124 Trials of Swath Turners and Side Delivery Rakes. 
The chief difference between 3677 and this machine is in 
the turning mechanism, a system of cogged wheels being 
introduced into the driven head, the shaft of the turning 
mechanism being straight and the disc and intermediate 
hangers to carry the teeth being done away with. 
The trials took place on a farm at Sudbrooke, in Lincoln- 
shire, about five miles from Lincoln, in the occupation of Mr. 
F. Scorer, a field of permanent grass in lands, i.e., ridge and 
furrow, and a clover field on the flat having been selected for 
the trials. On a portion of the field where the crop was fairly 
uniform eight plots had been with Mr. Scorer’s assistance 
marked out and numbered, and each machine drew lots and 
was assigned to the plot the number of which had been drawn. 
The preliminary trials, the machines crossing the ridges at 
right angles, were carried out on these plots, but to insure 
representative machines being tried under exactly similar 
conditions, they were all worked on No. 3 plot, after which 
a trial in another part of the field took place, each machine 
travelling in the same direction as the ridges. Finally they 
had to deal with the crop in the manner that would generally 
obtain in practice on a farm, viz., following round the four 
sides of a square as cut by the reaper, the machines each taking 
a swath, so that the work to be done by each machine was 
practically identical. Owing to the dull weather the crops 
were not, perhaps, in quite as good condition as could have 
been wished when the trial commenced at nine o’clock on 
Tuesday, Jiine 18, although the grass and clover had been cut 
on the previous Thursday and Friday. 
In connection with these trials the points to which the 
Judges’ attention was speciallj^ directed were— 
(a) Mechanical construction. 
(&) Weight and draft. 
(c) Ease of handling and adjustment. 
{d) Efficient turning over of the crop. 
(e) Freedom from winding or choking. 
(/) Adaptability of windrowing as well as swath turning. 
(ff) Adaptability for working on ridge and furrow land. 
(h) Adaptability for transport on road and rail. 
(i) Price. 
It will perhaps be well to mention here that the Judges 
considered these instructions carefully, and in assessing the 
value to be placed on the different points or qualifications 
required, were careful that (d) Efficient turning over of the 
