Miscellaneous Implemenis Exhibited at WanvicJc. 549 
macliine (fig. 7). A share passes under the potatoes to loosen the 
soil, the rotary raiser then follows. The prongs generally used 
on the rotary machine to raise the potatoes are here made in the 
form of small breasts, or skims, which have a raising action, and 
seem admirably adapted to throw the potatoes out and separate 
them from the soil. The arrangement by which, with one 
movement of a lever, the depth of the share and digging breasts 
can both be adjusted together is novel. This is accomplished 
by a double frame, hinged. Tlie upper frame is rigid with the 
pole, and carries the arm on which the digger is fixed, and also 
the share; the lower frame carries the road wheels and axle. 
FiG. 7. — Ransome's Potato Digger. 
The Judges would much have liked to try this machine, but it 
was not possible to get a crop in such a state as to give it a 
fair trial. ^ They think it has every appearance of doing the 
work required of it in an efficient manner. 
Article 4280. Messrs. W. N. Nicholson & Sons, Newark- 
on-Trent, exhibited a Danish Milking Machine (Jens Nielsen’s 
Patent). This, as exhibited, was a very crude machine (fig. 8). It 
is suspended from a cradle fitted across the back of the cow, and 
can be raised or lowered at will. There are two pairs of cushions, 
covered with india-rubber, having an approaching, rocking, and 
receding movement, produced by eccentrics working on either 
