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THE COMPLETE FARMER 



Lord Vernon's New T'lVage Hoe. The utility of this garden 

 hoe will be duly appreciated upon trial. Few gardeners or 

 nursery men employed in gardening will be without them 

 when once they have been used. They are employed to great 

 advantage in deep tillage ; in many cases they are superior to 

 digging or forking the land. 



^Bill-Hook. This article is much used in England in prun- 

 ing and clearing brush, and is a good tool as a substitute 

 for the pruning saw and chisel, and can be used with more ex- 

 pedition. 



Glass Covers for Plants. These covers are used for cover- 

 ing' plants — protecting them in their grow^th and preventing 

 mfldew. 



Garden and Field Rollers. E. Phinney, Esq., of Lexington, 

 has made great and successful use of the roller for grass land, 

 and has given a description and dimensions of what he con- 

 siders the most convenient and best proportion, viz. : The rol- 

 lers to be six feet in length and five feet in diameter, placed on 

 an iron axle of the same length by one inch and a half in di- 

 ameter ; the roller to be made of oak or any hard w^ood plank, 

 each plank to be about four inches wide and two and a half 

 thick ; the roller is made in tw^o parts, of three feet each ; each 

 end of the axle is secured in a frame which is made of joist, of 

 a suitable size to receive the end of the axle; to this frame is 

 attached the shafts in which the horse is, or a tongue to which 

 the oxen are attached, which completes the rollers". 



Mr. Phinney says this sized roller presents the following 

 among other advantages, viz. : If the ground is very mellow 

 the large sized roller "presses the smalt stones more directly 

 into the ground and renders the surface more regular and 

 even ; the large roller also moves easier, and the weight fall- 

 ing more directly upon the small stones, they are, as he has be- 

 fore observed, better pressed into the earth, the lumps of earth 



