486 Miscellaneous Implements Exhibited at Cambridge. 
mounted on three endless chains running round pitched wheels, 
driven from the travelling wheel of the machine. In their progress 
the collecting rakes are arranged to run parallel to the ground, 
and, simultaneously, to rake it. The stones raked into the bend 
of the teeth are there held until the rakes in their upward journey 
reach an angle at the rear of the machine which permits them 
to drop into a cradle, receiver, or bags, as may be determined. 
There is a simple arrangement for lifting the bags when filled, 
which is worked by levers, and enables a lad to easily remove 
and replace them. The machine was first tried upon stones 
lying thinly amid a crop of lucerne. It did its work fairly 
well, but in some places failed to remove all the stones. It 
was afterwards tried on land upon which stones had been 
thrown among one year’s seeds. This was a fair and natural 
trial, but again the work was not done entirely satisfactorily. 
The construction, also, is too weak for heavy work. The Judges, 
however, are persuaded that the machine possesses undoubted 
merit, and that, with trilling additions to and variations from 
the original design, it ought to be rendered in every way as 
useful as it promises to be. They have recommended the 
machine for further trial and exhibition as a new implement 
next year. 
Sheep-dipping Apparatus. 
Class Y. in the Implement Catalogue was allotted to sheep- 
dipping apparatus, for which a prize of 5 1. was offered by the 
Society. There were six entries, all of which competed. The 
trials took place at the farm of Mr. J. B. Ellis, Redlands, 
Lolworth, on Friday, June 22. The Judges — Mr. J. B. Ellis 
and Mr. Alfred J. Smith — on their arrival found the machines 
all fixed and ready for work. A lot of two hundred and forty 
sheep, which had been shorn some seven or eight weeks pre- 
viously, were equally divided amongst the competitors. Of 
these, ten in each case were first put through the bath and drainer 
as an example of the method followed by each apparatus, and 
as somewhat of a time test. This was, on the whole, satisfactory 
in every case. The method of immersion or dipping was, with one 
exception, that which we have seen in practice for many years 
past — throwing the animal into the bath, and after more or less 
handling and rolling about letting it walk out into the draining 
pens. The one exception (the apparatus of Messrs. B. Cannon 
& Co., Ltd.) had a contrivance for lowering the sheep into the 
bath by means of a cradle, wherein the animal retains its standing 
position. This, especially with ewes in lamb, may be an advan- 
tage, and, although in this case it did not stand the test, the 
