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of the soil, leaving them in rows upon the surface. It makes the 

 furrows for any crops requiring to be planted in hills, and covers 

 them, ridging them as much as is required. It was tried by very 

 severe tests in the most difficult soils and circumstances, and did 

 good work in all. 



The work of Mr. Hawks' machine has been described under 

 the head of "Ditching Plows," in Class VII, as a seed-planter, 

 cultivator, potato-digger, etc. As the two machines were entered 

 only as cultivators, we can only compare them strictly as such. 

 We are of opinion that Alden's Cultivator cut up the weeds, and 

 mellowed the ground, and performed the legitimate work of a 

 cultivator better than Hawks, and we therefore award it the gold 

 medal in this section of Class I. 



For the same section of Class I, only one entry was made by 

 A. L. Brierly & Co., of Trenton, N. J., who entered Phifers' 

 Improved Wheel Corn, Cotton and Potato Plow and Cultivator, 

 which is represented in Fig. 127. 



The diameter of the wheel is 4 feet 6 inches; length of axle 

 or distance between the wheels at their maximum separation is 

 5 feet 4 inches. The axle is of wrought iron, 1| inches in 

 diameter. The wheels may be run together by means of a sliding 

 collar and jDiuching screw, so that their distance from each other 

 will be only 2 feet 6 inches. They may be made to take any 

 intermediate place between these maximum and minimum points. 



Four wooden bars seen in the figure, each 21 inches long, are 

 adjusted over the axle by a circular clip, the shank of which 

 passes through the bar and is fastened by a nut. A slotted iron 

 bar is bolted to the inner ends of each pair of bars. A vertical 

 bar, with slots in both directions, is bolted to each bar just 

 in advance of the axle, and secured by fangs on the top and bot- 

 tom; from this vertical bar and jointed to it a lever extends 

 backwards 2 feet 7 inches, and 1 foot 10 inches downward. It is 

 curved downward at its lower end, and slit so as to embrace the 

 head of the plow or cultivator tooth. 



A projection extending backward at an acute angle receives a 

 brace, which hinges on a bar below the lifting lever, as shown in 

 the cut. The brace is perforated by nine holes, which are ke3'ed 

 to the projection from the curved end of the lever; the inner end 

 of the lever is adjusted by a rod and screw running through the 

 wooden bars. The cultivator teeth are fastened to the lever by 

 an iron bolt and wooden pin. If the ploAv or cultivator tooth 



