Tools and Convenie7ices of the Year. 



255 



Lima Bean Planter. — The bean planters in use are apt 

 to break or split the bean. A machine which appears to 

 have overcome this difficulty has been invented by J. D. Mor- 

 gan, of Ventura, California. It consists of a cast wheel con- 

 taining pods or fingers, which grasp the beans as the wheel 

 revolves, each picking up one or two beans, and holding them 



firmly until deposit- 

 ed in the mouth of 

 the tube, from which 

 they are conveyed to 

 the ground. The 

 wheel can be so ad- 



Vl^'. «iV-£; _^ the beans at any de- 

 sired distance apart. 

 The planter is made 

 so that it can be eas- 

 ily adjusted to a sul- 

 \^ ky cultivator frame. 

 — California Fr u i t- 

 Grower, Feb. 8. 



A Handy Cart. — 

 (Fig. II, page 254.) 

 y This IS a platform hand-cart, so stable that it can be used 

 in the field as a table, upon which the sorting and weighing 

 of experimental crops is done. We use a 3-ft. wheel and a 

 wide tire. The body is provided with a border an inch high 

 all around." 

 L. If. Bailey, 

 in American 

 Garden, 88. 

 Handy 



G A R D E N 



Wag on. — 

 (Fig. 12, p. 

 254.) ''This 

 is a combin- 

 ation fruit 

 and truck wagon 



Fig. 13. 



Fig. 14. 



The body projects over the wheels, giving 

 a very large surface for the handling of crates, boxes, barrels, 

 etc. I use a 3-ft. wheel with a 21^-in. tire. The body is 4 



