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a pedal, and the wire is cut as near as possible to the 
leather. 
Screw-fastened shoes are becoming more and more generally 
used in France. They cannot tail soon to replace pegged shoes 
everywhere, since the fastenings are much stronger and more 
durable, while the rapidity of the manufacture must greatly 
surpass that which is attainable in the use of wooden pegs. 
Whether they will equally supersede sewed shoes remains to 
be seen. 
pooley’s automatic grain weigher. 
An apparatus which attracted a great deal of attention of 
American visitors to the exposition, particularly of gentlemen 
from our agricultural districts, was a balance exhibited by 
Henry Pooley & Son of Liverpool, for weighing grain, and at 
the same time recording the weight of the grain which has 
been weighed. This balance, caUed by the inventors the au¬ 
tomatic grain weigher, is self-acting throughout. The only 
force employed in the several acts of loading, weighing, dis¬ 
charging, and recording, is the weight of the commodity in 
process of being weighed. The results of any given period 
of work are exhibited upon the register. 
To describe the mode of action by this novel machine more 
in detail: the grain is introduced to the machine frrom the 
depot in any manner by which a continuous supply may be 
conveniently delivered into the feeder; then, when the first 
scale has received the principal part of its load, that scale falls 
through a portion of its descent, and in falling lifts a pr(:>por- 
tional weight equal to the partial load then in the scales, and 
at the same moment moves the feeder partly towards the sec¬ 
ond scale, which then begins to be filled while the first scale is 
receiving slowly the finishing part of the load. When the 
loading of the first scale is complete that scale falls through 
the remaining part of its descent, and in falling releases the 
catch that till then had held it in its position, whereupon the 
loaded scale immediately tilts and simultaneously shifts the 
full stream of grain over to the second scale and moves the 
