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MISCELLANEOUS IMPLEMENTS 
EXHIBITED AT LINCOLN, 1907. 
The number of exhibits in the Implement classes this year 
showed a slight decrease compared with last year’s Show at 
Derby, the number being 4,726 as against 4,772 last year. 
There was also a decrease in the number of Miscellaneous 
Implements competing for the Society’s Silver Medal, 46 such 
implements being entered, compared with 56 in 1906. 
Only one Silver Medal was recommended by the Judges, 
and this was awarded to Mr. F. M. Dossor, for Article No. 399. 
Ai-ticle 399. — Mr. F. M. Dossor, 15 Auckland Road, Don- 
caster. “ Seed Dresser, for hand or power driving. A machine 
for cleaning clover and other small seeds by the extraction 
therefrom of docks, dodder, and other weeds, light seeds, and 
other foreign matter.” Price 61Z. 
The principle of this machine is quite new, the processes 
of sieving and blowing hitherto in general use being entirely 
dispensed with. The Dresser is built in sections, each section 
being provided with a combined i-eceiving and distributing 
hopper, which also acts as a cover to the running belt, and is 
fitted with a velvet curtain. The cleaning of the seed is effected 
by its being distributed over this series of sections, running 
at the same speed and driven by chain wheels. The seed is 
received, checked, and passed on from section to section, the 
belt in, each case acting independently upon it. All substances 
on which, owing to irregularity of shape, light weight, rough 
skin, or other causes, the belts are able to obtain a lifting grip, 
are held by the nap of the velvet of the sections and are thrown 
out at the back of the machine, while good seed continues its 
passage down the machine, and is discharged at the front. By 
means of an adjustment at the back, the angle of the machine 
can be altered, and the speed regulated, according to the foulness 
of the seed and the degree of cleanliness required. The capacity 
of the di-esser depends, of course, upon the condition of the 
seed being treated and the degree of purity desired, but may 
be estimated at from 15 to 20 cwt. per day of nine hours. By 
means of this adjustment almost any degree of purity can be 
obtained, and it is claimed that seeds th-essed on this machine 
can be guaranteed free from docks, and that the appearance of 
the seed is brightened and improved by frequent contact with 
the belts. The dresser exhibited at Lincoln stands seven feet 
nine inches high, and occupies some four feet square of floor 
space, and can be worked by one man or by light motive powei\ 
The work accomplished in cleaning seeds was excellent, and. 
