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GENERAL ADVICE 



work. Nearly all the weeding of beds of onions 

 and like plants can be done by means of these 

 wheel -hoes, if the ground is well prepared in the 

 beginning; but it must be remembered that they 

 are of comparatively small use in very hard and 

 cloddy and stony lands. 



TOOLS FOR WEEDING AND SUBSEQUENT TIL- 

 LAGE. Any of the cultivators and wheel -hoes are 

 as useful for the ^_ subsequent tilling of the 



crop as for the 

 land, but there 



^ initial preparation of the 

 are other tools also, which 



15. Good type of 

 wheel-hoe. 



16. A single-blade 17. Double wheel- 

 wheel-hoe, hoe, useful in 



straddling the row. 



greatly facilitate the keeping of the plantation 

 in order. The common rectangular-bladed hoe 

 is so thoroughly established in the popular mind 

 that it is very difficult to introduce new patterns, 

 even though they may be intrinsically superior. 

 As a general- purpose tool, it is no doubt true 

 that a common hoe is better than any of its 



