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been found most satisfactory as a hoe, not as 

 a plough see illustration. 



Then there are most excellent American 

 tools for use in a large garden, or on a 

 market garden and fruit farm. I allude to 

 the " Planet Junior Cultivators," both for 

 hand and pony work. It is not such a simple 

 implement to use as its advocates would have 

 one believe, but from actual experience I can 

 affirm that it amply repays anyone who will set 

 to work and thoroughly learn it, as a mechanic 

 would learn to use his tools. Here let me 

 say in parenthesis, that I have been struck 

 over and over again at the extraordinary 

 absence of anything like mechanical intuition 

 in women ; a course of workshop training 

 would be invaluable to many taking up this 

 new life, whether at home or in the colonies. 



The Planet Junior Double Wheel Hoe, 

 cultivator (fig. 4), rake and "plow," can really 

 be made to perform all the enumerated various 

 operations by simply altering and adjusting the 

 different tools for the purpose ; as can also the 



