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to thin them out about eight inches apart, and they were perfectly 

 free from weeds. 



Mr. R. H. L. Jewett : I wish to emphasize what has been said 

 in regard to the Breed weeder. We have a Surprise weeder. It is 

 a surprise to see how much one can do with it after having run the 

 ground over with an Acme harrow. Every weed is thoroughly- 

 destroyed. I want to say something in connection with another tool 

 that has been mentioned, and that is the Planet Jr. twelve tooth drag, 

 or harrow. Any one who has used the Planet Jr. hand cultivators 

 knows what is called the hoe, a little tool with branching blades. 

 We have had made for our work a larsfe tool for the horse cultivator 

 similar to the small tool. It is a steel blade about eight inches wide 

 with a shoulder and socket so we can fasten it on each wing, and this 

 is run along just under the surface of the ground. In cultivating 

 melons, strawberries or vines that run out from the plant, you can 

 run it close up to the plant as the tool runs along under the soil and 

 does not disturb the vines but destroys all the weeds, and by revers- 

 ing the action of the hoes, changing them about, it cuts everything 

 on the inside between the rows. Above all we find the weeder re- 

 ferred to to be the best tool we have. We go anywhere with it ; we 

 have no trouble going anywhere. 



j\Ir. J. P. x\ndrews : I would like to ask Mr. Jewett if the Suc- 

 cess does not go over the ground better than the Breed weeder. 



Mr. Jewett : I think it does. The Breed weeder has round 

 teeth and straight, and the Success has curved teeth. 



Air. W. L. Taylor : I consider that one of the most valuable 

 tools I have. We run a farm as well as a nursery, and we use it 

 in the corn, and we run over the corn when it gets ten to twelve 

 inches high, and we run over everything before the weeds start ; but 

 after the weeds are fairly started it does not give satisfaction. 



Mr. S. D. Richardson : I had a neighbor who had a cornfield on 

 one side of the road, and I had one on the other. He used the Suc- 

 cess weeder, and I used the harrow, and my success was much better 

 than his. 



Mr. Clarence Wedge : I think it ought to be stated that the suc- 

 cess or failure in the use of these weeders depends altogether upon 

 the character of the soil. If the soil is loose and sandy the weeder is 

 a great success, but if the ground is a heavy clay soil, like mine, it 

 is a failure ; but my neighbors on their light soil use it with great 

 success. 



Mr. Jno. Freeman : I have given the weeder a very thorough 

 trial the last three years in heavy clay loam soil, and it will do noth- 

 ing after a rain. We have got to put in extra work with the old farm 

 cultivator. After we use that it is a very fine pulverizer and smooth- 

 er if the ground is in perfect condition, but in heavy soil it has 

 proved a perfect failure with me. 



Mr. C. E. Older : I have had no experience in heavy clay soil, 

 but I thought I emphasized the fact the ground must be in nice con- 

 dition before you use it, but then you can use it with the greatest ad- 

 vantage. In our loam soil it is just the tool to use. 



Mr. J. P. Andrews : We have a Breed weeder but never had 



