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not use it. Seeing that weeds as well as crop plants responded to 

 the better cultivation, they said that it poisoned the land and made 

 weeds grow. Gradually, however, it came into use, only to give 

 way in turn to the share made of chilled steel. Now there are steel 

 gang plows that cut ten or more furrows at a time. Run by 



CORN PLANTER 



This implement drills fertilizer and drops and covers the grain. Formerly three men were 

 required to do this work. 



steam or electric power, they do the work of ten men and thirty 

 or forty horses. 



Profits from Use of Good Tools. Buying good tools suitable 

 for the cultivation of his crops is one of the best investments a 

 farmer can make. They save labor and time and do the work 

 better than it could otherwise be done. 



Tools save Labor. Good tools save labor by enabling one man 

 or one team to do the work of two or more. It would take several 

 men to stir as much soil and destroy as many weeds in one day as 

 does the horse hoe or cultivator, or to cut as much hay or grain as 



