316 
Report, on the Exlnhition of Implements 
per week. I have boys who will, for a short time, make 151 
holes per minute, but, of course, they cannot long continue such 
a rate." 
Chaff-cutters. — The number of chaff-cutters exhibited was 
beyond all precedent. The judges selected twelve machines from 
different manufactories ; the same man provided by the stewards 
being employed to turn all of them, and the owner himself, or his 
man, feeding. The rule of length to be cut was half an inch, the 
substance straw, from the same heap; and the judges report the 
condition of length to have been so nearly alike that the results 
could not, in any material degree, have been affected by its 
variation. 
The time given for estimating the quantity cut by each machine 
W'as three minutes, after getting into work — the turning man ex- 
erting himself to the utmost on each occasion, under the eyes of 
the judges and stewards. The chaff was measured in a standard 
bushel. The following were the results, arranged in the order in 
which the machines came indiscriminately to trial : — 
F 
rice 
Work clone. 
£. 
s. 
d. 
Bushels. 
Exhibitors' Names. 
13 
0 
0 
. . 3'- .... 
Messrs. H. Smith and Co., Stam- 
ford. 
7 
0 
0 
. . 41 .... 
Messrs. Sanders, Williams, and 
Taylor, Bedford. 
8 
10 
0 
. . 4;i .... 
]Mr. James llichmoml, Salford. 
14 
8 
0 
8 
0 
0 
. . 4 and a fraction 
Earl of Ducie, Tortworth Court. 
^Mr. Richard Garrett, Leiston. 
8 
8 
0 
! ! si 
Messrs. Barrett, Exall, and An- 
drews, Reading. 
8 
8 
0 
. . 4|. .... 
Messrs. Col bourne and Ward, 
Stratford-on-Avon. 
11 
0 
0 
Lieutenant Vibart, Chilleswood, 
near Taunton. 
8 
8 
0 
. . 4J and a fraction 
Mrs. Mary Cartmell, Liverpool. 
8 
8 
0 
. . 3 .... 
Mr. Gillett, of Brailes, near Ship- 
ston-on-Stour, Guillotine-engine, 
by Messrs. Ward and Colbourne. 
7 
0 
0 
Mr. S. Beardmore, Leek. 
10 
0 
0 
'. g\ 
Mr. Cornes, Barbridge, near Nant- 
wich. 
10 
0 
0 
. . 5J .... 
Mr. James Spencer, Hopton, near 
Worksworth. 
NoTF,. — The machines to which quantities are not assigned were con- 
sidered as producing too insignificant a result to be worth measuring or 
recording. 
After this thorough riddling, there could be no hesitation in" 
the minds of discerning men to whom the prize oflered ])y the 
