150 THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN'S COMPANION, December 2, 1850. 
If my books coaid afford it, I should be glad to furnish 
“ Sylvester ” with more information about the adjective 
Diadematus. According to Ainsworth there is but one au¬ 
thority— Apollo diadematus , Plin.—D. Beaton. 
IMPLEMENTS CONNECTED WITH THE GAR¬ 
DEN AND HOUSEHOLD EXHIBITED AT 
THE ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY’S 
SHOW. 
At the stand of Messrs. Burgess and Key, of Newgate- 
street, London, we noticed the following :— 
Lawn Mower with registered Improvement. —It will 
cut the grass most readily when dry; is very easily regulated ; 
and partly rolls the grass after mowing it. It is a delusion, 
however, to suppose that one man can use even the smallest 
of these Mowers over any extensive surface. The aid of a 
boy or another man to pull is necessary. The expense of 
this extra assistance is more than compensated by the ra¬ 
pidity with which the mowing is effected. Before storing 
away after using, the machine ought to be thoroughly 
cleaned and dried. In order to answer an inquiry from 
“ W. H. M.," we will add, that although we should not like 
to endorse everything that is said of any machine, we 
have used these grass-cutters for a number of years. Our 
last was twenty inches wide, our present is twenty-two 
inches. It is -worked by two men, one holding and one 
drawing, taking each part alternately. When the ground is 
ot a level slope, and the grass dry and short, we always 
consider two men clear as much ground as six men would 
do with their scythes and brooms. These small machines 
do little good when the grass is wet, but then the scythes 
may be best used with advantage. The machines make 
beautiful work when the men are used to it and take a 
piide in it, as ours do. A large horse-machine will cut even 
when the grass is wet; but they are useful chiefly on very 
large lawns, where there are few or no beds, <fcc. 
Anthony’s Patent Improved American Churn _The 
Royal Agricultural Society of England have three times 
awarded their modal for this Churn; the first at Exeter the 
second at the Great Exhibition (wliero it was one of the 
few implements selected for trial before the Queen), and the 
third medal was awarded at the Gloucester Royal Agricul¬ 
tural Meeting in July, 1853, for the improvements made by 
the manufacturers. At the trial before the Judges there 
this Churn made in ten minutes , from 4 quarts of cream, 
4 lbs. 0 ozs. of butter of the finest quality. The best of the 
other churns made only 3f lbs. from the same quantity and 
quality of cream. The Royal Agricultural Journal, p. 41, 
says, “ This form of Chum is the best for churning sweet 
cream, and will, undoubtedly, produce butter from milk or 
cream, in any form, in much less time than any churn that 
has yet been introduced.” It may be had of any size, from 
one capable of producing 3 lbs. of butter at a churning, to 
one capable of producing 20 lbs. 
Emigrant and Domestic Flour Mill. — This Mill 
is of very simple construction, having a dressing machine 
attached, so that it grinds and dresses at one operation. 
It will grind and dress from one to two pecks per hour, 
according to the size, and, the grinding parts being steeled, 
are very durable. 
Improved Double Norfolk Pig Troughs.— The ad¬ 
vantages ol these Troughs are, that although the smaller 
size is but three feet long by ten inches wide, the compart¬ 
ments are so arranged that fourteen pigs can feed at the 
same time without interfering with each other or wasting 
the food. This wasting mostly occurs from the pig throwing 
the food forward with his snout over the side of the trough 
opposite to that side on which he stands. A high longitudinal 
division down the middle of this Trough prevents such an 
ejection. 
