The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-07-25 00:00:00

stand a wine-cooler so easy and simple of
operation (by capillary attraction) that
everybody's astonishment is, as in the ease of
all great inv,mtions, that it had never been
thought of before.
As we shall have undoubtedly little to say
on the show of steck—devi id as it is of Mi-
-1 Mediate interest so farfrom home, (always ex-
eeptilg foie chimes of Devons, West Country
IDowns, Øe., . whole honours are commonly
sustained- lir -otte focal nathes—thot less so
lo'n this occasion than we almost ever re-
member)—we still proceed to notice specifi-
cally a few of the more novel implement
improvements for which we generally set
apart the last day of the show :
Messrs. Richmond and Chandler, of Man-
chester, exhibited a large collection of chaff
machines, corn crushers, horse gear works,
steaming apparatus, sack holders, bread
kneading machines, turnip cutters, &c.,
chaff cutters commencing in size from a very
compact aud useful machine adapted to the
strength of a boy up to a very powerful and
capacious machine (No. 6) with double feed
rollers and 12-inch mouth-piece, capable of
cutting one and a-half ton per hour. Two
new chaff miner!, are shown for the first
time, a small machine called No. 61, con-
structed entirely of iron, and having all the
working parts securely covered up and pro-
tected from dirt and dust, fitted with the
new patent steel mouth-piece, which being
harder than the knives is not liable to be
worn away by friction, and also keeps the
knives sharp; by a very simple and patent
arrangement two lengths of cut are obtained
without any change of wheels I of an inch
and + the most useful sizes, we believe, for
horses and cattle. ,No. 601 is a machine of
4 larger capacit ,having the same adjustment of
steel mout and is capable of cutting two
lengths o c ff without change of wheels.
Corn cutti machines fitted with diagonall
fluted case hardened roller revolving at
different speeds; by this means a grinding
and crushing action are simultaneously
obtained, by means of screws in front the
fineness or coarseness of crush is immediately
regulated, while a thumb screw at the back
acting upon a feed roller and plate commands
the supply of grain given to the rollers so as
to suit the power employed. Three sizes of
horse gear are shown, all very strong, com-
pact and simple, and of excellent workman-
ship.
Messrs. Picksley, Sims, and Co., of the
Bedford foundry (limited) have imparted
a treble action to their turnip cutter, a new
patent of last year, and it has taken prizes
already at Accrington, Coldstream, Dublin,
Falmouth, Stettin and Perth. Their chaff
cutter, a patent of 18574 has this year (1865)
also taken first class prizes at Falmouth,
Stettin, Perth, and Melbourne (Australia), the
mode of turning it in and out of gear, whether
for Ith inch or short length cutting, is remark-
ably well and completely performed by slots
acting upon lock-toothed pinions, by which
means also the action of the knife can be stopped
in an instant. The cost is only £.5 10s. One
of these machines fitted with an extra handle
costing only 10s. more, is convenient in this
respect that the man when not feeding can assist
at the turning. The Emperor of France we
believe ordered of this firm a large chaff cutting
machine which he has had mounted on carriage
wheels to follow the artillery for the use of the
horses. His Majesty has awarded them no fewer
than three gold medals. In the trials of reaping
machines it may be recollected that this firm was
first at Leeds, in 18(11; it is also second this
year (Hornsby being first). In the Leeds trials
their comparative facilities of time, width of cut,
and average registered draught were all so
favourable that looking at the same results as
stated in the present year's report, we confess
that we feel puzzled to know by what other '
criteria the judges can have gone. Unhappily
we hear that Mr. Cauldwell on whose judgment
most reliance was perhaps to have been placed,
was ill during two of the trial days, and unable
to officiate.