206 Bepori on Miscellaneous Iminlem&nts at Newcastle, 
of each rope is secured to a small crab-barrel, provided witli a 
ratchet and pall, and bolted to the timber " sleepers " upon 
which the stack rests. A lever, common to all the barrels, 
enables the attendant to rotate them one by one, and so haul in 
slack, which, when gained, is held fast by means of the ratchet 
and pall already mentioned. Whether, taking account of the 
rough-and-ready way in which these barrels must necessarily 
be fixed to the " sleepers," the wire-rope can be prevented from 
" surging " on the crab-barrels is a question — a question upon 
which some light is, perhaps, thrown by the following caution 
to users, extracted from Mr. Johnson's catalogue : — 
'•' When in use, the ropes should not be allowed to lap themselves on the 
drum, as otherwise they will be injured by the severe pressure." 
It is not impossible that a fourth number of the ' Journal ' 
may yet describe some future improvement on the " Ratchet 
Drum " system of stack silage. 
Messrs. TJiys^, Lochjer, & Co., of 374, Euston Road, London, 
showed a new implement (Art. 913), called the "Jersey" 
Creamer (see fig. 8), which the Judges recommended for trial at 
next year's meeting. 
The milk-pans are double-bottomed, Lave double sides, and are made, 
the outside pan of enamelled zinc, tlie inside pan of tinned steel plates. 
The open part of tlio pan receives the milk, and the empty space between 
the pan contains, in summer, ordinary cold water (.50-55 degrees), con- 
ducted into each pan by a braws tap connected with a galvanised tube at the 
back of the creamer; water being supplied Ijy the pipes on the premise.s, or, 
if there be no water suppl}', by means of an ordinary tank, as shown in the 
drawing. 
I'lio jacket being filled, the water should bo kept dripping as long as 
possible through it ; the surplus water escaping from a hole at the back of 
each pan into a lower trough couuected with a small waste pipe at the side. 
Fig. 8. — Lockyer's Jersey Creamer. 
