Report on Miscellaneous Implements at Shrewsbury, Sfc. 3 
machinery. The series of special trials of ensilage cutters and 
elevators, which took place this season in the Showyard, and 
those of sheaf-binders, which took place afterwards in the 
county, afforded ample proof that the Council is fully alive to 
the necessities of both implement manufacturers and implement 
buyers in this respect ; and that the interests of the latter class 
must not be overlooked in their desire to promote the success of 
their patrons — the exhibitors. 
A prize of 25Z. was offered for the most efficient machine for 
•cutting and elevating materials to be preserved in Silos. The 
trials took place in a small yard adjoining the Showyard. 
They commenced on Thursday the lOtti of July. On that and 
the following day the visitors were limited to the officials of 
the Society and the exhibitors. On Saturday, when the Show- 
yard was open to the public, a considerable number of visitors 
found out this rather out-of-the-way yard, and displayed great 
interest in the work of the various machines. 
There were eight machines presented for trial by the following 
makers : — 
Albaret. Crowley. 
Bust. Lister. 
Burlingham and Innes. Maynard. 
Carson and Toone. Richmond and Chandler. 
The machines were tried with grass, oats, tares, and gorse. 
It not unfrequently happens in the trials of new machines 
that some of them, from want of sufficient trial beforehand, 
enter the competition in such a condition that they but imperfectly 
fulfil the necessary conditions. Seldom, if ever, was such the 
case to a greater extent than in the present trials. According 
to the conditions of trial, the machines had not only to cut the 
wet fodder efficiently, but also to elevate it to a height suffi- 
cient to fill an over-ground " silo." It was in this latter con- 
dition that failure was so universal. So far as cutting the 
fodder and feeding up to the knives, there was no difficulty ; the 
question of clearing away from the knives to the elevator, 
however, is one which has not been satisfactorily solved at 
present. 
Speaking generally, the machines as ensilage-cutters are the 
same in general design as the chaff-cutters of the respective 
makers. 
For elevating the cut fodder, two systems, or a combination 
•of the two, were adopted. 
In the first a fan-blast, "^obtained from paddles or blades 
attached to the periphery of the knife-wheel, which either by 
the current of air generated blew the cut fodder to the required 
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