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It can be readily and cheaply made in the following man- 

 ner: Take a round log of hard wood eight to ten inches 

 in diameter and four or five feet long, and insert in the 

 centre of each end a gudgeon projecting a couple of inches, 

 to take the eyes of an iron frame and cross handle by 

 which to pull it. 



A marker for marking out seven rows at once is made 

 by taking a piece of wood about three inches square and 

 six feet long, and boring holes in it on one side, a foot 

 apart, and inserting in them hard wood teeth like harrow 

 teeth six inches long; and on the other side inserting 

 them nine inches apart. It should have two handles, 

 so as to enable it to be drawn straight. The teeth thus 



set will answer for nearly all row spaces. If nine inch or 

 twelve inch row spaces are wanted, it marks them out as it 

 is made; if eighteen inch or twenty-four inch spaces are 

 needed, we have only to skip every other line marked. In 

 using it, stretch a garden line tightly the length wanted, 

 and set the outer tooth against it and draw the marker 

 steadily and firmly to the end; on returning, set the end 

 tooth in the outer row as a guide, and so on until the 

 desired number of rows are marked off. 

 A dibber, for transplanting small plants, is readily made 



