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THE YEAR-BOOK OF AGRICULTURE. 



iron Plow." This plow can be operated by a small boy, the share, which rolls under in 

 whanging from side to side, being easily shifted. 'We think it must prove to all interested a 

 most acceptable improvement. 



Plow Cultivator. 



The accompanying engravings represent an improved plow cultivator, or horse-hoe, re- 

 cently invented by W. S. Hyde, of Ohio, and II. Wright, of South Byron, New York. 



Fig. 1 is a perspective view, and fig. 2 is a section, showing one of the adjustable wings 

 connected with the plow-shoe. A is the beam ; B is the plow-shoe ; D D arc two adjustable 

 cultivator teeth behind the shoe; and C C are the adjustable wings. In fig. 2, c c represents 

 two slots in each wing, and b b are screw-bolts to secure the wings in these slots. The wings 

 C C are flaring, and designed for hilling-up ; consequently, as they can bo adjusted 1 »y the 

 slots cc and the bolts further in or out on the plow-shoe, they are rendered fit to hill-up high 

 or low, and made suitable for narrow and wide rows. The bar which connects the two culti- 

 vator teeth D D has bolts which also work in slots in their respective legs, and they swivel at 

 the top : consequently, they can be set near and wide apart, to cut as close to the rows as 

 may be desired. 



To u-e this plow cultivator, the ground should be plowed deep, well harrowed, and marked 

 both ways with a good murker. .\s bood as the rows oaa be seen, commence using the imple- 

 ment Take off the wings from the shovel, and do not use them while the orop is small. Si I 

 the teeth to run as near the' hills as possible ; to work last, have i man or boy follow while 

 crossing, when the corn is small. As soon as the OOrn is a foot or more high, put on the 

 wing-, and set them level on the lower edge : and as the crop grows, set the hind teeth man r 



together. To hill-up any orop, take off the woodwork to which the teeth are attached, and 



you have a most perfect implement for hilling. It is designed for corn, cotton, or an}' crop 



requiring to be hoi 1 



Mapes's Lifting Subsoil Plow. 



This new implement is so OOnstruoted M to elevate the soil for a short distance, but from 



a great depth, its whole force being upward and outward, like the action of • mole on its 

 srincumbent soil ; and although the greatest width of the plow Itself Is but eight Incl 



still, when running at a depth of fifteen Inches, it renders the soil finely divided to a width 

 of four feet at the surface, and without elevating the BUbSOfl or turning over the surface-soil. 



It may, theref o re , be used to renew old n . where the : I its become too 



c"Tmt>: t for rigorous growth : for it will lift the ^...i one or two Inches with a foot of soil 



•■hed. the cut through which the plow | ' behind it in it- ooune, and loosening 



the soil around every graSS-rOOt, tl Qg free admission to atmosphere, rain etc. 



