CHAPTER VII. 



Farm Implements — Remedies or Preventives of 

 Disease — Conclusion. 



MATERIAL improvements have been made with- 

 in the past few years in agricultural implements, 

 and many of the tools which are now used in the mar- 

 ket garden and on the farm are either of recent inven- 

 tion, or entirely different in style and quality from those 

 which were in use only eight or ten years ago ; although 

 some of the more common ones, such as are required 

 and in use by ever}- farmer and gardener — hoes, rakes, 

 forks, spades, etc. — have but little changed. 



There is a considerable opportunity for choice, even 

 amongst small tools of almost the same pattern and 

 make. No good shoveler is quite satisfied unless he 

 can have his own shovel to work with — it fits his hand 

 better than any other. Hoes and forks have their 

 peculiar merits and demerits, such as can hardly be 

 accounted for upon a cursory examination, but in long 

 continued use become apparent. All these, however, 

 involve but little outlay, and their possible peculiarities 

 are, therefore, of less importance to be discussed ; but 

 of course the clumsy ones should be avoided, or dis- 

 carded as soon as convenient ; and better ones should 



'§3 



