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The C iSpriny Curt Co., EushvUk, Ind., exhibited the Farmers' Friend Harrow. 

 It is the only Scotch harrow with handles, and is the only harrow which is so 

 arranged that either of the fonr corners of the teeth can be made to cut, hence it is 

 ficif sharping. It is easily cleaned, and the handles form a sled to transfer the 

 harrow from one place to another. 



Till' Cholkii'ie Corn Planter Co., Crawl Ilarrn. Mirli.^ exhibited a new improved 

 drop. Also, a new check rower. 



E. Over, IndkmapoUa, Ind., exhibited Sawyer's two-wheeled road machine. The 

 double-tree is attached to tlie side of this machine, ami the side draft is overcome. 

 It has a hinge scraper bar, composed of two pieces. The scraper being in two sec- 

 tions, it can easily be discharged at diilerent angles, and can be formed into a " V " 

 shape, and c=irry the dirt wherever desired, and it will also straddle a rut. 



Also, the Howl and road grader. This is a low-priced grader, being attached to 

 a common two-horse wagon. It is reversible by changing two rods, and the 

 acraper can be thrown at any angle. Also, a road plow, grader, and ditcher, man- 

 ufactured of the best material. The same power will plow and move dirt as in 

 other instruments is required to move it. This is superior as a surface grader. It 

 cuts to the depth of three feet, and any width from five to fourteen feet. It will 

 make one hundred rods of ditch per day, with four or- six horses. The dirt Is 

 thrown back from the edge of the ditch in such a manner that it can be crossed 

 with any vehicle. It is valuable for cutting hedge-rows, or making levees from three 

 to four feet high, and for repairing old post fences. 



Also, a reversible pulverizer and stalk cutter. 



Also, a Preston binder truck, which is strong and durable. 



The David Bradlti; Manujacluriny Company, Chicayo, III, through their branch 

 office at Indianapolis, exhibited the celebrated Garden City Clipper plows. They 

 are all direct center and light draft. All their steel plows aj-e made of patent soft 

 steel, which costs nearly double as much as common steel. They also u.se a patent 

 process for chilling iron, which makes it very hard; and also a jiaunl iinoiCf'S for 

 tempering steel, which causes it to admit of the finest polish. 



Also, the swing-beam sulky plow, which is light draft and adapted to all soils, 

 and is either steel or chilled. Their Western gang plow is made of the same mate- 

 rial. Als(j, a very large variety of corn cultivators, and all the combinations for 

 cultivators. 



Also, three varieties of sulky hay rakes, both hand and horse ilump. In these 

 rakes the best oil-tempered steel is used, and all good points are adopted. Also, 

 seven styles of harrows. Also, a full line of one-horse and shovel plows. Al.«o, the 

 Bradley mower, which claims simplicity and durability. For smooth fields it has 

 a six-foot cut, is for two horses, and is said to run as light as the average four-foot 

 <'ut mower. Also, a disc harrow. 



Also, a press drill in two kinds, the Clipper and the Havannah. In one of 

 these the spring pressure is on the wheels and runners, and in the other it is on the 

 runners. Also, a variety of one-horse wheat drills, two kinds of five hoes and two 

 kinds of three hoes. 



