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Report on the Exhibition of Implements 



the two best upon trial ran so close to each other that the deci- 

 sion was postponed for a second daj's trial, when Messrs. Garrett's 

 machine was declared the best under the following report : — 



" The thrashing-machines submitted to our notice were Gar- 

 rett's and Hornsbj's. The latter, a six-horse power with bolter 

 barn-works, thrashed 50 sheaves in four minutes forty seconds ; 

 price 90/. The former, a four-horse power with bolter barn- 

 works, thrashed the same in three minutes fifty seconds ; price 

 60Z. 10^. The grain in both cases was the same ; but Garrett's 

 thrashed the straw cleaner, and without breaking it in the least. 

 We are of opinion that both are good machines. The prize one 

 has a parallel movement in the concave, — a great improvement, 

 which would have entitled it to the prize if they stood on equal 

 ground ; but price^, time, and work are also all in favour of 

 Garrett's." 



For the general working of the machines see next page. 



The thrashing-machine which obtained this well-contested prize 

 was a four-horse power bolting thrashing-machine, invented and 

 manufactured by Garrett and Son. The prize of 25/. was 

 awarded to this machine at the Royal Agricultural Society's 

 Meeting at Newcastle, 184G. It thrashes every description of 

 grain, and is warranted not to injure the corn, or bend or bruise 

 the straw, so much as thrashing with the flail. It is fitted with 

 R. Garrett and Son's patent cylindrical wire drum and regis- 

 tered iron levers or shafts. In districts where the straw is sold 

 this wall be found a most invaluable implement. Price, as a 

 portable machine complete, 60/. IO5. ; ditto, as a fixture complete, 

 53/. IO5. ; extra if fitted with the registered iron levers, each 

 lever IO5. ; ditto of the thrashing part to be applied to steam or 

 water power, fitted with pulleys, 27/. IO5. 



The thrashing-machine which the Judges in their report par- 

 ticularly commended to the Council was Mr. Ferrabee's, described 

 as a portable thrashing-machine, for two or three horses ; im- 

 proved and manufactured by the exhibitor. The horse-power of 

 this machine will admit of two or three horses being applied to 

 it. It is mounted on a pair of wheels, and furnished with a 

 lifting-jack. The machine is constructed with iron frame, drum, 

 and concave, the thrashing part being principally of wrought 

 iron. The regulation for different kinds of grain is effected by a 

 handle attached to a bar with eccentrics on it, and which always 

 maintain the concave and drum parallel to each other, their 

 proximity being shown by an index. Price 47/. IO5. 



Churns. — Four of these implements were tested, and each 

 produced very good butter ; it was a neck and neck race, and 

 the prize was awarded to Mr. R. Robinson, for a churn similar 

 to that for which he obtained the prize at Newcastle last year : 



