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lar blade [Fig. 93], the base of which has an expanse 

 of about twenty inches ; this contrivance allows the 

 ground to be worked up to the foot of the plants. 



The Comte de la Loyere, of Savigny, has also con- 

 trived a horse cultivator [Fig. 94], which works well, 

 and does away with the necessity of employing hand 

 implements for this kind of work. 



[FiG. 94.] La Loyere's Horse Cultivator. 



It is made entirely of iron, and provided with five 

 shares, F, and a coulter, D, placed in front. The space 

 between the two side-pieces, to which the shares are 

 fixed, can be widened, so as to vary the breadth of the 

 surface over which it is wanted to operate. The great- 

 est width is thirty-two inches. The wheel, fixed at the 

 front of the beam, is used to vary the depth of the 

 dressing ; the vertical rod, C, allows this wheel to be 

 raised or lowered. 



M. de la Loyere puts only one horse to this imple- 

 ment, and can dress three and three-fourths acres per 

 day, in a vineyard in which the rows are forty inches 

 apart. 



