long ami driven in even with tlie wood ou a 
slant of JO degrees. The barrow is made in 
two sections. Ou top of the tooth-bare, in 
the center of each section, is a 2x4-inch pine 
cleat or cross bar bolted to each tooth-bar 
near the front edge of tooth-bar. Near each end 
of the tooth-bars is a thin, hard-wood cross¬ 
bar, bolted to each tooth-bar- near the back 
edge and on the underside of the tooth-bars. 
This arrangement of bolting the cross-bars 
keeps the tootli-bars from twisting. 
The sectious are braced as shown. Both of 
them are hinged together by a braced frame 
made of two 2x4-inch sticks, with an inch oak 
board bolted across the center and extending 
in front, to draw the harrow by. The frame 
and sections are fastened together by swivel- 
bolts. Handles made from smooth feuee Wire 
for lifting the harrow in trashy ground, are 
also shown. The seat! is from an old McCor¬ 
mick mower and is what is called the adjusta¬ 
ble sliding seat. By sliding the seat to the 
right the driver can balance the harrow per¬ 
fectly. The teeth are placed Tl.f inches apart 
in the tooth-bar, and the bars the same dis¬ 
tance apart, center to center, so that this har¬ 
row has a tooth to every 1% inch, and the 
ends do as good work as the middle. 
The materials can be bought, with the ex¬ 
ception of the seat, for three or four dollars. 
Being nearly all made of pine, it is very light 
and can be used for cross-harrowing potatoes 
after they are up, with only one horse, thus 
avoiding Stepping on half the plants that 
would bo trodden od by two horses. In har¬ 
rowing corn, it just fits three rows, three feet 
nine inches apart. The teeth arc so close and 
the tooth-bar so low that it is almost impossi¬ 
ble for lumps to get through it. It can be 
used with one, two or three horses, and on 
account of its slautiug teeth can bo drawn 
anywhere, across bridges and over grass land, 
without injury to the harrow or grass. 
Farmington, Mich. a. c. c. 
PLANK DRAGS. 
A GOOD plank drag is the most valuable im¬ 
plement on the farm, cost considered. It 
does work that the roller or the harrow could 
not do. The further soil is removed from a 
virgin state, the greater is the need for thor¬ 
ough pulverization. This is particularly true 
of clayey soils. The plank drag tines aud 
compacts the surface of a light soil so as to 
enable it to retain moisture. It is very use¬ 
ful in preparing the land for fine seeds. I find 
that it does perfectly work that was formerly 
done by haud-raking. The right time to use 
a plank drag is as soon after plowing as the 
soil is dry enough to crumble, and before the 
clods are dried. In case of a heavy rain af¬ 
ter plowing, do not disturb the soil until it is 
dry enough to pulverize; then run over it 
with a cultivator or cutting harrow; let it 
stand for an hour or so, then a plank drag will 
leave it as 11 no as moa I. A one-horse d rag made 
of four two-inch planks will be heavy enough. 
It' made of onc-iuch boards weights must be 
added. For two horses I use four boards one 
foot wide, two inches thick and 10 feet long. 
When the driver rides, this is heavy enough. 
When used to cover grass, turnip or flax 
seeds, it is heavy euougb of itself. For four 
horses, for use ou wheat and corn laud, five 
two-inch planks, 10 feet long, and one foot wide 
will be about right. With one team at each 
end of this, four acres au hour can lie put into 
the best possible condition for the wheat drill 
or corn planter. These drags are made in 
two ways: by spiking the planks to pieces of 
4x4 inch scantling, as at Fig. 171; or by bolt¬ 
ing the plauks together as at Fig. 175. The 
plauks are lapped, as this gives cutting edges 
to grind up the lods. When not in use, turn 
t he drag odgev ;e against a tree or on the 
north side of a 1 ice where it will be shaded. 
It is best to huv > two clevises placed equidis¬ 
tant from the center aud about as far apart 
as half the length of the drag. A chain at¬ 
tached to these,long enough to place the horses 
some throe feet from the drag, will make it 
run steadier than if the team were hitched to 
the center. wai.do f. brown. 
Butler Co., Ohio. 
fUnint Ultra l. 
ROME PLANTS WORTH GROWING. 
PETER B. MEAD. 
A MONO others, there are some new plants 
introduced quite recently that are well worth 
growing, and should be better known. Some 
are hardy shrubs or trees, and others known 
as flowering plants. I will speak of those only 
that 1 have grown, and am personally famil¬ 
iar with. Lest the reader should think it 
strange that I mention some plants that are 
only offered for sale this spring for the first 
time, I will s-tate that many plants and seeds 
are sent to me for trial and for au opinion of¬ 
ten a year or more before they are sent out, 
and in this way I am enabled to speak of them 
understanding!y before they have reached the 
public. Some of these things, I may add, 
never reach the public at all. 
* * * 
Among the new zonal pelargoniums, I give 
the front place to Golden Dawn, raised by Mr. 
J ohn Thorpe. He is kuowu among us as the 
prince of pelargonium breeders, but he never 
before did auytliiiig so much to his credit, 
not alone because the flower itself is of the 
greatest excellence, but because it takes us a 
long way toward a color hitherto unknown 
among this class of flowers. Placed fci the 
sun, the flowers are suffused with a rich 
goldeu tint that reminds one of an early sum¬ 
mer dawn, and the name would be readily 
suggested to the eye of au artist. I have 
grown the plant for two years past, aud es¬ 
teem it not only for summer use, but as one of 
the best of winter bloomers, of which there 
are still too few. It is a deeided acquisition, 
aud an excellent plant, also, for the amateur. 
* * * 
The Queeu of the Belgiaus, which I received 
more than a year ago, as the Queeu of the 
Whites, is also new, anil very much the best 
siugle white zonal pelargonium that I have 
yet seen. Summer uud winter, it is always a 
cleau, pure, snow-white, The stamens soou 
drop off, and nothing but white is left. The 
plant is vigorous, the flowers and truss large, 
the bloom profuse. The Queen blooms well 
in winter. It seems to be the white so long 
sought by mauy. 
jp j|c jfe 
Those who prize color above profuseness of 
bloom should grow the zonal Ferd. Kauffer. 
It is a deep, rich amaranth with a brilliant 
eye, and is greatly admired. My old plant 
blooms better than the young ones: but it 
seems to be a shy bloomer at its best. Its 
color, however, is certainly admirable, aud I 
shall not soou throw the plant aside. It bears 
siugle flowers Lemoine's Cannel, an older 
variety, has double flowers of a similar rich 
hue. 
* * * 
The new rose, Her Majesty, whose coming 
was heralded with louder praise than was 
ever before bestowed upon a rose, at least 
within my recollection, is, 1 am sorry to say, 
a failure here. Our climate does not suit Her 
Majesty, aud this is so wherever I have seen 
the plant. She mildews very badly all over 
and everywhere, and refuses to show us the 
charms she so fondly displays at home. I can¬ 
not rememlier a rose that has created such a 
widespread disappointment, aud I very much 
regret it. Too much was taken for granted; 
and yet it. has long been well known that some 
of the best roses of Europe do not thrive in 
our climate. No foreign rose should be sent 
out here without at least one year's trial. I 
am not easily discouruged, and shall give Her 
Majesty another chance. 
* * ♦ 
Rosa rugosa rosea, from Japan, is a com¬ 
paratively new rose here, aud should be plant¬ 
ed with caution. It is a somewhat rampant 
grower, mossy with spines aud makes a pic¬ 
turesque shrub, bearing large, rosy-pink sin¬ 
gle flowers succeeded by very pretty, bright- 
colored hips. It mildews in some places, how¬ 
ever, pretty badly in summer aud fall, which 
destroys its beauty. Where it succeeds it 
would make a very picturesque hedge. 
* * * 
Another new rose is the American Beauty, 
raised by our well-known historian, Hon. 
George Bancroft, one of the best rose ama¬ 
teurs in this or any other country. 1 am 
greatly pleased with this rose, and think it is 
destined to become a universal favorite, 
whether as u rose for the garden in summer or 
for forcing in the rose house in winter. Its 
faults arc hard to find, but its beauties are ap¬ 
parent almost every ilay in the year. It be¬ 
longs to the class of Hybrid Teas. It is a 
hardy and healthy plant aud a vigorous grow- 
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Is made from Real Oxide Ore—to the best and most 
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WHEN YOU BUY A BUGGY 
BE SURE IT HAS THE 
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PLYMOUTH ROCK $3 PANTS. 
Russell, Pa., March 7, 1887. 
Plymouth Rock Pasts Co.. 81 Milk St.. Boston. 
Gentlemen - I hc two pairs pants (jS) ordered by me 
were duly received, anil in every way satisfactory, as 
good as I have been pa> ing eight and nine dollars for, 
in every particular. I gave your address to a young 
man in Bradford, who will order some at once. 
Will you send me some new samples of spring goods? 
There are several parlies here who want u> order, aud 
have requested me to write for samples. 
Either our tailors make very large profits, or you 
very small ones. Yours very truly. H.W Laxe. 
/{A We have several thousand 
L P’S testimonials on tile at our 
V-J _ ■■ jw office similar to the above. 
\'Ye are bed-rock manufac- 
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t ,,V I', from the looms, and by cut- 
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V. 1 \ I number of individual or- 
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Jr TT I I supplying the consumer 
|| II II direct with good, woll-flt- 
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Jfv/y • / l r ~ ae our books now show, we 
Z I*' 13 .-. are read)- to fight It out. 
ftili'V A k. reS Jw w— -w Semi six cents tor package 
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Ki/ spring styles, medium and 
heavy and self-measure 
s \ -- meut rules. .Vs a special In- 
owi «w* \JC«- ducctncnt to mentiou this 
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ruv.K. Lf you cannot wmt for samples, tell us ahuiit 
what color you prefer, and send us your waist, hip, 
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ets. for postage aud pile king, and goods securely pack 
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risk of pleasing. Any buver of oar goods bus 
privilege ol returning them for any enuse, 
and liis money will be refuuded or « new 
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will reply to all letters addressed to thc-m asking about 
the Plymouth Rock 1 Tan is Co.—its methods and rella 
bllity. 
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SI Milk Street. Boston, Mass. 
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