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dry weather the gleaner and binder might allow of earlier 
harvesting ; but some risk attends leaving corn on the ground, 
and when once well tied and carefully stooked, most corn will 
stand a lot of rain without injury. As regards barley full of 
clover, this is awkward to deal with in bad weather ; but I prefer 
having the corn as far from the ground as possible, as I find it 
takes less damage, especially if three or four sheaves are set up 
together. As you know, some of the barley was cut not merely 
damp but very wet. This is not considered in the general 
meaning of what I have said. My remarks refer to that corn 
cut rather green and damp." 
The following machines were entered for trial and exhibited 
in the Showyard at Derby : — 
Combined Reapers and Binders. 
Catalogue No. 
4183 Johnston Harvester Company. 
4325 George Kearsley. 
4380 A. C. Bamlett. 
4395 D. M. Osborne and Co. 
4400 McCormick Harvesting Machine Company. 
4404 Hetherinr^ton and Co. 
4412 J. and F.^ Howard. 
^^g^j- Samuelson and Co. 
4547 C. Aultman and Co. 
4554 H. J. H. King. 
4556 Walter A. Wood. 
5267 Hornsby and Sons. 
Gleaners and Binders. 
4184 Johnston Harvester Company. 
4546 G. Spencer. 
4550 Notts Fork and Implement Company. 
The formidable list of Combined machines is reducible into 
much smaller limits, seeing that several makers adopted the 
same principle ; thus, McCormick's, Johnston's, and Samuelson's 
machines were identical in construction, and only differed in 
such trifling details that the description of any one machine 
will suffice. Again, Bamlett, Hetherington, and King work 
from the same patents ; and one detailed and illustrated descrip- 
tion, that of H. J. King's invention, the only one of the three 
brought to trial, will suffice. Mr. Walter A. Wood's machine, 
unique in its construction, demands detailed notice. Messrs. 
Howard's and Aultman's inventions, as the only others which 
came to trial, require some attention ; and a brief reference to 
the exhibits of Messrs. Hornsby and Co., and of Kearsley, will 
conclude the notes made in the Showyard on the Combined 
machines. 
