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10 machines at work throughout the year.
No idea is given as to the weight and portability of the machine and I imagine that its success must depend in a certain degree upon its easy conveyance from part of an estate to another.
There is another question which seems to me to be a matter of considerable importance and one which will have to be solved shortly, that is whether the machine ultimately adopted will have to be brought to the leaves or the leaves to the machine. In the latter case, in all Estates over a certain number of acres, it will be necessary to have tramways to a Central Receiving House.
The cost of a sufficient number of machines and the laying down of tramways and introduction or building of tramcars will amount to a considerable sum and will require