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AMERICAN HOME GARDEN. 



Fig. 25. 



Corn Harrow. 



the gauge-bars, which is braced securely from near the outer 



end of the bar, hav- 

 ing sufficient slope 

 .backward to enable 

 the holder to walk 

 freely behind it, and 

 lift it readily by the 

 hand-pin when nec- 

 essary. 



It is usually made 

 with two or three 

 teeth in the centre- 

 bar, and four in each 

 of the wing bars. Sometimes a short beam is attached, as in 

 the cultivator, rising ten inches or a foot above the bar, so that, 

 if desired, the power may be increased by the pressure of the 

 draft in front and the hand of the holder behind ; or, instead 

 of the beam, a well-braced iron rack-bar may be used, upon 

 which a loose link is raised or lowered by a short wooden pin, 

 as in the above figure (25), or both this and the cultivator may 

 have the semicircular rack and gauge-wheel (Fig. 26 a) at- 

 tached to the centre-bar. 



A smaller and very light harrow of the same construction, 

 with teeth of f or \ inch iron, is especially useful to follow the 

 skeleton plow among root crops while young. 



CULTIVATOR. 



The cultivator (Fig. 26) is framed precisely like the corn 

 rig. 26. harrow, but with a 



double handle, and 

 each tooth has a small 

 doubl e - mould share 

 attached, or the entire 

 tooth is cast in one 

 piece, with double- 



cuitivator. mould share points; 



it is by some called a " Horse Hoe," and by others the Hoe 

 Harrow. 



