1807.] 
Among the feveral communications on 
the dubject of manutactures, Mr. Joun 
Avusrin, of Glaigow, has been deemed 
worthy of the gald medal, for a loom to 
be worked by fieam or water, ‘The ad- 
vantages which this loom is faid to pot- 
fels are as follow: 1, That from 300 to 
400 of thefe looms may be werked by 
one water-wheel or ttea unsengine, al of 
which will weave cloth fuperior 1 - what 
is done in the common Way.. » Lhey 
will go at the rate of 60 i5dtss) a a me 
nute, and keep regular time in working. 
3, They will keep conttantly working, 
except at the time of {hitting the inteles: 
4, In general no knots need be tied, 
and never more than one, in place of 
two, which are requifite in the common 
way when a thread breaks. 4, In cafe 
the {huttle fiops in the fhed, the lay will 
net come forward, and the loom will 
fiop.. 6, They will weave flower or 
quicker, according te the breadth and 
quality of the web, which may be the 
broadett now made, and they may be 
mounted with a jaitieks te stele 
patteru. 7, There is but one clofe the 
the fame in beth breadths; and an 
bore and ae always keep the fame 
diftance. 8, There is no time loit in 
looming, ar cutting out the cloth, which 
is done while the habia is wor King, after 
the firft tiwe. 9, The weft is well 
ttretched, aud even to the fabric re- 
quired ; and ev ery piece of cloth is mea 
fured to a ftraw’s breadth, and mar! bed 
where to be cut, at any giver length. 
10, The loom-will work backwards in 
cate of acculents, and every thread is 
as regular on the yaru-beaw as in the 
cloth, 11, Ifa thread appear toe cearle 
or fine in the web, it can be changed, 
or any {tripe altered at pleature. 12, 
They will weave the fined yarn, more 
tenderly and regularly than nl weaver 
can do with hands and fe et. When 
a thread breaks, the loom w wvatlat {tantly 
itop, without tivpping any other loom, 
and will give wi arming by the ringing of a 
bell, 44, A loom of this kind occupies 
the fame tpace as a common loom, and 
the expence of it will be about haif more, 
which ts compeatated by the various ate 
ditional machinery. 15, The reeling, 
winding, beaming, looming, combing, 
drefling, &e. &e. ‘which is ‘nearly baa 
half of ‘die weaver’s work, together with 
the general wafte (about. 6/. per cent.) 
of the value of the yarn, do not occur 
im this loom, which by its fingle motion | 
performs every operation after {pinning 
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till the cloth is finifhed. 16, The hed- 
dies, reéd, and brufhes, will wear longer 
than anlival, and more than half the work- 
wnanthip is faved. 
Air. Wroitam Curetuam, of Mellor- 
Moor, Derbyfhire, was prefented with 
the filver medal, for cultivating Wafle 
Land. Atter detailing pretty much at 
large the method t by W hich Mre€, brought 
the land in queition into ufe, he favs, 
‘“‘ T oreatly prefer the method of paring, 
berning, and limeing, as well as plough- 
ing in the autumn, to any other. Paring 
dettroysthe heath, and prepares the land, 
fo that a team may come upon it in dry 
weather.” He made experiments upon 
{nyall plots, of limeing and manureing 
with black dung upon the heath, and 
fond that it required from feven to ten 
veaxs to defiroy the heath. Whereas by 
fowine oats and hay feeds, a good crop 
was produced the firt year, and on the 
following a better patture was made than 
atter the term of ten years by the other 
mode. Upen the whole,” fays Mr. C. 
< one preter, m peaty land, ploughing v Tour 
years face efliv Ely 
The gold medal of the fame fociety has 
been adjudged to J. G. Carrurop, efq, 
of Gotberton, Lincolnfhire, for che: Cul- 
tivation of Spring Wheat, which was fown 
on eighty- Lae acres, fourtecn poles of 
land, between the 25th of March, and 
ithe 6th of Ap a and reaped between the 
Lilt and 14h, of “September. The wheat 
fown was the horned, or rough eared 
{pring wheat: the expence was 2621. 
15s. and the produce 10681, 2s. 6d. 
The gold medal was alfo given to Mr. 
Jonny Suvexsorp’ Waopr, of Benhall, 
Sullolk, for planting fifteen acres of land, 
with upwards of twelve thouland fets of 
Oliers per acre, which it was ceriitied by 
retpec table authority are now ina thriving 
fiate, and fit for baiket-mal! king, 
To Cartes Layron, ety. was ac- 
judged the filver medal tor his comparative 
Culture of Lurnips, by which it appears 
that avery decided prete rence fhould be 
given to the drilled bul bandry: the dif- 
ference 1m fomething lels than two tons 
of Yurnips, was four cwt. and four ftone 
in favour of the drill. 
Mr. Roserr Satmen, obtained the 
filver medal for his Ramen ks on Pruuing 
Vir Trees. He recommends the pruning 
to commence when the treesare fix years 
old, or when there is difcermible five tier 
of boaghs, and the thoot ; the three lower 
tiers are then to be taken off. After this 
the trees are to be let alone for four or 
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