Catalogue of Agricultural Implements. 83 
THE THOMAS SMOOTHING HARROW, CULTIVATOR AND 
PULVERIZER COMBINED. 
Any machine that will save labor and make better crops at less expense is an invaluable 
acquisition to the farmer. The Thomas Smoothing Harrow has been thoroughly tested, and we 
can safely say that it will do better work and make better crops than any other implement of the 
kind in the market. 
It smooths all soils in a superior manner, and surpasses all implements in use for the cultiva¬ 
tion of young growing crops 
For corn at any and all times, after plowing the ground and before it is ten inches high, we 
freely use this harrow to break up the hard surface after rain, to kill the weeds and keep the soil 
light. It effectually kills all young weeds and loosens the soil both in the hills and between the 
rows, without injuring the corn. It surpasses for these purposes the most thorough work of 
cultivator, hoe and fingers combined. With it a man can thoroughly pulverize the soil, eradicate 
all the weeds in ten acres as soon as he can one acre with any other implement. 
For potatoes and cotton it is nearly as useful as for corn, and is used in the same way. 
For winter wheat it is the best implement. Wheat as well as corn is greatly benefitted by 
spring culture. While other harrows break the roots and loosen the plants, the slanting teeth of 
this slide over them and push them into the loosened soil, while they kill all small weeds and open 
the soil to the heat of the sun and the stimulating gases 
Spring wheat, barley and oats should be well cultivated with the harrow after they get a good 
start. 
For all crops above named this thorough culture produces such prompt and rapid growth as 
to make earlier and better crops. It enables the farmer to lay by his corn well grown before 
harvest; and the crop itself will be so far advanced as to be better able to stand the drouth of our 
summers. 
Any one who cultivates ten acres of corn can make enough in the saving of labor and increase 
of crops to pay for one of these harrows every year. 
When with a seat, or weighted, this harrow makes an excellent pulverizer. 
PRICE LIST. 
Manufacturers’ 
Prices. 
.1. Brcck 8c Sons' 
Net Cash Prices. 
No. 2. 2 section, 48 teeth, 6> 2 feet spread. $15.00 . $14.00 
“ 31. 3 “ 72 “ g l /2 “ “ .... . 20.00. 19.00 
Seats extra. 3 * 5 0, • .. 3 *°° 
Pamphlets giving a treatise on corn culture and a complete description of the harrow mailed 
on application. 
