No. 4.] MARKET GARDENING. 99 



In regard to cultivation, do not wait for the weeds, but 

 begin as soon after the crops are planted as possible, and 

 keep at it. On good land it is but little trouble to go over 

 it if there are no weeds, — and there will not be many if 

 you begin early and go often. If they get a start we gen- 

 erally pull them and take them from the field. For working 

 such crops as beets and carrots, we find nothing better when 

 the plants are small than the Arlington slide hoe. But this 

 will not work well unless the ground is in the best condi- 

 tion. Later, we use the Buckley wheel hoe. This has a 

 large wheel and does good work, but is not made well 

 enough, which is a very general fault with agricultural im- 

 plements. For a hand weeder, we consider Lang's the best. 

 The Planet, Jr., cultivator is an excellent one, and, with the 

 pulverizer on, leaves the ground in ideal shape. We con- 

 sider the landside plough the best in the market garden, 



" Let them sing who may of the battle fray, 



And the deeds that have long since passed ; 

 Let them chant in praise of the tar whose days 



Are spent on the ocean vast. 

 I would render to these all the worship you please, 



I would honor them even now ; 

 But I'd give far more from my heart's full store 



To the cause of the good old plough. 



Full many there be that daily we see 



With a selfish and hollow pride, 

 "Who the ploughman's lot, in his humble cot, 



With a scoi-nf ul look deride ; 

 But I'd rather take, aye, a hearty shake 



From his hand than to wealth I'd bow ; 

 For the honest grasp of his hand's rough clasp 



Has stood by the good old plough. 



All honor be, then, to these gray old men, 



When at last they are bowed with toil; 

 Their warfare then o'er, they battle no more, 



For they've conquered the stubborn soil. 

 And the chaplet each wears in his silvery hairs. 



And ne'er shall the victor's brow 

 With a laurel crown to the grave go down 



Like the sons of the good old plough." 



Mr. A. M. Lyman (of Montague). I have been very 

 much interested in this very instructive paper, and I am 

 rising here to say a good word for this market gardener, the 



