at the Gloucester Meeting^ 1853. 355 



Corn-Dressing Machines for Large Occupations. 









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Tail Corn, 

 1st Dressing. 



Revolutions of 

 1 Testing i\Iacliine 

 during 2nd 

 Dressing. 





Tail Corn, 

 2nd Dressing. 





Stand. 



Art, 



Name. 



Weight on 

 j when at ^ 



Screenings. 



!? 

 to 

 .g 



O 

 Ph 

 CO 



Best Corn. 



Screenings. 



Spoutings. 



Price. 



9 



1 





lbs. 



lU 



lbs. 

 4 



lbs. 



31 



30 



lbs. 



lbs 



lbs. 



£. s. 



10 10 



40 



7 





13 



7i 





45 



327 



4i 





13 10 



91 



8 



Nicholson .... 



15 



H 



7i 



67 



242 



61- 



1 



11 1 



These machines were tried in the same way as last year, by 

 each of them chaffing- as much corn, rough from the thrashing 

 machines, as they could during 62 turns of the testing machine, 

 which is equal to two minutes of time. They then finished the 

 quantity chaffed, and the results are given in the above table. 

 This prize was again carried off by Hornsby, as also was the one 

 for dressing-machines for small occupations : his competitors in 

 this class failed to work. 



Owen Wallts. 

 William Lister. 



A. Hamond, Steward of Implements. 



Ground Implements. 



Ploughs for General Purposes. — The principle upon which to 

 judge the merits of a plough was assumed to be this : — the 

 display of a clean-cut, level-edged, unbroken, rectangular furrow, 

 as exhibiting the work of a plough perfect in all its parts. 

 Such a plough is supposed to possess a share and mouldboard 

 that, in cutting and turning, will best preserve the furrow-slice 

 in the natural bend and twist it takes in the action of turning 

 over; and to attain this, not only a perfect shape, but very 

 ample length of mouldboard, is found to be necessary. The 

 coulter must perform its part so as to form on a level surface a 

 true vertical cut, to match a perfectly horizontal sole. The 

 next requisite is a well-formed skim coulter, which should so 

 pare off the inequalities of the upper surface of the intended 

 furrow that it should fit down evenly on the back of the one last 

 turned, and form so close a seam that the growth of grass or 

 weeds through any aperture be effectually stopped ; while the 

 parings of this skim coulter should, by a chain with a weight 

 attached, be swept off the turning furrow, together with other 

 loose matter, into the bottom of the furrow. For a furrow com- 

 pactly turned, as above described, will be found to be equally 



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