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common harrow is used. Some good farm¬ 
ers have harrowed their fields five or six 
times at more cost than that of the plowing. 
Many farmers are staggered at this labor 
which by reason of narrow means, is im¬ 
possible for them. But then there is an 
implement now in extensive and successful 
use which does this work in the most thor¬ 
ough and effective manner, and thus brings 
within the means of every farmer the ability 
to fit his land for the wheat crop in such a 
manner as to secure a good yield in spite 
of weather and season. This implement, 
whose great value we have learned during 
several years work with it, is the “Acme” 
Pulverizing Harrow, Clod Crusher and 
Leveler. 
This excellent implement which was 
invented, and has been constantly improved 
since its invention, bj r one of the most suc¬ 
cessful agricultural machinists of the age, 
Mr. Frederick Nishwitz, is, like most other 
of the most useful inventions, very simple 
in its construction. It is therefore easy 
and effective to work. It is of easy draft, 
and gives no more labor to a pair of horses 
than a common harrow, while for the same 
labor it produces ten times the effect. This 
it does by its special character, for it cuts 
the soil; pulverizes the slices; turns and 
levels them and leaves a perfectly level, 
smooth, fine and mellow seed bed, as deep 
as the coulters and cutters have been set to 
work. This may be two inches or more. 
It also cuts up and spreads the manure, and 
mixes it with the soil, the advantages of 
this are too obvious to need pointing out 
particularly. It is also an effective imple¬ 
ment for covering the seed, and it does 
this as well as a drill can do, and avoids 
some of the faults of the drill, as for in¬ 
stance, there can never be any missed rows 
and all unevenness in the covering is avoid¬ 
ed, because the “Acme” Pulverizing Har¬ 
row can be set to work a certain depth. It 
moreover gives one more working of the 
soil at the last moment, and so destroys 
another instalment of weeds. 
Where, from the necessities of the farm¬ 
er which prevail over a large portion of the 
United States and Canada, it is desirable 
or uecessary to sow wheat upon the corn 
stubble or potato ground without plowing, 
the “Acme” Pulverizing Harrow will fit 
the soil better than any harrow or any 
amount of common harrowing, can do, 
because it levels down the ridges, cuts up 
and mellows the soil to a sufficient depth 
to cover the seed and so avoid the risk and 
loss which are sure to occur more or less 
with the common method of harrowing. 
And just here is one of its special advan¬ 
tages; because it conforms itself to the nec¬ 
essities of thousands of farmers without 
changing in any radical manner their usual 
methods which cannot easily be varied; 
and moreover it does this improved work 
without requiring any more labor or any 
extra expense over the common harrowing. 
In conclusion, the writer would say that 
he has the present year passed over many 
hundreds of miles through a great wheat 
belt where this crop follows corn, and in 
which thousands of acres have been plow¬ 
ed up and the remainder has not made 
half a crop. From his own experience in 
preparing corn stubble for winter grain 
without plowing, by the use of the “Acme” 
Pulverizing Harrow, he is quite free to say 
that had this implement been used instead 
of the common harrow, the loss of wheat 
by the hard winter would have been trivial, 
and that many a single acre which has not 
returned the seed sown upon it, might ea¬ 
sily have made enough grain to have paid 
the whole cost of this implement. For, as 
a rule, the richest bottom lands where forty 
bushels to the acre is expected, have suf¬ 
fered the most for want of the sufficient 
preparation of the soil which might have 
been secured by the use of the “Acme” 
Pulverizing Harrow, Clod Crusher and 
Leveler. 
Nurserymen and Dealers 
should make early arrangements for handling our 
new fritits for the fall trade. We will send out our 
New Hardy Blackberry, the 
MINNEWASK 
Largest Stock of th« Fain 
MARLBORO RASl ERRY 
in the World. Poughkeepsie uo 
Prolific and Dutchess Grapes. 
For description and full particulars 
originators, 
’, Ulster 
a dress the 
A. J. CAYWOOD & ■' ON, 
Marlboro, N. Y. 
