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A. Yes then the roller is used, followed again by the chain har- 

 row, so that the surface may be made level and smooth for the seed. 



Q. Is the chain harrow you have referred to in speaking of manures 

 in general use? 



A. It is slowly coming into use as people become acquainted with 

 it. Our local blacksmith here has made for my sales alone over 

 sixty within the past two years. They weigh about 300 Ibs. They 

 are eight feet long and five feet wide, and the diamond-shaped chain 

 link five by five inches. The harrow is made of the best wrought iron, 

 and costs $40 finished and ready for the field. 



Q. What harrow as a pulverizer do you consider the best? 



A. I have heretofore used tha imported Scotch harrow, which I 

 had found to be the best; but this season a trial of the American har- 

 row known as the Acme leads me to believe that it will supersede the 

 Scotch as a pulverizer or leveler, for it is the best implement I have 

 ever used for these purposes. 



(Mr. H.) I am pleased to agree with you in this matter. After a 

 thorough trial this season with this harrow, I find it to be the best 

 implement I have ever used for the purpose of pulverizing and leveling 

 the soil. It is not only a harrow, but under certain conditions of the 

 soil it is to all intents and purposes a gang of small plows; or, in other 

 words, in a soft or light soil you can plow the ground just as thoroughly 

 for six feet wide as you can do it with the ordinary plow eight inches. 

 The great value of this implement induces us to use more space for a 

 description of it, and its uses, than will be probably given to any 

 other implement in this work. Upon this account I would like to 

 give the views of a well known farmer, whose experience with 

 this implement has been longer than mine, and who is a high 

 authority upon such subjects. This is Henry Stewart, of Hackensack, 

 N. J., who, after using the harrow for six or seven years, says: "After 

 plowing, the soil is worked over with the Acme harrow and is 

 thoroughly broken up; the furrows are leveled; the whole soil to 

 the depth of four inches at least is disturbed as though a series of 

 small propeller screws passed through it; it is thoroughly mingled; 

 the upper portion, which has been exposed to the air, is turned under 

 and buried, and the whole soil is loosened up, broken and made mel- 

 low. This is the only implement, so far as I know, that does this neces- 

 sary work, and with this the best preparation for crops is easily possible. 

 That is to say, that the full effects desired cannot be obtained by, or 

 through, any other one implement than this; because it does all that 

 a plow could do, and it does all that the harrow can do to pulverize 

 the soil, but it does what no mere harrow can possibly do in the way 

 of turning over the soil and presenting a fresh surface to the atmos- 



