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Show WAGON TIRE DRAG. L Loop Toflether Four Old Iron Hoops and Let Them Creak Up the Clodt. Tlio writer while driving ovor llic northern portion of Arkansas observed the drag shown In tho Illustration nt work. Tlio tool was no much different differ-ent from anything wo had ever awn that we at onco stopped and walked one round with tlio driver, simply to fitch tlio drag grind up tho clods. j Whllo the cut la self explaining, and It Is easily seen (hat tho drag Is made with four old wagon tiro Irons, tho driver Informed us that tho two front tiros should ho heavier than tho two if roar tires, and that sometimes he i' The Drag, wlrod a log on tho front tires, when tho ground was very lumpy. Tho four tires wore fastened together with short chains, and tho ovoncr fastened 1 wJJh chains to tho two front tiros, as shown. Wo wcro later shown ono of 1 theso drags, fastened with open rings, ' which appeared to bo preforahlo to the chains, continues tho writer In Wallace's Wal-lace's Farmor. Tho tires simply t ground tho clods and lumps Into a flno '. powder and left tho surface of tho Hold In hotter shape than any wo have uvqr seen. Tho drag Is Inox-I Inox-I pcnslvo and may possibly ho of somo help to those who lutend to sow wheat or Into cowpcas, otc. |