'634 Report on the Trials of Implements at Taunton. 
Brought forward 450 
4. General arrangement and adaptation of machine lor working 
on uneven ground 100 
5. Lightness of draught in and out of work 150 
6. Geacral perfection of work, including closeness and evenness 
of cut, freedom from clogging, and mode of leaving the 
cut grass 250 
7. Price 50 
1000 . 
Class I. — One-horse Mowing Machines. 
The Judges at the last trial of grass-mowers by the Royal 
Agricultural Society, at Manchester, dealt with a high hand with 
these machines, and summarily dismissed the whole without 
even testing them on the dynamometer, on account of excessive 
draught, expressing themselves in danger of the interference of 
that notable Society which so fearlessly protects dumb animals. 
The Royal Agricultural Society, however, once more in the 
interest of the smaller class of farmers, determined to offer prizes 
for them ; but the Council took the wise precaution of limiting 
the draught to the usual standard of one horse-power, and it was 
somewhat surprising that this caution had not more effect with 
the exhibitors. 
The prizes offered were — 
For the best One-horse Mowing Machine 20 
For the second best 10 
For the third best 5 
(The power for one-horse machines not to exceed 33,000 foot-pounds per 
minute.) 
On Monday, July 5th, 14 one-horse machines, by 13 makers, 
were tried on the dynamometer in a light crop of meadow grass, 
at lYV-iiich cut running through uncut grass on both sides. The 
names of the exhibitors and the number of the machines will 
be seen in Table I., annexed. This first trial was not satis- 
factory, as it was found that the frame-wheels of the new dyna- 
mometer were too wide when these machines were attached to 
it by the shafts provided by the manufacturers, and consequently 
a part of the grass that should have been cut was pressed down 
by the dynamometer wheels. 
Two special conditions had been drawn up by the Society, and 
previously circulated amongst the Exhibitors as follows : — 
Conditions of Trial. 
1. Such implements as the Judges may direct will be tested for draught by 
means of the new horse-dynamometer which was used in the cart and waggon 
