532 Report on the Trials of Implements at Oxford. 
suitable for large establishments, such as luiions, gaols, asj-lums, hospitals, and 
similar institutions. The steam-generator is much like that employed in the 
portable steam-cooking apparatus, being of 1 horse-power and worked at low 
pressure, say from 6 to 8 lbs. to the square inch, provided with a simple self- 
acting water-supply, and is fed from a cistern placed about 8 feet above it, 
requiring no attention whatever, the water being admitted as fast as evapora- 
tion goes on. The two boiling-vessels, for meat, soups, water, tea, &c., are 
made of strong galvanised wrought-iron, and are double cased or jacketed, the 
steam circulating between the cases. The contents are thus boiled by steam, 
yet without its admission into the pans, — a plan found to be very economical. 
These vessels hold 40 gallons each, and, together with the potato-closet (to 
which the steam has access), are placed on the right-hand side of the boiler. 
Fig. 22. — Amies and Barford's Set of Steam-cooMng Apparatus, 
No. 240. 
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On the left of the boiler is a large roasting oven, on the " Leamington " prin- 
ciple, capable of roasting 50 to 60 lbs. of meat at once ; this is heated, without 
any extra cost, by the flues from the boiler being simply deviated to encompass 
the oven, and the unspent heat is thus utilised on its way to the chimney. 
The whole foims a complete range, 12 feet long, occupying a small space, yet 
capable of supplying the requirements of 500 people, with a consumption of 
coal of about li cwt. per day. This apparatus was used to prepare food for 
the Bath and West of England Meetings at Southampton and Taunton, and 
was highly commended. 
WiUiam Smith, of Foston Lowthorpe, West DrifSeld, exhibits a novel 
sheep rack, in which the rack is shut off from the trough by patent moveable 
slides. The food, of whatever kind, is i}ut into the rack, the sheep drawing it 
through the bars and below the slides, which can be set at any height. The 
object is to economise the food by preventing its being pulled out and wasted ; 
also the sheep, whilst eating, do not breathe on the fodder, and everything is 
kept perfectly dry. The rack is 14 feet long, accommodates about 30 sheep, 
and costs 61. It was highly commended. 
J. P. Bar/ord, of Wantage, was commended for an improved carriage lifting- 
