at the Shrewsbury Meeting, 1845. 
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The screening, or freeino; the clay from stones, roots, or other 
extraneous matter, is performed with less labour by Mr. Scragg 
than by Mr. Clayton ; but the judges think it possible that cases 
may occur in which Mr. Clayton's perforated screen may prove 
to be superior to Mr. Scragg's barred screen, as exhibited at 
Shrewsbury. 
The cost of INIr. Scragg's machine is considerably less than 
Mr. Clayton's, the dies included; and Mr. Scragg's dies arc 
made on a principle which is considered to be far superior, in the 
important points of accuracy and simplicity, to those of any other 
maker of pipe-machines. 
Finally, Mr. Scragg's machine was proved to produce a greater 
number of articles in a given time than Mr. Clayton's, and the 
latter than Mr. Beart's. 
The judges have thought it right to adduce the foregoing close 
contrast between the merits of JNIr. Clayton's and Mr. Scragg's 
machines, because they considered both of them to possess qualifi- 
cations of a high order, and far superior to those of any other 
machines exhibited ; and because the reputation of Mr. Clayton's 
machine has been well merited, and notoriously well established. 
They do not think they would be doing their duty to the Society 
without reporting, thus succinctly, the motives of their judgment. 
Mr. Scragg's machine is equally well adapted to the manufac- 
ture of the horse-shoe tiles as of pipes, and of most other descrip- 
tions and forms of articles commonly manufactured in tileries, or 
required in drainage. The writer has one of them in use, made 
since the show at Shrewsbury, which produces nearly double the 
quantity of the machine shown there. It is equivalent to the easy 
manufacture of more than 20,000 pipes, of an inch bore, per day 
of 10 hours, and so on in proportion for other sizes ; it is also 
worked at a less cost of labour, and with greater ease to the 
workmen, than any other machine with which he is acquainted. 
This machine is new to the Society, but not so in reality, as a 
model of it was shown to the writer immediately after the Derby 
show by Mr. Davenport, of Capesthorne, Cheshire (Mr. Scragg's 
employer), who also informed him that it was at work on his own 
premises, as then constructed with two distinct dies for making 
horse-shoe tiles. This was set to work in August, 1842, and was, 
as the writer thought till very recently, the earliest invented ma- 
chine for producing more than one stream of ware of any kind 
at a time. It seems, however, that all these inventions — and par- 
ticularly those for the manufacture of pipes — were long since 
anticipated by a machine in use at the pottery of Mr. John Watts, 
of Coleford, Gloucestershire. This gentleman informs the writer 
that his father purchased a machine for making pipes, and the 
