Implement Show at Bury St. Edmund's. 



Barley Hummelleks. (^Quantity, 2 huslids.) 



Gil 



Chaff CaTTEBs. 



The aiTaugement of the working jiarts in Riclimond and Cliandlor's, and 

 Bcntall's machines was beautiful, combining great strength with mucli sim- 

 plicity. A provision for altering the lengths of chaff by changing the posi- 

 tion of the wheels without removing the wheels themselves was admirable. 

 Smith and Grace showed a very excellent chaff cutter, and produced a sample 

 equal to any one of their clever compeers. Their machine was eminently 

 simple in construction and low in price ; but it was beaten both in time and 

 power by the machines to which we unhesitatingly awarded the prizes, feeling 

 sure that where a large quantity of chaff has to be provided they would be 

 found the cheaper articles, because of the great strength, admirable adaptation, 

 and the saving of jiower and time required to produce a given quantity. If 

 we had had more money at our disposal wc should certainly have apportioned 

 some of it to Smith and Grace for their very good little hand-power chaff 

 cutter. 



Grindikq Mills. 



The labour of producing fine meal with grinding and crushing dills worked 

 Tby hand-power was necessarily protracted and severe. These trials brought 

 vividly to mind a remark by the late lamented editor^ ]\Ir. Pusey, — " If you 

 once establish a moving power on your farm, whether steam, water, or wind, 

 it is not the labour only of thrashing that may be saved to men or horses, 

 but the winnowing, the dressing, the chaff-cutting ; even the turnip-slicing 

 machine, when the turnip is consumed at home, may be grafted on the j^rin- 

 cipal wheels aud thus borrow their motion. The more labour is thus set free 



