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ways needed for use, where a cart cannot go. The handles 

 or levers should he of ash or some tough wood, and the 



Fig. 163. WHEELBARROW 



sides and bottom of any light wood. The wheel is soft 

 wood, shod with iron. 



The Spade (fig. 164). The best kinds 

 of these in use are Ames' cast-steel; 

 excellent, strong, light articles. They 

 work clean and bright as silver. There 

 are several sizes. For heavy work, 

 trenching, draining, raising trees, etc., 

 the largest should be used. 



The Shovel (fig. 165). This is used 

 in mixing, loading, and spreading com- 

 posts and short manures. The blade 

 should be of cast-steel. 



The Forked Spade (fig. 166). This 

 resembles a fork. It has three to five 

 stout cast-steel tines, at least an inch 

 wide, and pointed. It is used instead 

 of a spade to loosen the earth about 

 the roots of trees, to turn in manures, 

 etc., being much less liable to cut and 

 injure them than the spade. 



The Dung-ForJc (fig. 167). There 

 Those of cast-steel, cut out of a solid 



Fig. 164. SPADE. 

 are several kinds. 



