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VEGETABLE GARDENING 



with iron, and are very useful in transplanting (Fig. 17). 



A better form, made of steel, is shown. 



Scuffle Attachments for 

 Hand Garden Cultivators. 

 Fig. 18 shows two sets of im- 

 plements designed to be at- 

 tached to the ordinary wheel 

 cultivators which will work 

 close up to the young plants so 

 as to cut off the weeds just 

 under the surface of the soil, 

 and will be found very useful 

 in many places. They should 

 be made out of tool steel, and 

 any good blacksmith can make 

 them. The length of blades 

 may be made to suit the work. 



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Fig. 17. Dibbles; a, improved flat The SCUffle hOC shown in 



Fig. 18, is an excellent old- 

 fashioned implement for shallow cultivation, such as is 

 needed in early spring in the garden. Besides it is very 

 cheap and simple and can be made by any handy black- 



Fig. 18. On the left, homemade attachments for garden cultivator; on 

 the right, a scuffle hoe. 



smith. It cannot be recommended to take place of the 

 improved wheel hoes for large gardens, but in small gardens 



