spring-tooth

· Disk harrows handle clods better than spike - (peg) tooth and spring-tooth harrows but are more costly and prone to repair problems.

Chapter 8 1981

On spring plowed land the spring-tooth harrow usually gives the best results.

Apple Growing M. C. Burritt

A fairly deep digging and lump crushing tool is the best implement to use up to this time, and a disk or spring-tooth harrow meets these requirements.

Apple Growing M. C. Burritt

Following the mower, we use a spring-tooth rake which bunched the weeds and gathered or broke up the droppings; and everything the rake caught was carted to the manure vats.

The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm John Williams Streeter

After fall plowing either the spring-tooth harrow or the disk harrow is best to use to work up the soil and no time should be lost in getting at this as soon as the land is dry enough in the spring.

Apple Growing M. C. Burritt

(As suggested in the chapter on Implements), if there is not room for a team, the one - horse plow, spring-tooth and spike-tooth cultivators, can do the work in very small spaces.

Home Vegetable Gardening — a Complete and Practical Guide to the Planting and Care of All Vegetables, Fruits and Berries Worth Growing for Home Use 1930

An old spring-tooth harrow, with the teeth drawn down almost to a point, makes an excellent substitute for a real weeder.

From Captivity to Fame or The Life of George Washington Carver Raleigh Howard Merritt 1929

The spring-tooth cultivator, shown at the right in Fig. 89, may do the kind of work that the spring-tooth harrows are expected to do on larger areas; and various adjustable spike-tooth cultivators, two of which are shown in Fig. 89, are useful for putting a finish on the land.

Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) 1906

The spring-tooth cultivator is a most useful tool for cultivating raspberries and blackberries, and other strong-rooted crops.

Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) 1906

On these mellower lands, the spring-tooth harrow, types of which are shown in Fig. 87, may follow the plow.

Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) 1906