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AMERICAN HOME GARDEN. 



Fig. 25. 



Com Harrow. 



the gauge-bars, -iyliich is braced securely from near the outer 



end of the bar, hav- 

 ing suiEeient slope 

 backward to enable 

 the holder to walk 

 freely behind it, and 

 lift it readily by the 

 hand-pin when nec- 

 essary. 



It is usually made 

 with two or tlii'ee 

 teeth in the centre- 

 bar, and f(xu- in each 

 of the wing bars. Sometimes a short beam is attached, as in 

 the cultivator, rising ten inches or a foot above the bar, so that, 

 if desired, the power may be increased by the pressm-e of the 

 draft in front and the hand of the holder behind ; or, instead 

 of the beam, a well-braced iron rack-bar may be used, upon 

 which a loose link is raised or lowered by a short wooden pin, 

 as in the above figure (25), or both this and the cultivator may 

 have the semicircular rack and gauge-wheel (Fig. 26 a) at- 

 tached to the centre-bar. 



A smaller and very light hsuTow of the same construction, 

 with teeth of f or {? inch iron, is especially useful to follow the 

 skeleton plow among root crojis while young. 



CCLTIVATOR. 



The cultivator (Fig. 2(j) is framed precisely like the com 

 Fig. 20. harrow, Ijut with a 



double handle, and 

 ''"JsKi, each tooth has a small 



__^ double -nioidd share 

 tp^ attached,or the entire 



*'■'' ' '■' ' ■ ■■' — ^ l=~i^' tooth is cast in one 



piece, with double- 

 < uitivatur. mould sliare points; 



it is by some called a " IIoi'so Iloe," and by others the Hoe 

 H;UTOw. 



