The Busy Woman s Garden Book 



three forms of wheel hoes on the market: the 

 high smgle wheel, the medium wheel and the low 

 double wheel made to straddle the rows. The 

 double wheeled machines have the advantage of 

 working each side of the row, close to the plants 

 as well as between the rows and if the hoes or 

 cultivator teeth are properly adjusted will do 

 twice the work of a single wheel. Some of the 

 double wheeled cultivators are readily changed 

 into single wheels by removing one wheel. Too 

 high a wheel is not desirable, and as the wheel is 

 the part of the cultivator that bears most of the 

 strain it should be of substantial construction. 

 Most of the machines on the market have as at- 

 tachments a set of plough blades, four harrow 

 teeth and hoe. My own — a Planet Junior, two- 

 wheel cultivator has also an attachment for cre- 

 ating a dust-mulch, similar to a scuffle-hoe, but 

 this was made especially for the machine by a 

 local blacksmith and is a very useful addition to 

 the outfit. 



If one does not object to the extra expense a 

 seeding attachment can be added that will min- 



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