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4. The Judges are also empowered to make special awards of medals for 
efficient modes of guarding or shielding machinery, especially when worked by 
steam, from contact with persons immediately engaged in attending to such 
machinery while at work. 
5. No medal shall, in any case, be awarded to anj- implement or miscella- 
neous article, capable of trial, until it has been subjected to such trial as the 
Stewards may direct. 
6. No Medal shall be awarded by the Judges without the consent of tho 
Stewards, and no commendation of miscellaneous articles shall be made by the 
Judges. 
It being determined, owing to the backwardness of the har- 
vest, not to test the competitors for the Gold Medal at that time, 
the trial was postponed. A careful examination of the construc- 
tion of each implement of the class in the yard was, however, 
made. 
The Judges of miscellaneous articles, after a tedious circuit of 
the yard, and a careful inspection of the multitudinous ingenious 
machines claiming their attention, decided only to award three 
of the ten medals at their disposal, thereby leaving a considerable 
number of novelties and improvements undistinguished, except 
by the notice which the Reporter may be able to give them. 
Eeport of the Judges of Miscellaneous Articles. 
To the Stewards of Implements : — 
We recommend that medals be awarded to the followins; articles : — Stand 
243, Xo. 5304. W. N. Nicholson and Son, for their patent^Grist Mill. 
Stand 205, No. 4362. Hodgkin, Neubaus and Co., for their new patent 
Boiler-feeder. 
Stand 262, No. 5838. Clayton and Shuttleworth, for their new patent 
Drum-guard on Threshing-machine. 
We have taken notes of several other novelties and improvements, a list of 
which we handed to our lieporter, a copy of which you can have if desired. 
John Thompson. 
J. W. KiMBER. 
Samuel Kowlandson. 
We sanction these recommendations. 
J. BowEN Jones. 
John Hemslet. 
Geo, H. Sandat. 
Gold Medal. 
This medal was offered for " an efficient Sheaf-binding Ma- 
chine, either attached to a reaper or otherwise." 
There were eight entries in this class, viz., Messrs. Burgess 
and Key, of Holborn Viaduct, London ; Messrs. James and 
Frederick Howard, Bedford : Melville Thomson Neal, of 22, 
Buckingham Street, Adelphi, London ; H. J. H. King, of New- 
market, Stroud, Gloucestershire ; Chyms H. McCormick, of 
Chicago, Illinois, U. S. A. — agent, Rush F. Mason, of 142, 
Queen Victoria Street, London ; Phillips and Co., of the 
