The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-06-12 00:00:00

EXHIBITION,

BATH AND WEST OF ENGLAND

Richmond and Chandler, of Salford. Man.
cliester,exhibi ted at stand, No 135, a collection
of their celebrated chaff cutters, corn crushers,
horse gear works, root washers, and seaming
apparatus. Their name for chaff cutters is
already so well known in connection with
good workmanship and efficiency as to require
no eulogium from us, but a few little novelties
introduced in their machines require notice,
Ist, a small and very comp ict mashine. No.
61, constructed entirely of iron, fitted with
the exhibition improved. form of steel mouth-
piece, which latter, being harder than the
knives, is not worn away by their constant
working against it, but always preserves the
same smooth edge, thereby ensuring a unifirrm
sample of chaff. This machine is also ad-
justed to cut two lengths of chaff without
any change of wheels, and, by a very ingenious
! arrangement, both cuts are obtained direct
, from the first motion shaft. No. 60 a., is
also a new machine on the same principle
hut larger and stronger. No. 3 c. and No.
4 d. sizes are both adapted for steam power.
A new form of stop motion has lately been
adAed to them, whereby the rollers can be hi -
stantaneously stopped and danger and damage
obviated. Corn crushers in four sizes are
shown. These machines are fitted with
diagonally fluted ease-hardened rollers, re-
gulated by a set screw in front, whereby the
corn is crushed to any degree of fineness re-
quired. The corn is supplied to the rollers
by feed plates adjustable by a thumb screw
so that the quantity su plied nifty be varied
to snit power employed. The horse gear
exhibited is very strong and smell fitted, all un-
necessary bearings and friction are dispenst.d
with, and it. is constructed as simply as
possible, which latter is a great essential in
all farm machinery.

Messrs. Coleman and Morton's exhibition
comprised a remarkable potato diner, cost
£lB ; • broad spud goes underneath the tubers
and raises them up whilst a rotary of eight forks
follows after, throwing out the potatoes as they
are raised so that none can escape. Their great
variety of very useful and practical looking
grubbers, and of every degree of strength and
capacity, extending from LYS 10s. in cost to
£l3 10s., was a highly satisfactory exhibition.
A new horse gear also exhibited by this firm, in-
stead of revolving merely on one shaft, works in
two sockets, and is thus rendered very strong,
very easy, and very light; its cost with inter-
mediate motion is 15 guineas, without, eleven.

Among the machinery in motion, Mount Ronsornes
mid Sinn, of Lothian, exhibited one of their patent com-
bined .team thrashing finishing, and dreaming machini
which possesses several features worthy of notice.
They consist of patent twisted beaters, which are
revereible and thrash cleaner than any others without
breaking the grain ; patent revolving .h•kers which
economise power and reduce the wear and tear consider-
ably. all shaking motion being avoided; patent, adjust-
able, self cleaning rotary corn s-reen, which is perfect
in its operation and enhanoes the value of the sample.
It is • most ingenious invention, .iraple in action, and
not liable to derangement if used with ordinary care.
AdA to these advantage., the best ma.erial end first-cles,
workmanship, and we think that the machine of the
Messrs. Ransom,. offers retailer inducements to an in-
tending purchaser. It ig driven by Rensomes' and Sims'
eight horse power steam engine, which appear. to be
constructed to meet all the requirements of • term, being
simple, strong, and durable. It is fitted with all the
mn.t recent improvements and will bear comparison
with any of its rivals. In the ordinary shedding Meseta.
Renenmes exhibit on a large scale. The most at, king
objects in their collection are the Newcastle nlougle
wheh gained the chief honnur. At the Newcastle meet.
ing of the B. A. S. E. in Ififld, and which have gimpc
cord,' off 50 champion prim, and • large number of
silver cups. They are imitable for all sort. of land and
ran be fitted with bodies for ridging, subsoiling, digging,
&c. Besides the Newcastle ploogh• there are several
others .pecially adapted for particular purposes.
Among the food preparing mach nes we entitled Bbidell's
mills for mating beans, oats, ?ad.,. corn, gm. These
mills are too well known to requee any comment. The
fact thet some thousands are in age is a sufficient test
of their merit.. They are in various combination.,
suited to the small occupier or the landed proprietor.
Biddell's net pul per is a u•eful machine, provhled with
• brush for cleaning the barra. Ransome4' patent
rotary corn screen is • vast inprovement on the various
complicated screens hitherto invented. No washer, on
brushes are used to clear the wires, but the screening is
p vformed by the n,tation of two wire in linders, which
separate the lame from the small kernels with unfailing
accuracy. It can be adjusted to screen finer or coarser
Instantaneously. Messrs. Ransoms, also exhibit tome
useful harrows, pomaltren, bone rakes, lawn mowers,
kc,
theism, urinate,. or THCSloiw

Contrary to general expectation, there was an °Medal
mrening of the showyard at two o'clock on Monday
afternoon, at which hour the Mayor and Town Council
accompanied by the Lord Bishop rif Saliabary. Dr.
Hamilton, and hie chaplaina, the Rev. Canon Tear, and
the Rey. Mr. Danbeny, amembled at the Shirehall in
the morket place, and walked in promminn to the
show-yard, where they were met by the Earl of Porto.
mouth. President of the Society, and the council, by
whom they were escorted to the Fine Art. Exhibition.
LORD PORTSMOUTH expreleed the gratificst.on lie
experienced at that riait from the civic corporation of
Saliabury, and regretted that that year there should
not he any ezhibiain of chtle.
. . . _ _

The MATOR, on behalf of the Town Council, returned
thanks for the reception which Lad been given them,
and raid they ted as well as his loribhip that tiny
had been obliged to exclude cattle from the chow, but
thought that might be an indueoment to them, if the
rules of the society permitted it, to visit Saliidmtry again
nest year, and he could assure them that whatever
mould be done for the convenience and enjoyment of the
visitors sbould be carried out.

The Rumor, after some remarks relative to the
Cathedral and the local linseum, offered up prayer
Invoking a blaming on the proceedings., and the
Party then went to 01•1111/211 the objects of interest
around them.

As the proommon named through the streets it was
hooted by the bystanders, as indicating their disap-
proval of the eltradinary worse pursued by the Mayor,
and of which no peram seems capable of affording an
esplanai ion. It is likely that but for the respect due
to the Bishop and the presence of • strong body of pubis,
the Mayor would hare been mobbed. A. it was, several
rotten eggs, stones, gravel, lac., were thrown, as the
prooemion pissed along Cubic-street. In the evening,
while the Mayor wee at dinner with the Council, his
shop in Silverstreet was attacked, and the lamps over
the door broken. No farther injury was done.

MOCK PROCISSION Or TEN 11.4170/1-

The unpopularity of the Mayor was attested bye
ludicrous mock proceesion, which pewad through the
atreets amid-t jeers and laughter, but without any in-
terruption, shortly alter six o'clock on Monday, as tin
people were returning from the show yard. It consisted
of an array of guys, chiefly grown lads or boys, the
more respectably attired of whom represented the cor-
poration homilies, bearing mock maces tipped with
yellow. At the bead of the them procession appeared
an empty tea-chest (the Mayor being • grocer), and the
posse comitairr was Banked by 5 .g-benrers, who bore
aloft banners of attiped 0411100, red and white—the
Ameriesu stripes without the stars. Whilst, underneath
a black Bag inscnbed in white "our Mare," with the
igure of an animal, the female of the British horse,
below, ailyanoed a youth draped in • tattered piece
of bunting that bad once, perhaps, repreeented "the
ng that's boaeed a thnmand yearn, the battle and the
bmes.." and ever and anon his worshiti pulled at the
yellow tinfoil &min which encircled his neck, and upheld
to the admiring crowd the glittering hedge, of stare.a/ty
attached to it. There was no other excitement, and
very little confusion attending the peewee of this
grotesque procession.

TEO CONDUCT 01 WI. STOKE&

We bare *nimbi in vain for some explanation of the
singular conduct of the Mayor. and the only pretest
which can be at all ruggeated for his Worship so per-
ristently refusing to comply with the generally-v.:primed
wish of the discos. is the feat that upon his inquiring
of the Council of the Society what watt expected of him
and the Corporation of which he was the head, the
reply given wu that the society was armee to any in-
dividual being put to great expense in entertaining
them. After the hospitality with which the society has
been received by the Mayors of Barnstaple, Cardiff, and
of Bristol. the Council felt that sinless they geve some
such eon of intim .lion. leiser towns in the West of
England, thinking th-t similar I.heraty on the part of
their chief magistrate would be • rine poi woe to the
visit of the society, would feel hadieposed to invite
them. The Mayor of Salisbury Imre to this • very literal
construction, and thus it is that Salisbury been so very
different an aspect to that which presented itself
last year in Hereford. We ought, in fairest*, to
mention a. one redeeming feature in the character of
the Mayor, that his worship has entertained at dinner
Me members of the several sections of the council of
tha society.