126 Trials of Sicath Turners and Side Delivery Hakes. 
Had one of the machines proved’ itself an excellent Swath 
Turner, whilst not being able to cope with all the conditions 
set forth in the Society’s instructions, the Judges’ task might 
have been a very difficult one. However, the point never 
arose, the first prize machine being far ahead of any other 
competing machine in the quality of the work done. 
The side delivery rake trials were held on the Friday, 
June 19, on the same ground. As already stated there 
were four entries in Class 2 from two exhibitors, viz. : — 
Messrs. Martin’s Cultivator Co., three, Messrs. Blackstone & Co., 
one. 
Messrs. Martin’s machines were all on the same principle. 
Nos. 253.5 and 2536 being 8 ft. and 11 ft. rakes respectively, and 
2537 having a jointed mechanism. These machines have 
a forked steel frame bent at the rear end which is carried on a 
swivel which, with a neat adjustment provision similar to that 
adopted in the Ridge and Furrow Swath Turners by the same 
makers, readily admits of the height being altered, the fore end 
of the frame being attached by bearing brackets to the main 
axle carried by the driving wheels. 
The motion is very much the same as in the Swath Turner, 
being imparted to four rakes running the whole width of the 
implements by gearing, which, acting on a disc, gives an 
eccentric motion, l^he rakes, which are at right angles to the 
line of travel, consist of a number of spring teeth which come 
into action in rotation, and move the crop bodily to the side of 
the machine in windrow. The height of the fore end of the 
frame can be adjusted by a lever under the control of the 
driver. 
In Messrs. Martin’s third machine. No. 2537, the raking 
mechanism is constructed in sections and supported bj' an 
extra trailing wheel, with a view to adapting the machine 
to ridge and furi’ow work. This machine has a working 
width of 8 feet. 
Messrs. Blackstone’s machine. No. 3679, may perhaps be 
described as an elongated adaptation of their Swath Turner. 
The principle of the frame work and driving gear is very 
much the same as in the Swath Turner, but the independently 
pivoted tines are carried by a chain running over a sprocket 
wheel attached to the turning head, a second chain, with a 
series of loops, being introduced, the tines being passed through 
these loops, and the chain being worked by a geared sprocket 
wheel. The two chains are driven at the same speed, each 
pair of wheels over which the chains work, being at a uniform 
height from the ground, the first chain working at an angle 
slightly out of the horizontal, and the second in a vertical 
position. When in motion the teeth can be made to travel 
