. Soil physics and management. FiQ. 155.—Ordinary corn planter with attachment for planting cowpeas in hill or row with corn. *~- »,~\. Fig. 156.—Three-shovel cultivator. The shovel cultivators (Fig. 156) vary in the number and sizeof the shovels used. There may be two large shovels on each gang,three medium, or four small ones. The depth to which they govaries directly with the size of the shovels. It is not unusual to ULLAGE 339 see cultivaiion done over lour indies (l((|) willi the ]ar<(o or rn(;(liiimsliovcl. There are two types ol cultivators with four or five smallshovels iji each gan
. Soil physics and management. FiQ. 155.—Ordinary corn planter with attachment for planting cowpeas in hill or row with corn. *~- »,~\. Fig. 156.—Three-shovel cultivator. The shovel cultivators (Fig. 156) vary in the number and sizeof the shovels used. There may be two large shovels on each gang,three medium, or four small ones. The depth to which they govaries directly with the size of the shovels. It is not unusual to ULLAGE 339 see cultivaiion done over lour indies (l((|) willi the ]ar<(o or rn(;(liiimsliovcl. There are two types ol cultivators with four or five smallshovels iji each gang—the eagle claw and the spring-tooth. IMicse])en(!trate the soil to a depth slightly more than two inches. A formof the shovel plow is made hy replacing the inside; shovel with alittle diamond or har share plow hy which the soil is thrown upinto a high ridge along tlie corn row. The disk cultivators (Fig. 157) consist of three disks on eachside and may he used to good advantage where the hind weed orwild morning glory ahounds. As these cultivators are commonlyused the disks are set to run deep and corn-row ridges result. The
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