54 — How to Make the Garden Pay, 



Hoeing Between Rows. 



on a modest scale are often tempted to purchase a combi- 

 nation tool — drill and cultivator combined, such as Planet Jr. 

 Combined Drill and Wheel-Hoe, seen at work hoeing both sides 



of the row below, and as 

 a cultivator on next page. 

 Such a combination has 

 serious objections, how- 

 ever. Its double purpose 

 necessarily makes it com- 

 plicated, and less efiective 

 in either capacity, and 

 whenever you use it you 

 are wearing out two im- 

 plements at the same 

 time. If you think you 

 can afford but one tool, 

 by all means sow seeds 

 by hand, and buy a 

 separate double wheel- 

 hoe. The home gardener may manage to get along without a 

 garden drill ; the market gardener will find it 

 decidedly inconvenient, and very likely unprof- 

 itable to attempt it. 



A GOOD HORSE HOE can now be purchased 

 at any hardware store. For cultivation be- 

 tween the rows of cabbages, beans, corn, 

 tomatoes, vines of all kinds, etc., we want a 

 tool with five or more narrow (i 34^-inch) blades 

 or hoes which will leave the soil level and as Omon Set Harvester 

 smooth as a harrow. There are various styles of cultivator 



harrow which do excellent 

 work. When I take every- 

 thing in consideration, how- 

 ever, I prefer the Planet Jr. 

 horse-hoe to all others. It is 

 a " general purpose " tool on 

 our grounds. We attach the 

 five I 54^-inch blades, and use 

 it for hoeing purposes, or the 

 furrower and marker, for 

 marking corn and potato 

 fields, or the side hoes and 

 rear plow, for hilling, etc. 

 The Planet Jr., always unsur- 

 passed as a tool for general tillage purposes, is always the leader 

 in improvements. As now made, it has a patent lever expanding 

 frame which can be closed to five inches, or opened to twenty-four; 



Combined Dull and Wheel-Hoe. 



