630 Report on the Trials of Combined Stackivg-MacMnes 
No. 1455. Beverley Iron Worlis Company. This is of the same pattern, 
but differs Irom the machine last described in being more substantially con- 
structed. The workmanship and materials are very good, but the trough is 
far too heavy. It was very hard work for two men to raise the frame with 
the slow motion, and it will be seen that 47 minutes were consumed by 
them in setting the machine for work. It is fair to note that a part of 
this was due to the coat of joaint that covered the screws and impeded their 
working. 
A short trial was given to the two forms of pitchforks worked 
by horse-power. The implement exhibited by Mr. H. Yorath 
was precisely the same as the one exhibited by the same maker 
last year at Cardiff, and described in the report of those trials. 
Mr. W. T. Wright entered three implements for trial, the only 
difference being that last year the double fork had three teeth on 
each side, while this year two other forks were brought for trial, 
one with two, and the other with one tooth on each side. 
A load of hay was transferred from one waggon to another by 
each exhibitor in the same time, viz. 11 minutes. The horse- 
power required to do this was not tested, but it is unquestionably 
less than was needed by any of the machine elevators doing 
similar work. These implements were not adapted to be worked 
by steam-power, and should not, therefore, have been entered 
for competition in a class for Combined Stacking-Machines. 
The quality of their work in stacking hay is decidedly inferior 
to that of the machine elevators. They take the hay off the 
waggon in large and somewhat unwieldy lumps ; hay that has 
been stacked in this form will not come out nearly so well in 
the truss as that which has been delivered on to the rick in a thin 
even stream from a good machine elevator. The unloading of 
green hay from the waggon by one of the machine elevators is 
equal to giving it an extra tedding in the field. Another oljjec- 
tion to the small implement is that it is not wholly under the 
control of one man. Neither man nor implement can well 
serve two masters. The evil results of this divided mastership 
may cause serious accidents in the use of Yorath's large pitch- 
fork. The horse raises the fork by a rope from the whippletree 
that passes over two pulleys, and is attached to a link passing 
through the base of the wooden handle of the fork. The man on 
the waggon holds a guide rope attached to the top of the handle, 
swings the fork over the rick, and unloads it by slackening the 
rope suddenly. It will be seen that the man or boy leading the 
horse regulates the height to which the fork is raised, while 
the man on the waggon regulates its swing and the lowering ot 
its long sharp points ; two careful men, well used to work to- 
gether, may work the fork successfully, but when worked by 
ordinary farm-labourers, the men upon the rick would apparently 
