. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. "St. , ,T, . ~ Fig. 10.—A crew of one man and six horses operating a spring-tooth harrow. More horses are used here than in the average crew. (See Table IX.) the Caro and Alma districts, while the 1-man and 3-horse crew was in the majority in the Grand Rapids and Ohio districts. ROLLING PRACTICE. Two general types of rollers were found in these districts; the solid smooth drum roller (fig. 11), either steel or wood, and the bar. Fig. 11.—Rolling with a smooth drum roller. This type crushes clods and leaves a smoot
. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. "St. , ,T, . ~ Fig. 10.—A crew of one man and six horses operating a spring-tooth harrow. More horses are used here than in the average crew. (See Table IX.) the Caro and Alma districts, while the 1-man and 3-horse crew was in the majority in the Grand Rapids and Ohio districts. ROLLING PRACTICE. Two general types of rollers were found in these districts; the solid smooth drum roller (fig. 11), either steel or wood, and the bar. Fig. 11.—Rolling with a smooth drum roller. This type crushes clods and leaves a smooth surface. roller or pulverizer, (fig. 12). Two hundred and thirty-one smooth iron, 37 bar, and 18 wood rollers were reported. The average width of these implements was about 8 feet. (See Table X.). 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 United States. Dept. of Agriculture. [Washington, D. C. ?] : The Dept. : Supt. of Docs. , G. P. O.
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