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to  be  used  as  an  assistant  mechanical  feeder  to  his  large  power 
chaff-cutters.  These  latter  are  well  known  and  largely  employed 
on  the  large  stock  farms  of  the  Eastern  Counties,  and  as  this  novel 
addition  saves  the  labour  of  three  men,  at  a cost  of  221.,  it  was 
considered  worthy  of  a silver  medal. 
Fig.  15  shows  the  yealmer  attached  to  a chaff-engine.  It 
will  be  seen  that  one  man  forks  the  loose  straw  on  to  the 
elevator  just  as  it  falls  from  the  shakers  of  the  threshing- 
machine,  or  as  it  is  obtained  from  a stack  if  the  two  operations 
