IMPLEMENTS 



interesting class of implements, in most of which 

 the steady progress of improvement is very con- 

 spicuous. Limits of space will confine us to con- 

 densed description often to a mere brief men- 

 tion in treating of these. More detailed descrip- 

 tion is usually to be had on application to the manu- 

 facturers or their selling agents, in the form of 

 elaborate pamphlets, freely illustrated; which (if 

 read with discreet allowance for the bias of their 

 authors) may be consulted with profit for addi- 

 tional information. 



The KEMP MANURE SPREADER holds the field 

 alone in its class. As already shown (except under 

 unusual circumstances, or perhaps in the culti- 

 vation of a very few crops, of which asparagus, 

 melons and tomatoes are the chief examples) 

 the application of manure by a SPREADER is seldom 

 practised by the market gardener because the 

 capacity of these machines is limited to about six 

 or seven cords per acre; but where that amount 

 will suffice, and the spreader is put into service, 

 it gives a very satisfactory result. 



We will presume that the use of the PLOUGH 

 in turning under broadcast dressings of manure has 

 been sufficiently dwelt upon previously and in the 



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