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more horses, hand cart, sprinkHng can, combined seed 

 drill and wheel hoe. "But better than all, a set of nim- 

 ble fingers backed by a willing, honest heart and mind." 

 The list of B. A. Higley comprises single wheel hoe, 

 double wheel hoe, spade, shovel, hoe, rake. C. E. 

 Brookhart of Tennessee recommends two-horse steel 

 turning plow, horse hoe and cultivator, steel rake, com- 

 mon hoe, pointed onion hoe, combined twelve-tooth 

 cultivator and harrow. B. S. Rembaugh would choose 

 seed sower^ double wheel hoe, twelve-tooth harrow and 

 cultivator, Breed's weeder, Cyclone pulverizer, disk and 

 spike harrow, and a first-class plow. 



Most Useful Vegetables. — The six vegetables re- 

 ceiving most general approval for the family garden are 

 given below, with the varieties of each most frequently 

 mentioned : Beans : Bush Lima, Golden Wax and 

 Black Wax. Peas : Nott's Excelsior, Little Gem and 

 Gradus. Tomato : Livingston Perfection, Ponderosa, 

 Dwarf Champion. Cabbage : Early W^inningstadt and 

 Sure Head. Corn : Country Gentleman and Ever- 

 green. Onions : Yellow Danvers. 



"The choice of vegetables is a matter of taste," 

 thinks A. P. Edge of New Jersey, but he mentions 

 corn, peas, asparagus, tomatoes, potatoes, cabbage, 

 string beans, lima beans, onions, celery and tgg plant, 

 without naming varieties. 



For a southwestern list is quoted C. E. Brook- 

 hart's choice of White Silver-skin onion. Long-stand- 

 ing spinach, Nott's Excelsior pea, Burpee's Green Pod 

 bean. Early Bassano beet, Ponderosa tomato Win- 

 ningstadt cabbage, Early Summer Crookneck squash, 

 Hollow Crown parsnip, Chartier radish. 



'T believe, if I should be limited to only ten varie- 

 ties," remarks John Tye of Minnesota, 'T would prefer 

 onions, beets, carrots, peas, cabbage, beans, tomatoes, 

 cucumbers, lettuce and radish, although turnips, celery 



