Title: The Cuba review
Identifier: cubarevie21muns (find matches)
Year: 1907-1931. (1900s)
Authors: Munson Steamship Line
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Publisher: New York : Munson Steamship Line
Contributing Library: New York Botanical Garden, LuEsther T. Mertz Library
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16 THE CUBA REV IE TV
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Fertilizer Spreader As the cane closes in. cultivation can proceed with seven—or better, five—one-mule walking shovel cultivators. This implement is also known as a trucker. The operation costs the same as for disc harrows. A Texas Stock, carrying a twenty-four inch sweep, does good work on the wind-up. After the cane is laid by a mulch is maintained with disc harrows entirely around each field on the outer edge. This cultivated outer area is established on all cane fields alike, be they new plantings, replantings, or burned-over land. Where it is necessary stumps are removed and the ground plowed to obtain loose soil. In these discings the dirt is again alternately thrown in and out by reversing the disc gangs in every succeeding pass. The maintenance of this cultivated border keeps the weeds out of the edges of the fields and helps in fire control. Its cost is negligible; for each pass about two man-hours and four mule-hours for each nine thousand lineal feet traversed. Cl'LTIVATIOX OF BURNED CaNE The first cultivation of burned-over cane is done most economically with a single disc plow. With this, after the larger stumps are removed, the field is off-barred by trimming ratoons back to their original position in the row\ Such work can be done even if there are a limited number of stumps present. The disc plow will work its way through, and like its relative the disc harrow it can stand more abuse than an ordinary breaking plow. It rarely hangs under a stump; the rolling tendency asserts itself. In this particular work four mules are used on a single disc plow. It so happens that new furrows are always being broken. It is harder work than plain plowing. Again at no time will any of the mules be required to walk on plowed ground. This operation will cost four man-hours and sixteen mule-hours

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