

OX BIPLEMEXTS SELECTED FOR TRIAL. 



patent self-feeding apparatus consists of a covered hopper on the 

 top of the thrashing machine, containing a shaking-board, on 

 which the crop falls as it is filled in, and means of adjustment 

 are provided to regulate the quantity of feed. There is a lever 

 close to the attendant, so tliat the machine can be quickly stopped 

 if required. The price of the machine is L.160. The machine 

 was driven by one of Eobey & Co/s six horse-power traction 

 engines, and the quantity of grain finished for the market per 

 Iiour was six quarters. The Committee consider that the work 

 done was most satisfactorily performed ; that the various im- 

 jjrovements which have been introduced, espscially the new 

 feeding apparatus, are most ingenious and likely to be useful, 

 and think it worthy of the Society's gold medal. 

 The report was approved. 



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III. — KoLDMOOs' Weed Eradicator. 



The weeding machine invented by Mr Ingermann, of Kold- 

 moos, near Gravenstein, and for three years well known in 

 Germany, Denmark, and Sweden, called " The Koldmoos Weed 

 Eradicator," and exhibited by i\Iessrs Ord & Maddison, Dar- 

 lington, was selected for trial by the Implement Committee 

 at the Societv's show at Glasgov/ in 1875, and the trial took 



