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as shown in the illustration. The plant will then not 

 be injured by the cutworm. I have treated cabbage 

 and tomato plants in this way and have not lost one. 

 I do not know how successful this would be in the 

 market garden, but in my own private plot it has 

 worked to perfection. 



I have been informed that by planting a few castor 

 beans here and there in the garden the cutworms will 

 be destroyed. A lady friend planted a few of these 

 on the south side of her pansy bed as a protection from 

 the sun, and she found that she had accomplished more 

 than she had intended, for in the morning when she 

 went to look at her flowers she found numbers of cut- 

 worms dead on the top of the ground. It is thought 

 that the worms eat the roots of the castor bean and find 

 them fatal. The great objection to this plan is that 



the bean grows so rank and casts so much shade that 

 it is injurious to other plants. 



The Little Point Hoe is an implement made espe- 

 cially for us women to use by my uncle, who took a 

 common hoe which had one side of the blade broken 

 off, and cut the other side off, leaving a blade about 

 two inches wide. This has been worn by constant use 

 till only the midrib of the hoe is left, which is worn to 

 a point. In the hands of an energetic woman it is a 

 most efficient tool for destroying weeds, loosening soil 

 and working close to any plant desired. — [Una 

 Eugenie Knight, New York. 



A Handy Tool. — The cut above shows a weeder 

 made from inch hoop iron, described by R. J. Clark of 

 Massachusetts, who has a pair of them that he has used 



