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94 REPORTS ON AWARDS. 237. Rowland Dennis, London, Ontario, Canada. POTATO DIGGER AND RIDGING PLOW COMBINED. Report.—Commended for a combined machine adapted by an easy change to perform three several functions. As a potato digger the plow point and share upturns the potatoes, which are separated from the earth by a series of fingers or prongs projecting back on each side. Attached to the share, this point and share are removable. Another and smaller point is readily attached, behind which are two mould-boards, which can be expanded so as to turn out a furrow if used for making a drill in which to plant potatoes, or as a ridging plow to throw the earth on either side if used for the purpose of earthing up the growing plants. 238. L. D. Sawyer & Co., Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. MOWING AND REAPING MACHINES. Report.—Commended for excellent material and ingenious arrangement. Clutch gear replaced by eccentric ratchet on driving wheels without springs. Inside driving wheel one inch greater diameter than outside wheel, consequently covers more ground at each revolution, and tends to counteract side draft. Knife-bar suspended on drag-bar, which can be screwed up to frame, so as to secure the position of the bar always at a right angle. As a reaper the platform can be hinged back behind the main frame, so as to facilitate its passage through narrow gateways. 239. Joseph E. Stong, Ontario, Canada. SWINGING FARM GATE. Report.—Commended for an ordinary gate, not too heavy, sustained between two ver tical standards at its rear end, and by two inclined levers, which proceed from the bottom of the rear end to the top rail of the gate, near the middle, and are there confined by sound bolts, which allow them to swing vertically and radially as the gate rises. The gate is raised by an attachment to the short end of a long lever, with its fulcrum on one of the up right standards, the long arm of which stands out at right angles to the rear of the gate far enough to be reached by one on horseback or in a carriage. The gate being so raised is carried up and over the segment of a circle the length of the gate, and set out and down its own length. A pull on the same lever, or on a similar one on the other side of the gate, throws it again over and back to place, and restores it to a closed position, where it is automatically locked. 240. Acton Plowing Co., Ontario, Canada. GENERAL PURPOSE PLOW. Report.—Commended as a strong, serviceable implement, with adjustable coulter box, which slides on beam; for solid wrought-iron socket, giving great strength. The sole is cast, and can be easily removed; mould-board and land side steel. 241. Thomas Yeandle, Stratford, Ontario, Canada. SINGLE PLOW. Report.—Commended for useful general purpose plow, well made, saving of undue fric tion by peculiar construction of under side of share and mould-board; for steel sole with small ground surface; for peculiar form of land side, allowing of considerable wear; adjustable steel mould-board of good form.