SUCCESS IN MARKET GARDENING 

 an ordinary hand-hoe is manifestly unequal to 

 carrying out the work of this description; it costs 

 too much, and goes over too little ground in a day. 

 The implement under the name of Planet, Jr., 

 Horse-Hoe and Cultivator Combined, meets the 

 exigencies we have described in a thoroughly satis- 

 factory manner wherever the width of planting 

 permits the use of a horse. No farmer or market 

 gardener can afford to dispense with this or some 

 equivalent form of cultivator. It combines in a 

 single machine, the horse-hoe, cultivator, furrower 

 and coverer. The side- hoes or plates are reversible, 

 thus giving double wear; and the levers control 

 adjustments that allow more or less hilling, and 

 also regulate the depth, in conformity, with the 

 object or purpose for which it is to be used. This 

 adjustability is a most important feature in suit- 

 ing its use to various soils or crops, or to various 

 stages of growth. That position of the standards 

 or hoes which is shown in the illustration, is the 

 one which casts the earth toward the rows; but 

 whenever the opposite result is aimed at, it can be 

 arranged for merely by changing their positions, 

 putting each on the opposite side, the work of a 

 few moments only. Although the present age is 



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