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by taking the small tooth cultivator and putting on the rake at- 

 tachment it levels the ground and works nicely with me. I use 

 one one week and the other the next. 



Mr. Geo. Widger : I would like to ask whether anybody uses 

 the hand cultivator. I have used that for the last three seasons. I 

 think it saves the work of at least three men. We have the knives 

 set close to the strawberry plants. After they get matted together 

 we can use it, and I think a great deal of labor can be saved by using 

 one of those little hand cultivators. 



Mr. Jewett : I want to say a word in regard to the weeder. 

 We have found Hallock's Success Weeder to be almost indispensa- 

 ble. The land is a sandy clay soil. After a rain we find we can go 

 over a very large area of ground in a day. Then in connection 

 with our cultivator we have an attachment that leaves scarcely a 

 weed ; it cuts them right off in the roots. The five-tooth cultivator 

 does not cut the weeds away, and we have an arrangement we put 

 on each side for that purpose. It is a steel blade, twelve inches long, 

 set on a slant line to work on the inside when running between the 

 rows, or set so it will run on the outside under the ends of the straw- 

 berry plants. It cuts everything underneath. We find it a very 

 useful tool. The five-tooth cultivator and the twelve-tooth cultiva- 

 tor we find indispensable, and the weeder also at first when the 

 ground is soft and mellow. Instead of using the double shovel, 

 we use the one horse plow between the rows, and later run between 

 them with the cultivator and level it down. 



Mr. Geo. W. Strand : In preparing the soil for planting there 

 is a new implement I got on trial this year that I find an almost 

 ideal tool for every ground. That is the Acme harrow. It works 

 on the principle of small knives. If the ground happens to be a 

 little hard, it crushes the lumps and levels it down. It takes the 

 place of both the spring tooth harrow and the smoothing harrow and 

 levels off the ground afterwards. 



Mr. Sargent : In regard to an implement for setting plants, 

 I use the dibble, and I have very good success in using it. The 

 spade is a little more handy, but it is more awkward to use. In 

 ordinary years the plants grow well, and I have found no trouble 

 in getting plants to grow. I have a dibble with a long handle, and 

 another man comes along and sets the plants. In regard to cul- 

 tivating red raspberries I have found it a good plan to take a one 

 horse plow and plow close to the row ; that kills all the suckers ; 

 then in a short time plow towards them again and level down with 

 a fine tooth cultivator. 



Mr. Wright : It seems to me that is the wrong way of doing 

 that work. I would never put a plow into my raspberry field. You 

 plow away from the roots, and in a dry season they will dry out 

 and be killed. 



Mr. Sargent : How can you keep suckers down ? 



Mr. Wright : Cultivate once a week and you will have no 

 suckers. 



Mr. Bush : The implement I spoke of will do the business. 



Mr. Wright : Out our wav we try to save the suckers. 



