Show the best tool for tillage I 1 the of the soil after the crops are ea is ii a matter of tle tie the first importance from one half to three fourths of a crop of corn may be made by tillage alone on old I 1 and land well stocked with weeds not over awen I 1 to the acre could be realized with out cultivation twice hoeing and tink ting would probably add ten bushels per acre Wf seen estimates from farmers who experimented upon this point showing that every hoeing added from five to ten bushels to the acre A great deal leal of ingenuity has been expended upon the implements of tillage till age the we hoe is good but for its expensive ne the light horse plow or sweep is much more economical but these tools require two or three thred furrows to each row and jare dare are a retty pretty lk boavy avy tax upon the of the torso horse the horse harrow barrow and ands cultivator are great improvements upon the plow for they are mu mil h lighter and stir the ground deep deap enough the horse hoe is a much lighter lighte i r implement than the cultivator and if a farmer is ia investing ip new tools he be should get this in preference to the cultivator it is merely a question of the strength of the horse A good steel toothed cultivator will make a a clean sweep of every weed within an inch of toe rows rowa of corn and stir the ground deep erlo erio enough kuk A horse borse hoe boe could not liot do 1 the work iauch better though it would draw easier and the horse might get over a little more ground gouid in a day I 1 we need not so much better implements of 1 i t ilage cleage as a more frequent use 0 of those we have lave corn can be cultivated wholly with the horse after the first weeding inthe if the rows lun run l iun un both ways and we doubt if any better use can cari be made of horse flesh after the first of june than to keep running between the corn we are confident that five times cultivating will pay much better than once or twice As between the horse boe hoe and the steel toothed cultivator cultivate or upon smooth land we should bay say that is r the best bruich is most used gazette |