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THE BEGINNER'S GARDEN BOOK 



FIG. 143. Wheel-hoe leveling the soil which it has just plowed. 



the only thing to do is to disregard the present crop, and to 

 kill every root that sprouts. Take a trowel, and on your 

 hands and knees dig out every one. It is tiresome work, 

 but it pays. Three times thus I went over a potato patch 



