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Report on the Exhibition of Implements 
ampton Show seventeen of Mr. Clayton's machines were in work 
at the establishments of different gentlemen ; and at the works of 
Messrs. J. and W. Squire, of Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, inch bore 
drain-pipes, produced by Mr. Clayton's machine, were there selling 
at the rate of 12^. per thousand, 12 inches long, their prices rising 
through intermediate sizes to 18^. per thousand for pipes 2-^ inches 
diameter. This fact will be very gratifying to the Society, when 
it is recollected that not more than eighteen months have elapsed 
since the publication in their Journal (vol. iv. p. 45) that the price 
of inch-bore pipes was from 20*. to 225. per thousand, being then 
about the half of the average selling-price of the more common 
tile and sole ; so that, at the present moment, small pipes are pro- 
curable from Mr. Clayton's machines at one- third or one-fourth of 
the cost of the ancient description of draining tiles. 
With the selling price of the articles produced by Mr. Etheredge's 
machine the writer is unacquainted, or he would gladly have 
availed himself of this opportunity of stating it to the Society. 
He has neither seen the prize machine at work, nor been able to 
satisfy inquirers as to the actual number of articles produced by it 
in a given time, or their selling price at any establishment. 
The reduction in the selling price of pipe or other tiles has neces- 
sarily arisen tVom a diminution in the cost of production. The 
little Kentish machine (described in Journal, vol. iv. p. 373) could 
not make more in ten hours than 1000 or 1200 inch-pipes. Mr. 
Clayton's machine, as exhibited at Southampton, has regularly 
produced in the same time, to the writer's knowledge, 15,000, 
= 1500 per hour; and by a more recent improvement in the dies, 
it is made capable of throwing off 25,000 feet of pipe per diem. 
But this increased faculty of production is not of such great im- 
portance, in the estimation of the employers of this machine, as 
another improvement introduced by Mr. Clayton, and engrafted 
on it; viz., the means of clearing from the raw clay all stones, 
roots, or other matter which would impede its conversion into pipes 
or other desired forms. It was the only tile-machine in the show- 
yard furnished with a process of the kind. Tiiis process has been 
represented to the writer by several of its employers — and is fully 
believed by him, from his own observation — to be superior both 
to pugging and washing, as well as cheaper, in the preparation 
and tempering of a variety of clays ; and the wintering of many 
kinds of clay is no longer deemed by them to be essential to carry 
on the summer work of a tilery. At the period of the Southampton 
meeting six. of the seventeen machines already referred to were at 
work without pug-mills. Since that time several others have been 
put into active operation where pug-mills do not exist. 'J'he pug- 
mill and horse have also been abandoned by parties who continued 
