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the hay outwards. Very pretty as the motion is, it must be said 
that the American machine did not take up the hay, when 
in heavy row, as clean as the English. Upon a very light win- 
now it worked very well. Altogether, this machine, from its 
cheapness, its light weight, its comparatively light draught, and 
the general principles of its construction, promises well for the 
future. The gathering power may, I think, be improved ma- 
terially, after which we shall have a clever machine capable of 
working its way into practice where large breadths of grass are 
cut, and where the quantity of work done in a limited time is 
of more importance than a small money economy. The ad- 
vantage in price, which the American machine has, is a matter 
of consequence, and it may be made yet more cheaply.* 
I The Judges placed both implements in the list of novelties 
' recommended to the notice of the Official Reporter. Both have 
in them the elements of future success. The American machine 
starts with the great advantage of comparative cheapness and 
simplicity. I have not been able to obtain an illustration of 
Loader's machine, but it may be best described in the language 
of the specification of patent as follows: — 
I The inventor's object has been the construction of a machine in such a 
manner as to admit of its being adjusted to load a waggon either at the 
I front or the back of the same, as may be required. 
I "The machine is arranged with gathering frames fixed in frout of the 
loading-rakes worked by an endless band or chain, which receives its motion 
from a pinion on the axle of the chain-pulley gearing, with a wheel on the 
axle of the runnins-wheel. The hay as it is gathered by the prongs is taken 
up by the front loading-rakes and carried to the top of the inclined platform, 
when it is allowed to fall into the waggon as it proceeds. 
" When the machine is required to load sheaves or loose corn at the back of 
the waggon, the gathering prongs are fixed under and in the rear of the load- 
ing-rakes, until on reaching the top it is allowed to fall into the waguon. The 
chain or band of the loading-rakes is worked by a pinion on the axle of the 
chain-pulley gearing with an internal wheel on the running-wheel." 
The American Foust's Loader was described and figured by 
* Loader's machine was worked in the trials with the waggon attached behind 
it. The elevating prongs (which act in a somewhat similar manner to the 
corresponding parts in an oidinary elevator) work in front of, and in an 
opposite direction to, the advance of the machine, and so meet the hay and gather 
it up cleaner than the American loader can do. In fact, this machine will gather 
np hay fairly clean which has been left spread on the ground by the haymaker. 
The mnd-rows of hay on which the loaders were tried were very large, and the 
horses heing driven at a great pace, the hay was delivered on to the waggon 
much faster than two men could possibly place it. This caused the work to be 
done in a very untidy manner. 
Foust's loader works behind the waggon, and the hay is picked up at the tail 
of the machine. This machine appears more particularly adapted for taking up 
hay out of wind-row, which it does tolerably well, and with moderate draueht. — 
J. W. K. 
