84 THE YEAR-BOOK OF AGRICULTURE. 



iron Plow." This plow can be operated by a small boy, the share, which rolls under in 

 changing from side to side, being easily shifted. We think it must prove to all interested a 

 most acceptable improvement. 



Plow Cultivator. 



THE accompanying engravings represent an improved plow cultivator, or horse-hoe, re- 

 cently invented by W. S. Hyde, of Ohio, and H. Wright, of South Byron, New York. 



Fig- 1. 



Fig. 1 is a perspective view, and fig. 2 is a section, showing one of the adjustable wings 

 connected with the plow-shoe. A is the beam ; B is the plow-shoe ; D D are two adjustable 

 cultivator teeth behind the shoe ; and C C are the adjustable wings. Infiff. 2, c c represents 

 two slots in each wing, and b b are screw-bolts to secure the wings in these slots. The wings 

 C C are flaring, and designed for hilling-up ; consequently, as they can be adjusted by the 

 slots c c and the bolts further in or out on the plow-shoe, they are rendered fit to hill-up high 

 or low, and made suitable for narrow and wide rows. The bar which connects the two culti- 

 vator teeth D D has bolts which also work in slots in their respective legs, and they swivel at 

 the top ; consequently, they can be set near and wide apart, to cut as close to the rows as 

 may be desired. 



To use this plow cultivator, the ground should be plowed deep, well harrowed, and marked 

 both ways with a good marker. As soon as the rows can be seen, commence using the imple- 

 ment. Take off the wings from the shovel, and do not use them while the crop is small. Set 

 the teeth to run as near the hills as possible ; to work fast, have a man or boy follow while 

 crossing, when the corn is small. As soon as the corn is a foot or more high, put on the 

 wings, and set them level on the lower edge ; and as the crop grows, set the hind teeth nearer 

 together. To hill-up any crop, take off the woodwork to which the teeth are attached, and 

 you have a most perfect implement for hilling. It is designed for corn, cotton, or any crop 

 requiring to be hoed. 



Mapes's Lifting Subsoil Plow. 



THIS new implement is so constructed as to elevate the soil for a short distance, but from 

 a great depth, its whole force being upward and outward, like the action of a mole on its 

 superincumbent soil ; and although the greatest width of the plow itself is but eight inches, 

 still, when running at a depth of fifteen inches, it renders the soil finely divided to a width 

 of four feet at the surface, and without elevating the subsoil or turning over the surface-soil. 

 It may, therefore, be used to renew old meadows, where the grass-roots have become too 

 compact for vigorous growth ; for it will lift the sod one or two inches with a foot of soil 

 attached, the cut through which the plow passes closing behind it in its course, and loosening 

 the soil around every grass-root, thus giving free admission to atmosphere, rains, dews, etc. 



