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72 Report on Sheaf-Binding Machinery at Shreivshury. 
Table IV. — Trial of Machines in Two-Aceb Barley Plots, Aug. 11, 1884. 
No of 
Machine 
Maker. 
49 
4568 
45 
216 
47 
255 
217 
45G9 
381 
4570 
407 
256 
409 
215 
Howard. 
Hornsby. 
Howard. 
McCormick. 
Howard. 
Samuelson. 
McCormick. 
Hornsby. 
Kearsley. 
Hornsby. 
Wood. 
Ramuelson. 
Wood. 
McCormick, 
Time of 
Running. 
h. m. 
1 36 
1 33 
1 42 
1 16 
1 30i 
1 28 
1 41| 
No. of 
Sheaves 
Missed. 
1 20 
1 36 
1 20 
1 23 
1 48 
19 
10 
1 3GJ 8 
20 
1 
5 
13 
Pairs. 
44 
Small. 
12 
10 
Stoppages. 
16 0 
1 35 
0 30 
0 25 
0 20 
0 20 
0 1 30 
0 2 20 
0 0 30 
0 2 0 
0 0 15 
0 4 0 
0 0 10 
0 1 15 
0 1 20 
0 0 15 
0 0 10 
0 0 35 
0 2 0 
0 0 30 
0 0 30 
0 2 30 
0 0 2 
Cause of Stoppages and other 
Remarks. 
End of footboard broke. 
To put on sheaf carrier. 
To lower machine. 
To remove stones. 
Do. Do. 
To remove some straw. 
Loose corn delivered 
witli 56 sheaves. 
17 sheaves untidy and 
loose. 
The corn was laid near 
a tree, the probable 
cause. 
To clear machine. 
To put on dividing 
board. 
To adjust. 
Loose straw delivered 
with 41 sheaves. 
The twine twisted oflf 
the top of the strong 
box as a small ball 
commenced. 
Caught the ground. 
String entangled in the 
box. 
Caught ground. 
Used 3 balls of string. 
Very awkwardly shaped 
plot of ground. 
Had many pairs and 
loose pieces. 
To set machine higher. 
To oil. 
To remove stones. 
Do. Do. 
Do. Do. 
Made several pairs and 
loose pieces in tangled 
part. 
Not in competition. 
Sheaves well bound and 
very few pairs or loose 
pieces. 
To tighten string. 
Stone in knife. 
Knot in twine. 
Lost a washer off the 
platform wheel. 
String broke. 
To alter size of sheaf 
by order of the Judges. 
Reins broke. 
