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ORCHARD IMPLEMENTS 



places and scraping them into the h)w ones. And it will dig into 

 a patch of witch grass or other troublesome weed in a way to dis- 

 courage the intruder. 



Next is the light-draft orchard harrow shown in Figure 42. 

 It is certainly well named, as the draft is very light considering 

 the land it covers and there are few if any implements that will 

 get over as many acres of orchard in a day as this one. It will 

 cheer the heart of any man with a lot of work to do. You can send 

 a man out into a ten acre block of orchard in the morning and he 

 is back at noon with the job done. And it does good work, too. 



Fig. 43. — A grape-hoe at work in a young orchard. An excellent implement for clearing 

 out the weeds along the tree row. It will do the work of a dozen men. 



Its shortcoming is that the land has to be in pretty good condition 

 for it to do good work. The teeth are rather light and will not 

 work well on rough land, but once the land has been put in good 

 condition in the spring it will certainly take care of it well and 

 cheaply. There are two wings which enable it to work close 

 to the trees without bringing the horses near them. A light 

 lever attached to each of the four sections enables the operator 

 to dump any trash that may have caught on the teeth. 



