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Show HARROW ON DRY FARMS Homemade Implement Found to be Effective. One of Prime Requirements for Successful Suc-cessful Farming in Dry Areas Is Effective Tillage Machinery at Least Expense. One of the prime requirements for successful dry farming Is effective tillage implements which accomplish Ihe greatest results with the least expenditure, ex-penditure, of labor. A homemade Implement Im-plement (fig. 1), which has been found very effective In dry farming in Utah, the ground to the depth of thiee inches inch-es and form a perfect mulch An Improved form ot this Implement (fig. 2) is describeJ by Prof Hogenson Hogen-son as follows: The frame of the Implement is made of 4-inch channel steel, 6 by 4 feet. The frame Is not made solid, but the 6-foot pieces are fastened to the 4-foot pieces by means of bolts so that the 6-foot pieces can turn treely. To make the frame more solid, two iron-rod braces run diagonally from the front part of one 4-foot piece to the back part of the other. The weeder knives, 14 in number, are made of medium hardened steel, 3 Inches wide by one-fourth one-fourth inch thick. Each knife is 22 Inches long and is fastened to the 6-foot 6-foot pieces at an angle of 45 degrees by means of two bolts. Just behind the 6-foot piece a 3-inch bend is made in the knife, allowing it to drop hori F1G.I " F; fvl ' '' 'v ' WfflJM HOfrZOMrIL PLAN . Simple Form of a Weeder Harrow for Dry Farms. taking the place In a measure of the harrow, disk leveler, and weeder, is described by J. C. Hogenson of the Utah experiment station,, as follows: The implement consists of a rectangle, rect-angle, 10 by 4 feet, made of 2-inch planks, 8 inches wide. To the under side of the 10-foot planks are bolted nine knives made from one-fourth-inch steel, 24 inches long. The steel is bent 8 inches from one end so that it will drop down behind the plank. The knives are bolted to the plank diagonally at an angle of 45 degrees by means of two bolts. The bend Is about 3 inches deep, which allows the knives to work that distance below the surface of the ground. The long part of the steel below the bend Is sharpened on the front side so that zontally below the frame. The front edge of the knife Is sharpened. The' knives on the front part of the frame, seven in number, slope to the right, while those on the rear part ol the frame, seven In number, slope to the left. A lever attachment connects the two 6-foot pieces so that the knives can be raised or lowered at will. One one and one-fourth-inch steel axle, 6 inches in length, is bolted to the inside of each of the 4-fobt pieces so that when wheels are put on and the man Is riding the machine is perfectly - balanced and off the ground. Wheels are used only for transporting the implement to the field. The wheels are 18 inches In diameter with a four and one-half-inch face. The seat is placed on a bent An Improved Modification of the Weeder Harrow. weeds will be cut, this blade being about 13 inches long. The knives on the front slope to the right, while those on the rear plank slope to the left. This arrangement makes It Impossible Im-possible for any weeds to be missed, or any part of the ground to remain unstirred. The framework levels the land and crushes the clods, while the knives destroy the weeds and loosen spring on the 4-foot piece, to which the lever is Attached. Two horses can pull the implement readily. The doubletree is fastened to a ring, to which two iron rods coming com-ing from the front ends of the 4-foot pieces are attached. For summer-fallowed ground two of these implements can be run side by side, drawn by four horses, and manipulated by one man. |