The binder experts present (always with the exception of Mr Struthers) did not approve of this way of voting, as we could see where complica tions were likely to arise, and we requested that the arrangements should be altered so that each judge should only,have one vote, and give it for the machine he con sidered the best. We thought that nothing could be fairer than " one man, one vote." This would have been a pure and simple ballot and do away with any complications or chance of " plumping, and I cannot conceive why Mr Struthers should have declined to go in with the rest j of us, unless he had an axe of his own to grind. However, the A. and P. Association woufct not entertain our proposal at all, but informed us peremptorily that unless we went to work within five minutes, and had the judging done according to their ideae, the trial would be abandoned as far as the Association was concerned. Of course we accepted this decision, and the trial was abandoned. A great many farmers had, however, met to see the machines work, and the farmer who owned the paddock (who, by the way, was a right good fellow), had depended on having it cat by the trial machines, so after lunch we all went in and cut the crop down, the machines following each other round and round. This arrangement satis fled everybody, with the exception of the A. and P. Association and Mr Sbruthers, and I didn't hear a single farmer on the field express anything but approbation of the way we machine men had stood our ground, and the general result of the day's work. In conclusion, I would say that the fol lowing machines and experts were present at Gore, viz. :— Hornsby, represented by Mr Trolly Howard, represented by Messrs J. and C. Howard McCormick, represented by Mr Acher man Massey, represented by Mr McLeod Buckeye, represented by Mr Perelval - Reid and Gray, represented by Mr Hale Walter A. Wood (two machines), repre sented by Mr J. H. Brady Deering, represented by Mr Struthers. I think those of us who took exception to the proposed proceedings of the A. and P. 