STEAM CULTIVATION. 



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and harrow, and is 

 adapted for doing work 

 which may be described 

 as half-way between that 

 effected by a cultivator 

 and harrow, and superior 

 to any horse cultivation. 



Two kinds of shares are 

 made for this implement 

 one a board share for 

 cutting the whole ground, 

 the other a square- 

 pointed share for moving 

 the soil only; but the re- 

 quirements of the farmer 

 will always determine 

 which of these should be 

 used. As a matter of 

 economy, it is advisable 

 to keep a complete set of 

 tines and points of each 

 kind always in stock. 



This implement is con- 

 structed in three pieces 

 so as to accommodate 

 itself to uneven surfaces, 

 and will take a breadth 

 of 10 to 15 feet; it is 

 especially designed to 

 work on land that has 

 been steam - ploughed, 

 dug, or cultivated in the 

 previous autumn, and it 

 will do everything neces- 

 sary in the spring to 

 insure the land being in a proper state for any kind of crop. 

 The steering frame is so arranged that it will take different 

 harrows, from the lightest seed-harrow up to regular light 

 cultivating tools : it also can be fitted with light ridging 

 ploughs. In a similar way to the action of the cultivator 

 previously described it is lifted at the end and turned round, 

 thus getting into new work at once. 



Three ridging bodies can be put on the steering frame 

 by removing the harrow frame. 



