. The American home garden. Being principles and rules for the culture of vegetables, fruits, flowers, and shrubbery. To which are added brief notes on farm crops, with a table of their average product and chemical constituents. Gardening. Com Harrow. the gauge-bars, -iyliich is braced securely from near the outer end of the bar, hav- ing suiEeient slope backward to enable the holder to walk freely behind it, and lift it readily by the hand-pin when nec- essary. It is usually made with two or tlii'ee teeth in the centre- bar, and f(xu- in each of the wing bars. Sometimes a short beam is attach
. The American home garden. Being principles and rules for the culture of vegetables, fruits, flowers, and shrubbery. To which are added brief notes on farm crops, with a table of their average product and chemical constituents. Gardening. Com Harrow. the gauge-bars, -iyliich is braced securely from near the outer end of the bar, hav- ing suiEeient slope backward to enable the holder to walk freely behind it, and lift it readily by the hand-pin when nec- essary. It is usually made with two or tlii'ee teeth in the centre- bar, and f(xu- in each of the wing bars. Sometimes a short beam is attached, as in the cultivator, rising ten inches or a foot above the bar, so that, if desired, the power may be increased by the pressm-e of the draft in front and the hand of the holder behind ; or, instead of the beam, a well-braced iron rack-bar may be used, upon which a loose link is raised or lowered by a short wooden pin, as in the above figure (25), or both this and the cultivator may have the semicircular rack and gauge-wheel (Fig. 26 a) at- tached to the centre-bar. A smaller and very light hsuTow of the same construction, with teeth of f or {? inch iron, is especially useful to follow the skeleton plow among root crojis while young. CCLTIVATOR. The cultivator (Fig. 2(j) is framed precisely like the com Fig. 20. harrow, Ijut with a double handle, and ''"JsKi, each tooth has a small __^ double-nioidd share tp^ attached,or the entire *'â ''''â '' â â â 'â^ l=~i^' tooth is cast in one piece, with double- < uitivatur. mould sliare points; it is by some called a " IIoi'so Iloe," and by others the Hoe H; Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Watson, Alexander. New York, Harper & Brothers
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