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verize. Any boy will do it after you show him how, and he 

 will think it is fun that is, if the field is not too large and the 

 boy is not too small. If you have a spell of dry weather, such 

 as we are having now, keep your garden-plow going, and it 

 will almost take the place of watering. In fact, that is what 

 our garden-plow is doing just across the way while I write these 

 lines. Some kinds of plants are better suited for this hill-cul- 

 ture system than others ; but almost any variety will do ever 

 so much better when it has room and good cultivation, and 

 does not have to make runners. 



While on the subject of hand cultivators for strawberries, 

 I might say we have used the cultivator figured below, pur- 

 chased of Montgomery Ward & Co., of Chicago. 



HAND CULTIVATOR, SCUFFI,E-HOE, PLOW, AND WEEDER. 

 PRICE $3.75. 



The above is a most substantial tool because it is all metal 

 except the handles ; and by turning it over there is a sharp 

 plow that will throw the dirt either to or from the plants, and 

 that, too, without any time wasted in changing the tools just 

 work it upside down. The only ejection that I have found to 

 this machine is that it is rather heavier than the Cole garden- 

 plow; and this might be no objection at all to a good stout man. 

 It will stand more wear and tear than the lighter implement ; 

 but the Cole plow might be found easier for a boy or an old 

 man (say of 62, like myself) who has not the strength to work 



