Report, to the Council on the Cattle exhibited at Newcastle. 42f) 
first prize of 10/. to Mr. Whitehead ; Mr. Pinfold received the second prize 
of 61 
Tile Machines. 
Only two machines were exhibited, one by Mr. Page, and the other by Mr. 
Whitehead. The former not being fitted with a pulley, according to the 
published requirements of the Society, could not be tested, and we must leave 
the public to draw their own conclusions. We gave Whitehead's machine a 
severe trial with very inferior clay, its work was satisfactory, and we awarded 
it the prize of 5?. 
1st Experiment, 
Name. 
Nuniher in 
Catalogue. 
Price of 
Machine. 
Weight of 
Clay 
Screened. 
Fuel. 
Time In 
Screening. 
Total 
Units of 
power 
expended. 
Units of 
Power 
to Screen 
100 lbs. 
of Clay. 
Whitehead . 
295 
£, 
21 
cwts. qrs. lbs. 
7 0 0 
cuts. qrs. lt>s. 
i o io 
minutes. 
20 
69--J25 
10-583 
2nd Experiment. 
Name. 
Net 
Weight of 
Clay 
Screened. 
Time. 
Number 
of Tiles, 
13* in. lung. 
TotalTJnits 
of Power 
expended. 
TotalTJnits 
of Power 
for 100 ft. 
of Tiles. 
Length 
of Tile 
made per 
Minute. 
Whitehead . 
cwts. qrs. lbs. 
5 3 12 
min. sec. 
18 30 
174 
55-315 
28-257 
feet. 
10-52 
W. TlNDALL. 
Gilson Martin. 
XXIV. — Report to the Council on the Cattle Exhibited at Neiccastle. 
By J. Dent Dent, M.P. 
For many years" the Royal Agricultural Society confined its prizes 
for cattle to Shorthorns, Herefords, and Devons, and placed all 
other established breeds together in one class. At various 
meetings local committees offered special prizes for breeds not 
distinguished by the Society, and in 1862, at the Battersea show, 
the Society itself extended its list of premiums to most of the 
established breeds of England and Wales. Last year at Wor- 
cester the Sussex cattle were thus distinguished ; and this year's 
prize list included special classes for Sussex, Channel Islands, 
Scotch Horned, Polled, and Ayrshire cattle, in addition to 
the class for other established breeds. It seems to me to be one of 
the first duties of the Society, not merely to encourage our standard 
breeds of cattle, but in each locality which it visits, to offer prizes that 
may bring out the very best specimens of the races which are found 
most suitable to the district ; and a little care in the arrangement 
of the prize-list will enable us to do this without much additional 
