A Roller and Marker. 



50 — How to Make the Garden Pay. 



Some time ago I devised the. marker last shown on the pre- 

 ceding page. If well made, it does good work. Take one-inch 

 boards, cut to a circle and slightly bevel the edges. The wheels 

 revolve on an iron rod, and are held at the desired distance by 

 pieces of 4 x 4-inch scantling, through the centre of each, length- 

 wise, is bored a hole of corresponding size. A handle fastened 

 to the centrepiece and braced by iron rods completes the tool. 

 Cut and description of another marker, which I find very 



convenient and serviceable 

 for the same purpose, are 

 taken from my " The New 

 Onion Culture" (third edi- 

 tion). " It is an ordinary 

 wooden garden roller, such 

 as any one can make out of 

 a piece of chestnut or oak 

 log three or four feet long, 

 with iron pins driven in 

 centre on each side, and a simple handle attached by means of 

 two pieces of old wagon tire. 



" Bore holes into the face of the roller, one foot apart (three 

 holes for a three-foot roller, or four for one four feet long), and 

 put in pins. To use this tool as a marker, make each of these 

 pins hold a small rope encircling the roller, by driving the pins 

 into the holes beside the ends of the rope. More than one row 

 of holes can be used to change distances if required for other 

 vegetables. Strips may be tacked lengthwise of the roller to 

 mark places in row for setting plants." 



Of the many other devices for furrowing and marking 

 garden land I will only mention the one which I am now using 

 almost to the exclusion of all others, and which is a contrivance 

 as simple and convenient as we can 

 ever hope to make it. It is simply 

 an attachment to the Planet Jr. 

 drill or wheel-hoe. The illustration 

 shows the combined drill and 

 wheel-hoe rigged as a furrower. If 

 wanted as a marker for plant setting, 

 we turn the narrow hoes backward. 

 The crosspiece, to which the out- 

 side hoes (marker teeth) are 

 attached, may be made of iron or of 

 hardwood, and is bolted to the plate as shown. This description 

 may possibly induce the Planet Jr. manufacturers to offer these 

 crossbars as an attachment to their hand drills and wheel-hoes. 

 Indispensable in the market garden, and still more so in the 

 farm garden, and convenient to have even in the home garden. 



Planet Jr. Combined Drill and 

 Wheel-Hoe as Marker. 



