AMERICAN HOME GARDEN. 47 



PICKAXE, STUB-HOE, &C. 



The crowbar, Fig. 30, is too well known, with its uses, to re- 

 quire description. To be handy for its various common pur- 

 poses, it should be about five feet long, weighing at the most 



Fig. 30. 

 Crowbar. 



twenty pounds, rounded and tapering toward the top, squared 

 and heavier toward its steel-tipped point ; or the whole may 

 be a little lighter, and entirely of cast steel. 



Fig. 31. Fig. 32. 



Pickaxe. 



The pickaxe, Fig. 31, should have its two stub-hoe. 



steel-pointed arms of equal length, weight, 

 and curve ; its eye oval, strong, larger outward than inward, 

 and rather heavy in proportion to the arms, to add force to the 

 stroke, but for common purposes the whole should not weigh 

 more than ten pounds ; with an ash or hickory handle, about 

 three feet long, perfectly ^fitting the eye. 



The stub-hoe, Fig. 32, is simply a strong, rough adze, not 

 quite so much incurved as that used by shipwrights, and serves 

 well for cutting up by the roots bushes that are found too 

 strong for the plow. 



The mattock, Fig. 33, is a combination of the stub-hoe with 



