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much. Had I planted less and tended it better, my 

 success would have been greater. A small garden 

 well tilled is far better than a large one overgrown with 

 weeds. My fruit and vegetable garden has been kept 

 clean, but the onion and beet patch were badly 

 neglected. — [N. C. Kneeland, Minnesota. 



Using the Wheel Implements, — The value of these 

 new garden implements, the improved wheel hoes, 

 drills, markers, coverers, cultivators, etc., w^as empha- 

 sized throughout the accounts, particularly by those 

 who tried them for the first time, and the conclusion is 

 evident that a garden without good wheel implements 

 cannot begin to compete in the economy of operation 

 with one properly equipped. Only a few are quoted 

 from scores of opinions to this effect: 



The Anti-clog weeder does splendid work, kills 

 nearly all weeds and leaves the soil fine and in excellent 

 condition to retain moisture. — [A. L. Coffin, Maine. 



Lacking a wheel hand hoeing machine, I put the 

 broad sweeps on my horse hoe and tried the experi- 

 ment of pushing it by hand, while the plants were 

 small. With judicious setting of the wheel and patience 

 in learning the proper way to hold the handles, I found 

 I could clean out the weeds between the rows two feet 

 apart or less to within an inch of the plants, do it as 

 easily as with a hoe, and about seven times as fast. I 

 don't suppose it was so handy as a special garden tool, 

 but it worked. — [A. P. Hitchcock, New York. 



It's only fun to garden with the wheel garden 

 tools. Xo more backaches and bad tempers. — [Mrs. 

 Hattie Ferguson, Alaine. 



If the garden is properly laid out and planned, 

 little hand work is required. I lay out the rows far 

 enough apart to work a horse cultivator between them, 

 using a twelve-tooth cultivator. I can run it so close 

 to the rows that but little hoeing is needed. Of course 



