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thoroughly as soon as the last handful of fertilizer is put 

 on. On nice mellow soil, ordinary smoothing harrows 

 alone may be relied on for doing the work properly. For 

 more tenacious soils, or on mucky soils that were not 



Fig. 



Disk Harrow, or Pulvekizek, 



plowed or replowed in spring, a pulverizer or disk harrow 

 (similar to the one here illustrated) will be required, or at 

 least desirable. This cuts the surface up deeply, and mixes 

 soil and manure together quite thoroughly. The ordinary 



Fig. 2. 



Meeker Harrow. 



smoothing harrow, or ''drag," may be used next, and, if 

 the surface is then still lumpy, the roller should follow, and 

 after this the fertilizer drill. Don't let up with harrows 

 and roller, however, before the surface is entirely fine and 



