Productive orcharding, modern methods of growing and marketing fruit . Fig. 40.—The acme harrow. An excellent orchard cultivator when soil conditions aregood, but stones and trash interfere with it seriously. Fig. 41.—An orchard cultivator with heavy, rigid teeth. An excellent implement for heavywork, either where the land is rough or the weeds are large. in the surface, one end perhaps working too deeply and the othernot deep enough. On the other hand this very rigidity makes iteffective in pulling the land into shape, taking down the high. CULTIVATORS 97 5 t»0 o«^ ^ §^ a o5. P ^ B;2 o
Productive orcharding, modern methods of growing and marketing fruit . Fig. 40.—The acme harrow. An excellent orchard cultivator when soil conditions aregood, but stones and trash interfere with it seriously. Fig. 41.—An orchard cultivator with heavy, rigid teeth. An excellent implement for heavywork, either where the land is rough or the weeds are large. in the surface, one end perhaps working too deeply and the othernot deep enough. On the other hand this very rigidity makes iteffective in pulling the land into shape, taking down the high. CULTIVATORS 97 5 t»0 o«^ ^ §^ a o5. P ^ B;2 o Pr a, a. a^ a oq- ^5. 98 ORCHARD IMPLEMENTS places and scraping* them into the low ones. And it will dig intoa patch of witch grass or other troublesome weed in a way to dis-courage the intruder. Next is the light-draft orchard harrow shown in Figure is certainly well named, as the draft is very light consideringthe land it covers and there are few if any implements that willget over as many acres of orchard in a day as this one. It willcheer the heart of any man with a lot of work to do. You can senda man out into a ten acre block of orchard in the morning and heis back at noon with the job done. And it does good work, too.
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