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stead of as timber and still destroys countless millions in 

 valuable wood as he "clears the ground." 



After it is cleared, it is vital to keep it cleared of weeds, 

 which are worse garroters of crops than trees. To do that 

 we don't need to bow to the Earth, nor to hammer her with 

 a hand hoe. 



"The Man with the Hoe" began to be a back number 

 when Arkwright invented the ark or the mule or whatever 

 he did invent. The man with the wheel hoe is the man that 

 is " It." A wheel hoe costs from $6 to $12, and will do the 

 work of several men without breaking the heart or even 

 the back of one of them. It has as many attachments as a 

 summer girl and is equally versatile. It must be run be- 

 tween the rows as soon as the ground is dry after every 

 rain, so as to slay the weeds before they are born. If you 

 don't they will slay your profits, if not yourself. 



Crops grown on that experimental farm are : Asparagus, 

 berries, beans, beets, cabbage, cauliflower, celery, carrots, 

 cucumbers, corn, eggplant, endive, fruit trees, kale, kohl- 

 rabi, lettuce, limas, melons, martynias, onions, okra, parsley, 

 parsnips, peas, potatoes (sweet and white), pumpkins, 

 radishes, rhubarb, salsify, squash, tomatoes, etc. Marketed 

 strictly choice radishes May 18, peas June 10, lettuce 

 June 21, beans June 29, beets July 8, carrots July 10, 

 cabbage July 11. Surely a rapid result. 



Hemp is hardly worth your growing for itself under ordi- 

 nary circumstances ; the returns per acre are not sufficient. 

 But Charles Richard Dodge, in one of the United States 

 Yearbooks of the Department of Agriculture, says that as 

 a weed killer it has practically no equal. 



In proof of this, a North River farmer stated that thistles 

 heretofore had mastered him in a certain field, but after 



