Cultipacker

A cultipacker is a piece of agricultural equipment that crushes dirt clods, removes air pockets, and presses down small stones, forming a smooth, firm seedbed.

Wendel's Encyclopedia of American Farm Implements and Antiques[1] covers the whole category as land rollers.

Dunham Company of Berea, Ohio, which advertised "Culti-Packer" models starting around that time.

That company did not have the ridged-roller subcategory to itself by any stretch, as Wendel's book demonstrates, but for whatever reason, its name for its version stuck well in many minds.

Procedure is used before and after seeding by using ridged rollers to crush dirt clods, remove air pockets, and press down small stones, forming a smooth, firm seedbed This agriculture article is a stub.

A ridged roller comprising many segments is usually called a Cambridge roller in the United Kingdom and a cultipacker in the United States; each name originated with a manufacturer in the respective country and evolved into the regionally prevalent name for the type.
An advertisement for the Culti-Packer by the C.G. Dunham Company of Berea, Ohio , USA, in the April 24, 1915, issue of The Prairie Farmer , a farm newspaper. The earliest mentions of cultipackers in print date from around this time period. Ads for this company show single and double versions.