PRIZE PICKINGS 289 



several seasons. Use one in each hand. They are 

 cheap and effective. 



A Long-handled Wccdcr.—l have used a long- 

 handled, diamond-shaped weeder in my work in the 

 garden. The handle is about three and one-half feet 

 long, or long enough so that I can stand upright and 

 use the weeder, which I find very satisfactory for the 

 work given over to it. The weeder part is made 

 diamond-shaped out of a piece of thin steel, and firmly 

 fixed to the handle. It is the best hand weeder I ever 

 used. This is the testimony of John Costello of Coos 

 county, New Hampshire, who has had much practical 

 experience in garden work. 



Markers. — I mark rows cither sixteen, twenty- 

 four or thirty-six inches apart. For the latter class 

 the corn marker serves; for the others I simply nail 

 three or four small stovewood sticks on a piece of old 

 scantling, rounding the marking ends a bit, and two 

 bean poles nailed to the top make thills to draw it by. 

 It takes ten minutes to make one, and I find it simpler 

 to make a new one each year, use it and knock it to 

 pieces, than to preserve it. 



Lime Sifter. — To sprinkle air-slaked lime on vines, 

 etc., I put a peck or so in a coarse burlap bran sack. 

 Two or three jerks over a hill covers it with the fine 

 dust. — [A. P. Hitchcock, New York. 



A Roller Remodeled. — I had a hand roller, or in 

 other words a man-killer, tw^enty inches in diameter 

 and thirty-six inches long. I came to the conclusion 

 that if properly fitted up it would be better adapted to 

 animal power than human. So out of some lumber I 

 had, I made a frame and shafts combined. Sawed one 

 of the two-by-fours in the center, making two pieces 

 two by two, twelve feet long. The other two-by-four 

 I sawed into four pieces. Three pieces 1 used for 

 crossbars; the fourth piece of two-by-four I sawed in 



