THE HOME GARDEN 299 



value if there are no weeds. After each rain, as soon as the 

 ground will permit, a shallow soil mulch should be made and 

 the crust broken up. 



Garden tools. Every gardener should have a wheel hoe. 

 It will make gardening a pleasure instead of a drudgery. 

 There are two kinds: The single wheel used between the 

 rows, the best use of which is insured when the rows of vege- 

 tables are planted exactly parallel; and the double wheel 

 hoe, which, like the two-horse cultivator, straddles the row 

 and cultivates both sides at once. This is the better imple- 

 ment to use while the crops are small. Several attachments 

 are provided for both types. The hoe blades can be so set 

 that they will scrape very close to the row, killing weeds and 

 providing a shallow soil mulch. Another attachment which 

 comes with the machine is a set of cultivator teeth for use 

 when the plants are larger. In the home garden it is probably 

 not advisable to have a seed drill. This tool, while indispens- 

 able in planting an area of any considerable size to fine seed, 

 is not so well adapted for the home garden. There is nothing 

 better than the human hand for distributing the seeds as they 

 should be, and there is nothing which adapts itself more 

 easily to difference in thickness of seeding and difference in 

 size of seeds. 



THE MOST SERIOUS GARDEN PESTS 



Green cabbage worm. This worm is the greatest obstacle 

 to cabbage growing. It can be controlled early in the sea- 

 son with arsenical poisons, which may be used without dan- 



