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right or the left, as he chooses; he thus turns the machine at his 

 pleasure, and avoids any plant which may stand out of the line. 

 By means of a crank not seen in the iigure, the teeth may be 

 entirely lifted out of the ground or made to run deeper or shal- 

 lower. By drawing out the pin at E, the tongue may be turned on 

 the other pin as pivot. By this arrangement it is stowed away 

 when not in use with much econoni}^ of space. The blades of the 

 teeth may be turned from the right to the left so as to throw the 

 earth either to or trom the corn. Where used as a gang plow, 

 three beams and three rows of teeth are used; for cultivating in 

 corn only two sets are employed. It does its work extremely 

 well, and the only objection to it that we observed is that it 

 takes considerable time to make the changes, viz.: twenty min- 

 utes to change it from a gang plow to a corn cultivator, and 

 twelve minutes to change the angle of the teeth so as to throw 

 earth to the corn when it had been throwing it away from it. 

 We award it a gold medal in this section of the class. 



In the second section of Class II, William H. Burtis k Co., 

 Maltaville, Saratoga county, entered McQueston's Improved Cul- 

 tivator. 



This implement will be understood by an inspection of the 

 annexed Fig. 129, without any further description. Weight, 100 

 pounds. Price, $35. 



It will be observed that the point of each spade has a horizon- 

 tal range of nine inches on the diagonal rod which passes through 

 the shank just above the base of the spade. Each of the beams 

 to which the spades are attached work freely on a centre at the 

 front end, which enables the attendant to raise out of the ground 

 or press them into it at pleasure; they also have a lateral range 

 of a complete semicircle. The wrought iron arch in front is two 

 inches wide and one-half an inch thick. The wheels are of cast 

 iron, 14 inches in diameter by 2 inches wide. The shovels are 

 of steel, 5 1 inches wide and 10 inches long. The work was well 

 done in all places where it was tried; it stirred the soil to a 

 depth of 6 inches, which was about 1^ inches deeper than any 

 of the others. It never was observed to clog. It has one 

 peculiarity in which it differs from all the others, which we must 

 confess we do not quite understand — it leaves the grass and weeds 

 on the top of the ground without burying them, while all the 

 others bury them. The greatest objection to it is that it makes 



