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The changes to accomplish these different o])jects can be made 

 very easily; in no case did it require more than six minutes for 

 that purpose. It did all the work, and went through all the tests 

 to which it was subjected in a very perfect manner. It worked 

 close to the corn rows, and, by means of the steering apparatus, 

 it could be made to move around a hill or a sing-le stalk which 

 happened to stand out of line, without injuring it or touching it. 

 It destroyed the weeds very satisfactorily, and it was tested in as 

 weedy a j)atch and as tough a soil as we ever saw. It pulverized 

 the soil as well as could be desired. The only fault that we 

 noticed in the whole course of the protracted trial which we gave 

 to it was that, in some very bad places, it clogged somewhat. It 

 is very strong in all its parts, and we think it is not liable to get 

 out of order. The material is very skillfully distributed, the 

 greatest amount of material being distributed to the parts where 

 the strain is greatest. 



AVe award the gold medal to this machine in the second section 

 of the first class. 



Class II — For Mellowing Soil and Killing Weeds. 



Ford & Howe, of Oneonta, N. Y., entered for this section of 

 Class 11. Weight, 480 pounds. Price, $G0. 



The drawing, Fig. 128, will give a very clear idea of its con- 

 struction. The evener A B swings on the under side of the 

 tongue, from the evener iron bars run backward diagonally to 

 a little beyond the middle of the bars of the frame from which 

 the cultivator teeth are suspended; hence, although the horses 

 are hooked to the end of these bars, neither horse can pull more 

 than another, their action being equalized by the evener as in the 

 common whiffietree. It will be seen that a brace runs forward 

 from about the middle of each shank of the tooth, and bolts into 

 the bars of the frame. There are several holes pierced through 

 these bars near the lower end; by changing the pins through 

 these bolts a greater or less angle can be given to the plane of 

 the teeth as they enter the ground. The tongue has an opening 

 in the middle, from D to E, which enables the driver more easily 

 to strike a straight line. It can rotate from right to left around 

 the pin C. There is a friction wheel on the under side of the 

 tono-ue, which rolls on the iron arc G. The driver, seated in the 

 chair, with a foot on each of the outer bars, carries himself to the 



