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Description and Use" 



Art. XXIV. Description and Use of Bartlett's Cidtivator. 

 By W. D. 



Sir, 



I send you enclosed the plan of an implement of agricul- 

 ture invented, and most successfully worked, by Mr. G. Bart- 

 lett, a most respectable and exceedingly ingenious tenant of 

 Sir Richard Vyvyan, Bart. It will, I am fully confident, 

 when known through the medium of your Magazine, be gene- 

 rally approved of. On lands of a strong adhesive nature, 

 where, in consequence of wetness, the roller and harrow can- 

 not reduce it suitably for the reception of the seed, Bart- 

 lett's cultivator will be found to be eminently advantageous. 

 This cultivator can be so modified in principle as to serve 

 every purpose in the preparing of wet land for tillage. The 

 implement has a roller of thirteen sharp plates, placed at in- 

 tervals of about 4 in. ; consequently no lumps of earth over 

 which the cultivator passes can exceed in magnitude the dis- 

 tance of one plate from the other. By the addition of platesj 

 it can so operate upon the surface as to supersede the neces- 

 sity of the harrow or roller ; either of which, in wet seasons, 

 on many lands, is of more injury than service. Mr. G. Bart- 

 lett has found it save about one half of the labour, which 

 alone is sufficient to recommend its adoption on all farms of 

 difficult culture in wet seasons. 



Trelovoarren, near Helstone, in Cornwall, W. D. 



Mary 20. 1829. 



Bartlett's cultivator consists of a roller 

 {Jig- 87.) composed of thirteen thin iron 

 plates, each fastened to a circular block of 

 wood of 4 in. in thickness, and bound round 

 with iron. Both plates (a) and blocks (b) 

 are movable on an iron axle, and the size 

 of both { t fig. 88.) may be increased or diminished at pleasure. 

 Mr. Bartlett has adopted a diameter of 9 in. for the blocks, 

 and 1 5 in. for the plates, as may be observed by the dimen- 

 sions inj%. 87. 



Fig. 89. is the under side of the frame in which the roller 



