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assists in the conservation of the soil moisture and in the latter is 

 necessary for the destruction of weeds. Cultivation is most easily ac- 

 complished by the use of small implements drawn by animal power, 

 but some hand hoeing is generally required in order to destroy the 

 weeds in the cane drills and fill up the old furrows in which the points 

 were planted. For the latter purpose the ordinary garden or field 

 hoe with a long handle is preferable. The short-handled hoes used 



Fig. 10. — Riding disk cultivator. 



in Java and the long-bladed hoes of Japan and China are unsatisfactory 

 implements, lacking many of the mechanical advantages of the American 

 hoes. 



Cultivators. — Several forms of implements are used for cultivating 

 eane. The small five-toothed walking cultivators, like the Planet Junior, 

 drawn by a single animal, are best adapted to the small sugar farms 

 of the Philippines. They are not expensive and are easily kept in 



