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ground, gives hinged grating and up-and-down 

 motion. This shakes out the dirt and leaves the 

 tubers in a clean, compact row. Weed fender clears 

 away weeds and vines ahead of blade. This dig- 

 ger is inexpensive and can be owned by any one. 

 A wing shovel and extra bars to widen grate are 

 furnished for sandy soils. 



THE ASPINWALL MACHINERY 



The Aspinwall Manufacturing Company, Jack- 

 son, Mich., makes the machinery which is de- 

 scribed in the following: 



Aspinwall Potato Planter No. 3. 



This planter is entirely automatic. The picker 

 represents the automatic action of the hand in 

 planting, and is mechanical, but six of these hands 

 are employed for all distances of planting. The 

 distance is regulated by gears instead of change in 

 number of pickers. 



With the Aspinwall potato planter the fertilizer 

 attachment is used largely in the East. 



Aspinwall Two-Row Planter 



By using this machine there is a saving of time 

 and labor, one man and team doing double the 

 work of the single row. The two rows are abso- 

 lutely equal in distance apart, which is of great 

 advantage when using a two-row cultivator, as it 

 permits of very close cultivation. The draft of the 

 machine is but slightly more than the single row. 

 The large wheels and narrow furrow openers reduce 

 the draft and compensate for the increased size of 

 the machine. Centre draft. The hopper capac- 

 ity enables planting one half mile without refilling. 



