REAPER AND BINDER TRIAL.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIX, Issue 19, 6 February 1891, Page 19

REAPER AND BINDER TRIAL.

" The Best in the World" is the motto long used and well earned by the makers of the famous M'Cormick Reaper and Binder, and this is fully sustained at all competitions throughout the world. The Lauaceston (Tasmania) papers of the iUh inst. report one of the most severe trials that could possibly be given to machines of this description. The contest took place at Haglcv, near Launceston, on the B^h inst., under the auspices of the Western Agricultural Association. This society have, duriig the last few seasons, conducted a series of field trials, each year selecung different kinds of crops and ground to operate upon, in order to afford the farmers an opportunity of seeing the different machines at work in all conditions of grain. The crop selected last year was a very heavy one, ani partly lodged. This season it was quite the reverse, being very light, with deep water furrows running through the field, severely testing the stability of the machines in crossing them. It was admitted on all sides tbat a machine successfully copmg with a crop under such trying circumstances would have no difficulty in handling a better one under more favourable conditions. The eight competing machines included the Hornsby, Massey Deenng, and W. A. Wood Single Apron. At the close of the trial all the judges were unanimous in awarding the first prize to the M'Cormick new steel machine— a decision received with great cheers and evident satisfaciion from the large number of farmers present. It may be mentioned that the M'Cormick also won the first prize at the trial held last season by the same society.