| Show FARM MD GARDEN Popular Subjects Treated in a Practical Manner OF TilE BEEKEEPING BUSINESS Exports of Dairy Products Livingstons Gold Coin Corn Queen Victorias ShortHorn Short-Horn Ox Here and There The first figure in the cut hero given aito3dsia fair idea of the shape of an improved im-proved sweep in use in Georgia and re i ceatlj described in SouUiem 111 Cultivator t I i S I A SWEEP AND HEEL SCRAPE The figure represents the blank as cut from a bar of thin sweep steel three eighths inches thick aud punched for the heel bolt The view is looking downward down-ward from above the sweep as it is fastened to tho foot of a common wooden or iron foot plow stock The dotted line shows the shape after tho cutting edges W A having been drawn out thin and sharp and A elongated into a point P The angle IN A P should be a little greater than a right angle and the sweep should be so set that the edges all the way from W to P should touch when laid on a level surface When run into a long point the shank is usually made separate from tho wings W W and the S wings are welded to tho shank as shown by tho dotted lines Sweeps are now made in one solid piece without welds The heel scrape shown at Fig 2 in the same cut is a simple and cheap modification modifi-cation of the winged sweep and is made of scrape steel varying from two to two and onehalf inches wide and three eighths to onehalf inch thick Pieces are cut off the proper length punched with a round hole as represented the forward edges sharpened and then the whole set by crimping on each side of the hole so as to give the scrape the proper slope backward and the upper or rear edge downward The scrape is attached underneath the foot of the plow stock a scooter or shovel being above in the usual place and is held by the heel bolt and nut The scrape performs the same work as a sweep and is more easily kept in proper shape Like the sweep the cutting edge should resin res-in a horizontal plane when the plow is in running position the point of the scooter or shovel being dropped a little lower than the edge of the scrape In both swctep and scrape the outer rear corner marked V W in Fig 1 maybe may-be turned up or left fiat as may be desired de-sired or demanded by the work to be done These implements aro for surface cultivation only are inexpensive and can be kept in order by any good blacksmith black-smith but they are not so effective as a good cultivator |
