108 Miscellaneous Implements Exliihited at JJoncaster, 1912. 



With reference to the other entries which were not awarded 

 a medal, the following merit some notice : — 



No. 1686. Stand 184. — Combination Horse Collar and 

 Hames. Price 21. complete. — Exhibited by Messrs. J. and H. 

 Keyworth and Co., 35 Tarleton Street, Liverpool. This seems 

 to be a successful attempt to enable a horse to pull his load 

 with greater freedom to himself. The collar has the hames 

 incorporated in it, this being hinged at the throat and clipped 

 at the top, and opening enough to slip on. There is also an 

 ingenious hook worked by a lever for instantly detaching the 

 trace in case of the horse falling, and yet it is not at all likely 

 to detach itself. 



No. 1915, Stand 198. — Expanding Horse Hoe. Price '61. 15s. 

 — Exhibited by Messrs. George Brown & Son, Victoria Works, 

 Leighton Buzzard. The carriers of the tines of this hoe are 

 moved outward by pinions worked from the rear, each carrier 

 having a rack engaging with a pinion on the top of one side 

 and the bottom of the other, so that revolving the pinions 

 one way extends the tines and the other way contracts them, 

 their motion being parallel to each other. One set screw locks 

 them all. The ends of the carriers are divided and renewable 

 and changeable blades being slipped in between them are 

 secured with a single bolt. The boxes in which the racks slide 

 being bolted to each side of the frame of the tool make a very 

 rigid job. 



Potato Diggers. — There are the two following Potato 

 Diggers working on different lines but which really have the 

 same object in view, viz., to deliver the potatoes immediately 

 behind the machine and as much as possible in a line, to enable 

 the pickers to gather them up easily. It will l)e manifest that a 

 good way to accomplish this is to screen the earth from the 

 potatoes and then deposit them on the top of the ground, 

 thus ensuring that there are none of them buried. 



No. 3016, Stand 263. — Exhibited by the Agricultural Imple- 

 ment Company (Dundee), Ltd., 10 Reform Street, Dundee. 

 Price 111. — This machine does this by fitting just behind a 

 horizontal share a revolving screen furnished with internal 

 worms which take the earth containing the tubers from the 

 share, and while conveying the same backwards and upwards, 

 riddles the earth from the potatoes and delivers them in a 

 good position for gathering (see Fig. 3). 



No. 35G8, Stand 290.— Exhibited by Messrs. H. Bushell 

 & Sons, Railway Street, York, Price 16/. 10s. — This machine 

 does the same thing by fitting three cages revolving one behind 

 the other with their axes across the drills, thus riddling the 

 soil and carrying the potatoes to the rear where they are 

 deposited on the top of the already riddled soil. 



