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power than if the machine had been worked, as all others were, 
with the crop on only one side and the other side clear for the 
swathe or sheaf-bunches to fall ; while urging a machine, 
measuring 8 feet 9^ inches width over all, through a clearance 
cut 7 feet wide, must have considerably augmented the draught, 
as compared with traversing it along one side of the crop and 
with difficulty maintaining the full breadth of cut. Hence, the 
true draught of the Beverley Reaper must have been less than that 
indicated by the figures in Table I. and the Diagram (Fig. 1). 
In the dynamometer testing of the Combined Reaping and 
Mowing Machines (Class 3), some noticeable results were 
-obtained. Thus, the draught of Messrs. Brigham and Co.'s 
machine (No. 384) in cutting wheat was 183' 7 lbs., and when 
running light on a farm-road it was as much as 149*6 lbs. 
Messrs. Hornsby's " Light Paragon" (No. 475) had a draught in 
work of 141*8 lbs., and running on the road only 73*4 lbs., or 
little more than half. The width of cut being 45*7 inches by 
the Hornsby machine and 52 inches by the Brigham machine, 
brought the draught per inch width of cut to 3*1 lbs. for the 
former, and 3*53 lbs. for the latter. The lightest draught was 
shown by Messrs. Hornsby's " Paragon " machine (No. 474), 
with fingers 2\ inches apart, namely 2*97 lbs. per inch width of 
cut ; and the heaviest draught was that of Messrs. Lewis and 
Lowcock's machine (No. 1031), 4*1 lbs. per inch width of cut. 
A trial was made with Messrs. Bickerton and Sons' machine, 
to compare the draught at two different speeds of the crank ; the 
lesser number of strokes of the knife per minute giving a draught 
of 3*42 lbs., and the greater number of strokes a draught of 
4*22 lbs. per inch width of cut. This was in cutting wheat. 
In Class 4, One-horse Reaping Machines, the condition laid 
down was that the power required should not exceed 33,000 
foot-pounds per minute, at a pace of about 2-J miles per hour. 
Tried on the same wheat-crop, Messrs. Brigham and Co.'s 
machine (No. 385) was disqualified from competition, the 
power taken being 38,654 foot-pounds. The other machines 
required motive-power as follows : — W. Mattison, manual de- 
livery (No. 573), 30,932 lbs. ; Hornsby and Sons (No. 482), 
with three self-delivery rakes, 29,700 lbs. ; Hornsby and Sons 
(No. 481), with three controllable self-delivery rakes, 28,666 lbs. ; 
W. Mattison, manual delivery (No. 572), 26,268 lbs. ; Hornsby 
and Sons, manual delivery (No. 478), 20,460 lbs. ; Hornsby and 
Sons, manual delivery (No. 480), 18,931 lbs. ; and Hornsby and 
Sons, manual delivery (No. 479), 18,229 lbs. — this last machine 
weighing 546 lbs., cutting 4 feet breadth, with a draught of only 
1*89 lb. per inch width of cut. 
On reference to the very full and complete Tables compiled 
