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POTATO CULTURE. 



up weeds that have got well started, but should always be 

 used on entirely clean soil, to stir the surface to prevent 

 weeds from ever seeing daylight. All other tillage-imple- 

 ments should b3 used in the same way. You want to 

 remember that the weeder and harrow get over a good deal 

 of ground in a day 12 to 20 acres in 10 hours, so one may 

 go over it several times during a season, and still the cost 

 will be much less than the work could be done for by hand. 



PLANET JR. CULTIVATOR WITH 12 TEETH. 



Price $7.00. For sale by A. I. Root, Medina, O. 

 The handles on the weeder enable one to bear down or lift 

 up, according to the condition of soil. When there was much 

 bearing down to do I have sometimes tied on a weight ot 

 some 30 pounds. I have given you a picture of the Iron Age 

 14 toothed harrow and cultivator simply because I have used 

 it one season. I have lately learned that the Planet Jr. 

 people have made a 12-toothed harrow and cultivator, which 



