IMPLEMENTS 



In its general operation, it is wonderfully 

 efficient and economical; it stirs and pulverizes 

 the ground, destroying weeds, giving aeration, 

 and promoting moisture about the roots of growing 

 plants; it will throw the earth to or from the rows 

 as may be desired; it does pretty much all that can 

 be done with a hand-hoe in cultivating the crop. 

 Many who are using this implement to-day do not 

 hoe their crops at all by hand work. It requires 

 discretion and skill to obtain such effective results 

 from its use, but there is no question that, in the 

 hands of one who thoroughly understands its 

 capabilities, it can be made to do, at a greatly 

 reduced cost, a large amount of hoeing formerly 

 done with the hand-hoes. 



Besides being economical on the score of expense, 

 it is also highly advantageous in enabling the far 

 more rapid execution of the work. Crops often 

 suffer for want of a timely stirring of the soil, 

 especially in times of drought; weeds must be 

 cut down as soon as they show themselves; even 

 when neither weeds nor drought threaten the crops 

 it is beneficial to the soil, and thus to the growing 

 plants, that it should be turned or stirred as fre- 

 quently as may be to give it life. Labour with 



