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vines which may be in their path. The blades 13, of course, will only act upon the vines and stalks which are disposed longitu- dinally upon the travel of .the machine; but 5 the transversely-disposed stalks will be' cut up by the disks or rotary cutters, so that all the stalks or vines upon the ground will be cut down. The machine is very simple and obviously will not clog, as the construction is 10 open and presents no small angles or recesses in which the vines may be caught and held. The ease with which the blades may be re- moved from the disks permits the cutting edges to be sharpened without great loss of 15 time or the expense of providing a new at- tachment. Having thus described my invention, what
I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Pat- ent, is- A stalk-cutter comprising a pair of rotary 20 cutters having radial recesses in their edges, blades fitted in said recesses and extending between the rotary cutters and straps having their opposite ends detachably secured to the diametrically opposite blades and arranged 25 adjacent to the rotary cutters. In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscrib- ing witnesses. WILLIAM P. DORRIS. Witnesses: THOMAS J. DORRIS, WILLIAM B. LEWIS.