. Manual of gardening; a practical guide to the making of home grounds and the growing of flowers, fruits, and vegetables for home use . 85. Excellent types of surface plows. those that are friable and mellow may not need such heavyand vigorous tools. On these mellower lands, the spring-tooth. 86. Disk and Acme harrows, for the first working of hard or cloddy land. harrow, types of which are shown in Fig. 87, may follow theplow. On very hard lands, these spring-tooth harrows mayfollow the disk and Acme types. The final preparation of the THE HANDLING OF THE LAND 95 land is accomplished by ligh
. Manual of gardening; a practical guide to the making of home grounds and the growing of flowers, fruits, and vegetables for home use . 85. Excellent types of surface plows. those that are friable and mellow may not need such heavyand vigorous tools. On these mellower lands, the spring-tooth. 86. Disk and Acme harrows, for the first working of hard or cloddy land. harrow, types of which are shown in Fig. 87, may follow theplow. On very hard lands, these spring-tooth harrows mayfollow the disk and Acme types. The final preparation of the THE HANDLING OF THE LAND 95 land is accomplished by light implements of the pattern shownin Fig. 88. These spike-tooth smoothing-harrows do for thefield what the hand-rakedoes for the garden-bed. If it is desired to puta very fine finish on thesurface of the ground bymeans of horse tools, im-plements like the Breedor Wiard weeder may beused. These are con-structed on the principleof a spring-tooth horsehay-rake, and are mostexcellent, not only forfitting loose land for or-dinary seeding, but alsofor subsequent tillage. In areas that cannot i , t ., v , 87. Spring-tooth harrows. be entered with a team, various one-horse implements may do the work that is accom-plished by heavier tools in the field. The spring-tooth culti-vator, shown at the
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