The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-04-03 00:00:00

agriculture.

r TUB Parr Coololl. hue I.uswd & fresh Order with
to the nettle plass. There is Dothiog D*ll/.
1.,..C•er, in the latest issue. It is • soesslidaties uf a
hasher of previous orders.
Los MIMI Wet:MIL—A ausnmeasly allessided
4.
, parotid meeting of wieniteral laborers has bees held
at gm Corn Inobeage, Maidatom, to receive replies to •
m m inal adopt. d at the previous matiag, ultras the
farmers for as additional sirpenia per day wages. Mr,
Keen, the chairman, mid that the eon:alba bad Doe
received "nee reply from the 150 manters to whom
espies of the immoral had hem rot. After arm dis-
mom it was roolved not to strike st primal, bet to
form an asemitatioa to raise a hued by assail :Deathly
pa) mints
NlOlllOl4llO/1 NrerLT• Team ro ere is HOIST.
It I. not ulna that the venerable rel es of the mot mil
the intonesa inventiesis of the pre it, are brought
int., such jurtspositioa as at the trial of a steno bore
or lilting eosins at the Castle Wharf • Wednesday
last. Over the line Oriel window in froot of ffeeerk
Cast's, bad boon lied • very baananlike iconic eat
head of strong timber, carrying a law pal,, ishlch
was carefully Wiled by sleet Kerrey.. to Irma withis
the math grounds. This locality was or en for inn
trial bream the night of the Omar fro-a the wharf is
greater then that of say other bedding I. Neeark,
whilst its proaimay to the Treat Ironworks rendered h
very coavenient. Arrived at the spot, the Moyne al
of the steam from the safety vane drew at moo notation
to the apparatus. A stoat timber hams cm four homy
travelling wheels, carried an upright boiler Most eight
feet high, and • nsoderatovised dram or barrel mowed
with stout Main. One sod of this chain wee paned
over the pulley at the sat-head, then deem to • sewed
pulley arm to the greart. aad win op to SA* annul
where it was named, bins forming what is ogled •
double purchase. To the lower paltry was be • Walt
of its. of a bell shape, but spherna at the
bottom technically called a tap, whin is used
to break beery MUSD' of noon the Treat Works. The
height from the top pulley to the level of the wharf me
over fifty feet. A Spiel being given, the attendant In
charge of the mashie* slightly moved a vertisal bar or
lever, when, as if by magie, this mass of irom flew
silently up towards the enhead, where, its flight beteg
checked in an instant, it was bad. Another motion of
the lever sad with • alight puff of its.. hen the
funnel of the boiler, it deussodad with a run, but me
again Method within • few imbed of the VIVI& This
process was tepidly repotted, to the anonielnissit ef the
bystanders. The Notion ma so perfectly seder antra
that the weight was frequently stepped so slob the
grimed that the Mad nuM not be mmed beasath
As has been mid of the wowierhil steam hammer, a an
might ham been broken by it witlion bruising the
kernel. The weight of the top and lower pulley was
sloes upon seven hundredweight. The following
en-
purisuats were thou mole i—flona doubt being segpseed
that an arident might eerier if it were net Mopped scam
enough, it was allowed to nut up the whole bight,
without revering the lever. When the weight armed
near the top, it stopped, aid a cloud of slam enveloped
the machine for • second or two, from • simple self-
acting coat/imam whin allows the Moue to neaps
when the extreme height is rumba L.a trial for speed
the time for raising 50 foot was soder in, nosesda, the
100 feet of Main being coiled round the barrel at the
rase of Dearly Murree miles an hoar. The next tried
was for power. Two half.handred weights were slag
, soros the top, and subsequently a mooed aad • thW
pair.,,dwithou.thtinrivinit feet. When a fourth wee
Mu
bunch of the power of the IDlKeillesonesigro he
overtax . but in lON than a miente, the protean
showing another pus.d of steam bemire, up wee=
I ebole elem. A lemeht, rather more slowly, but
with quite emegb speed for snared purposes. The
I.st trial was with • single purchase, with the lower
pulley removed. This is when it is niquindl
to lift the whole 100 (set, for whlch the sambiss was
rootrived. Of mare this simpler operatics was per-
formed with even greater ens, as rat
raised at double the speed with'extraordinary
A technical description of the seachanical arrangement
of the steam hoist would not be iatellignie to mlf
our evaders, boa if we were able to give It. The follow-
ing partisulars will, however, he nadernood. Ther
timber frame homing the bass of the measieer
enclosed a large cylinder. Os the semen
admitted to it a rummies , nem of iron
with strong tooth. waa farad out 'and from this
motion was given Owe:wheal:Os brownest of Omen
which mond the Maio-barrel to revolve. T'he direst
action of steno is thus brought into ass without the
intervention of a steam as In ordinary shims
cream The symphony of the romelneafeas, and in
noiseless and easy working, moaned admirably, sad Mr
Nicholson informs u. that the ealcalatioss mads before-
Mad are stably verified by thersealt of the day's ea-
perimeata, with the salidastery oteeptios that the lass
of power due to Melba at the working parte proved
leis then was ant;eipated. This portirealer mashies was
designed for raising building materials at 601110 of the
large iron furores now befog mostraned In lbs north
of England It will dateable prom coie of the nes*
useful amongst the number of armor negations that
have issued from the Trent Iran Works, sad be fond
great boo. not only to builders aid embraces for ran
hag wisterias foe buildinget and ruhiw., works but fee
lowing and unloading engem at the pile driving,
and other similar purposes. Noosed Ilevereiser. —(Kt
Niatither's samancisatents for the hayaridag memos
mom in advertising column.)