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Fink's Iron Cultivator. 

 The accompanying figure represents an excellent 

 cultivator, recently invented by J. Fink, Baldwinsville, 

 Onondaga County, 1ST. Y., which possesses many points 

 of superior merit. The frame is made of iron, and the 

 teeth are of superior steel. The implement possesses a 



Fig. 33.— Fink's Iron Cultivator. 



combination of desirable points, which constitute an 

 efficient and convenient implement for cultivating 

 summer fallows, winter fallows, for scarifying stubble 

 ground, and dressing out crops in rows ; and besides this, 

 many farmers think it the most effective implement for 

 digging potatoes that is now in use. "Where there are 

 more or less stumps, stubs, or rocks, to cultivate around 

 and among, a cultivator having handles will be found 

 more convenient than one without handles. 



The wings are so arranged, that the teeth can be made 

 to cut a wide trough ; or they may be contracted so as 

 to cut only a narrow strip, either deep or shallow. As 

 the cut affords such an excellent idea of the implement, 

 the foregoing verbal description will be sufficient to con- 

 vey a fair understanding of its construction and opera- 

 tion. 



