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Report on Implements at Preston. 
placed in the hopper, with its lower end resting upon the roller ; 
the grain or seed is thus agitated bj each movement of the board, 
and no attendant is needed to stir up the feed, even when rye-grass 
is being dressed. 
Mr. W. B. Stubbs is a new exhibitor : the chief point of 
novelty claimed in his two Corn Dressing Machines, Nos. 2523 
and 2524, is that the winnower and elevator being in one frame, 
the machine is more compact, cheaper, and firmer in work than 
separate machines on the old plan. 
Messrs. J. Richardson and Sons No. 2693 is a large Seed- 
Dressing Machine, more useful to a seed-merchant than a farmer. 
There are several entries of presses for silos, which will 
be noticed in detail. Chaff and ensilage cutters and elevators 
have had much attention paid to them ; and it may be noticed, 
as one result of last year's trials, that the chain and shuttle has 
generally replaced the travelling web for elevating silage. 
In the Chaff or Ensilage Cutter and Elevator, No. 1168, ex- 
hibited by the Maldon Iron Works Company, the elevation is 
done by blast from a fan, which makes 600 revolutions to the 
150 revolutions of the knife, and the speed is got up by short 
belts and pulleys. A blast elevator is better suited for chaff 
than green fodder : as compared with a creeper elevator it is 
cheaper in first cost, but wasteful of power. 
Messrs. Richmond and CJiaridler's Ensilage Cutter, No. 2219, 
is like the one they exhibited last year, but with a new and 
excellent arrangement for winding up the trough by means of a 
chain round a roller carried on a frame. 
In Carson and Toones Ensilage and Chaff Cutter the chief 
novelty is the use of the chain and shuttle, just referred to as 
commonly replacing the web that was used by these and other 
makers last year. 
Messrs. J. Crowley and Co. have introduced a very ingenious 
movement into their Chaff Cutters 2087 to 2090. A single lever 
serves to stop and reverse the knives when the handle is moved 
parallel with the feed ; it also changes the length of the cut 
when the same handle is moved at right angles to the feed. 
The Ensilage Cutter and Elevator which they exhibited at 
Preston differs little from the one they showed last year. 
From ensilage cutters we may pass on to notice other new 
appliances for the preservation of silage. Messrs. Bayliss, Jones, 
and Bayliss exhibited an ingenious Convertible Iron Silo, with 
sides composed of flat galvanized-iron sheets, 10 feet deep by 2 
feet wide, securely wedged between strong tee- iron uprights with 
packing between, to make them air- and water-tight. Horizontal 
bars are placed round the outside, about 14 inches apart, threaded 
through the stalks of the tee-iron. The roof is made of curved 
