106 Report on Implements at Liverpool, and on 
" Enterprise " Reaper Works, Grantham, Lincolnshire ; Walter 
A. Wood, of 36, Worship Street, London ; and D. ^L Osborne 
and Co., 125, St. Ann Street, Liverpool. 
Three of these entries were not represented in the Showvard. 
The absentees were Messrs. Burgess and Key, Howard, and 
Phillips. Their machines were new inventions, and consider- 
ing the very limited period of time during which they can test 
harvest machines, they no doubt acted wisely in making use 
of that limited period for experimenting with their new ideas 
instead of coming to a public trial in doubtful form, especially 
as several of the competing machines that they would have met 
had been in practical use for some time, and last vear had been 
tested at the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition. Mr. Xeale and. 
Mr. Kins: were the onlv two Eng-lish makers who faced the 
American trio of McCormick, Wood, and Osborne. 
!Mr. Neale's machine was the greatest novelty in principle, 
and the prettiest piece of mechanism in the yard.. It is in 
advance of the American machines, all of which tie with wire, in 
the point that it ties with soft string or varn. So far as the 
tying-up goes, it certainly makes the knot, and binds the sheaf 
experimented upon in the Showyard. Its adaptability for 
general field-work is another thing, and is greatly to be doubted, 
owing to the mechanism being somewhat complicated. 
Mr. H. J. King's machine is more simple in construction. 
It is priced at only 35Z. This machine did not compete, be- 
cause the band was too short for the straw. It ties with string 
without a knot, the ends being twisted together and left perfectly 
secure. The corn, after being cut, is carried to a table on the 
side of the delivery board, and at the same level, by an in- 
genious arrangement of fingers, where the string is passed round 
the sheaf. The low level of the table is a disadvantage that in 
practice might result in the clogging of the machinery. Neither 
of these machines came into the trial field. 
The three remaining machines in the yard were the " Har- 
vester and Sheaf-binder " of Chyms Henry McCormick, of 
Chicago, U. S. A. : the " Harv ester and Binder " manufactured 
by Walter A. Wood, London ; " Harvester and Automatic Self- 
binders," manufactured by D. M. Osborne and Co., Liverpool. 
All these machines were tried at the Philadelphia Centennial 
Exhibition, and the two former are fully described in Mr. Cole- 
man's admirable Report in the last volume of the Society's 
Journal, to which I am indebted for the illustrations and me- 
chanical description which arc now appended. 
McCormick's machine has been in use in America six years, 
and is a combination of upwards of twenty patents, and has been 
produced at a cost of upwards of 10,000/. It is a strong, heavy 
