Slide -Hoe — Wheel-Hoe. 



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is a tool that is little used except to dig horse-radish 

 and roots, and occasionally for digging celery when it 

 is large and cannot be thrown over with the plough. 



The Six-tined and Five-tined forks are the ones most 

 used for pitching manure, digging in hot-beds, and all 

 the work done with a fork. 



The Slide-Hoe is used mostly between the rows of 

 beets, lettuce, spinach, onions, dandelions, parsley, 

 celery, and all the crops sown by machine. This tool 

 is made in different widths so as to fit the varying in- 

 tervals between the rows for which it is intended. The 

 smallest are four inches wide, and they are made to 

 range upwards to twelve inches. They are used by 

 sliding them in a direction parallel with and along the 

 row, and the knives enter the soil to a depth of about 

 one inch, making the land loose and light on the top, 

 and destrovins: the weeds. 



Little Gem Wheel-hoe. 



The Little Gem Wheel-Hoe is a hand implement, 



