GARDEN TOOLS 



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One is the push- or scuffle-hoe, a hoe which has a blade 

 which the user pushes before him. This tool has several 

 forms, but they all work alike. The blade, resting on or 

 just beneath the surface, cuts every weed, and leaves the 

 surface properly broken up. It is good in soil which has no 

 stones, and is very handy for killing weeds under overhang- 

 ing bushes. But in stony soil it is a 

 dangerous tool, since a thrust, turned 



FIG. 135. Push-hoe, 

 without handle. 



FIG. 136. A " pulling-hoe," 

 homemade. 



FIG. 137. Wheel-hoe, aside by a stone, may kill a valuable 

 plant instead of a weed. In stony soil 

 a " pulling-hoe " (see Fig. 136) is better. 



The other tool is the wheel-hoe, which is a labor-saver for 

 workers in large vegetable gardens. Behind the wheel, or 

 wheels, may be fastened hoe-blades, rakes, cultivator teeth, 

 and even little plowshares, which do their work as the gar- 

 dener pushes the tool before him while walking between the 

 long, straight rows. The work of cultivating a vegetable 



