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across in this way and returning at a reverse angle, so as to cut 

 the furrow diamond wise, reduced it to powder like flour. It 

 also worked most admirably in scarifying sod. It makes one of 

 the most perfect implements that can be imagined for mellowing 

 the surface of moss bound meadows, and for scarifying meadows 

 and pastures where the grass has run out, which it is desirable to 

 re-seed without plowing. 



We did not test among lumps and clods, but it was very evi- 

 dent from its mode of action that it would be a most effectual 

 mode of breaking these down, and it will probably prove a 

 better implement for this purpose than Crosskill's clod crusher, 

 or any of the numerous imitations of that implement with which 

 the market abounds. It is also admirably adapted to working 

 fallows. It is not well adapted to level uneven land or to cover 

 seed. In these respects it would not answer as well as Mr. Mor- 

 gan's; but as a superficial pulverizer we cannot speak too highly 

 of it. As it is designed to meet a difficulty in practical hus- 

 bandry which no preceding machine accomplishes as well, we 

 recommend to the Executive Committee to award a special gold 

 medal to Mr. Nishwitz for this invention. 



CULTIVATOES. 



Class I — For Corn and Root Crops, Best One-horse Culti- 

 vator, ONE Row. 



There were two entries in this class, one by Alden & Co., 

 Auburn, and by N. Hawks, Appleton, Maine. The weight of 

 Alden's machine is pounds. Price, $12.50. 



The frame, ABCDEFGH, Fig. 125, with various additions 

 and substitutions, is made to accomplish a great variety of ser- 

 vices in practical husbandry, as seen in Fig. 125. It is used 

 simply as a cultivator for ordinary purposes. The thills, A B 

 and C D, are of white ash; as seen in the figure they are 22 inches 

 above the bars, E F and G H, but may be raised or lowered \\ 

 inches. The upright and diagonal braces are of hoop iron; the 

 bars of oak. The teeth are of steel; the hind tooth is in the 

 form of a double diamond, the three front ones are half diamond. 

 The teeth are reversible, so as to throw the earth to or from 

 the row. Throwing the earth from the row he went within an 

 inch of it. The piece of ground assigned to him for trial was 

 excessively weedy. On going twice over it, it was thoroughly 



