IMPLEMENTS, &c. OF THE FARM. 



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The Brush Harrow is used for har- 

 rowing grass lands, to disperse rough- 

 ness and decaying matter: and it is 

 also sometimes used for covering grass 

 or clover seeds. Small rigid branches 

 are interwoven in a frame, consisting 

 of three or more cross-bars, fixed into 

 two end, pieces in such a manner as to 

 be very rough and bushy underneath. 

 To the extremities of the frame before 

 are sometimes attached two wheels, 

 about twelve inches in diameter, upon 

 which it moves sometimes, however, 

 the wheels are omitted, and the whole 

 rough surface is applied to, and drag- 

 ged on, the ground. 



Conkliri's Revolving Press Har- 

 row, a new invention, somewhat re- 

 sembling the English spiked harrow. 

 It consists of two cylinders twenty 

 inches in diameter, three feet long, 

 formed of cast iron staves, &c. The 

 teeth, which are either of wrought or 

 cast iron, are inserted in the staves, 

 and fastened upon the inside by nuts 

 or keys. The design is 1. To scarify 

 meadow or pasture grounds, root out 

 mosses, fit them for seed, and thus in- 

 crease the product. 2. To scarify stiff 

 clays and tough sward grounds, after they have been once 

 ploughed, which this harrow pulverizes and fits for the crop. 



The Grubber is an implement scarcely known, and conse- 

 quently but little used in this country; while in England and 

 Scotland it is in almost universal use. Its office is to turn up 

 noxious weeds whose roots may have been turned down by 

 ploughing, below the reach of the harrow, which cannot pene- 

 trate any distance into the ground, and drag up the roots of 

 plants beneath the surface. 



The introduction of this class of implements into tillage, 

 must be regarded as beneficial and important. When land is 

 full of root weeds, the repeated operation of the plough, the 

 harrow and the roller, is resorted to for tilling and cleaning it. 

 In these cases the grubber is a useful assistant, and may fre- 

 quently supersede the necessity of one or more ploughings. 



The grubber can be made to go any depth which may be re- 

 quired, and thus the soil can be either stirred to the depth at 



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THE BRUSH HARROW. 



