482 The Trials of Threshing Machines at Doncaster. 
and tlie Doncaster Agricultural Society, it presented many 
pleasant and agreeable features. If tliere was one attraction 
that may on this occasion claim to have been supreme, it was 
the Horse Ring. That this should have been so is what might 
have been anticipated from the associations of the district. The 
dense crowds of well-behaved and well-dressed people who 
literally hemmed in the great ring — especially on the Wednes- 
day and the Thursday — afforded an earnest demonstration of 
the love which an Englishman has for a horse. Whatever other 
claims it may have to live in the memo.'y of those who visited 
it, the Doncaster Show will long be remembered for its great 
gathering of Hunters, and its magnificent display of Hackneys 
and Shires. W. Fkeam. 
THE TRIALS OF THRESHING 
MACHINES AT DONCASTER. 
At the Cardiff Meeting of the Society, in 1872, competitive trials 
were held for two classes of Thi'eshing Machines — 
(1.) For the best Combined Portable Threshing and Finish- 
ing Machine, to be worked by steam, and adapted for the 
preparation of corn for market. 
(2.) For the best Combined Portable Threshing Machine, to 
be worked by steam, which has no corn screen or other apparatus 
for sorting the grain for market. 
In each of these classes there were no less than fifteen 
competitors. 
In the period which has elapsed since these trials, the second 
class of machine has practically disappeared. The Council of 
the Society, therefore, in arranging for trials of Threshing 
Machines for 1891 decided that there should be only one class 
of machine, viz.. Finishing Machines, and they oftered first, 
second, and third prizes of lOOZ., 50Z., and 25L for the best 
" Combined Portable Threshing and Finishing Machine, to be 
worked by steam, and adapted to the preparation of corn for 
market (the width not to exceed 4 ft. 8 in. inside the frame, and 
the width of drum not to exceed 4 ft. 6 in.)." 
Whilst at the former trials no restriction was made as to 
the size of the machine — the length of drum varying from 52f in. 
to 57 in. — it was decided that on the present occasion the length 
of drum was not to exceed 4 ft. G in., within which dimension 
