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very best attainable. These implements are the Seed Sower, 

 the Hand Weeder, the Slide Hoe, the common Wheel Hoe, 

 and one for weeding both sides of a row at the same time. Of 

 these there are a great many varieties, each of which are more 

 or less popular among a class of growers. The engravings 

 illustrate such as are in use in my own section of country, 

 where root culture forms a very important part of the agri- 

 culture of farmers. Both the slide and the wheel hoe, for 

 rapid work, far surpass the common hand hoe, while they 

 cut up the 

 weeds equally 

 clear. The 

 wheel hoe is 

 used until the 

 tops of the 

 crops become 

 so large as to 

 be in the way, wheel kce 



when the slide hoe takes its place. Each should be two 

 inches narrower than the space between the rows. A 

 slide hoe is an amazing handy implement about a farm for 

 many uses other than between the rows of root crops. A 

 new class of inplements lave been introduced within a few 

 years which, to a degree, supersede the use of the common 



wheel or slide hoc. 

 though there is yet a 

 valuable sphere for 

 each of them ; I refer 

 to the weedcrs which 

 cut each Fide of the 

 Goodwin's wheel hoe. row at tb.c same time 



I have tested every variety of these and have thus far found 

 none do such good, practical work as the homeliest look- 

 ing one of them all, viz. : the Goodwin wheel hoe. These 



