280 Report on the Trials of Reaping Machines at Leamington, 
4-feet cut, and manual back -delivery. Employing two men, this machine cut 
well, and the delivery was especially well done. In the middle of the plot the 
crop was lighter than the average. 
Plot 6. — Mr. William Mattison's " Yorkshire Champion" Reaper (573 Cata- 
logue number) made good work. 
Plot 7. — Messrs. Hornsby's "Premier" Reaper, with manual back-delivery 
(478 Catalogue number), has the brackets and gearing placed on the inner 
side of the main wheel, but not within it; the crank connecting-rod is 17 inches 
long, the downward throw of the crank 5j inches; the fingers are at 3-inch 
intervals ; the width of cut 4 feet ; breadth over all 6 feet 8 inches ; the main 
wheel is of 2 feet 65 inches diameter; the seat for the rake-man is over the 
wheel, and there is a lever for raising the fingers. This machine, employing 
two men, dealt with the heaviest portion of the crop. 
The Judges selected for a second trial the two Grantham. 
Self-delivery One-horse Machines, Nos. 481 and 482 ; the 
Grantham Manual-delivery Reaper, No. 479 ; and Mr. Mat- 
tison's Manual-delivery, No. 572. These were tested upon % 
piece of heavy barley on Thursday, August 17th. The Hornsby 
machines performed well ; Mattison's also cut well, and, with 
hard and very nimble execution on the part of the rake-man, 
delivered well, keeping four men busy at work in shifting the 
sheaf-bunches out of the way for the next course. 
In the dynamometer trial on wheat, the two self-delivery 
machines showed a draught of 4*0 to 4*4 lbs. per inch-width 
of cut ; which, considering the shorter breadth taken at once, 
compares not unfavourably with the 3 - 3 to 3*6 lbs. draught of 
the two-horse machines made by the same firm. Of the two 
manual-delivery reapers, Messrs. Hornsby's had a draught of 
1-89 lbs., and Mr. Mattison's 2*23 lbs. per inch-width of cut. 
The draught of these, running light on a farm-road, was, for 
Hornsby's " Premier," 32 lbs., and for Mattison's " Manual," 
53 lbs., which is 5 lbs. more than the draught of Hornsby's 
Self-delivery One-horse Machine, No. 482. 
The Judges awarded the first prize of 15/. to Messrs. R. Hornsby 
and Sons' Self-delivery One-horse Reaper, No. 482, which 
gained 625, that is full points, for mechanical merit and price, 
and 368 out of 375 points for performance, making 993 total 
points out of 1000 constituting perfection. They gave the 
second prize of 10/. to Messrs. Hornsby's Self-delivery One- 
horse Reaper, No. 481, which gained 600 out of 625 points for 
mechanical merit and price, and 346 out of 375 points for per- 
formance, making 946 total points out of 1000. The third 
prize of 5/. they awarded to Messrs. Hornsby's Manual-delivery 
Machine, No. 479, which took 570 out of 625 points for con- 
struction and price, and 355 out of 375 for performance, making 
925 total points out of 1000. And they highly commended 
Mr. William Mattison's Manual-delivery Reaper, which took 
485 out of 625 points for construction and price, and 310 out 
