Malachiah Roby, Kosciusko, Miss.--This machine is so constructed as to
bar off and dirt or cultivate cotton plants at one operation; and the
invention relates to the construction and arrangement of a center or
main beam, to the forward end of which the draft is attached. To the
beam, a little in the rear of its forward end, is attached the middle
part of a crossbar, in which are formed a number of holes to receive
the hooks or clevises by which the forward ends of side beams are
secured to said crossbar. To the rear end of the main beam is attached
the middle part of a crossbar, to which the rear ends of the side
beams are secured by a bow and yoke passed around them diagonally, and
which are tightened, when adjusted in place, by nuts screwed upon the
ends of the bows. Bands are passed around said beams and diagonally
around said standards, and tightened in place by wedges or other
suitable means, so that the scrapers can be readily adjusted to
work deeper or shallower in the ground, and easily detached when not
required for use. Cultivating plows or dirters have standards which
are attached to the side beams, the plows and standards of the inner
side beams being placed in advance of those attached to the outer side
beams. When the machine is to be used as a cultivator, the scrapers
are detached, and may be replaced by cultivating plows.