Garden Implements 



with a sharp cutting edge. This shaves off the 

 weeds instead of pulling them up. It will do 

 very effective work, but is not as desirable, all 

 things considered, as the hook. 



There should be a wheelbarrow or hand-cart 

 in every garden. Perhaps, for general use, the 

 cart will be best, but for such heavy work 

 as hauling manure the wheelbarrow is most 

 satisfactory. Invest in both, if you can 

 afford to do so. 



All gardeners ought to provide themselves 

 with a spraying apparatus, for, in these days 

 of bugs, insects, and diseases of a fungoid na- 

 ture, it is almost absolutely necessary to spray 

 the plants if one would grow perfect crops. 



There is a spray-pump which is operated by 

 hand from a bucket of water, which does most 

 excellent work and is as useful for washing 

 windows, buggies, and putting out incipient 

 fires as it is in the garden. There is also a 

 device called an auto-sprayer, which is self- 

 operating. By pumping air into a tank partly 

 full of water, and opening a valve, a continu- 

 ous spray will be thrown off for some time. 

 This machine does very good work and is a 

 great labor-saver. 



57 



