42 AMERICAN HOME GAEDEN. 



Kg- 21. bles, sucli as calj- 



bages, can-ots, beets, 

 &c. It may also be 

 used for ordinary 

 fiiiTOwing by fasten- 

 ing an old shoe or 

 something equiva- 

 lent in front of the 

 cm-yed st:mdard or 

 shaft, so as to give 

 „___ -width to the opened 

 finro-ff ; i:>r, if it Tje 



skeleton rioiv and nord(M)riller. i .,i -i ^ 



used -with an olil 

 share ha-iing the corners liroken off, it serves a good pm-pose 

 as a horse-driller in making drills for vide-roiyed crops, ivhere 

 a proper drill or corn-planter is not used. 



This and the half mouldboard plow (Fig. 19) are the most 

 marked and valualjle improvements among the lighter forms 

 which have been adopted since jiatent plows came into use. 



A small hand-plow is found in our agricultm-al stores, with 

 a long, straight, stout handle, into which it is fasteneil by an 

 iron shank, upon which the plow proper moves, so that its 

 de])th may be regulated by a, screw. In light soils such an 

 implement may often be found useful in garden cultui'e. Its 

 present construction, however, is ridiculously -WTOng, since it is 

 made to draw as a common hoe, requiring the workman to walk 

 backward as he labors, making its use a task for a convict rath- 

 er than a pleasant labor for the amateiu'. 



Any country blacksmith can set the shank the other way in 

 a few minutes, and when thus changeii to thi'ust instead of 

 draw, and gauged to a proper depth, the workman, by throwing 

 his weight a little forward upon the handle, and moving stead- 

 ily, will be able to make it perform satisfactorily without much 

 waste of muscle. 



HARROWS. 



The haiTOw, whether triangular or square, is commonly made 

 without Iteing jointed or hinged for foldinjr ; but the improve- 



