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is quite similar, and probably just as good. I shall try one, 

 any way, this year, as we need another ; and Planet Jr. tools 

 have always kept at the head, we have found ; and another 

 thing I notice in their 1893 catalogue is, that they have got- 

 ten up some "depth regulators" to goon the rear teeth, 

 to keep them from going down too far. I shall try them, 

 certainly. They will be as valuable as the wheel, which 

 regulates the depth in front, if they work as well. Only a 

 year ago a certain manufacturer of cultivators wrote me, 

 saying they would be glad of any suggestions that would 

 help them to improve their tools. My answer was, to get up 

 something, a wheel or slide, to use in the rear to prevent 

 the teeth from going too deep, as the wheel did in front. 

 Their reply was almost insulting. Perhaps if the Planet 

 regulator works well they may wake up to the fact that the 

 writer was not as silly as they thought. 



This subject of cultivation is a very important one. There 

 are ever so many points which, if followed out fully, would 

 each make a chapter as long as this. This chapter is hardly 

 more than suggestive to start you to thinking and studying 

 in these different lines. I am afraid friend Root will be 

 wanting some points explained more ; but there is not room 

 to much more than make statements of facts, as already we 

 have given 50 per cent more space to this subject than was 

 occupied in the old edition. 



