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the Society. The judges considered this compact arrangement of 
barn machines in connexion with a horse-engine to be of great vahie 
to the agriculturist, as bringing the means of working the principal 
implements of which he has need in that department, within the 
space of a horse-track. In the compass of a very moderate sized 
cast-iron framing lies the apparatus for communicating motion, 
either separately or at the same time, to a chaff-engine, corn- 
bruising or splitting-mill, &c., which are fixed upon the framing. 
A shaft; also is connected with it for giving motion to a threshing, 
or other machine, at more distant parts. The writer's presence 
was requested by the judges to examine the arrangement and exe- 
cution of this apparatus, and he concurs in their statement that "it 
was got up in the bast style of workmanship, and does the Messrs. 
Ransome great credit as engineers." The judges further "express 
a hope that the prize given in this case may stimulate engineers 
and implement-makers to bring out first-rate machines." This 
award, as previously observed, includes the prize assigned to 
Messrs. Ransome for their corn and seed-crusher. 
The writer has to add, as he conceives it to be his duty to do, 
that an erroneous impression was made on the minds of some per- 
sons respecting the practical value of this machine, from the cir- 
cumstance of the mills being planted in the centre of the horses' 
track. For the purpose of exhibition and trial in the Society's 
show-yard, it was necessary that it should be erected in that form. 
In practice the frame and machines would be placed on the first 
floor of a building, as most convenient for such uses, and the horses 
would work below. The judges and the writer would condemn 
as most inconvenient and unsightly, the conveyance of materials to 
be cut, bruised, or ground within a horse track. 
Several travelling horse-engines were experimented upon. Tlie 
preference, with high commendation, is given to a set constructed 
by Mr. Clyburn, and exhibited by the Earl of Ducie. An over- 
head machine by Mr. Thomas Reeves, of Droxlbrd, Hants, is stated 
to have been "very unsteady, and not firm enough in its work." 
The general observations by the judges on these machines are 
"that they are more condensed in space than heretofore, and 
placed on lower wheels, so as to work without the trouble of re- 
moving them ; but that the greater majority are of too light a 
construction to be consistent with durability. Some makers h.ave 
introduced the screw (worm) in place of the first or horse-wheel 
pinion, which we directly condemn." 
Fii'c Engines. — The collection of fire and garden-engines ex- 
hibited by Mr. Read, of 35, Regent Circus, Piccadilly, is pronounced 
by the judges to be " superior to any other ; the valves of the 
fire-engines are so constructed that failure is impossible, and a 
premium of 5/. was awarded for the fire-engines. They are 
