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dies. It is especially useful for loosening up the soil 

 in the furrows when it has become somewhat hard or 

 packed. When simply marking 1 out for setting the 

 plants, I take the regular marking attachment from 

 the drill, and put it on this tool. During the earlier 

 part of the season, or during the entire period of 

 setting onion plants, I keep one wheel-hoe fixed in 

 this manner right along, as then the time for using it 

 as a hoe has not yet arrived, and the marker is needed 

 about every day. 



Gardeners who work with the Planet Jr combined 

 wheel-hoe and drill, may transform it into a three- 



Fig l8 SINGLE TOOTH 



ATTACHMENT Fig IQ THREE-TOOTH MARKER 



tooth marker as suggested in Fig 19. If properly 

 made, it will give good service. I suggest still another 

 plan simply an idea of my own. How would you 

 like a marker devised on the principle of the dress- 

 maker's tracing wheel ? I believe it can be pushed and 

 managed more easily than any other marker we have 

 yet mentioned. The little wheels may be turned from 

 hard wood. The construction is easy and so simple 

 that it will be unnecessary to give details. See Fig 20. 

 Straight and uniform rows add largely to the 

 attractiveness of the patch, even if they were not of 

 practical usefulness in facilitating the work of culti- 

 vating, and perhaps otherwise. Whatever marker we 



