IMPLEMENTS. 



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known as Allen's Patent Cylinder Plow. So superior are 

 the pulverizing powers of this plow to those of the 

 spade, that no market gardener here, of any experience, 

 would allow his grounds to be dug, even if it were done 

 so free of cost. 



Fig. 6 represents the Lifting Subsoil Plow, it is strongly 

 made, of steel, and follows in the wake of the surface plow, 



Fig. C. — LIFTING SUBSOIL PLOW. 



lifting and breaking (but not turning) the subsoil to the 

 depth of G or 12 inches, as may be desired. On very stiff 

 soils we use the subsoiler once in two years; on lighter 

 soils not so often, although if time would always permit 

 there is no doubt but that it would be beneficial to use it 

 whenever plowing is done. 



The harrow in use is rather peculiar in style, but is best 



suited for garden work ; 

 it contains some forty 

 teeth about 10 inches 

 long ; these are driven 

 through the wood-work, 

 leaving 5 or G inches 

 of the sharpened end 

 on the one side and from H to 2 inches of the blunt end 

 on the other, as shown in fig. 7. After the ground has 



Fig. 7.— GARDEN nAREOW. 



