Labor Saving Machinery of the Farm. 609 



Next in the natural order of succession conies 



THE HAitROW. 



The feet of the harrowing team beat down the furrows 

 and compress the soil. It is important that the harrow 

 should tend to lift the soil and make it lighter, and with 

 dispatch. The straight toothed harrow scratches and mel- 

 lows the surface, but it hardens that below. A share or 

 coulter which works under the soil, or a revolving disc or 

 plate which cuts and crowds it to one side, are either of 

 them a great advance in the right direction. 



PLANTERS 



For coi'n and potatoes, the former for either one or two 

 rows, one or both ways and in drills ; the latter cutting as 

 well as dropping and covering the seed and fertilizers, are 

 now so well perfected that their operation is reliable and 

 satisfactory, and their use on hill farms as well as meadows 

 advisable, and a great sa\ing of labor. 



The corn harvest may now be greatly accelerated by the 

 use of the 



CORN HUSKER, 



Driven by horse power. Doubting farmers, who never saw 

 such a machine in operation, and who believe nothing in 

 regard to their own calling which they have not seen with 

 their own eyes, do not believe that a machine driven by a 

 pair of horses, and managed by three men, can take corn as 

 a thresher takes grain, and turn out forty or fifty bushels 

 of clean, bright ears of corn an hour. And yet machinery 

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