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smooth. A great help in this work, especially for putting 

 on the finishing touches, is the small disk or '' Meeker" 

 harrow, here illustrated. It is rather expensive, but ex- 

 tremely useful, and almost indispensable on the truck farm. 

 Since the advent of this implement v/e have little use for 

 the steel rake in preparing land for the garden seed drill. 



Whatever implements we use, however, it is of the utmost 

 importance that the surface is made smooth and even. If 

 we cannot secure this condition otherwise, we must finish 

 off with the hand rake, and we are then ready for sowing 

 the seed or setting the plants. 



