708 The Trials of Self-binding Harvesters at Chester . 
Lots were drawn for the order of starting, and resulted as 
follows : — 
Order No. 
of in 
Starting Catalogue 
1 4032 
2 2403 
3 5171 
4 2321 
5 1562 
6 5172 
7 2322 
8 4031 
9 1563 
Names of Exhibitors 
Massey-Harris Co., Ltd., 54 & 55 Bimliill Row, E.C. 
J. & H. Keyworth & Co., 35 Tarleton Street, Liverpool. 
Richard Hornsby & Sons, Ltd., Grantham. 
George Kearsley, Ripon, Yorks. 
Samuelson & Co., Ltd., Banbury. 
Richard Hornsby & Sons, Ltd. 
George Kearsley. 
Massey-Harris Co., Ltd. 
Samuelson & Co., Ltd. 
This order of running was, however, only adhered to in the 
oats, and perhaps it was only here that sufficient variation 
existed in the conditions — as to weather, crop, and soil — under 
which the machines worked, to give any material advantage 
to one machine over another in choice of plots. In the barley 
it was found advisable to send the pairs of machines belonging 
to one exhibitor forward together for the dynamometer trials, 
and therefore they cut the barley in pairs. 
In the trials with wheat the ranks were already somewhat 
thinned, as neither No. 2322 nor No. 1563 had previously done 
good enough work to require further trial. 
It should here be stated that the time occupied in cutting 
each plot, though noted in each case and given below, is not to 
be looked upon as anything more than a very minor point of 
merit. The only object, in fact, is to ascertain that the work, 
besides being well and economically done, can also be executed 
with reasonable expedition. Racing did not commend itself 
to the Judges either from an agricultural or a personal point of 
view, especially when following on foot ! 
If the awards had depended on speed, Mr. Kearsley would 
have done well in cutting a barley plot at the rate of over 
2 acres an hour, but this performance did not carry the First 
Prize with it. 
A 4 ft. 6 in. cut, at a speed of three miles an hour, will 
cover over 1^ acre. This is quite fast enough, and hard enough, 
work for two pairs of horses a day. 
Trials with Oats. 
These trials occupied the Judges the whole of Wednesday, 
July 26, and their results are shown in the notes below : — 
(1) Soon after 9 a.m. on "Wednesday No. 4032 (Massey-Harris) began 
work. The straw of the plot was rather short and uneven, and this made it 
difficult to regulate the position of the band, and in consequence some of the 
