IMPLEMENTS OF THE SOIL. 



495 



plate, with three or four lines, are the best, light and dura- 

 ble; they are sometimes made with six tines. It is the 

 only implement proper for loading, mixing, or spreading 

 fresh rough manures with facility and disj)atch. 



Fig. 165.— SHOVEL, 



FOIUCKD SPADES. 



The Pick. — This is a useful, and even indispensal)le 

 implement in the deepening or trenching of soils with a 

 hard subsoil that cannot be operated upon witli the spade. 

 It consists of an ash handle, and a head composed of two 

 levers of iron pointed with steel, and an eye in the centre 

 for the handle. 



The Garden-Line mid Reel (fig. 1G8).— The line should 

 be a good hemp cord, from one eighth to one fourth of an 

 inch in diameter, attached to liglit iron stakes about eigh- 

 teen inches long. On one of the stakes a reel is attached. 



