190 Market Gardening. 



Both gangs of disks stand at a relative angle to each 

 other, thus overcoming any tendency to work sidewise 

 to the line of draft. The driver can, without leaving 

 his seat, change the angle of both gangs at once, by 

 means of the hand lever, and instantly fasten them at 

 any desired ang^e. The journals are protected from 

 dirt and provided with self-feeding oil cups, and the 

 whole harrow being of iron (except the pole and seat- 

 standard) will bear exposure to the weather without 

 injury. 



The construction is such as admits of any part 

 being easily removed or replaced ; and, in connection 

 with the system of bracing employed, renders this the 

 lightest, easiest handled, and stronojest Disk Harrow 

 on the market. This harrow is certainly one of the 

 best in use at the present time. It is very strong and 

 durable, and does the work in the best of shape. It 

 pulverizes the land and works it to a depth of about six 

 inches, which is nearly the maximum depth that we 

 plough for putting in crops. For breaking up the lumps 

 on ground that has been trodden hard it has no equal. 

 But where smoothing the surface is the object mainly 

 in view, a " smoothing harrow " should be used. 



The Meeker Smoothing Harrow is employed either 

 for leveling the surface of land, that it may be ploughed 

 evenly, or after the ploughing to prepare it for the seed 

 sower. The frame is square — six feet eight inches by 

 six feet one inch — with four sets of rollers, having on 

 them fifty-eight disks of eight inches diameter. On 

 the two forward rollers, the disks are six inches apart, 

 and on the two rear rollers, three inches apart. The 



