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THE YEAR-BOOK OF AGRICULTURE. 

 Lichtenthaler's Cultivator. 



The annexed engraving is a perspective view of a cultivator recently invented and patented 

 by Griffith Lichtenthaler, of Limestoncville, Ta. 



The nature of the improvement in this cultivator consists in the peculiar manner of attach- 

 ing the shares to the beams, whereby they (the shares) may bo readily adjusted in position, 

 and also allowed to yield to any obstructions with which they may como in contact. 



There are two beams A, secured in an oblique position by cross-ties 13 B, which are attached 

 to uprights a on the beams. The oblique position of the beams gives the usual triangular or 

 harrow-shape, the front ends of the beams being nearer together than the back ends. C C are 

 the handles or stilts attached to the cross-tics, and D is a reach secured to the cross-ties, and 

 having a swiveltrce E attached to its outer end. In the under surface of each bean) A there 

 is a longitudinal groove or recess, in which a metallic strip F is fitted and secured therein 

 by wedges or keys c which pass through projections d. The projections pass upwards from 

 the strips F through the beams A, the wedges or keys being driven through eyes in the pro- 

 jections above the beams. Each strip is perforated with holes/, as shown. The shares are 



represented by G. Each slime has a socket formed by two lipsyy. The sockets are at the 

 upper end- of the shares, and have holes through them. The shares G arc secured to the 

 beams A by placing the lipsjrji in the recesses, the ship v fitting between the lips, and in- ' 

 Berting a metal pivot or pin throagh the hindermost boles of the lips, and through a corre- 

 sponding hole/ in the strip. W Ion pins / are passed through the front holes of the lips, and 



through corresponding holes/in the -trip-'. The body of the Bhares are set nearly at right 

 angles with the beams \ \- and the dirt Is tin-own by the shares, as the machine is moved 



along, towards the centre of the machine. In ease of the shares meeting with any Obstruc- 

 tion, such as a root, stump, stone, etc., the pins being formed of wood, will break, and tho 



Bhares G will torn backwards. By this arrangement the machine i- prevented from being 

 broken, or any of it- parts, wrenched by sudden stoppages arising from obstructions. The 



Bhares, by means Of the BOCketB at their upper end- and the perforated strip- F, may be 



readily adjusted to the beams. Shares of different forme maj also be applied with the same 

 facility, provided they have the sockets at their upper end-. The shares are oast iron, with a 

 .-(••••1 blade lying in the hollow part of the share extending about 1 1 Inch below; this steel 

 plate Is reversible, so that when one side i- worn away, it may be turned and the upper edge 



DUt down, and is as complete as new. [f de-ired, the whole machine may be reversed, so that 

 the furrow- may be thrown away from the GOTO, Or COttOn, or whatever it may he. The 



advent ige this cultivator has over others Is, that the farmer li enabled to do more work in a 

 •i time and with le-s expense; Inasmuch as it finishes the row si it passes over it. end 



leavt round in s proper condition to receive the rain and retain the moisture s greater 



th of time, leaving no large furrows to conduct the water away. 



