Prizes for Threshing Machines. 
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both provided by the Society. The 
driving pulleys on the machines 
must be adapted to 1 ,88 1 feet per 
minute speed of driving belt. 
4. Before starting work the 
competitor must declare the num- 
ber of attendants required. If he 
personally, or any other extra 
attendant not included in such 
declaration, shall render any 
actual assistance in working or 
adjusting the machine during the 
trial, the fact will be noted by the 
Judges. Each machine will be 
allowed fifty sheaves of wheat and 
fifty sheaves of barley for adjust- 
ment before the trial. 
5. The order in which the 
several machines will be tested 
will be determined by the Stewards, 
who will decide by lot. 
6. No competitor will be allowed 
to enter more than one machine for 
competition. 
7. The points representing per- 
fection will be as under :— 
Clean threshing 30 
Clean shaking 10 
divings free from com 5 
Chaff free from corn 6 
Chaff free from cavings, seeds and dirt 5 
•Straw unbroken 5 
Corn uninjured 15 
Cleanness of delivery from machines . 2 
(i.e. absence of lodgment). 
Perfection of finishing 5 
(i.e. screening or sorting). 
Construction and convenience of working 6 
Power in proportion to results ... 5 
Economy of Attendance 4 
Price 2 
Total 100 
* In threshing the barley and oats, the 
points of straw unbroken will not be given, 
but will be added to the points allowed 
for perfection of finishing, making the 
number 10. 
8. The sheaves to be threshed 
will be kept under cover. The 
stacks will be worked so as to give 
each machine as nearly as possible 
the same quality of work. The 
sheaves will be served out by 
weight to each machine. The 
straw resulting will be re-threshed, 
and the various products delivered 
by the machines, as well as the 
corn separated by the second 
threshing, will be carefully weighed 
and samples set apart for final 
comparison. 
9. Means must be provided for 
examining the inside of the ma- 
chines as perfectly as possible, in 
order to ascertain how completely 
the various products are delivered. 
10. Those machines which ap- 
pear to the Judges of sufficient 
merit, after preliminary trials with 
both wheat and barley, will be run 
for a final trial, of not less than 
one hour with wheat, one hour with 
barley, and half an hour with oats, 
in order to enable a more correct 
and satisfactory judgment of their 
merits to be arrived at. 
11. For the exhibition of articles 
competing for the prizes for 
threshing machines, a sufficient 
amount of space will have to be 
taken by exhibitors under the ordi- 
nary regulations (to be issued later). 
12. Notice of the place and date 
of the trials will be posted to every 
competitor as soon as they are 
fixed. 1 
General Plymouth. 
The Earl of Feversham reported 
that Sir Massey Lopes — who was un- 
fortunately absent on account of 
domestic bereavement — had obtained 
the consent of the Bishop of Exeter 
to preach the sermon in the showyard 
on June 22. On the representation 
of the Mayor that Wednesday was 
the customary half-holiday at Ply- 
mouth, and that the appointment of 
any other day for a public holiday 
would be inconvenient, the Committee 
resolved that the charge for admis- 
sion on that day should be one shil- 
ling, instead of half-a-crown as usual, 
and that the charge for both the 
grand stand and the stand at the 
dairy on that day should be one 
shilling. Arrangements had been 
made for the attendance of a detach- 
ment of the A Division of the Metro- 
politan Police at the Plymouth Meet- 
ing. The Committee had considered 
and approved the provisional pro- 
gramme, and left the final details for 
settlement by the Honorary Director 
and the Secretary. 
Showyard Works. 
Sir Jacob Wilson (Chairman) 
reported that the entrances and 
general offices at the Plymouth Show- 
1 See also page lxxix for a further 
regulation added by the Council on 
May 17. 
