50 ANNUAL REPORT. 
DISCUSSION. 
Mr. Day. I feel that the paper is so good that it needs no 
discussion. 
Implements. 
Secretary. Think the writer might well tell us something 
more about the wheel hoe. 
Mr. Hollister. I did not come here to advertise any man’s 
implements. I would use a wheel hoe. I think it is prac- 
ticable to use a horse in the garden. I used Allen’s Planet 
Junior Wheel Hoe. 
Beans. 
Mr. Fish. On what soil do you plant beans ? 
Mr. Hollister. We have been growing beans on the same 
ground that we grow wheat and corn on. We always get the 
best crop from the best ground. The Early Valentine, Mohawk, 
and any German wax beans yield abundantly. 
Wheel Hoe. 
Mr. Harris. I think it pays to own a wheel hoe. Women 
can use it. With a wheel hoe a woman can go over a piece of 
ground in one day while it would take her two or three weeks to 
go.over it with the hand hoe. The wheel hoe cuts the weeds 
closely and loosens the soil. I can run mine within # of an inch 
of my onion rows. It will do the work of six or eight ‘‘raw 
men.’’ It is an easily worked machine and easily kept in order. 
I think every farm ought to havea garden. A good, nice garden 
cultivates the farmers and their children. I never saw a soil too 
rich for any snap beans,—never too rich for anything in the 
garden. 
Secretary. I agree with Mr. Harris on the value of the wheel- 
hoe to the farmers. The implement dealers ought to press their 
garden implements upon the farmers more. If farmers were 
better acquainted with the wheel hoe, we should have more 
gardens, the labor being rendered less an objection. 
Mr. Gibbs. I would add a fruit garden to the end of my vege- 
able garden, and let the rows run so as to cultivate both with a 
horse. 
Mr. Probstfield. I would have no horse in my garden. [I like 
to have my garden as ‘‘smooth’’ as possible, and prefer the hoe. 
