. Descriptive catalogue of agricultural and horticultural implements, machines, and seeds ... With brief directions for sowing, planting, and culture, and rules for the application of guano, plaster, bone dust ... used separately when desired. 20 AGRICULTURAL AND HORTICULTURAL TOOLS. portant operation after plowing. The harrow should run from four tosix inches deep, cutting up all the lumps, and leave the ground in a finelypulverized state. The price of these harrows varies from $8 to $ have from fourteen to thirty teeth. Triangular Folding, or Chandlers Harrow. Figure Fig. li is a
. Descriptive catalogue of agricultural and horticultural implements, machines, and seeds ... With brief directions for sowing, planting, and culture, and rules for the application of guano, plaster, bone dust ... used separately when desired. 20 AGRICULTURAL AND HORTICULTURAL TOOLS. portant operation after plowing. The harrow should run from four tosix inches deep, cutting up all the lumps, and leave the ground in a finelypulverized state. The price of these harrows varies from $8 to $ have from fourteen to thirty teeth. Triangular Folding, or Chandlers Harrow. Figure Fig. li is also a folding harrow with teeth constructed like those inGedd^es Harrow, made of heavier materials, and is very strong and suita-ble for very rough soils. Figure 12 AGRICULTURAL AND HORTICULTURAL TOOLS. 21 Fig. 12, the Scotch harrow, which may be used single or vary according to the make this kind only to order. DESCRIPTIONS OF CULTIVATOR. The cultivator is a great labor saving implement, it was first used forstirring the earth between corn and other crops in rows. They are nowfound to be highly useful in mixing fine manures with, and pulverizingthe soil after plowing. It leaves the soil much lighter and in better con-dition to receive the seed than when the harrow only is used. It works admirably for covering grains sown at broad-cast, it covers itat a more proper and equal depth than the plow, and in one fourth thetime, and much more perfectly than the harrow. There are various forms of teeth, some to enter and stir the soil deep,others broad and fl
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