes or tiles in the kdn. 
