OXFORD INGENUITIES.
On the subject of this year's new machinery it is wholly remarkable with what rapid success Oxford University has taken up its function of studying agriculture mechanics on behalf of the Ministry. The discovery and invention for drying crops may save the sugar industry. Of many ingen- ious novelties-at the Royal the most perfect came from the OxfOrd School of Agriculture, and, I believe, is not unlikely to be used at the Ministry's new grading stations. By a subtle combination of gradients and poises the machine sorts out eggs into five compartments according to weight ; and so makes possible a quick and certain grading. The operator has merely to lay the egg on the right spot on the little railway and the rest is done for him. Mr. C. S. Orwin's enthusiasm for his colleague's invention proved infectious. Spectators watched the smooth precision of the machine for as long as the operators would continue to launch the eggs.
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