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Report to H.R.H, the President 



required, on the part of the Judges at the York meeting, specific 

 terms for describing its work more than are easy to understand ; 

 but the Judges' account is for that very reason worth quoting : — 

 " Several machines/' they say, " were tried, but could not get 

 through the grain, shorts, straws, and chaff, as it came from the 

 threshing-machines, without being choked or requiring much more 

 time than Hornsby's, v/hich did its work well, parting the whole 

 into best corn, good tail, tail, whites, screenings, and chaff, at the 

 rate of above 15 quarters an hour, and dressing over the second 

 time at the rate of above 20 quarters per hour, parting the whole 

 into six parts, as before, in a vrorkmanlike manner/' Such 

 masterly mastication and digestion, making the contents of our 

 supposed wheat-rick, 40 quarters, in five hours ready for market, 

 must be appreciated by farmers ; and Mr. Hornsby's winnov^^er 

 has not lost character at Kensington, as appears by the Judges' 

 Heport : — 



Winnoiving macliines, — Messrs. Hornsby and Son are, above all others, 

 the most successful in these machines, dressing more than double as much 

 corn as any other in a rough state. Theirs is fitted with a spike roller^ 

 working through a grating, and forms a sort of hopper, separating the 

 corn from the chaff in the rough pulsy state, as it comes from the threshing- 

 machine, without being previously riddled ; and can be adjusted to suit 

 corn either in rough chaff or in any other state ; the second time over, a 

 slide-board is adjusted in front of the grating, and is excellent for finishing 

 the corn for market. We therefore awarded it a medal. Price 13/. 10s. 



Mr. Gooch exhibited a machine which did its work well, but too slow. 



C. B. Challoner. 



The corn being now fit for the miller, the task of a reporter on 

 agricultural implements fifty years since would have ended ; nor 

 is it within this branch to enter on the new process of grinding, 

 by which the finest flour is produced from ordinary red wheat ; 

 but though the preparation of food for man belong to another 

 department, there is an entirely nev/ class of implements belong- 

 ing to this jury which must not be passed over. 



V. Machines for Preparing the Food of Stock. 



Formerly our farm stock was fed with hay, or turned out to 

 pick over straw, sometimes with whole turnips thrown to them. 

 But practice, anticipating Baron Liebig's brilliant discoveries in 

 animal physiology, found that the labour of the jaws wasted the 

 beast's muscle and thus retarded his progress. Our stock, there- 

 fore, are saved even from that exertion, and distinct machines 

 have been invented for mincing each description of food with 

 which the animals are made ready for market. The most com- 

 mon of these is 



