566 Miscellaneous Implements Exhibited at Chester. 
reach of the driver’s seat. An adjustable shoe on each section, in 
rear of the teeth, controls the depth of work. The horses are 
yoked to a pole and the implement is mounted on a pair of high 
wheels. The width of work is 5 ft. 9 in., and a pair of horses 
work it without difficulty, sufficient proof perhaps to a strong 
land farmer that this is not exactly what he is accustomed to 
call a cultivator. Nevertheless, when set to work on land of 
medium strength, from which vetches had been cut for the 
Royal Showyard, it covered a great breadth in a very short time. 
The first stroke was about 3 inches and the second about 4. The 
roots were strong and there was a tendency to choke, whilst 
some tough thistles were missed. Unfortunately, there was 
not any more suitable land available. The spring tines seemed 
very strong and had great penetrating power. The recoil of the 
spring also would be likely to tatter the dirt and bring it to the 
surface in a very effectual manner. Probably this tool would 
be found useful to break up turnip land fed off by sheep in pre- 
paration for barley. We also allowed it to “ try its strength ” 
on a hard baked headland, roaded by manure carts. This, again, 
it showed no disposition to shirk, and in three strokes made a 
very respectable tilth about 2 inches deep, without straining 
the teeth. 
Article 4034. Shoe Seed Drill, on the same stand. Price 
25 1. — This, like the last implement, is of excellent con- 
struction and workmanship throughout. It takes its name from 
the peculiar shape of the coulters. These are reversible, and 
appear well adapted to work clean, at a regular depth, with a 
light draught. The depth of sowing is regulated by spiral 
springs and a split key. Corn is delivered by a force feed. 
Article 4203. James Holt , Dunham Massey, Altrincham, 
Chester. Potato Digger, price 1 61 . — This is a machine (fig. 11) 
that requires to be seen at work. It is of very novel construction, 
and the idea seems a good one. Instead of the single large 
pronged wheel rotating in rear and across the furrow, a common 
type of which the First Prize machine at the Newcastle Trials of 
1887 is a good example, we have in this case three smaller sets 
of rotating prongs. Two are close in rear of the share, or 
shovel, inclined at a slight angle to the ground, and this pair 
both rotate inwards, receiving the lifted soil between them, 
conveying, and at the same time disintegrating it, rearwards, 
and to one side, shaking the potatoes clear of soil in doing so. 
This process is completed by the third set of prongs, rotating 
in the same direction and in rear of the first pair. The speed 
of the prongs is about 4 to 1 of the travel of the implement. 
It seems probable that the action of this machine would be less 
