458 Report on the Exhibition and Trials of Implements at Leeds. 
Mo WING-M ACHINES. 
Maker's Name. 
Article. 
Width 
Cut. 
Quantity 
Cut 
in Acres 
per Hour. 
Tractive 
Strain on 
Dyna- 
mometer. 
Speed of 
Horses 
in Feet 
per Minute. 
Horse- 
power used 
con- 
tinuously. 
Speed of 
Horses 
in Miles 
per Hour. 
Samuel son 
603 
ft. in. 
4 5J 
1-333 
lbs. 
173-2 
219-2 
1-151 
2-491 
Cranstoun . . 
222 
4 3 
1*335 
132-9 
228- 1 
-918 
2-523 
Burgess and Key 
499 
4 0 
1-326 
270-9 
240-7 
1-976 
2-735 
llemnrhs. — Samuelson's macliine had contrivances for increasing the flexihility of 
the " knife-frame," that it might press more easily over uneven ground; but these 
made the machine more complex and liable to derangement. 
Cranston's machine was very light in draught, and the arrangement of its parts 
made it very manageable ; the workmanship and materials were good, but there is 
reason to fear that the machine would be too light for heavy crops. 
Burgess and Key's machine was strong, well made, and suitable for the cutting 
of heavy crops. It was the heaviest in draught, but it would seem that the knife- 
frame was not well attended to, and undue friction existed. 
C. E. Amos. 
Supplementary Report hy the Judges of Beaping Machines. 
The Trial of ncapers included in the programme of the Leeds Meeting of 
the Koyal Agl'icultural Society, but necessarily deferred until the time of 
Harvest, was carried out on Wednesday, August 21st, and the two following 
days under most favourable auspices, at Garforth, on the farm of Mr. Furniss, 
in close proximity to the heavy lands on wliich steam cultivation had recently 
been so effectually tested. All honour is due to Mr. Furniss, and to Messrs. 
Atkinson and Nicholson, the gentlemen who imdertook the arduous duties of 
field stewards, and rejjresented the local committee on this occasion. To them 
may be ascribed the merit of those arrangements which could alone have 
secured the opportunity for a fair and comprehensive trial. Those who 
beheld the numerous stall' of efficient labourers with their cheerful-looking 
wives and daughters to assist in gathering the corn, together with the splendid 
teams of horses placed at the disposal of the Society, could alone appreciate 
the personal sacrifices which these gentlemen must have made at such a 
season. The great mercantile community at Leeds may well be proud of 
their agricultural neighbours who have contributed so much to the universally 
acknowledged success of the late Meeting ; a success which cannot fail to bo 
more than gratifying to the liberal representatives of the Gasgoine family, 
whose excellent agent, Mr. Fox, suggested the I'arlington Estate as the arena 
for these trials. Mr. Caldwell and Mr. Torr were in attendance, in virtue of 
their office, as Stewards of the Society, accompanied by Mr. Amos, the con- 
sulting engineer, and were ever ready to further the business of the day. 
The prizes to be awarded were as follows : — 
In Class L — For Ecapers with self-delivery £20 
In Class II. — For Eeapers without self-delivery 10 
In Class III. — For Combined Keapers and Grass-mowers .. 20 
The Wheat to be cut grew on a moderately even table of land, with a 
gradual ascent and corresponding fall ; the corn was drilled or sown from north 
to south, and the machines were driven front west to east, and from east to 
