342 Report on the Exhibition and Trial of Implements 



Art. St. 



The Prize of 5/. was awarded to the machine . . 1 126 



Highly Commended jj^ ^^ 



Commended 5 14 



^Manufactured by 

 Bentall. 

 Nicholson. 

 Hornsby. 

 Fisher. 



Winnowing Machines. 



The classes of Winnowing and Com- dressing Machines were worked in the 

 ■usual way by manual labour ; a given time (three minutes) was allotted to 

 each, and the weight of grain winnowed or dressed, and the quality of the 

 work, noted. A large heap of corn (wheat), as it came from the drum of 

 the threshing machines, mixed with the sweepings of the threshing floor, so 

 as to form as regular and as rough a mixture as possible, was prepared, from 

 whicli each of the following machines was supplied : — 



G7 

 7.5 

 47 

 97 

 87 



164 



6 



37 



138 



11 

 1 



13 

 1 

 9 

 1 

 1 



Name of Maker. 



Eaton 

 Nicholson 

 Hornsby . 

 Smith 

 Garrett . 

 Coultas - 

 Ransome . 

 Boby 

 Davis 



■Weight 

 "Winnowed. 



lbs. 

 424 

 5.52 

 7C1 

 583 

 321 

 287 

 ■«'ithdrawii 

 ditto. 

 147 I 



Quality of 

 "Work. 



Price. 



£. s. d. 



8 10 



12 12 



13 10 

 13 13 

 12 10 

 11 11 



S 



The Prize of bl. ■was awarded to the machine 



Highly Commended 



Commended 



The operation of separating the chaff and cavings from the threshed com 

 being eflected by the combined threshing machines now so generally in use, 

 the time for offering prizes for these machines appears to us to be quite 

 gone by. The mode of construction in all the machines submitted to trial 

 exhibited no improvement upon what has appeared in fomier years, and most 

 of the leading makers have ceased to consider them as worth any special 

 attention. 



Corn-Dressing Machines. 



The mode of testing these Machines was the same as with the preceding 

 class. A large heap of trial corn was prepared, taken as it came from the 

 Winnowing Machines of the preceding trial, without screening, but merely 

 mixed up to ensure regularity. The class was largely represented, no less than 

 28 makers being exhibitors. The follo'wing were tested : — 



