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by three inches square. The implement is guided by a 

 pair of thills which are used to guide Alden's Horse 

 Hoe, as shown in this illustration. 



The manner of using this rake is as follows : After 

 the grass sod has decayed, use the rake as a harrow is 

 employed. About every three or four rods across the 

 field, stop the horse, draw the rake back, and thus clear 

 the teeth of the numerous roots which have been gath- 

 ered by them in their passage through the soil. Let the 

 ground be raked over and over, until every quack root 



Fig. 31. — Alden's Quack-Grass Hake. 



has been collected and dropped in a row on the surface 

 of the ground. (See a cut and description of quack 

 grass, and another quack rake, in my second volume of 

 Young Farmer's Manual.) 



Wheat After Spring Crops. 



A farmer of Orleans County, N. Y., wrote to the 

 " Cultivator " thus : " There appears to be great need of 

 doing something to induce farmers generally to sow less 



