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everything has to be thinned out later in the season, 

 and the weeds have to be cut out or pulled where you 

 cannot run the cultivator. — [C. L. Russell, Vermont. 



I think the wheel hoe alone a more serviceable tool 

 in the garden than the combined drill and hoe, in that 

 the wheels are larger and the connecting arm higher. 

 The boys are sure they can do more work with it and 

 do it easier. — [Charles Pierson Augur, Connecticut. 



We first run the double wheel hoe, allowing the 

 wheels to straddle the row, thus taking out all the 

 weeds in the row between the rows and leaving only 

 about two inches in the row, which we finish by hand. 

 — [E. Elton, Nebraska. 



I believe the crop would have been almost a total 

 failure, like some of our neighbors', had we not used 

 a weeder, which stirred the surface of the soil, forming 

 a mulch and arresting evaporation and conserving 

 moisture for the plants. We also owe much to this 

 valuable tool in most all parts of the garden. I con- 

 sider the wheel hoe to a hand hoe what the 

 mowing machine is to a scythe. — [L. E. Burnham, 

 Massachusetts. 



My time spent in work must have been far more 

 were it not for the wheel hoe used before the weeds 

 had a chance to start. — [Mrs. L. M. A. Hall, 

 Connecticut. 



I used an old gate to drag over the top of potato 

 rows as the potatoes were coming up. It killed the 

 weeds without much harm to the potatoes. — [H. E. 

 Hale, New Jersey. 



Garden Conveniences. — I use a homemade marker 

 w^hen I want to sow only a few seeds or to set out 

 plants. It is made from one and one-half by three-inch 

 stuff, four feet long. In this a pole from the woods is 

 firmly fixed for a handle by boring a one and one-half,- 

 inch hole at the center through the scantling. The end 



