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repair. Another form of 4 or 5 toothed cultivator used extensively 

 in the southern States of America for the cultivation of young cotton 

 is known as the side harroiv and would be excellent for the cultivation 

 of young sugar cane iti clean, sandy land. There are many forms of 

 these small cultivators, all of which have some special feature of recom- 

 mendation. One which deserves special mention is a combined harrow, 

 weeder and cultivator. 



Eiding cultivators are not very well adapted to small plantation work 

 in the Philippines, but will no doubt come into common use on the 

 large plantations. They are of two general types. One is fitted with 

 a gang of small plows running on either side of the cane rows and so 

 set as to throw the dirt toward the cane or away from it as desired; 



Fig. 11. — Two-way gang plow for barring off stubble or ratoous. (Avery.) 



and the other has two gangs of disks usually of three each, which replace 

 the plows mentioned in the other form. Both of these are two-wheeled 

 implements with pole, doubletree and driver's seat. They are generally 

 built for use with horses or mules, but could be easily adapted to work 

 wdth carabao or bullocks if a double yoke with bows were used. They 

 are said to be of lighter draft, more rapid and require less labor for 

 their operation than the walking cultivators. There are also forms 

 of cultivators drawn by steam cable plows which are said to be service- 

 able on the larger plantations having such expensive machinery on 

 hand. 



The most common implement used in the cultivation of sugar cane 

 in the Philippines, outside of ISTegros, is the native wooden plow with 



