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hand. Even on a small farm, where hand-labour is difficult to 
obtain, the high-priced machine will no doubt be found practi- 
cally economical in quickening harvest work, especially in 
showery weather ; but some such calculation as the above 
will often make a farmer anxious to find a good elevator at a 
moderate price. The Judges, therefore, in column 22, allotted 
100 points of merit as the maximum, and were very much 
pleased to find the machines which gave the best results in 
the trials among those lowest in price. 
In column 4 the weight of each machine has been entered as 
reported by the exhibitor. Some of these weights, however, 
proved to be merely guesses, and very inaccurate. The same 
difficulty that the makers had found at home we encountered at 
Hull ; when at the end of the trial we sent off some of the 
machines to be Aveighed, the carriage frames were too long to go 
upon an ordinary weigh-bridge, and as there was no time to make 
the special arrangements that would have been required, we were 
reluctantly obliged to give no points at all for weight. 
In column 5 the inside length and breadth of each trough are 
given. The latter varies from 4 feet to 4 feet 9 inches ; for hay, 
straw, and loose corn the narrow troughs are wide enough, but 
sheaves of corn are often knocked about in a narrow trough, and 
will even sometimes be thrown over the sides. The difference 
in the length of the troughs is very remarkable, for we find no cor- 
responding difference in the maximum height of their delivery 
(see column 9). The shorter troughs were generally worked at 
a much sharper pitch, and had rakes provided with long spikes ; 
and it is obviously much cheaper to lengthen the teeth than the 
trough. It was very clearly shown by these trials that elevators 
provided with good chains and long teeth may be raised much 
nearer to the perpendicular than some makers seem to imagine. 
The longest trough of all (No. 4889, Robey and Co.) was 43 feet 
long, but was only raised to a very slight incline of some 27 
degrees, so that its top was only 25 feet above the ground. If 
this was not done by mistake, it must have been necessitated 
by a faulty construction of ladder-chain and pitch-wheels, that 
would not bite with the machine set at a sharper angle. 
No. 165 (Barford and Perkins) was set at the low angle of 
about 35 degrees ; three other machines (Nos. 1455, 169, and 
5164), fitted with short teeth and ladder-chains of the same 
pattern, were all worked at nearly the same angle. 
The two machines (No. 4391 and 4392) exhibited by Messrs. 
Holmes and Sons, although their ladder-chains were formed of 
long links, Avere yet only raised to an angle of about 38 degrees. 
The teeth in this case (see column 7) are of the intermediate 
length of 4 inches. Most of the other machines, provided with 
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