Report on the Agricultural Implements at 
where they are universally used. The illustration (Fig. 1) 
requires no explanation. The representation is very good, with 
this exception — that the corn does not appear to be cut so high 
as is actually the case. The stubble is not shown. It will be 
noticed that the reins are passed through, or hung on, a cross-bar 
on the standard, so as to be easily handled by the driver. It 
should be understood that the knife-bar and the reel are readily 
adjustable, so as to suit variations of crop. 
Whilst on this subject I may notice a clumsy, nondescript- 
looking machine, which was shown in the South Australian 
Section, and which, through the kindness and enterprise of 
Mr. Samuel Davenport, the Commissioner for South Australia, 
I had an opportunity of seeing tried at Schencks Station, the 
scene of the reaping trials. The machine, of which I present 
a good illustration, is a combined reaper and thresher, the in- 
Fig. 2. — Side view of Ridley's Reaping- Machine, shoiving how speed 
is obtained. 
A. Cover of drum open. C. Van or receptacle for chaff and corn. 
B. Beater of drum. | D. Gearing for conveying power.; u i 
vention of one Ridley, and is thus spoken of in Mr. Harcus's- 
work on 'South Australia': — "The greatest invention ever 
produced for the agriculturists of South Australia is Ridley s 
Reaping-machine, which reaps and threshes the wheat by one 
simple process. A machine of this kind could be used only 
where the climate is dry, and where the grain is allowed to 
ripen and harden in the ear. In some of the Australian colonies 
the machine cannot be used, in consequence of the moisture in 
the air. In South Australia, however, as soon as the crop is 
