. 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 ... 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 flat to s
. 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 ... 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 flat to simply skim the surface and leave the weeds cutup and exposed to the sun, some with reversable teeth; some with scari-fiers, and some with harrow teeth, and as we now make all teeth exceptthe harrow form to fit the same size and form of mortice, the farmer can,by purchasing different forms of teeth, use them in the same frame-work. They are made to expand and contract to conform to width of rows,&c. Some are made having the hindmost teeth so formed as to turn theearth towards the plants, and by shifting them from side to side, turn itfrom them, as is required. Improved Expanding Cultivator. * Figure The wheel Fig. 13, is a late invention, and is found to be a great im-provement, as it causes it to move steadily, and easily, and assists the op-erator in getting it around the ends of rows and obstructions in the field, 22 AGRICULTURAL AND HORTICULTURAL TOOLS. Common Expanding Cultivator. Figure 14.
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