Abstract: A delivery boot for mounting on a shank of an agricultural implement and carrying a sweep blade. The boot features a channel member having front, rear and side walls defining a channel extending downward from an inlet proximate the top end to an outlet proximate the bottom end, a sweep connection element defined on the channel member at a front side and a shank connection element defined on the channel member at a rear side thereof. A spreader is supported on the channel member proximate the outlet thereof to receive product delivered from the inlet through the channel member and guide the product laterally outward to both sides of the outlet. Arranged to mount in front of the shank and behind the sweep, the boot positions the outlet ahead of the shank to minimize disruption of product placement by earth falling back into the furrow behind the shank.

Abstract: A blade construction for a cultivator blade or a cultivator sweep, wherein the blade is adapted to sever plants from the ground by digging up the roots, to permit collection of the plants and subsequent separation of the fruit contained thereon. The blade includes first and second elongated body portions that have respective upper surfaces that are disposed relative to each other to define an obtuse included angle. The forward body portion includes a cutting edge that extends longitudinally of the blade, the cutting edge defined by the intersection of the upper planar surface of the first body portion with a longitudinally-extending grinding surface that is oriented at an acute angle relative to the forward upper planar surface. The obtuse included angle between the first and second body portions can range from about 150.degree. to about 170.degree., and the acute angle at the grinding surface can range from about 25.degree. to about 35.degree..

Abstract: A deep banding knife of the type comprising a bar of metal twisted so that an edge of the bar faces forwardly to define a cutting leading edge and including a material supply duct running down behind the bar for depositing material such as fertilizer into the furrow cut by the knife is modified by the addition of a transverse rod extending through the bar so as to be supported thereby. The rod is of a relatively short extent so that it is supported wholly by and independent of adjacent banding knives. The rod can be attached by a screw threaded coupling arrangement in which one cantilever part of the rod is threaded into a hole in the knife with a second part of the rod screwed onto a male portion extending from the first rod through the knife.

Abstract: A hand propelled soil cultivation tool for accepting several different cultivation implements is described which includes a forward gauge wheel and a quick adjustment means for handle length. The different tool attachments described include a hoe implement, a cultivation tine implement and a trenching implement. The hoe implement has a "V" shaped light gauge blade construction which is rigidified and locked to the implement shank by opposed blade stabilizer brackets. The cultivation tine implement is formed of a single elongated piece of metal and the trenching implement is constructed of two diametrically opposed sections.

Abstract: An agricultural share formed in two parts wherein the parts are mirror images of one another and each part comprises a major face having a point, the face being defined by a first, inner edge extending rearwardly from the point and a second, outer edge extending rearwardly from the point and diverging at an acute angle away from the first edge, an upstanding flange disposed at an angle greater than 90.degree. to the major face, extending along at least part of the first edge and extending forwardly at least as far as the point, the parts being joined together along their inner edges by mating of the flanges to form a raised ridge.

Abstract: A stubble mulch sweep including a pair of divergent wings each detachably connected at one end to a rigid overlay of V-shaped cross section. The overlay tapers to a piercing point of hardened, abrasion resistent metal at its forward end. Each wing is characterized by a convexly curved upper surface, and tapers to cutting edges at opposite sides of the respective wing.