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endwise (fig. 7), delivers it gently on the butts in the rear of the 
machine. The whole work is therefore effected without vertical 
aprons, and the sheaf is never raised more than about 15 inches. 
Vertical aprons formed the most convenient method of bringing 
the corn to the sheafing and tying apparatus that had suggested 
itself to makers of binders hitherto, but they are cumbrous, 
and necessitate a multiplicity of working-parts, thus adding to 
the intricacy of the machine, which from the variety of duties 
it has to perform is necessarily complex. The work of the two 
extra aprons has not been thoroughly successful, as they fre- 
quently cause stoppages through shrinking when they become 
wet ; and they are liable to knock out ripe grain as it is being 
carried up between them. 
The " Adriance Binder " was tried on Mr. Milnthorp's 
farm on a heavy crop of green rye and did highly satisfactory 
work. The draught was apparently light ; and the cutting, 
owing to the crank wheel being placed on a near level with the 
knife-bar, was easy. The sheafing and tying were well done, 
the separation being very clean. The delivery of the sheaf 
was gentle and little likely to thresh out the corn had it been 
ripe, although a few ears were slightly turned up when the 
sheaf was inverted, but apparently not to a serious extent. The 
rather great width between the two travelling wheels might 
prove an objection on uneven land, but taking the appliance as 
a whole it showed itself to be capable of doing good work, and 
the machines of the future will doubtless be designed without 
the objectionable vertical aprons. 
As the result of their examination of the "Adriance" Binder 
in the Showyard, the Judges recommended its being subjected 
to further trial later in the season, when ripe corn crops would 
be available. 
The Council having decided that it should be put to further 
and more practical test, arrangements were accordingly made 
for the trials to take place on Mr. Milnthorp's High EUers 
Farm, near Doncaster, on August 31. The machine employed 
was the one exhibited at the Show in June, where Mr. Miln- 
thorp purchased it, and previously to the trial it had cut 100 
acres of corn on his farm to his perfect satisfaction. It was 
taken direct from ordinary work into the trial field. 
The first trial was on a crop of wheat which was fairly thick 
on the ground, stood well on three sides, and would have been 
easy cutting except that the soil was so very loose that the 
driving wheel could not obtain sufficient grip to drive the 
machinery in places where the crop was particularly heavy. 
The soil was as loose as we have ever seen it on the lightest 
