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the dead point, when the needle is withdrawn and the seed is 
delivered with no travel on it and without the use of any spout 
or guide. Secondly, at Warwick, one of the chief objections 
was the heavy draught, due in a great measure to the continuous 
friction of the cam which actuated the feed spikes. This also 
has been greatly reduced by dispensing with the cam, and giving 
the alternate thrust and pull back to the needles by projecting 
levers coming in contact with fixed arms at the points of em- 
palement and delivery respectively. The machine is further 
improved by substituting travelling wheels with solid concave 
Fig. 4. — Eansome’s Double Row Potato Planter. 
tyres for the skeleton wheels of last year, as these were found 
to pick up, and disturb the ridges. Greater width between the 
discs gives a better and steadier delivery of seed. It will sow 
either on the ridge or flat, any width from 24 to 30 inches 
between the rows, and 12, 14 or 16 inches apart in the row r s — 
as ordered — each distance requiring separate discs. 
This implement was tried by the Judges at Hoole Farm, 
sowing 26 inches apart, on the flat, making its own furrows 
without steerage. With fairly even, seed-size potatoes, the 
work was very good and misses were very few. With mixed 
cut and uncut sets it also made fairly regular work, but with 
