52 —How to Make the Garden Pay. 



But the tool of all tools, the modern weed-slayer, the great 

 labor-saver, the greatest horticultural blessing of the age — that 

 is the modern wheel-hoe. This above all others frees the gar- 

 dener from undesirable work, cuts down the labor account one- 

 half, and makes tillage, both in the home and market garden, light 

 and pleasant. It is quite a number of years ago when it was 

 first introduced, but fortunately for the progressive gardener for 

 money, the slow moving majority has not yet recognized its 

 value. The advantages connected with the possession of one of 

 these tools cannot be over-stated, nor emphasized too strongly, 



Planet Jr. Garden Drill. 



nor told too frequently. Without the wheel-hoe's help the gar- 

 dener of to-day cannot hope to hold out against his progressive 

 competitors. It is the tool that more than anything else has 

 cheapened the cost of production in garden stuff. The most 

 perfect implement of this kind, at present, is the " Planet Jr. 

 Double Wheel-Hoe," illustrated in next Fig., a cultivator, rake and 

 plow combined, in fact an all purpose tool of tillage, and good 

 to whatever use you put it. It can be made to hoe both 

 sides of one row, or between rows, in level culture and in throw- 

 ing the soil either to or from the row. This tool banishes the 

 old hand hoe from the garden to a certain extent, and reduces 



