TlMEtfRi. 
Then the head stocks proved to be the weak point* 
It was found that with indirect bolts no plate could stand 
the great strain, so head stocks with through way bolts 
had to be imported. 
The next trouble was the trash turners, enormous bars 
of iron bent beneath the fearful strain. The whole 
principle of having trash turners at all was felt to be 
faulty ; carrying huge quantities of megass across wide 
plates of iron under enormous pressure was obviously, 
to say the least of it, a great loss of force, especially 
as the motive power was the fri6lion of the moving 
top roller. 
Mills were brought out with moving trash turners, but 
I cannot say that they have proved the success that was 
anticipated. Mr. Allan showed a model of a mill with 
no trash turner at all. I believe that this mill has been 
erected on Pin. Albion, and is doing very good work, 
but I have not seen it, nor any statistics of what it is 
doing. 
Mr. SKEKEL also claims to have invented the mill of 
the future, and he explained this mill, which has come 
into practical existence at Pin. Herstelling, to the Royal 
Agricultural and Commercial Society.* 
I need not say very much about 'maceration' and double 
crushing. Double crushing is a great improvement, but 
how far it pays to soak or macerate the megass of course 
depends on the relative values of sugar and fuel. 
The original idea was to have one mill in front of the 
other, but the objection to this arrangement is that, in 
case of any accident to either, both are rendered useless, 
while if the mil Is are alongside each other, each or eithe 
* See Timehri, 1888, Vol. II, Pt. I, p. 207.— Ed, 
