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best steel, and ground to an edge like an axe the object 

 being to cut all the fine roots to pieces, and get out such 



Fig 218. GRADING HOB. 



of them as escaped when the trees, stumps, shoots, and 

 larger wood were removed. 



Fig. 219. SPREADER. 



The sand is spread by means of a " Spreader," 

 figure 219, made of a piece of one-inch white oak board, 



Fig. 220. MARKER. 



about fifteen inches long by three inches wide, and fas- 

 tened to a handle. 



