Implement Show at Manchester. 
549 
No. 649, a combined mower and mamial back-delivery machine. ITiis is a 
very clicap and exceedingly well-made machine ; it did its work well in grass 
and corn, and on small occupations, to which these machines are more parti- 
cularly adapted, would prove a very useful implement. The back-delivery 
machines, costing only il. in addition to the price of a simple mower, will 
probably be the most extensively used as combined machines, and we thought 
it right to award a prize to one of these. 
We were very favourably impressed with the working of No. 3722, a com- 
bined mower and self-acting slicaf-delivery machine, sent by the Messrs. 
Howard. 
Messrs. H. and G. Kearsley's combined mower and manual back-delivery 
reaping-machine. No. 191, made good and clean work on the rye, also cutting 
good on the grass. The price, 30Z., we considered high for a back-delivery 
machine. 
Messrs. Picksley and Sims's machine. No. 1977, made excellent work in 
both trials, as did also his No. 1976. 
Mr. W. A. Wood exhibited a machine with automatic side-delivery, price 
311. 10s. ; it did its cutting well, hnt tho sheafing was not good. 
Messrs. Burgess and Key's machine, No. 179, went through its trials in the 
most workmanlike manner. 
The BOl. which we had to dispose of we awarded as under : — 
To Messrs. Samuelson and Co., No. 3940, prize of 201. 
To Messrs. Hornsby and Sons, No. 649, prize of 101. 
J. W. KlMBER. 
John Hemsley. 
Matthew Savidge. 
3. Beport of the Judges on Haymakers, Horse-Bakes, and Hay Collectors. 
Haymakers. 
In the class of Haymakers we have machinery only second in importance to 
the Mowers. The saving of labour by the use of them in the processes of hay- 
making is great, and not only is there economy of money but, what is decidedly 
more important, of time. In these days, moreover, it is often impossible to 
obtain the hands necessary to manipulate the hay. Now that mowing by 
machinery is so established a practice, our haymakers may well be constructed 
with a view to deal with the grass as it is left by the machine : and there is 
this difference : in the case of the scythe the grass is collected into a heavy 
swathe, from which it can only be distributed by fast forward or tedding action : 
in the case of the mowing-machine, the grass, unless brought together by the 
track-clearer, falls where it stood, and is distributed over the surface. When 
the crop is light and the weather fine, it may be that tossing right over is not 
necessary or desirable ; the slighter Idck up behind being sufficient to spread, 
and not so likely to break off the delicate leaves of clover, &c. ; hence a good 
back action is very important. Again, it is manifest that in order for the 
same machine to act efficiently in light and heavy crops, the revolutions of 
the forks must be varied ; and unless the machinery is capable of adjustment, 
this can only be effected, and then but imperfectly, by regulating the pace of 
the horse, and a loss of result must follow. If we reduce the pace, less groimd can 
be gone over, or if we require a greater speed than that for which the machine is 
constructed, we can only obtain it by calling upon the animal to travel at a 
pace not natiiral and therefore distressing. In reference to the same crop, 
diflerence of speed is desirable according as the material is grass, hay, or in the 
intermediate stage. For these reasons haymakers capable of a change of speed, 
provided the same be produced without undue complication, are decidedly 
commendable. Strength of construction is also of great importance. The 
