42 MARKET GARDENING 



planting, and will afford an example of intensive gardening 

 and in the use of companion crops. 



Tools. The tool equipment should consist of a sufficient 

 number of small garden hoes, hand weeders, trowels and 

 dibbles so that each student may have proper tools for each 

 operation. The garden hoes should be light, yet strong, and 

 not too wide as they must be used in rows as close as six 

 inches. A number of rakes must be available for use in 

 preparing the plots for planting. It is highly desirable that 

 a number of wheel hoes and seed drills be available for 

 planting the gardens, at least in part, and for cultivating. 

 There are a number of desirable combination seed drills and 

 wheel hoes on the market, the most desirable of which are 

 those in which the seed drill or the wheel-hoe attachment 

 may be used entirely independent of each other. It is 

 not expected that all of the planting will be done by the use 

 of the seed drills but the student should have sufficient use 

 of these tools to become familiar with them. 



