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FARM MACHINERY 



designed to follow the listed furrow for the first two 

 cultivations. The machine is guided either by sled 



runners or roller wheels 

 which run in the furrow. 

 The shovel equipment 

 varies between shovels 

 and disks. The cultivator 

 is made for one or two 

 FIG. 72 A SIMPLE LIST-ED CORN CUL- rows, and is a very suc- 

 cessful tool. 



135. Stalk cutter. An 

 implement in general use 

 in corn and cotton regions and which should be men- 

 tioned here is the stalk cutter. Its purpose is to cut 

 cotton and corn stalks when ''left in the field into such 

 lengths as not to interfere with the cultivation of the next 

 crops. The implement primarily consists in a cylinder 

 with five to nine radial knives. It is rolled over the stalks, 



TIVATOR. DISKS ARE OFTEN USED IN 

 PLACE OF THE SCRAPERS. THE IM- 

 PLEMENT IS ALSO MADE TO CULTI- 

 VATE TWO ROWS AT A TIME 



FIG. 73 A SINGLE-ROW STALK CUTTER 



