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Chaff-Cutters (Judges' Report). — "^ In this class there was 

 some improvement, but there did not seem to be any principle in- 

 troduced that was better than Cornes's ; although many makers are 

 turning out machines of his sort better got up than he turns out 

 some of his ; and if he does not look very active, he will find an 

 awkward competitor in Messrs. Richmond and Chandler. 



"We do not approve of the difference generally made between 

 large and small chaff-cutters, inasmuch as they have a narrower 

 box and also one knife less. Narrowing the box gives great 

 additional lever-power to the man or other power employed at 

 the crank; and we see no reason why the narrow width, with 

 three knives, should not be the most efficient and useful plan of 

 making small chaff-machines. 



" Eight were selected for trial, and supplied with the barley- 

 straw that had just been threshed, which was very short, soft, 

 awkward stuff to get through the machines ; the result is given in 

 the annexed diagframs :" — 



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" Another diagram, showing the quantity that each machine 

 would cut per hour, when driven at the rate chosen by the ex- 

 hibitor as the best for his machine : — 



