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carried along until they are dropped off at their cnds» 

 After picking up all that can be seen, a harrowing of the 

 ground will bring to light as nearly all that are left as is 

 secured in average hand digging. Where the most thorough 

 work is aimed at, the soil thrown out can be stirred with a 

 potato hook. Mr. Colcord also exhibited an improved 

 cultivator, which had a shoe so attached to the hind tooth 

 that by the nee of a lever attachment the level of the 

 wheel and the position of the hind tooth could be so 

 altered that the implement would rest entirely on the 

 wheel and shoe attachment, thus enabling the farmer to 

 transport it from place to place without the teeth touching 

 the ground. The width of the implement could also be 

 instantly adjusted to a very narrow row. He also exhibited 

 a Stradler cultivator, to go each side of the row. I liave 

 had one on my farm a couple of years and find it very use- 

 ful, especially for cabbage. Each half is completely in the 

 control of the person handling it, being independent of each. 

 other, and can be run as near or far from the crop as may 

 be desired. The teeth are set at the right angle to plunge 

 deep in the soil, which makes it a capital implement for 

 eradicating twitch grass. It is a two horse machine. 

 Another useful implement exhibited by Mr. Colcord, was 

 the Spangler fertilizer distributor. I have had this in use 

 for several years and think highly of it, though I liave 

 usually hitched on a few links of chain when distributing 

 a liberal quantity to help in the mixing with the soil. The 

 past season I have had in use a broad-cast fertilizer, made 

 by the same firm on the same principle. It works first 

 rate. We have probably broad-casted over forty tons with 

 it the past season. They are made on the force feed 

 principle and hence are not liable to clog witli almost any 

 fertilizer, yet I find it does its best work when about half 

 filled. We feed it from bags of fertilizer dropped at the 

 ends and middle of the piece. The storm door invented 

 by Mr. David P^'uller of Topsfield, to protect drivers from 



