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manufacturers of these implements could improve the 

 oiling device by shortening the channel and building a 

 better housing for the oil entrance. It is quite a job to 

 take a disk apart to put in new boxings, but, like all 

 other repair work, the disk should be taken into the 

 shop, thoroughly cleaned, repaired, painted and oiled 

 in the winter time. 



Some double disk cultivators have tongues and some 

 are made without. Whether the farmer wants a tongue 

 or not depends a good deal on the land. The only ad- 

 vantage is that a tongue will hold the disk from crowd- 

 ing onto the horses when it is running light along the 

 farm lanes or the sides of the fields with the disks set 

 straight. Horses have been ruined by having the 

 sharp disks run against them when going down hill. 

 Such accidents always are avoidable if a man realizes 

 the danger. Unfortunately, farm implements are often 

 used by men who do very little thinking. A spring 

 disk scraper got twisted on a root and was thrown 

 over the top of one of the disks so it scraped against the 

 back of the disk and continued to make a harsh, scrap- 

 ing noise until the proprietor went to see wnat was 

 wrong. The man driving the disk said he thought 

 something must be the matter with the cultivator, but 

 he couldn ? t tell for the life of him what it was. When 

 farmers are up against such difficulties it is safer to 

 buy a disk with a tongue. 



Harrow Cart. A small two-wheel cart with a spring 

 seat overshadowed with a big umbrella is sometimes 

 called a l ' dude sulky. ' ' Many sensitive farmers trudge 

 along in the soft ground and dust behind their harrows 

 afraid of such old fogy ridicule. The hardest and most 

 tiresome and disagreeable job at seeding time is fol- 

 lowing a harrow on foot. Riding a harrow cart in the 



