Adirondack Gardens : Cultivating the North Country
Label:
Walking cultivators like this one are designed to prepare the soil for planting and to control weeds once the plants are in. Widely used by households with smaller plots in the 19th and early 20th centuries, devices like this are still available. This model, made by an unidentified manufacturer, was used by the Wolff family in the Saranac Lake are.

Object Name:
Cultivator
Catalog #:
2004.047.0001
Slide #:
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