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On Horsc-hocing Flat-dnllcd Tvrnips. 
of several of my agricultural friends who saw it at work. The dispatch 
witli which the work is done is very important to the farmer, and greatly 
in favour of the hoe, as advantage can be taken of dry and suitable wea- 
ther to run over the whole crop in as many days with this implement 
as weeks would be occupied with hand-hoes only. Of course workmen 
follow the horse-hoe to single the plants and cut the weeds in the rows, 
but their work is much better, and more quickly executed, from the 
horse-hoe having preceded them, and the land is brought into a much 
better state of tilth. My turnip crop was much cleaner last season than 
usual, and cost less per acre, too; and I cannot but attribute the cleanli- 
ness of the crop, and saving of expense, to the use of your horse-hoe. 
As to hoeing wheat with it, I cannot make any report to you, as my 
wheat crop is still on 12 furrows' work.* I can hardly doubt it will 
answer, as the depth and width of cutting are so easily regulated, and 
provided the drilling is properly executed. 
Now that you have added side-hoes to my implement, I shall be able 
to cut and clean the furrows at the same time with the stetches, which 
I had previously to do with a separate furrow-hoe. 
I ought to mention that my farm is rather a severe trial for the horse- 
hoe, as I had both heavy and light and stony land, as well as steep 
hangs or hills. 
Yours, very obediently, 
Thomas Lombe Taylor. 
Starsion Place, near Harleslon, 
February 25, 1843. 
Account of a New Horse-Hoe, by R. Garrett and Son, Leiston Works, 
Saxmundham, Suffolk. 
This implement is so complete in itself as to be fully suited to all 
methods of drill cultivation, whether broad, stetch, or ridge ploughing ; 
and is adapted to hoeing corn of all sorts, as well as roots. The peculiar 
advantages of this implement are as follows : — 
It may be increased or diminished in size to suit all lands or methods 
of planting, the axletree being moveable at both ends, either wheels 
mav be expanded or contracted, so as always to be kept between the 
rows of plants. 
The shafts are readily altered, and put to any part of the frame, so 
that the horses may either walk in the furrow, or in any direction to 
avoid injury to the crop. 
Each hoe works on a lever independent of the others, so that no part 
of the surface to be cut, however uneven, can escape : and, in order to 
accommodate this implement for the consolidated earth of the wheat 
crop, and also the more loosened top of spring corn, roots, &c., the 
hoes are pressed in by different weights being hung upon the ends of 
each lever, and adjusted by keys or chains to prevent them going beyond 
the proper depth. What has hitherto been an insuperable objection 
to the general use of the horse- hoe is overruled in this by the novel and 
* Many larmers have used this horse-hoe for wheat with success. 
