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applied with the Kemp manure spreader, it will be in very fine 

 condition, however lumpy it may have come from the stable. 



In taking up plants of the raspberry, blackberry, etc., where 

 the roots must be cut at a proper length, a heavy spade, ground 

 sharp, will be required, but for loosening the soil around plants, 

 and in spots that cannot be reached by the plow or cultivator, 

 the digging fork is the best of all implements. If the tines 

 come in contact with roots, they slide by without doing injury ; 

 but if the spade is used, the roots are cut at every thrust. 



The pronged hoe, slide or scuffle hoe (Fig. 42), and steel garden 

 rake are all serviceable. For loosening the surface soil and des- 

 stroying small weeds, and large weeds ought not to be tolerated, 



Fig. 39 



any one of them is preferable to the common blade hoe. When 



deep cultivation is not required, much more and better work can 



be done in the same time than 



with any other implements. 



In cleaning out weeds around 



small plants, just as they are Fig. 4i. 



breaking through the surface, the hand-weeders (Figs. 38, 39, 



and 40) are very effective; and in transplanting strawberry 



plants, the garden reel and line (Fig. 43), trowel, and strawberry 



fork (Fig. 41) are indispensable. Hedge shears are best for 



shortening the new growth of the raspberry and blackberry, and 



long-handled primers to cut out the old canes. 



