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which was very flat in the short boggy portion where the mole runs were 
particularly bad. Two loose sheaves, but finished the round very well. 
3rd round. A stone caught up by the fingers caused a momentary stoppage, 
but no other bitch occurred in this round, which was done in excellent style. 
Time, 32 minutes. 
McCorinkk, No. 215. — 1st round. Rather tangled delivery; cut over lying 
corn, choked and stopped, started and choked again. Cut not good, but 
made nice sheaves where the crop was good. Attendant had to clear ofl' the 
straw which had been caught in the knotter. 
2nd round. Three stops, owing to collection on the fingers of partly loose 
pieces of straw. 
3rd round. Kicker brought sheaf round and choked; the machine was 
taken out of competition before completing this round. 
Hornsby, No. 4568.— 1st round. Some pieces not in band, a little straw 
scattered between the sheaves. 
2nd round. One loose sheaf ; good work. 
3rd round. Two loose sheaves. 
This machine made very good work all round ; no stop or hitch. The cut 
was, however, getting rather out of the bog-land and the worst of the mole 
runs, both of which had been very trying to the preceding machines. 
Hornsby, No. 4570. — 1st round. Fingers picked up a stone, l_minute's stop 
to clear. 
2nd round. Fair work. 
3rd round. Four untied sheaves, 1 minute's stop to take off the zinc cover 
to the thread needle. Made fair work all round, but not so good as the 
preceding machine. Time, 331 minutes. 
The Judges considered Hornsb_y, No. 4568, Howard, No. 47, 
Hornsby, No. 4570, andSamuelson,No. 255, to have made the best 
work in these consecutive barley trials. It was determined to take 
each of thesefour machines twice round the same plot of barley. 
Howard, No. 47, in the first round made 1 loose sheaf, and 
stopped in a rabbit-hole. 
2nd round. Made 1 loose sheaf, some ears were cut off 
through inefficient dividing, but it made otherwise very good 
work indeed. 
Hornsby, No. 4568 : — ■ 
1st round. A little straw left out of the band in rough places. 
2nd round. Made one loose sheaf, and excepting in the 
roughest patches, where a little straw was left out of the band, 
made excellent work. 
Samuelson, No. 255, made 4 loose sheaves ; in returning, the 
elevator and delivery-board became choked full, and tight, 
which took some time to clear by hand. Further trial was 
dispensed with at the end of the first round. 
Hornsby, No. 4570 : — • 
In the first round two stops occurred, but the machine simply 
backed on each occasion and went on. 
2nd round. No hitch occurred ; sheaves not so tidy as they 
might have been, but good work was made on the whole. 
It will have been observed that throughout the whole of the 
trials Hornsby's machine, No. 4568, and Howard's, No. 47, had 
