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apart, so that the ground can be cropped to its full 
capacity. They have a variety of adjustable and 
reversible teeth, including plow, shovel and cutting 
teeth, which will throw the soil to or from the row, 
or leave it loose and level; in light soil this cultivator 
will loosen and let in the air seven or eight inches 
deep. These adjustable teeth are all sharpened at 
each end so that they can be turned around, so sav¬ 
ing the number of times that they will need grind¬ 
ing, as both ends can be used and one grinding 
suffice where it would take two in the ordinary style 
of teeth. When worn out, the whole set can be taken 
off and new ones purchased at a very moderate cost. 
This part of the implement should be well watched 
and the teeth kept in good cutting condition, as it 
will not only kill the weeds a great deal more thor¬ 
oughly when sharp, but will also be much lighter of 
draft. 
Next to the cultivator comes the Wheel Hoe or 
hand cultivator. By the use of this implement, roots 
and small growing vegetables, such as onions, beets, 
parsnips, lettuce, radishes, parsley, etc., may be 
planted and thoroughly worked in rows from six to 
twenty-four inches apart; thus more than doubling 
the amount that can be raised by horse cultivation. 
A good implement will not throw dirt over the small 
plants as the larger cultivatior does, so that the rows 
can be worked closely enough to avoid having to be 
gone over with the hand hoe after the thinning out 
has been done. In my experience, I have found that 
a man can hoe more ground and do it twice as deep 
and well in one hour with one of these implements 
