CHAPTER EIGHT 

 TOOLS WHICH MAKE GARDENING EASY 



1 HE number of tools which it is really necessary 

 for one to have is not large; but if the amateur 

 gardener tries to get along with a hoe, a rake, and 

 a spade, he is sure to have long, tedious hours of 

 hard work. 



The tool which will be most used during the 

 season is, of course, the hoe, for the weeds grow 

 rapidly. By using a wheel-hoe you can save all that 

 backaching work. I kept a three-fourths-acre vege- 

 table garden in good shape all summer with one. 

 Only a couple of hours were needed in which to 

 stir the surface of the whole garden. This was done 

 regularly once a week and after each rain. 



The wheel-hoe is the handiest tool in the garden. 

 It may be fitted with ploughs, rakes, cultivator- 

 teeth, flat-hoes, which work like the scuffle-hoe, and 

 seed-sowing attachments. They cost anywhere from 

 $3.50 up, according to the kind you get and the 

 number of attachments that you wish. 



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