. Catalogue of agricultural and horticultural implements ... AGRICULTURAL AND HORTICULTURAL TOOLS. 19 In addition to the fore-named we have various other plows suited to every lo- cality in North and South America, and the West India Islands; among which are steel-points and shares, steel and wrought-iron mould-boards. From oui facilities for manufacturing these, and implements of almost every descrip- tion for the farm, plantation, and garden, can be made to order at short notice. CUIiTZVATORS. The Cultivator is a great labor-saving implement, for stirring the earth be- tween the rows of corn
. Catalogue of agricultural and horticultural implements ... AGRICULTURAL AND HORTICULTURAL TOOLS. 19 In addition to the fore-named we have various other plows suited to every lo- cality in North and South America, and the West India Islands; among which are steel-points and shares, steel and wrought-iron mould-boards. From oui facilities for manufacturing these, and implements of almost every descrip- tion for the farm, plantation, and garden, can be made to order at short notice. CUIiTZVATORS. The Cultivator is a great labor-saving implement, for stirring the earth be- tween the rows of corn and other crops. It is also well adapted for mixing manures in the soil, and pulverizing it after plowing. It leaves the soil much lighter and in better condition to receive the seed than when the harrow only is used. It is useful for covering grain sown broad-cast, and buries it at a more suitable and uniform depth than the plow, and in one-fourth the time; and much more perfectly than the harrow. There are various forms of teeth. Some enter and stir the soil deep; others are broad and flat, to skim the surface and cut up the weeds, while others are made with scarifiers or narrow teeth; and as all are made to fit the same size and form of mortice, by purchasing different forms of teeth, the farmer can uoe them in the same frame-work. They are made to expand and contract, to conform to the width of rows, &.c. Some are made having the hindmost teeth so formed as to turn the earth to- wards the plants, and by shifting them from side to side, turn it from them, as may be required. Universal Fig. 11. ?ig. 11, represents a cultivator recently constructed. It is made longer than common cultivators, and is all of iron except the centre-beam and handles; and the side-beams being of wrought-iron so curved, that as they are expanded or contracted, by loosening the iron-key that confines the tooth in its place, they are each moved forward or back to a point that will aga
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