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Fruit Evaporation in America. 
Taking next the cost of the additional foods consumed during 
the whole time we have : — 
£ s. d. 
[Linseed-cake 1350 lbs cost 4 18 8 
(a) j Dec. cotton-cake 1350 „ . . . ,,,413 
I Maize-meal 1350 „....„ 3 19 5 
£12 19 4 
(Bean-meal » » • • • . „ 5 2 5 
{b) Oats „ „ . . . . . „ 4 14 5 
^ Barley „ „ . . . . „ 4 14 
(O 
£13 18 2 
Wheat „ „ . . . .,,416 
Oats „ „ • • ■ . „ 4 14 5 
Barley „ „ . . . . „ 4 14 
£12 17 3 
These would give the following as the relative cost of each 
mixture per lb. of increase of live weight : — 
Relative cost 
per lb. of In- 
crease iu Live 
Weight, 
d. 
(a) Linseed-cake, decorticated cotton-cake, and maize-meal . 2-62 
(b) Beans, oats, and barley 3-17 
(c) Wheat, oats, and barley 3'2 
This shows clearly the superiority of the cake-feeding as 
against the other foods, at the prices at least which they cost at 
the farm where the experiment was carried out. On examining 
the carcases, the meat of the cake-fed beasts was pronounced by 
experts to be " riper " than that of the bean -fed beasts, while 
similarly the meat from the bean-fed ones was very superior 
indeed to that from the wheat-fed bullocks, the fat of the latter 
being very pale in colour. Beyond this is also to be considered 
the great superiority of the cake-fed manure. 
XXV. — Fruit Fvaporation in America. By Dan. Pidgeon, 
Holmwood, Putney Hill, S.W. 
The appearance at the Nottingham Show of an American " Fruit- 
Evaporator," an appliance in common use by farmers of the 
United States lor the purpose of drying apples, peaches, rasp- 
berries, and other fruits, created a gi'eat deal of interest among 
advanced agriculturists. 
As one of the Judges of Miscellaneous Implements whose 
duty it was to adjudicate upon the claims of this Evaporator 
to be regarded as a " New Implement," and entitled, therefore, 
to compete for the Society's Silver Medals, I took the oppor- 
tunity, whilst in America this autumn on other business, to 
