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FARMERS' REGISTER. 



[No. 4 



The delay has been caused by my wish to give 

 both a fair trial before I made any public commu- 

 nication for your journal in regard to them. But 

 as yet, I have only been able to do it with the cul- 

 tivator: for the supply of intelligent workmen falls 

 eo far short of the demand for them, in my part of 

 the countrj', that 1 could not get any of the har- 

 rows made in time far corn planting. A more mi- 

 nute description, therefore, of their operation, 

 must be po-tponed for another opportunity. 



In recommefidation of the -Echelon cultivator, 

 although it is my own contrivance, I think I may 

 venture to assert that, Avhere\-er the soil is tolera- 

 bly friable, and fi"ce from stumps, roots, and stones, 

 having first been broken up, as usual, with a double 

 plough, this implement will certainly save at least 



half the time and labor of after culture. More- 

 over, it may be set to run as deep as single ploughs 

 commonly do: it will answer equally well too for 

 cultivating any crop, the rows of which are wide 

 enough for its passing to and fro between every 

 two: it will throw the earth either to or from them, 

 according as you turn the right or left end of the 

 diagonal bar next to them; and in clean land, it 

 will cover small grain effectually, in half the time 

 of a single plough, and at a more uniform depth. 

 Another advantage in using it is, that the only 

 irons about it which are exposed to be worn out by 

 the soil, are the cast iron points, and these admit 

 of being twice worked, by turning end lor end, be- 

 fore new ones are required. 





Scale half an inch to the foot. 



