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As the cane closes in. cultivation can proceed with seven — or better, five — one-mule 

 walking shovel cultivators. This implement is also known as a trucker. The operation 

 costs the same as for disc harrows. A Texas Stock, carrying a twenty-four inch 

 sweep, does good work on the wind-up. 



After the cane is laid by a mulch is maintained with disc harrows entirely around 

 each field on the outer edge. This cultivated outer area is established on all cane 

 fields alike, be they new plantings, replantings, or burned-over land. Where it is 

 necessary stumps are removed and the ground plowed to obtain loose soil. In these 

 discings the dirt is again alternately thrown in and out by reversing the disc gangs 

 in every succeeding pass. The maintenance of this cultivated border keeps the weeds 

 out of the edges of the fields and helps in fire control. Its cost is negligible; for 

 each pass about two man-hours and four mule-hours for each nine thousand lineal 

 feet traversed. 



Cl'LTIVATIOX OF BURNED CaNE 



The first cultivation of burned-over cane is done most economically with a 

 single disc plow. With this, after the larger stumps are removed, the field is off-barred 

 by trimming ratoons back to their original position in the row\ Such work can be 

 done even if there are a limited number of stumps present. The disc plow will 

 work its way through, and like its relative the disc harrow it can stand more abuse 

 than an ordinary breaking plow. It rarely hangs under a stump; the rolling tendency 

 asserts itself. In this particular work four mules are used on a single disc plow. 

 It so happens that new furrows are always being broken. It is harder work than 

 plain plowing. Again at no time will any of the mules be required to walk on 

 plowed ground. This operation will cost four man-hours and sixteen mule-hours 



