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from side to side, raised to pass obstructions and for travel- 

 ling on the road. There are attachments for protecting the 

 young plants when needed. 



For ordinary work, in killing weeds, the rear end of the 

 machine has the appearance presented above, while for hilling 

 around the plants at the last hoeing, there are attachments 

 which give it the appearance presented in the following figure. 



The Beet-Cultivator. 



There is another machine called the Beet-Dior2:er, which 



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appears in the following cut. 



The Beet-Digger. 



These machines may not be in every way adapted to the 

 wants and requirements of our system of farming, but it is 

 supposed that they will be suggestive to our ingenious mechan- 

 ics and that from them we shall get inventions that will prove 

 highly valuable to the farming community. 



