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three spaces between roots or potatoes. There are many other 

 excellent cultivators in the market. The old broad-share cultivators 

 have gone almost entirely out of use. They were used to some extent 

 for breaking up stubble ; but the plough is the best implement for that 

 purpose, except where a steam cultivator is available. 



Cultivators are known by various names in different parts of the 

 country, such as " scarifiers," " grubbers," " scufflers," and " shims." 



Fig. 268. Nicholson's Handled Drag-Harrow. 



The last of these names is not as common as the others, and, possibly, 

 is peculiar to Sussex, or to that and other hop counties, as the old- 

 fashioned implements used between rows of hops were called "hop- 

 shims." 



One of the most useful implements for working land to a tilth is the 



Fig. 269. Howard's Iron Harrow. 



curve-tined drag-harrow (fig. 268). The cultivator is very well adapted 

 for breaking hard furrows, or for stirring tough land, but when this 

 has been done the drag-harrow makes the most perfect work, for by the 



