TOOLS AND EQUIPMENT 81 



Roller $8.00 



Wheel-hoe with seeder 8.50 



Sprayer 3.75 



Wheelbarrow 4.00 



Crowbar 1.50 



Weeder 35 



For such crops as admit of horse cultivation a horse hoe 

 will save a great deal of time. 



The weeder is a cousin to the push hoe and has a zigzag 

 blade for cutting off young weeds which are just starting 

 above ground. It is pushed backward and forward and 

 cuts both way&. It is very good for soft ground; on a 

 harder patch use the push hoe. 



A market garden is really a big kitchen garden, from 

 which the cultivator supplies not only his own family, but 

 his neighbors, the public. To run a successful market gar- 

 den for profit, land suitably situated near transportation 

 and markets, a large supply of stable manure, hotbeds for 

 raising plants, crates for shipping, wagons for delivering, 

 and a complete outfit of tools are necessary. You must raise 

 all sorts of vegetables and salad plants in quantities suf- 

 ficiently large to justify you in giving your whole time to 

 the work. An acre devoted to general market gardening 

 could be attended to by two men with some extra help for 

 marketing. 



To get a place fully established on new, rich land requires 

 two or three years. On worn-out land it would take longer 

 to build it up to the high fertility needed for maximum pro- 

 duction. Crops like asparagus and rhubarb take two years 

 to establish on a remunerative basis. If bush fruits are 

 raised, three years are required to get maximum results. So 

 in starting, land should be bought outright or leased for ten 

 years. 



